We have reached ultimate comp unity!

Hey y'all! Hope your week has been good!

Yep, you heard that right! Sister Walker and I are officially the coolest companionship this side of Texas has ever seen! Ok, so maybe that is a stretch (: BUT we did wake up at midnight one night this week and we had both been sleep walking! haha! Crazy stuff here in Odessa. We woke up getting ready to exercise in our living room! The crazy thing is that it was both of us! We also found some other random stuff that we probably did that night! Needless to say we were tired the next day from our lack of actual sleep.

And we dress alike too!

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I can't really say much about what is happened yet, but Jessie is going to have to wait to be baptized for a bit. She could really use everyone's prayers over the next 2 weeks. Also we could as we try to make decisions with her and help her and those involved to understand the decisions we have made.

We went to Orchard Park (the memory care facility) again this week and we got pictures in case we got transferred but we get to stay here for 6 more weeks! All 4 of us sisters in Odessa 1st ward will be together for 6 more weeks! That means I will have been in Odessa for at least 5 months, kind of crazy! While we were waiting for transfer calls our power went out, good thing we have good old fashioned cell phones that don't run on electricity! The power came back on after a few minutes though.

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Last Monday we went to Sister Lincoln's boyfriends recording studio for a fun project! They are the sweetest people ever!! Also-good news!! SHE IS CONSIDERED ACTIVE NOW!!!!!! Never would I have thought that cold night when we knocked on this random members door that in a few weeks we could say she is active and one of our favorite people! We get to go do family history with her on Wednesday and are excited!

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This week for service we also helped set up for a wedding for a nonmember that our ward was helping put on. That was a first! and definitely not the first thing I would think that missionaries do but we are happy to help!

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That is about all I can think of for now!

Have a great week y'all!

and don't forget to look on mormon.org at the 8 principles of peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love y'all!!!

Hermana Peterson

Don't worry mom it wasn't me!

So, we took a nice leisurely tour around the urgent care and er's of Odessa and Midland last Monday! So on Friday we were exercising in the courtyard at our apartments and Sister Walker was doing some exercises on a bench and she fell and smacked her shin on the bench. It was bleeding pretty good but we got it all cleaned up and bandaged. Fast forward to Monday and the pain was pretty bad and it had green puss coming out. She then proceeded to tell me that her foot was numb. Upon further inspection her leg was very swollen and red. We called sister Heap and she decided we should go to urgent care before they closed for the night. We headed home to get insurance info and then to urgent care where we were told it would be at least an hour wait. We had some other complications and ended up not being able to be seen there because of insurance issues. Several calls later the STL's directed us to what they thought was an urgent care in Midland (it was actually an ER) so they then directed us to an urgent care where they had the same problems as they did in Odessa. By this time it has been about 4 hours and her leg from her knee down is numb. The mission doctor told us not to worry and to just come back in the morning when they could resolve the insurance issues. In the mean time the STL's had found a doctor in one of the other Midland wards who told us to come over to his house. We figured since we were already in Midland it wouldn't hurt to have him look at it. He fed us dinner at 9:00 at night and then told us that she has a staph infection and some nerve damage. Both doctors told us it is extremely painful and her leg may be numb for awhile! He gave her instructions on how to take care of it and an antibiotic and today it finally seems to start to be getting better! After she got a priesthood blessing earlier in the week she started to get feeling back in her leg too! Of course that made it hurt worse but we are so glad she is doing well now! Anyways, that probably isn't interesting to any of you but that was the excitement of the week here in good old Odessa!

General conference was great!!! I hope y'all got a chance to watch it and feel of the great spirit! My favorite quote was "You can come as you are just don't plan on staying that way". Jesus Christ died for us and because of that we can be changed through Him! It is such a blessing!

To answer everyones curiosity, unfortunately Jessie will not be being baptized this weekend either. Satan knows how to get to us! He does not want us to succeed! We got to watch conference with her this weekend at a members house and it was her birthday so we made her a cake! She really enjoyed it!

Yesterday was Sister Overson's birthday so we had cake and breakfast together this morning and had our apartment all decorated when she came over!

Have a great week y'all!

And you better have done your homework from last week and watched the Prince of peace video!

Hermana Peterson

This week's hail storm. We were in the car on a phone appointment and it was so loud we had to hang up and reschedule.

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Birthday cake for Jessie:

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Celebrating Jessie's birthday with the Hildebrandts

Recording at Sister Lincoln's:

General Conference / Easter Package

Celebrating Sister Overson's Birthday:

3 flat tires in one week!

Well, this week has been pretty good. 3 flat bike tires make transportation just a little more difficult though! Hopefully we will get all the flat tire problems resolved today though so we can have a smooth sailing week! We were stuck at the food bank once and so we called the other sisters to come pick us up on their way back from Midland. We finally got a bike rack for our car this week thankfully but we hadn't put it together yet so we were trying to do so in the insane Texas wind. Then unfortunately our instructions blew away so we ended up having to call the zone leaders to come help us. It was a pain and took forever but we finally got it fixed and patched her bike tire. We had a nice relief society birthday dinner to celebrate the 175th anniversary of relief society. It was a really fun night and we were able to come with Sister Lincoln!

Unfortunately no baptism for Jessie this week :( She passed her interview and everything was all set up and then she started a job this week and she had to work Sunday so she couldn't be confirmed on Sunday and since next week is general conference she would have had to wait like 3 weeks to be confirmed which isn't good. Hopefully she can get the next weekend off, we are temporarily scheduled for April 8th.

So as sisters we get called lots of different things. I have been called "elder-ettes" "the girl elders" "church ladies" but this week we got a new one! "the holy sisters". "Mom! The holy sisters are here!" you would think something like that came from a cute 5 year old but it was from a 20 year old guy.

Another insanely windy week. One of the worst I have seen yet! Another week where we had to pedal as hard as we could just to go down the only "hill" in Odessa (the freeway overpass). There was so much dust in the air and we were caked in it by the end of the day you could just touch us and be muddy! Our hair was quite the site as well! It is the funniest thing ever to try to watch the birds fly, they were having the hardest time ever and just give in to walking!!! They can barely walk either because it is so strong!

We had zone conference this week and got a sneak preview of the Easter video that comes out on Friday!! It is so good and y'all need to look it up Friday morning first thing. Everyone needs to share it!!! I would love to hear what y'all think of it as well! It is called Prince of Peace and they are coming out with 8 principles of peace along with it. It is going to be another amazing initiative! After zone conference one of the senior couples, the Caytons, took us out to this really Texan bbq restaurant, it was so sweet of them!

That is about everything I can remember from this week!

Hope y'all have a good one!
Love ya!!
Hermana Peterson
#princeofpeace

The challenges of biking in the wind: