from Glendale

ok sorry we were not able to email yesterday it was a holiday so the library was closed so sorry about that but here we are today! 

Thank you so much for all of the pictures that you've sent! i loved those so much! 

and Kyle! congrats! thats so cool that you get to do the pictures and video for erics wedding! i didn't know he was getting married but still that super cool! way to go! oh also kyle i have your birthday present but i haven't been able to send it yet the last few p-days i've been super busy packing and then yesterday i found on my gps that the closest post was super far to get too so today considering we're already miles out of our area to email i'm going to stop by and pick up a box so that i can actually get this thing up to you! i think your going to like the things i got for you and i'm so super sorry that it won't be there for your birthday but it is on it way so look forward to that! 

 Nathan i'm so excited to see you dance some time! that'll be so neat! 

and mindy-moo! your being paid to play you chilly-cello now?!?1 that fantastic! 

oh and also i'm sending home my camera so you can take it back to costco because i need to take pictures!!!!! and knowing mum you'll be able to get a nicer one that wont brake and will take really cool pictures.

 So we met with the bishop and ward mission leader and we sat down and put together the vision goals and tasks that the ward is doing for missionary work and it was really cool because in both cases when we met the bishop and ward mission leader they started off very defensive almost hostile (which i found odd) but after getting to know them and to figure out what the plan is they realized that we weren't meeting to reprimand them but to see how we can help them with their own goals and with the work in this area, and with both we went out of those meetings feeling a lot better about each other then we did going in i find it so amazing how God works to make his plan happen so well that for some reason he needed me here to do His work. 

speaking of... the Assistants Elder Campbell and Bartolson are in this zone so on p-day we got to hang out with them which was super cool it was so nice to see my trainer and to talk with him AND!!!! ELDER JACKSON is in this zone!!!!!!!!!!! that was so much fun getting to see him again and to have fun with him. 

so on our ride home to our place Elder Campbell gave us a ride he told me that president wasn't going to transfer me this transfer but that in the middle of the night he got up and moved my name because the spirit directed him to do so, which i found to be a testimony builder that this is Gods work directed by the spirit and that i have a lot to learn here. 

So elder Longhurst is super cool he just turned 19 and he has been out almost 3 months he is from Layton Utah (which he claims is totally different then the bubble of slc) but he is fun and willing to learn he also played risk and chess with me yesterday so yes i like him a lot. well that is all i have to report as of today but 

i love you all so much keep up the good work and don't stop PRAYING!
love
Elder Pehrson

OH ps monday mornig wetook a hike and this hike is special due to its view of CCV! just kidding no of the Phoenix Temple! which is in our Zone too bad i don't have my camera but all is well we go every p-day

New area!... GLENDALE!

ok well sorry I wasn't able to email yesterday, the only place for us to email is almost 4 miles out of our area and we are on bike so its kinda hard to get around with everything being so far away from us but that's ok all is fine. so my companion is Elder logan Longhurst and he is my first companion from Utah! he is from Layton so close enough to us.

for all you google maps users (mr J) you'll find that the area where I was trained is about a block away! but in a different city and stake. I am in the Glendale/deervalley zone and nobody knows each other in this zone because almost everyone has bikes so no one gets together on p-day so kinda lame there but other then that its quite good I am in a super small area again and the place is super rich and Is built around a golf course. the area hasn't had a baptism in 5 years... lets change that shall we?

oh and ps for those of you over seas you can write to me here and it will get to me very fast

I love you all!

Transferred.

i am getting transfered! I'm so sad because i love these people so much and they mean so much to me! and i've worked so hard the last six months to leave this area better then i found it and oh my goodness i have to leave now!?!?! we have like 15 people we are teaching and 6 of them have a baptism date and the rest almost do and we just had a new investigater last night even! but all the same when i got the text that i was leaving i had this rush of the spirit and i knew that it was ok, that i served honorably here and it has been primed to explode with work, that where ever i go i will be needed there and that whoever my companion is i will love then and serve them as best as i can

it's going to be in the 80s this week due to a "storm"

