Exchanges!

Hey guys, not much has happened this week, just a lot of tracting.  It was a pretty good week.  Me and Elder Brady are getting along a lot better.  We still make a awesome team haha! He still does tucks me in at night some times on the days when im good!   We clean our apartment every p day.  It's very dirty. haha  Grocery shopping is going good, just normal. We don't pay our own bills. This week we just have been tracting like crazy.  I'm emailing late because we had a zone conference on the proof that the Book of Mormon is true, it was really amazing.  I guess the highlight of our week was exchanges.  We had exchanges this week and I went with Elder Hernandez.  He is so awesome.  He is our district leader.  We were passing by a park and he wanted to pull in and play some basket ball with some non members.  So we did.  We played in our proselyting clothing and we killed them.  It was so much fun. Then we handed out hand out cards to them all!  They thought we were sales men when we got there but then we told them who we really were.  Our investigators that we have are doing great, we are just trying to get them to church right now.  We are so close other than that nothing to exciting happened this week.  Love you guys!!!

Working From the Second We Get Up-Till We Go to Bed

Yea my birthday is on easter. How weird is that haha! I'm doing pretty good this week. Dang Gage is going to Snow College playing ball, that's so cool. The factory looks huge now!!! Ugh ha I miss it. You guys look like you had fun with Ty and Lacey. This week I had a pretty tough one. It was really busy but I was hoping it would go better then it did. We wanted to try and go like only tracting so we could find some new people. For sure we found two new investigators, the Meyers. We found them tracting and their whole family isn't Mormon. They let us come in and talk with them about the Book of Mormon and about our church. They ate it up, they loved it. And we found a young married girl named Christien she is also loving it and wants hear more! So those are the two people we will be working on from now on. Also we are teaching the Maxfields again. We are teaching them the new member lessons. I love their family, they are really fun to teach and to be around. We went on exchanges this week. I got put with Elder Hull. He's a good missionary but a little to good. haha He is very strict about every little thing that I do wrong. ha It's very annoying. ha We were on bikes and I didn't know if I was going to be able to keep up with him he's crazy. haha He's a good missionary but he works from the second we wake up till the second we hit that bed. haha It was a long day haha but good hard work. We taught a girl named Kassi that day about gospel of Jesus Christ and asked her to get baptized. She said she will think about it and her mom will also ha so hopefully they will. We are just waiting for the spirit to take over now. ha Well that was my week, a whole lot of tracting haha and sweating, my legs are on fire. I was dying because I had just eaten a taco ugh..... haha LOVE AND MISS YOU GUYS!!! Here are some pictures!!

Hey You Ok Man?

Hey guys! so this week has been so lazy haven't found anyone not very happy about are area right now. I'm so sick of no one wanting to talk to us. It sucks so bad, I hate that they think Mormons are the worst. We tract like all day every day this week no one talked to us. No new investigators! They will talk with us but when it comes down to asking when can we come back and teach you some more about the Book of Mormon or just asking when is a good time we can come back and share the restoration with you they never give us a day. They just say um I'm going out of town I'm so sick of people saying that. ha they say your mission is the best two years of your life and your going to love it. I'm already like sick of doing all this studying all day and no one will listen.  I'm pretty sure its just our area because all the ether Elders have a lot of investigators. But so this week we had two blessing one was this old guy that was getting surgery on his eye they had to put something in his eye so he could see better. He called us over to give him a blessing that it will go well. The second person was this older lady ha lot of old people here. We went to her house for dinner and then after she asked if we could give her a blessing. She had a cold that she has had for like a month now so we blessed her that she would feel better and be able to go back to her job. We got a new district leader Elder Hernandez, he is Mexican from Texas. How in the crap did that even happen, haha a Mexican from Texas.  But he is waiting for his visa to go to Brazil.
I think the craziest thing that happened to me this week, there was this kid leaning on a car holding his head and I was like what is this kid doing? Is that his car but as we kept walking past him I looked back to see what he was doing and there was blood dripping from his head. I hit Elder Brady on the shoulder and ran over to him. Elder Brady had no idea what was going on but then I got up to him and I was like hey are you okay man and he shot up and was like "oh yea, I'm okay. I just got jumped" and I was like what? He said two guys in masks came and hit him in the head with a board a took his wallet. haha its crazy here. So then I was like I'll call 911 and he was like no please don't. I live just around the corner I'm going home, "I'll have my mom drive me" and I was like you're bleeding really bad you need to go now! And he was like "I'm just going to run to my house and go with my mom". So we said alright are you sure and he was like "yea ill go right now". So he left to his house! haha Bakersfield is crazzzzzzzzy!!!!!!!!!! That's what happened to me this week!

Our Baptism!

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Tavin Peterson <tavin.peterson@myldsmail.net> wrote:

I'm pretty happy that I'm staying with Elder Brady, but the only bad thing about it is are area is really dead.  Not a lot of people to teach.  Our baptism went awesome!  I wrote you a letter about it.  It was so cool!  We were the witnesses for it and gave a talk on the restoration.  It was a full house!  So many people were there.  

We watch conference in a church with other missionary's!  That's awesome your going to have the missionary's over.  This week has been pretty good I have  been staying so busy we did a lot of service this week.  We helped a lady in our ward.  Her house flooded so we went and painted her house for her.  It took us FOREVER!  There was also this young family that needed a blessing because she was sick and pregnant.  I guess they found something in her body under the baby, they think it might be cancer so we gave her a blessing to heal. It was way cool.  I hope they find out its just a twin and not cancer or something.  We will see though.  

Sister Maxfield was baptized.  It was the best baptism ever.  We got to stand in the circle when they ordained her a member of the church.  She was so happy and crying it was so spiritual!  We did a lot of tracking also but did not find anyone new but we are use to it now haha so it's not to bad.  I am still working hard!

Love you,

Elder Peterson

 Look at the feet in the baptismal pic they are glowing its so cool! the Holy Ghost was definitely there and ready to enter there lives!

Trying Our Hardest!

My ward is pretty awesome, we are called the primary ward because we have a lot of huge families in our ward. Like parents with like 9 kids all over the place.  They are an awesome ward though. They feed us every night, they make sure we always have something to eat - every night.  
Well transfers came and I have been freaking out about whether or not I would was going to stay or go.  I'm staying and so is Elder Brady, so I'm pretty happy I guess. We're not getting along very well lately but I'm still pretty happy I'm staying.  I have had a better week this week, we got two new investigators and we have the baptism coming up which I am excited for because me and Elder Brady get to stay for it. We are still working really hard but nothing to crazy has happened this week.  We have just still been looking for more people but haven't found a lot.  I'm kinda of sick of our area because we can't find anyone to teach, no one will talk to us so idk know how I'm going to do this area for another 6 weeks! haha  It's going to be rough but I think I will be okay. Brittany Maxfield is all ready for her baptism, she is just waiting for her baptismal interview which she should pass easy, so I'm pretty excited for that!

Brit sent me a pretty sweet tie.

Elder Brady thought it would be funny to mess with me while I was reading letters.

My companion wanted to tuck me in.