Tips for talking to Mormons . . .

Hey y'all!

Hope you've had a great week! Things weren't too exciting here this week so I don't have too much to share. I guess I'll start off by explaining the subject line (: Yesterday we attended the Church of Christ night service and we actually knew several people there and one of them said "I think we have some of y'alls literature over here!" Sure enough 10 questions and answers on Mormonism....more like 10 half-truths about Mormonism. It also had "tips for how to talk to Mormons". It was sure interesting haha!

Well, Lynn dropped us this week. On Saturday we went to see if she was planning on coming to church and her mom answered the door and told us that Lynn never wanted to see us again. Missionary life!

I hit my 10 month mark! Double digits!! We celebrated my 10 months and Sister Koford's one year by getting blizzards at DQ!

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We tried playing "Uno Attack" with Bill at the nursing home this week. It was hilarious! He says that game is too complicated for his feeble mind. Every time he had to push the button to get cards he would flinch and cover his face (it shoots out cards at you) So we just stuck to solitaire.

We met this lady while finding that just wanted to bash with us, I hate that! She kept telling us that she hopes we find the truth and we shared the same thing back with her. Little does she know!

We took 2 bike days this week and we went out to help a sister who just had surgery clean her house. She asked us to return a crock pot to another sister so we tied it down to my basket!

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We went out to the Smiths ranch on Saturday and helped them put together some beds and cleaned out their upstairs bedrooms

That's all for Andrews this week! Hope y'all have a good one!

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!!

Hermana Peterson

May the Lord be with You

Hey y'all!

Hope your week has been great! Ours was pretty normal over here! Thankfully we got my bike all back to normal! It is much easier to ride without a flat tire (:  

We now have 6 people in our district! It feels like so many more but it's really just 2 more. It is really nice not to have to answer every single question in district meeting! 

Bill at the nursing home is doing great! We ate at a super sketch drive in called Buddy's this week, we survived! It looks like the ceiling could cave in at any second! That is the extent of our excitement here in Andrews. We got to help out at the rodeo again so that is always a great service opportunity! 

The most eventful thing in Andrews was our lessons with our investigator Lynn. Lets just say there was about a dozen cuss words said in the chapel on our church tour haha! Gotta love Texas! On Sunday she walks in the chapel with a Star Wars shirt that says "May the Lord be with you", a giant cross necklace, and a bunch of "WWJD" bracelets.  At least she came though! Hopefully we will be able to see some progress with her this week!

It has been a little bit cooler temperature wise but it has been humid, it always looks like it is going to rain but then doesn't actually rain, just teases us. I think there was about 45 people at church, a record since I have been here! It was nice to actually have people at church! One of the members had us over for a discussion in their home with their friend so hopefully he will turn into an investigator.

We hadn't heard anything about the eclipse here and had totally forgotten about it until we were grocery shopping and some lady mentioned it. On our way home we could see it through our sun glasses a little bit but not much. We saw people along the side of the road trying to see it, one guy even had his welding mask!

Hope y'all have a blessed week!

Read and pray every day!

Hermana Peterson

6 More Weeks in Andrews!

Hey y'all!

Transfer calls were this week and we found our that both me and Sister Koford will be staying in Andrews for at least 6 more weeks! Our p-day activities last week included making Swig cookies and ties! Bill at the nursing home is doing better every day! He even danced a little during singing time this week! He gave us a copy of his war stories that he wrote down so that was cool!

We met a man this week while we were walking, his name is Ryan. He actually stopped us (that never happens!). He was curious what our name tags were. He is a young oil field worker and is interested in learning more. The oil field schedule makes it super hard to catch people at home but we have an appointment with him for Saturday morning!

We had another new couple move in this week! Their name is the Breymonds and they just moved from Big Spring (about an hour away). We were walking around on Thursday and all of a sudden this woman dressed in bright yellow is running at us yelling that she is a member of our church haha! We were sure surprised! We were able to help them move some things that day and helped them all Saturday morning and afternoon as well. They are super nice! She actually works at the bank with Pastor Jeff (from the Grace Baptist Church (no he didn't come to stake conference)) so we are going to have dinner with all of them at the Breymonds house sometime soon! She is super excited to help us work on him and she also said that he looks just like a bishop (that's what we keep thinking!!)!

This week was McArthur annual ice cream day! The last Friday before school starts you can go to the McArthurs and have as much ice cream as you want as long as you ask for it! We only went by twice. It is a super fun tradition that she shares with the whole neighborhood!

We had stake conference this weekend and it was great! It was awesome to see other missionaries and for me to see all the members from Odessa!

I hope y'all have a great week!!

Hermana Peterson

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!

Our little district:

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