Hello family,
Well first off i just need to tell Michael that i love him. i already told millions of times, but one more time i am telling you. I am soooo excited for you to go serve, along with the whole family. I am sooo happy that you all were able to enjoy your time together, and Michael i know that these final moments you had with our family will be ones you cherish for the next two years. Like i have said, we are sooo very blessed to have the family we have, and you will come to realize that more and more everyday that you are out. I wanted to share something with you, but also with the whole family because i want you to know, and for everyone else to be able to tell you and testify of the things that i am saying, that you are sooo very important to us and to our family, you are ONE of a kind, and have sooo many gifts and talents, that are going to help you soo much on your mission. But not only are you only important to our family, but also to our Heavenly Father. He loves you so much and has chosen you to be apart of the chosen generation. I like how sheri dew says it when she says that being the chosen generation is "akin to being chosen to run the last leg of a relay, where the coach always positions his strongest runner. You were recommended to help run the last leg of the relay that began with Adam and Eve because your premortal spiritual valor indicated you would have the courage and the determination to face the world at its worst. to do combat with the evil one during his heyday, and, in spit of it all, to be fearless in building the kingdom of God."
So Michael, put on all the armor of God and go fight!! You are soo ready, soo prepared and the world needs you now. Everyday i see here the we really are in the last days, and God needs his children, his missionaries to go out and tell everyone that they have the truth, that WE have the truth, the light, the hope and the only true joy in this world. Know that you are now joining the biggest, best and strongest group of youth in the world, and that putting on your missionary tag will be the final piece of armor you need. I will speak for the whole family right now, as they have all told me, that we are sooo excited for you!!! Go kill them!! Oregon is soooo lucky to have our little buddy, Elder Peters :):)
So now i will just say that my week here was great! I sent a picture of Lubi so now you know what she looks like, and still will need to get one of Ramon. But can i just say that they are amazing!!! They are sooo ready to get baptized, and we actually had a member of the bishopric come with us this week to go visit with us to give Ramon special permission to be baptized with only 2 times in church because they normally need . so the 2nd counselor came with us and said yes of course, that he is prepared and can see in his eyes that he is going to be a future leader in the church. So we were ready for them to come to church on Sunday to get their second time, and then get baptized on Thursday. Ramon´s work didn't give him the day off, but he is a guard and said that he knows that with faith everything is possible, so on Sunday morning he left to go to church with Lubi and Estrellita. In the bus on the way to church, Lubi got a phone call from someone in Nicaragua because they are from Nicaragua. I guess she had some kind of loan there, and if she didn't get the money to them by today that they were going to take away the house that they have in Nicaragua. so of course she felt super stressed, and they went to go talk to some people to get everything figured out..... so they didnt come to church and i was pretty sad...
But then last night we went to go visit them. We could see in their eyes that they had a super stressful day, and that they really were all in the church clothes ready to go to church. so we sat down and started to talk to them, and Ramon said very clearly and bodly to us that they were not going to miss church again. That every Sunday there were going to be there, and then basically he taught us. He started telling us how he has been reading the Book of Mormon, and how it really is the tool that we need to be successful in this life. He has soo many amazing personal experiences, and is one of those people that you can help but listen. He is amazing. So although they cant get baptized this week, they willl be getting baptized in November. :) i am soo happy for them.
Also yesterday Ezequeil received the priesthood, and also got a temple recommend!!! He´s going to the temple in like two weeks and i am sooo excited for him :)
Well i dont have much more time to talk about my week, but am soo happy to have heard all about your guy´s week :) and one last time..
Michael i love you and am soo proud of you.
Elder Peters, Welcome to the mission. You and me are going to change this world one country at a time. deal? :)
LOVE YOU ALL!!! have a wonderful week!!!
Love,
Hermana Peters
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| message to Elder Peters before leaving on his mision |
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