Chino! 9/24/12

Oh my goodness i love it here! life is great and things are amazing! 

on sat we had two bap interviews and yesterday Pres Taylor came and did the interview for our third one.

 I'm so super excited for next weekend, we have 3 baptisms! greg at 10 debbie at noon and Janie at 2! Its going to be such an amazing day we're so excited for all the things that are going on here in Chino! 

I find that With my companion i have to be overly excited and into stuff or he looses interest haha with him only having 5 weeks until he gets Transfered to the rest of his life he gets kinda trunky but i'm doing my best to make us sprint until the end of his mission and with the way things are going now its not going to be hard. 

Last week Phoenix zone, with 26 Elders, Prescott valley district with 6 Elders And Elders Roberts and Pehrson were the only groups to reach standard of excellance! WOOT! we did it not only were we able to make it as a district but as a companionship we were the only one in the mission that week to reach it! woot! it made me quite happy. 

the weather is changing here in chino with the coming of fall and i'm loving it so much it feels so great! 

Oh my goodness i loved the pictures you sent to me dad those are so cool! we use those videos all the time in our teaching! and Kyle that's the kind of place your going to be working in how cool is that! 

well i love you all so much and i thank you so much for all that you do for me each and every day, i Feel your prayers, and what a blessing it is to me for that.

Thank you I LOVE YOU ALL
love
Elder Pehrson

Transfer call!

ok drum roll everybody... 

Transfer news came! 

and Both Elder Roberts and i are staying in Chino! YEAH!!!!!! 

so i'm going to kill off Elder Roberts in six weeks! so that means i will be staying for at least two more transfers here in chino YEAH!!!! 

this was sat before the corn dinner  we had two baptisms one for bj
the marrried one and the other for biance the 9 year old

i LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! up here and the work is going so well i can't explaine enough to you folks how much the work is moving and to top it off Elder Roberts and i were able to reach standerds of excellance for this week as a companionship which is amazing! only about 3 companionships are able to reach that each week and they are usually in south Phoenix so for us to get it in one of the slowest areas in the mission is amazing! 

that is debbie ( who is getting baptised on the 29th) sis johnson and dale
 these were all at the ward corn dinner which was so much fun!

dale being a goof

bro Farnsworth making faces at his son heh

bro Ely and i. i'm going to dress like him one day.
oh oh so the picture of me with bro Ely i'm wearing my new super amazing tie!
 i love it so much as you can well tell

Also as a district this month with the baptisms we have planned on top of the ones that we've had Prescott valley district is going to surpass the ZONE record for baptisms in a month. so we might be able to set two records by the end of this month both the district and the zone. 

ok wow that was a lot. 

so Chino is doing amazing i love it so much up here and i'm so happy doing the Lords work and i've decided that i never want to go home. 

So i've taken it on myself to make sure that the last six weeks of Elder Roberts mission are going to be FANTASTC and amazing and super super fun. and we are well on our way to making that happen haha. 

ok i was wondering that if at all possible in the next package if you could send my over coat that i got for Christmas because i know that i'll be able to stay here until mid november and it does get chilly up here in chino in fact its been getting into the 40s in the night which is super amazing and i love it. 

so much to my pleasure at church guess what most people wear? oh yeah they wear cowboy boot and big belt buckels haha i wish i could but its not in cannon with our rules but ah well such is life. 

OH! so Janie who is 14 and she is a cheerleader a horse rider a rodeo roper and show rider and they have a pool in their pack yard (yeah you would love her Melinda) she decided that she wants to get baptised! so on the 29th we'll have three baptisms that we've confirmed for gregory (11) Janie (14) and debbie (60s) it is going to be a fantastic day for us, 

Oh i have some neat things i need to send to you guys and i was wondering should i send a box through usps or fedex or ups? Any who, i love you all your all so amazing

Love Elder Pehrson

Pools of Living Water

oh my goodness HELLO!

i just want all of you to know how much of a fantastic week we've had. its been amazing! I love serving the Lord!
Right now the ward is trusting us enough to allow us to teach their friends and family, Chino was a dead place they sent Elders to die but this week The pools of living water have sprung up and the Lord has blessed us with the stewerdship of teaching His fantastic Children.





this is a metal cut out a member gave me its amazing

josh at his baptism and his family! 

oh my goodness do you not love them as much as i do?

Josh had his baptism on sat which was such an amazing time and everyone was so happy, i loved it.

Bianca (9) and Bj (20's) are entering the waters of baptism next week and Gregory is joining them on the 29th. Right now we Have 11 others who we are teaching without dates and 6 more who we've talked too and have an appointment to start teaching but haven't met them yet.

