Skype Home!

Hey y'all!

Obviously the highlight of the week was when we got to Skype home yesterday! It was so good to hear and see my family! 

This week was kind of crazy. On Tuesday and Wednesday we were up in Midland for exchanges (being trained by other missionaries). It is always good to see what other areas are like. On our way home we stopped at Whataburger for the first time which apparently is a huge thing here in Texas.

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We got to see Savechi (not teach a lesson though because his dad is NEVER home). It was really cute, we have given him the 3 main pamphlets to read and we asked him what one thing he learned was and he told us "I learned that Jesus got baptized in the water". He told us he doesn't have any questions because "it just all makes sense." Haha! He is so cute!

We got to do a service project with some girls in our ward tying fleece blankets so that was really fun! They are all so funny and we love them!

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The Young Women made jam at their activity this week and gave some to us. It turned out really good!

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We got to have lunch with Sister Lincoln, Carlos, and her granddaughter Charlotte. It was so fun! We went to a good Mexican restaurant called Mamasita's.

Yesterday was the hottest day yet! It stayed at 98 degrees all day! It is crazy!!

That is about all I can think of for this week! Hope y'all are doing well! Read and pray everyday!!!

Love ya!

Hermana Peterson

Baptism!

So the most exciting thing this week was that we got to go to a baptism on Saturday! It was technically not for our investigator but it was someone on the West side who I had started teaching before our area got split. It was awesome! His name is Ebb (as in Ebeneezer) and we found him because he had requested a bible online! He is a funny guy. As he was coming up out of the water he yelled "yee-haw!!"

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We had zone conference up in Midland this week and it was our last zone conference by the Heaps! So sad but I am also excited to meet the new mission presidents too! It was a great conference where we talked about repentance and finding a lot. We also talked a lot about accountability. We should always be accountable to the Lord in our prayers. There has been a change to the temple policy so unfortunately that pretty much means that unless we get to go with a recent convert we won't get to go because of the distance from the temple :(

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We also found out some sad news that there isn't anymore Spanish sister areas so that means that if I do get transferred somewhere Spanish speaking we would be white washing (where both missionaries are totally new to the area). President Heap did tell us that SLC is going to stop sending Spanish missionaries for awhile though so there are only going to be 8 Spanish sisters in our mission which means we are the chosen few!!

We were knocking a bunch on Saturday (no one is ever here on Saturdays) and we were excited because someone was finally coming to the door and we suddenly realized that this was a members home. Ooops! haha! So we just played it off like we meant to knock on their door (:

The man that we got to teach in Spanish last week, Gilberto, came to church!!! He came to our ward but we convinced him to come to the Spanish branch next week. He really felt the spirit even though he couldn't understand what was going on.

Taylor stayed for all 3 hours for the first time yesterday!!! It was awesome!! She has been officially investigating for almost a year now and she usually comes to Sacrament but this was the first time she stayed for Relief Society and it was great! We are so excited for her! And Alex got the priesthood yesterday!!! His parents came into town for it too so we got to meet them which was cool!

I really learned how important the priesthood is this week. Our church couldn't run without it! I am so grateful for the power and the order it brings! I would suggest that anyone who wants to learn more about it should go and read "Our Search for Happiness" there is a really good chapter on it that I read this morning.

Thanks for all the love, prayers, and support (but especially the mail (: )

Have a great week y'all!

Hermana Peterson

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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!

Well, I think that's about all! Have an amazing week y'all!! Read the scriptures and pray every day!

Love,

Hermana Peterson

Things to avoid in Texas: Tornadoes!

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