Biking in the rain!

Hey y'all!!

We started the week off with exchanges in Midland. They were sure an adventure! Our STL's have decided that whenever possible they are going to bike to try to talk to more people so I biked on day one of the exchange. We headed off to our first appointment when the rain started. It wasn't too bad at first but by the time we got to their house we were pretty wet. She offered us towels to dry off and we had a really good Restoration lesson with her! We went back out and it stopped raining but when we got to the next appointment we realized my tire was getting pretty low. We had the lesson, he was a former who was super close to baptism (he had 2 baptismal interviews) and then decided that he was Atheist. It was really weird because the second we saw him Sister Nelson and I both said he looks just like a member! Turns out he had actually went to the ysa ward on Sunday (though he still claims to not be interested). So an Atheist former told us the Mormon church was his favorite....anyways, while we were in his house we heard a severe storm warning go off and we were about a 30 minute bike from their apartment with a flat tire. We went outside and it began to POUR! We ended up underneath a covering at a restaurant. So we were soaked huddling under an awning with some old Hispanic guy who kept trying to sell us tamales at 9:00 at night. It sure was an adventure! Finally the other sisters answered the phone and came and picked us up!

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Our investigator, Becca, had a cyst removed from her liver this week and the surgery went well so we are hoping to see her progress now and if not we will probably have to drop her :(

We went on splits to go visiting teaching with some sisters in the branch this week so that helped us to get into some less active homes that we usually aren't able to get into! We brought one of the LA's a snow cone, his name is Ernesto and he is super sweet! He lives right across from us and he is an older Hispanic man who is disabled. He loves us coming over to share scriptures and to practice my Spanish!

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We bowled with polka music this week at the nursing home. Bill is doing quite a bit better! He is almost back to where he was when I got here! Him and his wife, Faye, used to polka dance all the time so he loves that music!

At the Life Center this week the owner, Betty, came and told us that God had been pressing on her heart that she needed to hear what we have to say and that she wanted to hear why we were out here doing what we were doing. We are super pumped! We are planning to go over to her house sometime this week! We tried a new treat this week at the Life Center too. They are called Kolaches and they are pretty good! They are like pigs in a blanket and we have seen them sold at all the donut shops around here.

On Saturday we went out to the car and pulled away and then realized that someone had left a Book of Mormon on the hood of our car! How crazy!? We pulled over and got it off but can't figure out who would have put it there??

We have a new family at church! They showed up and we all assumed they were just visiting for the day but they are here to stay! We only had about 27 people there on Sunday so we were glad to have them!

Hope y'all have a blessed week!

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!

Hermana Peterson

Pioneer Day!

Hey y'all!

Not much to update you on in the last few days. On Saturday we had a branch party to celebrate pioneer day! We had breakfast and the kids swam. We invited a ton of people but unfortunately no one that we invited came. It was still a fun party though!

Brother McMahan came to church last week!! We were so excited! He really enjoyed it! He didn't make it yesterday though. They got their a/c fixed finally!! It is so much better! I don't know how he could live without it. They were dying!

When we were coming back from our interviews with President Hales we stopped at Chick Fil A for dinner and we ran into a member from my ward in Odessa! The Browns were there and they even paid for our dinner. It was definitely a tender mercy to see them there! I love Andrews but I also miss my people in Odessa!

Yesterday we went to the Grace Baptist Church Sunday night service again and we invited the pastor and his wife to the Saturday night session of stake conference! Hopefully they are able to make it! It is August 12th!

That is about all! I hope y'all have had a great week and see the hand of the Lord!

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!!

Hermana Peterson

Temple Trip!

Hey y'all!

Late emails this week because we went to the temple! It was so good! I didn't realize how much I missed it until I went. I hadn't gotten to go since January. We got to ride up with Sister Smith and her daughter.

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On Tuesday this week I hit my 9 month mark!! It is so crazy! We had district meeting up in Odessa and in between here and Odessa there is a petting zoo and we were hoping the camels were out by the fence but they weren't :(  so no way cool picture but just imagine how cool it would have been (:

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One of the great members here, Sister McArthur, made us Cafe Rio this week and we were so excited!! I don't know why the rest of the world hasn't discovered it! She also helped me replace the tube in my  bike tire! She is the best! It was quite the process but I think we are back in business!

We helped with the bowling activity at the nursing home this week. Bill is actually starting to get better! He comes out of his room for lunch which he hasn't done in awhile! It is so good to see him up and moving!

On Tuesday we were up in Odessa and we got out of our meeting to see a missed call and a voicemail from brother McMahan. We were somewhat concerned because he never calls us. His voicemail said to call him right away so we did and he didn't answer. So we called Sue (his daughter) and she just told us to stop by the house on our way back. So of course we thought this was some emergency type thing. Nope! He just wanted to give us bananas.... he is hilarious! We were dying! haha!

Another funny thing that happened this week was we tried to go to the baptist bible study again but it turns out that it was a business meeting instead (branch council really) and they were describing that they needed a program to make sure that everyone got visited in their church, especially the ones who don't come as often or may need help. We were chuckling in the back, each sentence they used to describe this program that they needed better and better described visiting and home teaching! It just reminded me of how inspired our leaders are and how true the church we have is! I love this gospel and am so glad to have it in my life!

Love y'all!!

Hermana Peterson

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!!