I have no idea but the Lord is blessing us with so much work that half of this week we'll be on splits with the youth which i LOVE! this morning we went and hiked up to these amazing Indian ruins which i loved!

on sat we had a dedication of a stake center which i had never been to one before and it was super neat i enjoyed it a lot. The cool thing was that all the people that spoke could remember the time when they used to have to meet in the attic of some store and now they have two stakes and a new stake center.  

Elder Roberts and I are doing very well together and it works quite well because with him i have been getting to be able to learn how to apply the leadership skills that i learned from E Campbell, we had a zone meeting which was amazing best meeting of my mission but i don't have time to email it but i'll send it to Alex and she can read it to you

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So i got a letter from Zena And AARon which i loved and sister Marsh is so funny haha just so you all know it was her idea [to call] but she is the most amazing Saint i've ever known and living with her just makes everyone happy. so Z-A thank you for your postcard it meant a lot to me :)







OH and Mum i got my packege THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU and that to everyone it means so much to me honest it does although ironicly the first cookie i opened tolde me i would soon have a romantic meeting so i said dang right! peppermint and honey tea I'm so ready for you! HAHA

Family friends i love you so much you have no idea

Love Elder Pehrson

Mystery call

Hi there. It's Z, Andrew's sister.

I just got the most wonderful phone call.

I'm sitting at work, and my phone starts buzzing. It was an Arizona number, and I thought I recognized it as one of my "trouble" contacts I'd needed to call from home a couple of weeks ago to resolve an issue. Reluctantly I answered, but it was not the young male voice I was expecting. Instead, it was a kind and rather matronly voice.

She introduced herself as Sister Marsh, and told me my brother was serving in her area!

If you'll recall from the last post, Sister Marsh is the name of the wonderful lady hosting the missionaries - Andrew's living in her home!

I'd gone down to Arizona with the hubby last weekend, and although we were sorely tempted to do a little Elder stalking, we resisted the temptation (because we're both returned missionaries and know exactly how against the rules that is and how distracting it can be for the missionary).

BUT ... I couldn't resist sending him a postcard to let him know we were all of 198 miles away...

He got my postcard today! And, not reading closely enough to realize we'd already left that dry and hot place, got Sister Marsh to call me to try and arrange a meeting (apparently his mission rules aren't as strict as mine...)

Needless to say, the meeting won't happen.

But I did have a lovely conversation with Sister Marsh, and she reports that Andrew is young, enthusiastic, working hard, and having a great time.

She said he made chicken for dinner last night while she made the salad, and once the meal was over, he said, "Now I want to cook something for real!"

How like Andrew.

She also said that she's learning all sorts of random scientific-y trivia from Andrew. Like some stuff about the stars he pointed out, then a diatribe about propane systems, and then... well, you all know Andrew, so the list of random comes as no surprise.

Sounds like he hasn't changed. Well, except that she reports him to be an efficient and responsible missionary. "Efficient" and "Responsible" are traits he must have learned down in the heat. :)

Most of all, Sister Marsh said how grateful she is to have the missionaries in her home. Her husband died last year, and she's been horribly lonely. So it seems that even while he's home sleeping or doing his laundry, Andrew is still actively serving just by providing this lovely lady with company and purpose.

Way to be.

I'm tempted to save her phone number, should I ever need to use it... tempted, but I'm pretty sure that's another iffy space in the rule book.

Chino

firstly mum yes i do need my driving record still Elder Roberts is going home next month so he wont always be driving so Sister Taylor said that i really need to have my record because they might need me to be DD some time and i can drive on exchanges and such because i talked to the office but without those records i can't drive all the time.

ok so these are pictures of the view from our house which is amazing! i love living with sister Marsh 

and this is the Elder Roberts deep in his studies, as you can see his body fat is probably in the negitive haha hopefully he can help me loose some weight haha although he doesn't have to try in fact he is doing his best right now to put on some weight and he can't HA oh what a problem to have. 

so things are going super well up here in Chino we have six dates set right now one for this Sat and we have two interviews on sat and we get to go to the new stake center open house and then on Sunday the dedication (rumor has it that one of the twelve is going to be there) and they invited all the missionaries in the zone to be a part of it and then the next sat we have another bap interview so we are super busy busy busy. 

its so cool to see that in our district each companionship got a new person at the beginning of this transfer and at our last district we went through numbers and our district is now getting 4 time the numbers it was before and our companionship is getting 3 time the numbers! 

the Lord is really blessing us so much in helping the work move up here and let me tell you it is moving so fast we can barely keep up to it haha well i love you all so much you all mean so much to me keep up all that you do

Love Elder Pehrson
ps when i get my package i'll let you know. promise
pps Xena do you love me enough to give me your pumpkin soup recipe, sister marsh has a couple early ones and she doesn't know what to do with them. LOVE YOU AND thank you!!!