Hermana Jessica Peterson's Mission Adventure: We Went to Jail!

Hey y'all!

Hope life's treating you grand!

We got to do family history with sister Lincoln this week and she loved it! She met with the bishop yesterday and is working towards being able to go back to the temple! It is kind of cool to see someone start their family tree from the very beginning! Also, she has female and male names so of course we told her we would keep working on Carlos so that he could do them! We have an appointment with him on Tuesday for him to "help us with our Spanish pronunciation" by reading the Book of Mormon with us! Sister Lincoln told us that he is on to our plans but hey, he's not stopping us!!

On Thursday we went to the jail to visit Jessie. We only got to talk to her for about 10 minutes but it was good. She looked better than we thought she would. She said she found a Bible but she was frustrated because everyone who she asked for a Book of Mormon was confused and didn't know what it was (: we told her that someone in the ward was sending her one as soon as she gets transferred to the prison.

Possibly the most exciting news of the week was that we got to speak SPANISH!!!!! The most Spanish I have used since I got here! No one was answering so we were walking around our complex and some guy at the pool yelled at us and asked us why we didn't come visit him. We told him we would love to but then realized he was VERY drunk. His friend wasn't though so we went into the pool and sat and talked to his friend for about an hour!! It was so awesome! Of course we then had to refer him to the Spanish elders but it was so awesome to be able to finally use our Spanish!

We got to go play volleyball again this week and we brought Sergio and Xiao and Alison was there too! It was so much fun! We got a picture with the whole crew too.

We had a crazy miracle this week! So about 2 months ago we knocked into a man named Ahmend. He has been out of town looking for work but had asked us for the missionaries and the church address in Frisco, TX. On Saturday he called us and told us he was back in town and wanted to meet with us that day! We had a pretty good Restoration lesson and he came to church yesterday! He loved it!! We had a short lesson with him after church and he was asking us what he needed to do to be baptized and how it all worked. Unfortunately for us he is moving to Frisco next weekend but he is already in contact with the missionaries down there and he knows where the church is! How cool?! The Lord really is sending us those who are prepared!

There is a member here that got us the cutest matching TX shirts!! We love them!

Also, we might have gotten a little bit sunburned this week! The day we finally remembered to put on sunscreen of course was Saturday which it ended up being freezing and cloudy all day!