President Peterson, Elder Garritson, Sister Peterson

Yahoo, he made it to Hawaii. President Peterson wrote us an email letting us know that Jordan arrived safely, has been out doing street contacts in Honolulu, and has been assigned a companion and an area--we just don't know where yet! This is Jordan with his mission president and his wife, President and Sister Peterson.

Honolulu

The pad

Jordan and Elder Walker, his trainer

Aloha!

Hi all,

Talked with Jordan today as he was leaving from the SLC Airport to Honolulu! He should be there by now! He was very excited and said to tell everyone thanks so much for the letters and packages while he was in the MTC! He sent some pics and I will post them shortly. We will post his new address when he is assigned an area. He will stay at the mission home in Honolulu tonight. Thanks for all the support!

June10th Email--Time is short at the MTC!

Aloha‏

Boy another week down and only 5 more days of this place. This place is so amazing I have learned so much about the BOM and about teaching the Gospel so people will understand. Teaching with the spirit, compromising with people, it has definitely been a humbling experience! I am ready to get to the islands tho and teach people. I cannot wait. This church is so true. I have come to know without a doubt it my mind that this is the true church! I have done a lot this week we had our TA where we taught fake investigators and that was awesome!!! That was probably the first time I have felt the spirit put words into my mouth, its hard to explain but really thats how it went. The gospel is so awesome guys I tell you what! Tuesday night we got to hear from Elder Robert D. Hales!!!! It was so cool to be in his presence. The night before I just had a feeling someone important was coming so I made my companion come with me an hour and a half early so we could be close. We were like 20 rows from him it was so cool! He talked about obedience, well thats what he said he was going to talk about but really he didn't talk about that until the end. He talked a ton about the light of Christ!! I love the principle of the light of Christ, it probably is one of my favorite things to study about this gospel.. Holy cats he put it so strongly and the spirit was so strong the whole time! We watched a talk by David A Bednar about becoming a missionary and I would highly recommend everyone watch that! Also Miracle of a Mission by Jeffrey R Holland is another great one to watch and show the priests! So lesson 2 is about the plan of salvation and today I was reading in 1 Nephi 10 and its so crazy how God laid out his plan for us. There's no way someone could have made this up, everything falls into place and its just amazing! I love it!!

Exerpts from Jordan's first email--Life in the MTC

"Well I absolutely love my district. We have an amazing time together they are all a bunch of studs. My district leader is sweet we are just alike man.
Days are pretty hectic here. It was way hard to get into the swing of things becuase its eat sleep drink the gospel all day long for sixteen hours. We wake up, have personal study for an hour, go to breakfast, than have companion study for an hour. than we have class for four hours, lunch and than we have what is called MDT (missionary directive time) where you do something productive like teach teachers or whatever you want. We just usually study. Than we have class again for three more hours after dinner so its just like go go go! Its so crazy though I have learned so much. More in a week here than all of seminary which is crazy."
Here is his address for a couple more weeks at the MTC
Elder Garritson
MTC Mailbox #263
HI-HON 0615
2005 N. 900 E.
Provo, UT 84604
He is "dying" for letters--so send away! Thanks for following, will post again next week! Teri Garritson