It's so hot!!

I know, I know, it is only going to get hotter because it is only March but this week we thought we were going to die! Not quite sure how we will survive the summer season, hopefully we get moved to the panhandle!!

Odessa is doing great! We had Jessie at church again! I love that girl! She is still on date for baptism on Saturday and we are so excited! This week we got to show her the baptisimal font. We also taught her about family history and she is loving it!

Sister Lincoln was at church!!!! We were so excited to see her! She is the cutest lady ever! She was pretty nervous to come back to church but I think it went really well! Now we just have to work on getting her boyfriend to come with her.

This week we helped 1 person move out, 1 person move in, and 2 people paint! We are mighty busy here in Odessa! I love it though! Service is one of my favorite parts! One of the houses we painted was our investigator Heather (who we ended up dropping). She just found out she has cancer so she is trying to redo her whole house. We painted her library dark blue and now it is all over us!

Our investigator Taylor-we hadn't had contact with her for like 3 weeks and I was getting super worried about her. On Saturday morning we got a text saying she had just had her baby though and she was sorry for not getting back to us. We are excited for her and hope that things will start to progress more now that she has had her baby!

Well, the car situation is still not the funnest, especially when bikes get flat tires! We really rely on the members but they are all so awesome and willing to help us out! This week was kind of rough because everyone here had spring break or was working so no one was here in Odessa!

Also, I don't know if y'all have already seen it but go watch the church's new First Vision video. I love it! You can find it here history.lds.org

Have a great week!

Hermana Peterson

Jessie is getting baptized

Hey y'all! It has been another crazy and great week! 

I don't know what to tell you about so I will just tell you about Jessie! I think I said last week that we might have to move her baptism date but everything has been going so smoothly and she is starting to really understand so the 25th it is! She has some pretty terrible things going on in her life right now but is choosing to come closer to Christ and use the church to strengthen her! We can't wait!! This week we saw her 5 times I think! We also went over and helped her put together bunk beds for her kids so that was fun!

We helped some members pack up their house and are going to help them clean this afternoon. They have helped the missionaries out so much and we are so sad to be losing them!

We had exchanges this week where we went up to Midland and got to be with other missionaries for 2 days. It is always so interesting and fun to see someone else's area. One of our sister training leaders goes home this transfer and the other leaves next transfer so they both have quite the experiences to share with us!

One of the less actives we have been working with came to church for the first time since I have been here (not Sis Lincoln unfortunately). We were so happy to see him!

My legs are definitely getting sore from biking but we are getting the hang of the whole car situation slowly but surely!

This weekend we had a crazy storm of course the day we didn't have the car. But, I had been frustrated because of something I did earlier that I wish I had done early but because I didn't we ended up being in the right place in the right time for the rest of the night so that we stayed safe from all the hail and lightning!

We are going to Wing Stop for lunch. A member in the 2nd Ward owns it and has found that when he feeds the missionaries for free his business increases dramatically. We are grateful!

That is all I can think of for the week! Hope y'all have a great week and see the Lord's hand in everything!

Hermana Peterson

Sister Elder one of the Sister Training Leaders

Sister Schultz one of the Sister Training Leaders

Odessa 1st Ward Sisters

Overson, Tolbert, Walker, and Peterson

Those crazy Odessa Bunnies!

Crazy But Good!

That is my answer every time someone asks me how I am doing I think, "crazy but good!". Missionary life in one phrase! 

This week has been insane! Transfers were Tuesday so I had to say goodbye to Hermana Acosta but I got to say hello to Hermana Walker. I love her!! So far we are getting along really well! She is from Holladay, Utah. She graduated in May and went to a semester at BYU before coming out. She has 6 siblings, 2 have already served and one more will serve while she is out here. She is so sweet! She also went to the Mexico MTC and was also shocked to hear we don't get to teach in Spanish. She is so persistent in her desire to learn Spanish and it has been really good for me, we are practicing still! 

Our area got split so we lost half of our investigators so that was sad. I love love love the new sisters in our area though! They are so funny and they make my day! They are Sister Tolbert and Sister Overson (I will have to get a picture with them this week!). When they got here they went to their apartment they found out that it wasn't ready (they are white washing) so they came and stayed the night with us which was good because then I could tell them about all the people they were now in charge of. They have had quite the week, from not having an apartment to no desks to eating cereal out of a ladle. Doesn't white washing sound fun....haha! We also got the unfortunate news on Wednesday night that we will be sharing our car. The logistics of trying to come up with a schedule and figuring out how to waste the least time possible and how to still get everywhere we need to is very difficult to say the least but we are slowly but surely figuring it out! The even harder part is that they don't even live in their area, they live in the other ward! So ya, this week has been a lot of craziness and running around but it has been great!

We got to see Alison again this week (from the part member family) and she testified to us that she knows she needs to be baptized which was awesome but she still doesn't want to move on until she and her husband are in unity. We did commit Jessie to baptism though! We committed her to March 25th, we aren't sure if she will be ready by then but she will be ready soon! She also came to church again this week and loved it! We also got an amazing text this week from Sister Lincoln (a less active that we just decided to stop by one night and she happened to be there and happened to be praying to know what the right path was the night that we stopped!) telling us that next week she will be meeting with the bishop and will be at church!!! We couldn't be more excited for her! We actually found out last night when we were having dinner at the RS presidents house that she was a do not contact. The Lord works in mysterious ways!

Have a great week everyone!

Love you!

Hermana Peterson

Gwilliams had to cancel our dinner appointment at the last minute, so she made sack dinners and had the kids decorate the bags!

Every companionship needs matching watches, right!

Training Hermana Allison Walker from Holladay, Utah