November 10, 2014

FIRST TIME FRISKED!!!

Another transfer is over...It is so crazy how time just goes by faster and faster. I am now in transfer 9 and Elder Shaver and I are staying together! Elder Shaver has been one of my favorite comps so I am looking forward to this transfer! This next transfer will only be a 4 week one instead 6 so it will go by even quicker! Also on the 20th of November, Elder Cook, one of the Twelve Apostles, will be coming to our mission!!! I am super excited!!! :)

We had a great start to our week. We were able to teach our amis and they are doing well. I still don't feel like we have had that golden ami yet but we are still trying to find one.

We taught Madame Le Bon again this week and she read this time!  However, she didn't pray, so we testified that she needs to pray to find out if God is there.

We also taught Michael and gave him a Book of Mormon. He is a very nice guy and agreed to do everything we invited him to do.

We had a cool and funny experience this week. I will start off with the cool one.

So while we were doing some contacting, Elder Shaver and I contacted this one dude. At first he didn't seem interested but he said something about losing a family member and then I replied that God created a plan about how we can live with them again and that we would like to share this message with him. He then said he had 15 minutes for us to talk with him so we gave him a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and then he asked us how we know that God is there. We were then able to share our testimonies and gave him a Book of Mormon. We said that he could know that God is there through this book. He is a very serious man and asked a lot of difficult questions but it was so amazing how we were able to share out testimonies with him. We tried to get his name and his phone number but he said that he would read the Book of Mormon and said he would call us which I really hope he does.

Now for the funny story...haha. So while Elder Shaver and I were doing some porting we were just minding our own business and asking people if they wanted to pray with us. After a couple of houses down, we looked back and saw some people on a phone and pointing at us. We were just like "Oh that's weird. Maybe they're calling the police? No...they wouldn't do that...we just asked them to pray." Well a couple of minutes later a car pulls up to us and 4 men get out saying that they were the police...haha. They asked what we were doing and we told them everything and as you can see with the title of this week, we were frisked!!!  They said that porting is against the law (which it totally isn't) and they told us to go back home. We agreed and then they left. After that we just took the car and drove somewhere else to do more porting....haha. Super weird experience and a pointless one too. I mean all we were doing was asking people to pray but I am proud to say that I have been stopped and frisked by the police for the first time on my mission!

Anyways...I had a good week! I hope you all did as well!!! :) 

Love you guys!

Elder Evan Peterson