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