ok so to start off our district reached standards of excelence! and the cool thing about that is that SOE is set on usually 4 companionships in a district so 8 missionaries but we only have 2 comps so it was super cool and come to find out all the work only came from two wards Surprise 2nd from ours and White Tank from Elders Wade and Loper so good things are happening 

 i have my first letter ready to go to be sent over seas which is exciting and i have no idea how long it'll take to get there but oh well. (Since Alex is in Lithuania for the summer)

ok so some items of business. Sunday is Mothers day and i will be calling home between 430 and 630 (AZ time) i'll probably let Elder Meredith go first from 430 to 510 and then i'll call after that but a word of caution! we are not allowed under any circumstances to go over the allotted 40 minutes. so i'm sorry but if my times up i will be hanging up on you so don't be offended. 

Ok now i wanted to let you all know how much i love being a missionary! 

this is the best work in the world i love it so much and it makes me so happy to be doing exactly what God wants me to do. I feel so blessed to be able to witness as peoples lives change and they become better and have that joy com into their lives!

so fun story and just to tell you Elder Pehrson is not in any way a robot missionary so just keep that in mind, we went to this part member family and we knocked on the door and they let us in and started talking with us her husband and 4 children are not members but only two kids are baptism age, so as usual per Elder Pehrson being who he is, instead of talking with the adults i go to the 12, 9, and 7 year olds and start talking to them and it turns out that they LOVE dinosaurs like a lot! so they start bringing their toys out onto the kitchen table and instead of us looking at them and saying wow thats so neat i proceed to grab hold of the meanest looking one and start to eat the other ones which ended up in all the kids and Elder Meredith and i reenacting how the dinosaurs are actually dead because they all died in a massive battle.

oh man those are the good times i loved it so much.

so we went back for our lesson and i've never met anyone so excited to see us!  the 9 year old was waiting in the window the whole time looking for us to come and they had the living room all cleaned up and ready to go with a plate of freshly made cookies (which were great! and we used them as an object lesson on the apostasy) and we had lesson 1 which went so well and the whole family is now learning including the husband and i'm so excited to see how they progress and the joy that come into their lives as they grow closer to God.

Well i had better go now but i love you all so much! and i'm excited to hear from you on Sunday but until then i love you
Elder Pehrson

It was 101 yesterday!

Ok so to start off this morning a returning less-active in our ward took us to a driving range and we learned how to GOLF! and guess what! ITS FUN! i loved it and i'm not too shabby at it either, with the driver i was hitting the back fence but i wasn't as good with the irons but it was still super fun. 

so this week has been good we've been busy but not the good busy its the have so many things to do that we're figuring out ways to get it all done and end up not giving anything the full attention that it needed but thats ok because we've had a lot to do and we're getting through it all and this coming week looks like its going to be just as full if not more full but that good i like it that was.

 so yes its ben hot down here in the upper 90s and it was 101 on sunday and being on a bike thats HOT! but its all actualy quite fun, i truely do love being here doing this work. 

so yesterday was amazing (we didn't have anyone at sacrament and they all said that they would be there)) i love it so much that we can develop these relationships with the ward members and we can love them and during church and walking through the halls to have all the little kids loving to come up and shake our hands or to talk to us and the youth to ask us if we are going to thier class or the parents asking when we can come by for dinner or a message with thier families, we couldn't have asked for a better area i love it here so much and i love the friends that i have here and the work that we are able to do with them and thier neighbors is so much fun. 

so michael came to Elders wade and lopers baptism on sat and he loved it and then he had his interview which he passed with flying colors but then on sunday he texted us saying that his mom wants him to wait and learn more about the church before getting baptised so we have to wait sadly but it gives us time to throughly go over all the lessons with him so that is a good thing. 

we are all waiting for the mission spawns and spits and how the logistics of everything are going to work out but all we can do is wait which i don't mind however it happens is how god wants it to be. 

So Where Is kim going? isn't it the Tempe mission? well anyhow right now i guess Alex is on the plane heading out to her worldwide adventures and thats so exciting for her! that'll be amazing.

Well i had better go now but i love you all so much, keep up the good work and keep on keepin on!
Love Elder Pehrson