What a week!! I will try to write as many details as I can!! Lots of lasts!! :(
We said goodbye to Kai on Tuesday. He started crying! I didn't think he actually cared about us! It was so sweet! The only problem is that the Fish family hasn't been back to church since Kai was confirmed....ughhhhhhh! AGENCY................we were afraid this would happen. The worst part is that Kai doesn't really have a choice. If his family doesn't come he doesn't either.
Jaide is still the freaking best!!!!!!! I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!!! She has been getting so much negative talk from meeting with us. She posted a picture of herself on instagram and you could see the Book of Mormon in the background I guess so everyone was making comments and asking if she was Mormon. She said, "I kind of am!" haha! Her grandparents also called her mom and told her mom to not let her learn anymore (they are Church of Christ). Jaide is withstanding all of it though!! She is truly amazing! One of the people who commented on instagram turned into a referral! Not our area, but still exciting! We were teaching her on the phone and she was getting choked up as she told us that nothing in her life has ever brought her lasting happiness and she is SO excited that she has finally found something that will last!! Jaide also came to mutual this week without us even inviting her!! And while she was there she got a priesthood blessing for a concussion she got a week or so ago and it was a super spiritual experience for her!
Jessica. Yet again, AGENCY. We did get to meet with her. She is going through a really hard time and is turning away from God and everything really. We did get to meet with her and she committed to say 1 prayer outloud everyday but we haven't been able to contact her since and she didn't come to church :(
Kacey is still on fire!!! She passed her baptismal interview with flying colors!! She is pumped for her baptism! We got the songs and everyone to participate in the baptism all figured out. Yesterday we got the jumpsuits and everything. Next task is cleaning the spiders out of the font.....good thing I'm leaving!! (: haha! Just kidding! I wish so badly that I could be hear for it!
Savannah is doing great as well!! We texted her about mutual this week and she decided to come with us instead of the first baptist church! That is so huge y'all!!!!!! She even asked a member to pick her up without us saying anything!!! WAHOO!!!! She is so cute!! We taught her the word of wisdom this week and of course she was just as shocked as everyone about coffee and tea but she committed to live it! We asked her in our next lesson if she had prayed about it and she said she had! "I was going to athletics and I always pray before that class so I just decided to throw it in there!" We asked her if she received an answer and she said, "well I walked past the jug of tea so I guess so!" haha!! She is so cute! She told her friend that she couldn't drink it anymore and her friend said, "I don't know if you can drink anything at my house then!" We also watched the 20 minute restoration movie with her this week and she really connected with Joseph Smith and trying to find the truth! She said she knows it is true! We were warning her about some of the crazy things people say and we invited her to invite her best friend to come to church with her and she said, "well I think her parents would let her come as long as I'm coming. If I'm there they won't sacrifice her on a cross and cut her open." We chuckled and then did a double take..."they don't really say that.....do they??!" She just looked back at us and hesitated. OH MYYYYYYYY no wonder no one wants to talk to us! haha! If we really sacrificed people I think something would have come out by now folks. Lets be real.
Juan, one of the members texted us asking to borrow our key to the church so that they could clean the church on Saturday and we said, "only if you give us a referral :)" (jokingly) and he texted us back his dads name and address (he is less active) and we just about died of laughter! But it turned out really good! We got to have dinner (Mexican tacos) with the Ayalas and we talked to him about his conversion story and how it has blessed his family.
Another highlight of the week was that we got to go to the temple with Patrick!!!!!!!!!! (new convert that went to Colorado to be baptized) It was so great!!! We had to get up at 4:30 (that part wasn't to great) and we drove to Clarendon and then from Clarendon to Lubbock. We were in the car for 7 hours that day. Patrick absolutely loved it though! We knew he would! He was just smiling ear to ear in the font! We didn't get to see him baptized the first time but we did get to see him this week! He got out of the font and we told him he could go change but he didn't want to leave so he stayed and watched us too!
Also! Sister Allart is staying and will be training a brand new missionary!
I love all of these people to death!!!! I know how much the gospel has blessed my life and theirs. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only true church on the face of the earth. The most happiness lies here. Celestial kingdom here we come!!!!
See you soon!!!
READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!!
Hermana Peterson
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