Hermana Jessica Peterson's Mission Adventure: Childress doesn't know what hit them!

Hey y'all!!

This has been the best week yet!!!!! Childress has been great!! My new companions are the bomb!! We are hoping and praying we get to stay together through Christmas!!! This week has also been the busiest yet!! We have seen SO many miracles I don't even know which ones to tell you!

Transfers were super early Tuesday. We were on exchanges all morning (like 6 of us together) so we had breakfast at Chick-Fil-A since we were all ready for the day and just waiting for our new companions! It took about 2 1/2 hours to get home from Amarillo. Lot's of driving here!! My new companions are Sister Wilson and Sister Toki. They are amazing! Spiritual giants and so much fun to be around! Best of both worlds! Sister Wilson is from Grantsville, Utah. She went to a year at BYU studying exercise science. She has 4 siblings (she is in the middle). She has been out for almost 15 months Sister Toki is from Taylorsville, Utah. She came straight out of high school like I did. She has 7 siblings (she is in the middle as well). She has been out for almost 8 months. Yes, she is Tongan!

Most eventful part of our week was definitely Wednesday morning. So our district meeting was in Pampa which is 2 hours away so we have to leave pretty early. (they just moved it to Borger so it is 30 more minutes away). We kind of forgot to check our gas before we left and also didn't really realize quite how far we were going. We are in West Texas so of course there isn't like any gas station between here and there (seriously....). So by the time we realized we had 35 miles of gas left (and at least 45 miles until Pampa) we looked up on the gps to see where the nearest gas station was and it said there was a tiny town a little out of the way (but it was still the closest thing we found (our only hope!) It said the gas station was 22 miles away so we prayed that we would make it! It ended up being totally more than 22 miles so we were coasting on neutral down the hills (luckily there was no cars around us because we were in the middle of nowhere) At this point we had called our district leader and informed him that there was a great chance we wouldn't make it to the gas station so he was trying to figure something out. Meanwhile we actually do get there (or so we thought) so we tell them we made it. We then go in to pay and the lady tells us it doesn't work and that the nearest gas station was still 9 miles away in Pampa.....at this point we had probably been going on 0 miles for 15 miles. So we get back in the car and somehow it miraculously still starts! We continue coasting our way 9 miles to Pampa! We almost made it! We got to about 1 1/2 miles from the gas station when our car gives out. hahahaha!!! So sister Wilson and I get out and start pushing! Not even a minute later a guy stops and has a gas can with him and saves the day. LESSON LEARNED!!!!! GAS UP IN CHILDRESS!!!!!!!!! (: We were somehow miraculously only 30 minutes late to district meeting!!

The population of Childress is only about 6,000 but we cover over a dozen outlying towns! On Wednesday we got to meet a pretty solid investigator named Sue. Sue lives in Clarendon. Her story is super cool but I don't have time to explain! She is getting married and baptized on January 13th to a member in the Dallas area.

Some of the service opportunities here include delivering Meals on Wheels, painting nails at the nursing home, and helping out at New 4U which is a thrift store.

There was seriously so many miracles I don't have time to tell y'all!!!

We got FOUR new investigators this week! Childress (and the surrounding area ) is popping! One solid one is Jaime. He is a single dad with 2 kids. We taught him the restoration on the door step and then had a church tour with him on Saturday and he and his kids came to church on Sunday!!!!!!!! We are so excited for him!

Other exciting news, the Hales came to visit us this weekend! (that never happens!) They came for interviews at our house so that was kind of intimidating! Church was good though! We love them!