It's been a fun week. Elder Heronema is still stuck at home, so it's just been Elder Colt and I. Some good stuff has happened this week though.
We got to go to the baptism of an awesome guy named Jessie. What's really cool is that Elder Colt was the one that found him a while back (Elder Colt has been in this area before). Elder Frogley and his companion have been teaching him and his baptism was super cool. He has a very strong testimony and the joy that's been on his face since then is contagious. He's so happy to be a member of the church.
We've been doing a lot of finding because we don't have all of our area's information yet, we're still waiting for some of it to come in. Yesterday we met a really nice guy named Daniel. He was on his driveway cleaning out his car from a recent hunting trip and we struck up a conversation. Eventually he said he'd be interested to hear the message we have to share. We are going back on Wednesday, so hopefully he'll remember 
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. 6 to 9 has gotten pretty difficult lately because of how soon the sun goes down. It's already dark by 6 and apparently people in this area do not like people after dark. We pulled off the side of a road to look at our directions and it was taking a minute. I look out my window and see a guy coming out of his garage with a flashlight (about 50 yards away). At that moment we figured out where we were headed, so we started driving away. The man pointed his flashlight at our car as if we had something wrong, so we just kept going. Elder Colt says he's had that happen a lot and that people here really don't like cars pulled off to the side of the road. It was strange, but I suppose somewhat reasonable.
We've been trying to find interesting things to do in our downtime and we created a little racetrack for rc cars. Don't worry, we didn't use any work hours to make it and we don't even use it that much. But it was fun. I'll put a picture of it, we are pretty proud of it 
I've been reading the war chapters at the end of Alma this week and I forgot how much I love them. Helaman and Moroni are so cool. There's so many instances where they and their armies were preserved because of their faith in God. And I've always loved the exchange between Moroni and Pahoran that shows Moroni's zeal and desire to save his people and Pahoran's patience despite all the trouble he has been dealing with. Alma 48:16-17 is one of my favorite scriptures. I go back to that scripture constantly.
That's all I really have to report this week. Next week should be more interesting.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
-Elder Peterson
