Elder Pedro: A New Transfer

It has been quite the adventurous week. We has so much snow this past week. We are supposed to get more today too. (It is already coming down pretty hard) We had a lot of missionary 'drama' this past week. We got a call from the A.P's on Saturday that they Emergency Transferred a missionary out of our zone that was getting along with his companion. We had no idea! On Saturday we had some sisters who were fighting. We had to split them up and change companionship's. Our mission President was in Cheyenne so we couldn't get a hold of him so we had to deal with it our selves. It got pretty intense. We had 3 referrals at church which has never happened. All these people want to get taught now! Our main Investigator named Emily is doing great. She is still coming to church and praying. She is praying about May 18th as a day to be baptized. Elder Fadika and I are doing great he is a stud. Love all y'all.

Elder Pedro Email: Arvada, Temple and Snow!

It was a good last week of the transfer. We had transfer yesterday. Elder Fadika and I will be staying in Arvada I am so happy! We got to go to the temple last week it was great. On Saturday there was huge festival called the Kite festival and we got to do service there. We helped people sort there trash between recyclable, compostable and landfill. Sunday was our last day in the family ward we are solely in the Y.S.A now! We are teaching a girl named Emily who is doing really well I think she will be baptized in the next month or so. Elder Fadika backed into her car the other day though haha. but She was cool about it. Yesterday was crazy no one knew that the storm was going to be that bad. We probably had about 18 inches at our house. We were stranded at the mission office all day. We weren't able to leave until 8:30 PM. I had to drive sisters home by myself and a usual 25 minute drive turned into 2 hours. Elder Fadika and I didn't get home until close to 11 last night. It was crazy. We now have 6 sisters in the zone and 16 total missionaries.

Elder Pedro

Img_0065- one of our districts
Img_0016 - Elder Fadika and I
Img_220 - driving the sisters home
Img_208 - this is the car I had to drive home last night in.

Short Week.

It was a fast week over here. Friday we had a Zone Leader Council up in Broomfield. President Toombs had us vote on a music issue and we decided to go to just Hymns and Classical music. so I will be sending some cds home haha. General Conference was awesome as always. We spend Saturday watching it Y.S.As at the Bishops home. On Sunday we watched one session with Investigators and the other with a family in the 4th ward. Our mission President met with us this week about some problems in the Zone. He told me that I would be staying in Arvada this next transfer with Elder Fadika So I hope that happens. He is always changing his mind. 5 of us went hiking today and climbed to a peak on the west side of Denver it was so fun. We could see Denver and boulder and the surrounding Areas. Denver is so Flat. There is a strong storm coming into night and we are supposed to get at least a foot of snow maybe even more.

4/1/13 - Just Serve Program

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Things are going well out here. Our mission President challenged all the Zone Leaders to teach 20 lessons a week. So we are trying to reach that goal. Thursday was sweet. We met with our mission President and Sister Stacey at President Toombs home. I mentioned before that our mission is doing a pilot program called 'just serve' Well President chose Arvada to pilot the pilot. He gave us access to computers and pretty much whatever we want to do to see that our zone provides 140 hours of service each week. We were told that we pretty much are 'writing the hand book for the church' its pretty cool. Friday we had a spiritual experience we knocked on a door and my companion used the old ''Hey can I use your restroom'' trick and he let us in. He opened up to us and said it was one of the greatest day since his divorce. We shared the message of the restoration and are coming back this next week. This week is going to be a busy one. We have scheduled so many appointments we will be running all over.

-- Elder Pedro

3/25/13; Golden Investigators and 15 month mark

What a great week. We tried so hard to teach 20 lesson and only taught 16. But all but 3 were investigator lessons which is legit! We found 4 new investigators - B.K., helen, Kelly and Emily. All 4 of them can be termed ''golden'' I am so blessed to be able to work with them. Emily is legit she has already read the book of Mormon and she has two Mormon sisters. Joe Quinn got baptized this past week. He asked me to confirm him in Sacrament meeting. It was so spiritual. He showed up way late to his baptism so everyone was fretting but it happened! We had another snow day out here. It snowed about 8 inches on Saturday and was super windy. We had some YSA kids come pick us up and we played basketball at the church. Its amazing how much snow we get here and how it is gone a few days later. I really love Arvada I wouldn't mind living here! We have a sweet week planned out so hopefully it is awesome. By the way I hit my 15 month mark this week. So Crazy!

Img_0016 - Chilling in the Sauna
Img _ 0020 - Some of the awesome missionaries of Arvada.
Img_0022 - Joe Q getting baptized!

3/18/13 - Week 2!

Things are going well out here. Our mission President challenged all the Zone Leaders to teach 20 lessons a week. So we are trying to reach that goal. Thursday was sweet. We met with our mission President and Sister Stacey at President Toombs home. I mentioned before that our mission is doing a pilot program called 'just serve' Well President chose Arvada to pilot the pilot. He gave us access to computers and pretty much whatever we want to do to see that our zone provides 140 hours of service each week. We were told that we pretty much are 'writing the hand book for the church' its pretty cool. Friday we had a spiritual experience we knocked on a door and my companion used the old ''Hey can I use your restroom'' trick and he let us in. He opened up to us and said it was one of the greatest day since his divorce. We shared the message of the restoration and are coming back this next week. This week is going to be a busy one. We have scheduled so many appointments we will be running all over.

Elder Pedro

3/11/13: Arvada and Finding Investigators

We had a good week over here in Arvada, Colorado. I love Elder Fadika he is such a great guy and he is super humble. He has only been a member of the church for 2 years. I have found that the first week of a transfer is very busy for the Zone Leaders. We are always left picking stuff up and helping people out. We have a total of four sisters in the zone now. Two of them are brand new. We found a new investigator in the Y.S.A ward. Her name is Carla. I baptized her friend two transfers ago in another Y.S.A ward and she asked us to come teach her. We are having a baptism next week its a man named Joe he is so awesome. His friend who has only been a member since December invited him to hear the lessons and its going well so far. Friday, we had a Zone Leader council in Broomfield. President is so impressed with the Arvada zone because it has never been so good at finding. The A.P.s asked the question. ''When you came out on a mission did you hear that Arvada was the black hole of the mission?'' They went on to say that it is not the black hole any more. We talked about having a goal of teaching 20 lessons a week. Saturday there was a blizzard advisory. It snowed all day about 10-12 inches, it was super wet snow. We got our driving privileges taken away so we spent time with some other missionaries and there sauna they have in there basement. Well this next week is looking out to be great. We have high goals set to accomplish.