News from Elder Pelton: (still raw - unedited:)
this week has been a very inspiring and a look into the future of other elders serving here, and a week of learning and applying. it has been a challenge but the work has paid off. we have some really awesome people that we are teaching and they are moving a long quite well. there is this new lady that we stared teaching about a week ago and she is a great lady she has a very strong relationship with God, she was found by the missionaries in the 1st ward here while they were contacting people in the street. she is an interesting lady as well she is a little slower at learning but she knows what she i doing. the last lesson we had with her was great and strange as well, we were on exchanges and the elder i was with got a little sick while we were teaching her so every now and then he would dash out of the conversation and head for the bathroom, leaving me and the member that came with us to teach this lady. but the lesson still went really well, we taught her about the restoration and how the authority to baptize has been restored, it all made sense to her after we went through it. but she told us about when she went to her pastor and told him that she felt that she needed to be baptized again he told her that she did not need to be baptized again but she told us that she prayed about it and said that she had a strong feeling that she needed to do it again. so when we invited her to be baptized she was more than willing to accept and she said that it felt right what she was doing. it was amazing to see how God prepares people to hear and accept the gospel. i have learned how we need to be humble as we teach and not worry about how we present the message but what the person needs.
also during this week we have been learning as a zone how to love people more and i stand corrected by my statement of a few weeks ago about how prayer is the key but it is by our love for the people that we are around and by using prayer to be inspired by the Holy Ghost what to do for them. but our Zone leaders have showed us the power that love has as we go out and talk to people, they have come up with certain points that will help us love the people more. as we contact we need to view these people as members of the church already and that will allow us to have that vision of where we want them to go and that way it will make it easier to talk to them and then to talk to them as a normal person and talk to them with love and respect for them and then to also listen with love. i am not to sure how to explain it but when i have applied it out on the street it works and it has allowed more people to let us come back and they feel that they need what we have. it is amazing. we are going to be taught more about it this week, so next week i will tell you how it all went. but easter was great one of the speakers in our ward was youg man that is going on his mission to France and he leaves this week. he gave a great talk about the Atone ment. well i am about out of time. i love you all and can't wait to hear from you all.
Elder Pelton