Hermana Jessica Peterson's Mission Adventure: Next on the baptism by fire . . .

Hey y'all!!!

Another great and crazy week in the panhandle!! Jessica has been MIA.....we are so sad. Of course we will keep trying!!

Tuesday on our way home from district meeting we ran into closed roads again! There was a fire near Clarendon, the next most prepared town is about to be baptized by fire (: haha! We had to take like an hour long detour so that means we were in the car for a total of like 5 hours on Tuesday...ew. But we did get to see the biggest cross in Texas in Groom, TX!

Tuesday evening we got to go see Kai and he is doing great. He got the gift of the Holy Ghost yesterday!!

We also saw Jaide again!!! She is SO SOLID!!!!! We taught her the Plan of Salvation and she absolutely loved it! We followed up on her reading and like the idiots we are, forgot to follow up on her prayer to know if it was true. She said, "I also prayed about it like you asked!" and......drumroll please......" and I know it is where God needs me to be. I believe it's true!" She was filled with so much love and joy, it was truly amazing!!!!!! She then talked about how she is ashamed of her past life and we talked about how through the gospel we can receive a remission of sins and it is like it never existed and then we invited her to be baptized on May 20th and she accepted!!! She wasn't able to come to church yesterday because her family took a road trip to Dallas but she texted us saying that she would be there next week and every week after that!!! We are so excited for her!! We also texted her to tell her about the Gospel Library app so that she could read on their drive to Dallas and she said she was already on chapter 12! and that was on like Friday!! Sam (the member that referred her) texted us and thanked us for bringing joy into her life and it was amazing!! We were on cloud 9!

We have another new investigator named Savannah. She is 13 years old and she is also friends with one of our young men. We knocked into her family but she was the only one interested. We taught her three times this week and it went great! She came to church and loved it and she accepted the invitation to be baptized as well!!

Kacey accepted the invitation to be baptized on April 29th!!!! Sadly that is only a couple days after I leave :( she is bummed and so am I!! She had us over for dinner and then we taught the law of chastity and she said "I just have one question that I've been thinking about, what exactly is the process for getting baptized and who would baptize me?" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We tried to keep our cool lol! On the inside we were screaming for joy!! On the outside we only screamed a little haha!

Church on Sunday was amazing!! The Hales came into town for departing interviews for Sister Timmins and I. Kai got confirmed a member of Christ's only true church. Patrick passed the sacrament for the first time. Kacey, Savannah, and Terrence all came to church!!! We got to teach primary again this week! This week we taught the sunbeams that sharing the gospel is almost as cool as sharing your goldfish!! It was great!!