Buzzcut Season

Another good week! So much happens but it's always hard to try to squeeze it all out into an email. Zone Conference was this week! We had some exchanges this week as well. One of them was with the Arabic Elders-so I got to hear some Arabic conversations and i had no clue what was going on. Big respect for the 5 or 6 missionaries here (the only ones in the world) who are called to serve Arabic-speaking. That's tough!

For our second exchange, Elder Clifford came with me in my area. He's an English missionary in his second transfer. We taught the Restoration to the part-member family we are teaching. Elder Clifford took a little bit of Spanish in high school. So, he taught the first point - Dios es Nuestro Amoroso Padre Celestial - then I taught the rest of the lesson. The mom was in tears when we shared a video of the First Vision with them, it was awesome! Maybe one of the most spiritual lessons I've been a part of.

We had our friends Claudia and Florentino come to church. In the second hour of church, there was a discussion about temples and doing baptisms for the dead. Claudia told us afterward that she thought it was weird and a little "feo" that we baptize and pray for dead people, since they are already "polvo", or dust. We had to explain that to her. It didn't put her off to much though, because she still invited us to Denny's after church.

Elder Stuart and I got buzzcuts this morning before we did an endowment session at the temple with Elders Montague and Bullock, and Hermanas Tello and Montgomery- all missionaries that I served with in the valley. Good day!

Con Dios adelante,

Elder Pettit