April 21, 2014

Hey Everybody!!!

So this week has been good and very hard.  Amiens is really cool and a lot bigger than Chartres. We are in a four man apartment so that is really cool. My co-comp is Elder Smith.  The other elders are Elder Oliverson and Elder Barr. They only have 3 months left on their missions. Our apartment is so huge!!! So just letting you all know the address I gave you before is wrong so check on facebook for my REAL address.

Amiens has a branch here with about the same amount of members as in Chartres.

Voila! So why is it so hard...because we have 0 amis/investigators. And what that means is A LOT of contacting and porting. Honestly finding is not my favorite thing, but...I love teaching so you have to find to teach. That's how it works...haha. We had some crazy experiences though!

We were pushing some sonneries on an apartment complex.  We were just minding our business and then one lady comes downstairs to meet us. I was like, "Awesome, hopefully she is interested!" But sadly the only thing she was interested in was to call the police on us. She came downstairs and starts yelling at us and saying some pretty "profound"words. Luckily she didn't call the cops though. We walked away for a bit and then we went back when she left and kept on pushing buttons. Then a couple of minutes later a guy came downstairs to talk to us. I was like, "Okay this has to be the real deal!" But no, he used even more "profound" words too. I swear he taught the lady how to speak that way...haha. However, this guy did call the police but the police didn't really care..haha. After that we left and did some more porting.

We ended up meeting an old lady who had just barely lost her husband. We tried to teach her a lesson but she didn't want to have one. We did have a nice long talk though and we comforted her. That was a great blessing! We gave her our card and hopefully she will call us! Well, that was my week. I know we will find someone if we continue to do our best!

Love all of you guys!

Elder Evan Peterson

Here are some pics. Me and my new co-comp Elder Smith, and the apartment. My bed is on the corner left on the floor.

Here is a picture of our study room and a little bit of Amiens.