Hey everybody! Hope you are all doing great! It's official, I have been in Texas for 2 weeks now. It is such a weird feeling. The people here are great though!
Update on the Texas winter: 2 days this week it was in the 80's and super warm and then this morning when we went to the store it was 21 degrees and it felt like my hands were going to fall off. Good thing we were only out for a second!
Thankfully my family sent us a GPS so the directions were a little easier this week but still a struggle haha! We started off the week by going down to Midland to do exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders. We went down Tuesday after district meeting and came back Wednesday night. They are awesome! I had good experiences while down there. We got to do 2 different types of service while down there which was exciting. On Tuesday Sis Schultz and I went and walked dogs that are waiting to be adopted at PetsMart and on Wednesday we went and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. We helped build a house! Things I never thought I would be doing! Our job was caulking around all the shelves and molding in the closet.
Had a first experience this week! I got pulled over!! Don't worry, everything is fine haha. I was terrified because we had left dinner late and so we were late to our next appointment and we didn't know how to get there so Sis Acosta had the map out trying to figure it out and as I am turning I see lights out the back window so of course I start to freak out. It turns out she just needed to see proof of insurance because it wasn't on the car or something but that really gave me a heart attack! We were off on our way, calling our appointment to let him know we'd be late and he ended up canceling anyways so it was alright. We got a new car this week as well so that is exciting!
We got a call from a woman in the ward this week asking for help cleaning up her house and we let her know we'd be happy to come over. When we got there we were met with the unexpected. It was a daunting task and we only had an hour but we were able to make a small dent in her living room. She wanted help because her boyfriend is coming in to town for Christmas and she was embarrassed of her house. I wasn't sure how much we could do, but we got started and she was so appreciative! She is sweet and I am glad we got to help her a little.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me letters and packages! I will try my best to get out individual thanks as well!
We found out some not great news yesterday. The Elders left us a super promising investigator. They told us he was so ready and his baptism is supposed to be on Jan 7th! Yesterday we found out that that may not be the case. We found out that he and his fiancé broke up (they were getting married Jan 4th) and that he is hanging out with his old friends again. We are super sad, he has canceled appointments with us like 3 times this week. We don't want to have to tell the Elders about him!
This week I also got to receive a "new missionary blessing" I guess that is a thing. It was awesome, most of our districe got together (6 of us) and we talked about some of the things we have been going through and then the 2 of us that were new got priesthood blessings. It is amazing how aware the Lord is of us. Things were mentioned that I haven't told anyone and it brought me so much comfort.
Feliz Navidad everyone!!!!!
The Lord loves you and so do I!
Hermana Peterson
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