TRANSFERS!!!

and the news for transfers is......

haha i got you excited there! well i'm not getting transfered! BUT ELDER JACKSON IS! 

WAHHHAHAHHHH! i'm so super sad! 

we were like a couple of girls this morning when we found out and we both started tearing up and we both don't want him to go but the Lord knows best i guess. so do you folks remember the certain Elder Campbell? who trained me, and is one of the most amazing Elders ever in the world, who has been zone leader living with us in the surprise house? 

well he got a visit from president Taylor this Sunday (which we got to talk to pres Taylor as well which was cool he was making jokes and being super funny and uplifting[and we had a member come up and tell him how much he loved us which was embarrassing but felt good]) well Elder Campbell is our new Assistant to the presidant! AHHHHHHH!!!!HH!HHAHAHAHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He has gone AP wow thats super crazy but he deserves it and he will be one of the best ap's ever! 

so this week has been super slow we aren't teaching anyone aside from deven who can't be baptized due to being on probation for another year and nothing else has happened even though we have been almost 100% obedient and super happy and doing what we've needed to be doing but nothing is happening and now we're going to be getting someone now so the work should pick up but i don't know how its going to go and how i'll like him and blah blah blah, things will work out in the end they always will though we just have to endure through and become more obedient and do what is right. 

so dad i'm sure you've known of this for a long while but 58 new missions! wow but you know the best thing about it all?!?!?!? we're going from 3 metropolitan phoenix missions (phx messa tempe) to 5! they are forming the gilbert mission and the scottsdale mission and the split is happening in july and they'll be pulling missionaries from the three existing ones to help start the new missions! ahhhh scary! 

but each mission will have a full complement of missionaries and will bring the total number of missionaries in southern az from about 700 to about 1500! the work is moving forward at an amazing pace and i can't wait to see how its all going to happen but its so super exciting! well thats all from me i hope you're all happy and content i love you all so much!

I love you

Elder Pehrson

Hello! - Birthday Present

Thank you everyone for all your birthday wishes and the love that you give to me! i had a fantastic birthday weekend and a wonderful birthday! 

i got your package and i love it! thank you so much! the shirt fits perfectly i love it tons! thank you! 

Its so good to hear of all the people serving missions! thats amazing and how it should be, the happiest saints will always be the ones who share the gospel! and thats a fact! 

shane(one on left) and bro levit(right) and the missionaries who gave shane the lessons and then my fantastic companion and i, that sure was a great birthday present!

so on sat we had the baptism of shane and that was great! the spirit was so strong and he is such a great guy who will soon be a much needed leader in the church in this area, that evening and the next day we had stake conference which was SO amazing presidant Taylor and sister T spoke at both and brought such a wonderful spirit. so we had a visiting authority his name is Elder Aiduquides (or something close to that) he is in the 1st quorum of the 70 and one of the five over missionary work, and his talks on sat and sun were amazing! they were so funny and the spirit was so strong, he told us things that i'll always be able to remember and use the rest of my life.

 All in all we've had a great week and a great birthday! i'm also greatful to know that a year from now i'll still be on my misson! YAY! sadly i wont be able to say that for very much longer... so any way i wanted to let you all know how much i love you guys and how much i feel of your love and am able to use and apply lessons which i've been able to learn form all of you, Thank you all for being so great. 

What a good, and loving Father in heaven that we have! what peace this gospel gives us! its amazing! i love it so much! 

so i sent you a picture of all the missionaries at our house Elders wade, goff, campbell, robinson, jackson, and pehrson we have so much fun and we all love each other and its so neat to have a house full of Elders who get along and are happy, i love it! 

any who i best write pres taylor now but i love you all so much! keep it up and remember we all only have to make ONE BIG decision in life; which kingdom of glory do we want to inherit? and by making that choice all other choices become easy.

With all my love
Elder Pehrson

LOVE!

HAPPY WEEK OF LOVE!

well hello! i love you all! so i almost burst out laughing, a moose in the castillos backyard? i'm glad it didn't go into ours ginny would have gone berserk on it haha thats great!

so funny story we went and prayed with one of our members and it was super spiritual and then after, he called us up and said that after we left he felt inspired to go outside and talk to his neighbor which he did and his neighbor (shane) says oh yeah you're mormon, i'm getting baptized into your church next week! and bro leavitt was like oh really? hmm well that's cool so then he called us up and was saying so you've been teaching my next door neighbor for two months without telling me? 

we said no so we talked to the zone leaders and went through the chain, shane was going almost two stakes away to be taught the lesson by some other elders who, in the two months that they were teaching him never seemed to ask him where he lived... yeah... hmmm how does that work? so we called them up and they told us that they are going to be doing everything... so ye are kinda confused by the whole thing so the zone leaders are involved and its just a mess of a situation so, we might have a surprise baptism this weekend perhaps... i don't know so that's that story! 

so how are all of you folks? good i hope, oh guess what! (what?) we're going lazer tagging again today! woot! i'm so excited i might explode! AAAHAHAHAH! 

 oh so funny ish story, there is a new church that just opened up here and its super popular but the weirdest thing is that they have a real life rameumptum! like for real! its this big tower that they take turns going up on it and they read the "prayer" off of this big screen and then they play rock music and speak in languages and what not and then they go down and the next person goes up and does it! its so weird! its almost straight out of alma reading about the zorumites oh man its crazy how it aligns so well with the apostate people in the book of mormon! 

well again happy love week! 

oh so sad story Ahide is now in glendale cps group home and deven is going to be on probation for about a year and can't be baptised until thats over, and shawn wants to be baptised when he moves to oregon and jared says our visits are too intrusive and melony doesn't want to stop her drugs :( so we are doing a lot of looking and very little finding and its kinda slow at this point but never fear! with obediance and hard work we shall march on to victory! yay! (trumpets; doo ta doo) 

so any whom i love you all so much keep up the amazingnessingerlyfull! oh and my memory card is almost full, did you want me to send that home so you can take all the pictures off it?

I love you ALL keep up the good work!

In which Z receives many pictures from Elder Roo

so this week has been great but i want to start by saying that i'm so glad the blessing went well and you all had so much fun! that makes me super happy! i can't wait to hear more about it ! 

ok this week was fun we didn't get a lot of "numbers" but it was still super good! Elder Jackson and i have so much fun its probably illegal in norway! but we do it any how! so i'm not quite sure what to write about haha! ok well not today but next week the beauls are taking us lazer tagging again! and we're so excited for that! 

ahh! ok so Zena just sent me some more pictures of the munchkin and i can't wait for the day that i can hold her! 

ok so it takes a super long time to send those pictures so i don't have much time but i do love you all so much you are all amazing and l ilove you!

ok these are us waiting for a ride to district meeting and just having fun! Elder Jackson is learning that a mission isn't just about stressing out about everything but we are here to have fun so thus i'm teaching him to have fun :D

ok this is E Jackson being a gremlin on his bed after we all chased him down cornered him and tickled him until he almost peed his pants! yup surprise house is the greatest!

this is a picture i took at christmas of the temple and this is e jackson being a boss

ok this one is me convincing e jackson that being soaked to the bone all day long and being wet and tiered is actually super fun! 

and oh haha these! so Alex the beautiful once sent me some staches that i've been saving for a special day and elder Jones (second one in on left) was going hom ethe next day so we slapped them all and talked in accents that matched our stach, and then there was me and Elder Jackson who we thing we might actually grow to look like that one day
ME and E jackson
Ejackson me elder Wade E Robinson E jones  & E Campbell