This area is awesome, there's so many people to find and teach here. We have some really solid people we are teaching, many of them are pretty close to committing to be baptized as well. We have been talking to tons of people in public. So we have basically lived at the parks recently.
We had a ward valentine's party recently, and we were "dressed" as police. Our job was to arrest people who weren't dancing, and take them to jail. Pretty fun night with tons of members and some non members as well.
Elder Stuart and I did a training to our zone to help encourage them to talk to people. We have been really trying to get all the missionaries to try to talk to as many people as possible, and it's it's going well so far. If we don't open our mouths and extend an invitation to learn about the gospel, we are wasting our efforts. The companionship that talks to the most people gets to buzz our heads next P-Day, so look out for that.
Kids are so cool. We found a group of 3 kids at a park one day and have been teaching them after school. It's so cool when young kids are receptive to the gospel. One of the kids, Derek, told us he really struggles with stress from school and stuff. So we taught him how to pray and then he said a prayer right there. Super humble, super sweet. It's no wonder they say that to enter the kingdom of God, you must come as a child.
While in a video lesson on exchanges with other elders, the person they were teaching told us he was going to move to Utah the next day to be with a girl named China, who he met on the internet ONCE. This man had a baptism scheduled for the next day but just dipped. So sad lol. He won't be able to hide in Orem Utah though haha.
Let me know if anything exciting is going on!
Con amor
Elder Pettit
