Saturday we attended our first baptism.  Unfortunately it wasn't one of our investigators.  Our District Elders taught the lady and they had to come to our font.  There is only a small branch in their area of about 60 members.  Their chapel is a rented Methodist Church that doesn't have a baptismal font.  We helped them with all the preparations for the baptism and provided refreshments after the meeting.  We have two more baptisms scheduled for the next two Saturdays.  One will be for a young lady and her grandmother that we have helped with.  We taught them one lesson, have sat in on couple of more and are trying to fellowship them.  They came to Church today and stayed for all three meetings, which was a big step.  I taught the Gospel Principles class and the grandmother attended and participated so it was great.

One of the major attractions in Bowling Green is the Corvette Museum. We went there Saturday afternoon after the baptism with our friends, the Oakleys.  GM made Corvettes in Bowling Green for a time.  It is one of the largest museums in the world dedicated to a particular car.  It was interesting to those who love fast, expensive cars but wasn't particularly my cup of tea.  The tour was organized by one of our office couples and seven senior couples came.  We really enjoyed meeting with and enjoying their fellowship.  We shared our failures and successes and had a good time together eating a meal and touring the museum.

I was taking pictures of the group when someone volunteered to take pictures for me, so I ended up on the end of the group away from Vicki.  All the rest are standing next to their companions.  At the present time there are 12 senior couples in our mission, which is quite surprising and more than normal.  We have enjoyed all of them and have found it interesting that we feel a bond with each and find it very easy to socialize with them although they come from different areas.  Two couples are from Oregon, two from Utah, one from Colorado, one from Texas along with us Idahoans.

This is Brother and Sister Austin from Logan Utah.  They are serving in Bowling Green and we see them fairly often.  They live right across the street from the Anthonys that we have written about and not far from Brent & Candace in Logan.

We have quite a few Amish and Mennonites in the area, hence this road sign.  We were coming down one of the major roads the other day and came up behind an Amish fellow in his one-horse buggy.  We felt bad we hadn't put the camera in the car that day for we would have dearly loved to had a picture as we followed him for about a mile.  Below is a telephone pole covered with the wild ivy, a sight we see in this green country quite often.

We are very grateful for Kiara's efforts to post pictures of the boys graduations on Facebook.  We have looked forward each day to those pictures.  We have missed being there very much, but the pictures have helped.  We are grateful for the graduation announcements and have them on the refrigerator door.  We also love to post pictures that are sent to us.  We got some of McCoy this week and he is right there with the graduation boys.  We enjoy skyping with those who can and it helps us feel close to our family.  In case anyone wonders, we do really miss family, especially when we get a little discouraged on a hard day.  Then we have a good visit and it all seems worth it again.
Elder and Sister Peterson (Y'all come see us, y'hear!)