Odessa is looking up!

Hey y'all!

Best news of the week is that yesterday we found out that our only progressing investigator (Taylor) that was moving will be only moving with him for a couple weeks until her place that is in our boundaries is ready!!! We are super pumped because that means she is SO ready for baptism. That really was the only big hurdle we had left with her was that she was living with someone so everyone pray that her housing situation here will work out! Also, one of our recent converts who is less active came to church this week!! We have been seeing her every week since I got here and she finally made it! Sister Acosta leaned over to me after the meeting had started to point them out to me and when I saw her and her three kids sitting on the bench I literally started to cry, it is the best feeling ever to be able to help people come unto Christ! 

Also, at church we received records for several new young families, one of them being a part member family who is totally up for taking lessons. She seemed totally comfortable at church and so we are not sure if she was being taught before but we are excited to get to know them! 

On Thursday we went to a care center to do some service. We normally go to the memory care facility and just talk to the people there. This week they asked me to play the piano while they made valentines cards. I ended up playing the piano for about an hour and a half and it probably sounded horrible but they all said it sounded great (and no one will remember it). This week we are planning on bringing a hymn book so that I actually know what I am playing! 

We got to "teach" someone new this week, we went to try and visit Roger and he wasn't there but his roommates invited us in and they had a friend there from out of town. He had visited with missionaries before but all he wanted to do was argue with us. It was a really interesting experience because we basically just continued to bear our testimony to him whenever he gave us 2 seconds to talk. It was hard but I liked being able to have that experience.

We got to go to the temple on Saturday!! It was so great! I love the way we can feel when we go to the temple and make those promises with Heavenly Father. The family we went with is super nice, I love them! You can tell by the pictures we tried to take what our daily struggle is here in Texas, that would be wind, wind, and more wind! On our way back we had to stop for a bathroom for one of their kids and when we walked out she grabbed on to him because he seriously couldn't walk because of how strong the winds were. Let's just say if I wasn't a missionary I would probably never wear a skirt here (;

This week when we were at the food bank doing service we came out and the elders saw a paper on their windshield and thought they got a ticket. Upon further inspection it was a way nice note from a return missionary who happened to see our cars. We got one too and it was so nice and she had some good scriptures written on there as well. She did call us elders though hahaha!

Hope you all had a grand week as well!

Love y'all!

Hermana Peterson