Moravian Lives

2. The single Brother Peter Laarsen.
(His own Account is the following)
I am born 1733. the 26th. of Sept. at Steppingen
in Hollstein; There was my Vater a Farmer. He
& my Mother was awakened Poeple  People & sometimes
inquired  enquired of me: if I would not become our Savrs. 
Property to  too? But I did't understand it the same
Time & did't harm myself much about it; however
sometimes when the talkd with me I could not
forbear weeping & promised it to them. They did all
they could to keep me back of all bad Compagnys  Companies & 
I to oblige them went often in their Meetings, where
I sometimes got a Impression in my Heart. To be
our Saviours I thought that's good enough, & to
go in the Meetings to  too; but I hoped to come
as well to right as other Poeple  People, if keepd  kept at a Distance
from the Brethren, but take Care not to go
in bad Compagnys  Companies. In this Time my Vater went
Home & that very happy & my Grand Mother
followed him as I was 16 Years of Age. By this
means as I thought about her: if She departed
Happy, & if She would come to our Saviour; I came
upon myself & found that I trembled in thincking  thinking on
Eternity, I feeld  felt I had not the Confidence in my
Heart which I remembred  remembered in the Brethren, they had.