2nd week email from Oregon

On Thursday we were tracting and met a lady named L. She told us that she had been praying to find out what church to join! Her family is all lds so she knows about the church! We gave her a Book of Mormon and had another lesson with her on Friday. After our lesson on Friday about the restoration and prophets she told us that she believes the Book of Mormon to be true and Joseph smith to be a true prophet!! It was so amazing! She is married and has 2 little girls! We are going to invite her to come to church with us and see if she will stop working on Sundays!  She said that is the only thing holding her back! So far Portland is awesome! There a totally some weird people here though... A guy today wore baby blue cupries to church and a tie to match haha. There are a group of kids in our apartment complex that never wear shirts and we call them "the crew" they are always riding bikes or skateboards around! Today our investigator D came to church and we only met her one time last week while tracting! Elder Thompson and I ended up teaching the class and she was crying so hard! It was such a good lesson. I had to say the opening prayer in sacrament and a prayer in about every class! In elder ballads talk on Friday before he even started speaking he called his wife up to the stand and kissed her and then looked at all of us and said "that's what it's all about right there, family" and he talked about missionary work and I got to shake his hand! It was awesome!! My first week out here was great and I hope yours was too!! 

Love Elder Peterson