Teaching with the JWs!

Hey y'all!!

What a week! WE FOUND ANOTHER FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so pumped! The Hayt Family has accepted the invitation to be baptized on March 24th!! They are so excited for this! They just moved to Childress last week and we met them on Tuesday. We never see people in Childress on Tuesday! Total miracle!! We were in Estelline (one of our outlying towns) and we got a no bueno feeling from the spirit so we tried the person we were there to see and got out of there as quick as we could back on over to Childress. We were going to go home to finish our studies but decided to try a guy that we had already dropped (why would we do that??) and of course he wasn't home but his neighbors were!!! Brylee let us in right away and we taught the Restoration to her, Ryan, and Brylee's mom that night! Then on Thursday we brought an awesome member and we taught the Plan of Salvation and the Word of Wisdom to Brylee, Ryan, Shelly, Kaden (11), Landon (9), and Brylan (1)!! We committed them to baptism and Ryan and Shelly were hesitant but the rest of them are excited! Then Friday we taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and committed Brylee, Kaden, and Landon to baptism. When Ryan got home at the end of the lesson Brylee said, "I am going to teach you about what we just learned about and then will you work with us to be baptized on March 24th?" SHE COMMITTED HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the what??? Shelly is still hesitant but willing to learn more (she doesn't even live here but is just here helping them move in). Brylee loves us coming over because we bring the spirit and after we committed them to a date Landon said he got the goosebumps. These people are amazing!!!! They went out of town this weekend to get the rest of their furniture so they weren't able to make it to church but they were so bummed about it! We are meeting with them again tonight! Brylee texted us Saturday and said she has been telling her sister about what she has learned and her sister wants to meet with us too!!!! (unfortunately her sister doesn't live here, she will be here for the weekend though and we will hook her and Shelly up with the missionaries where they live!)

We taught Daniel again this week.....his understanding still isn't all the way there....also, when we got there he invited us in (we usually can't go in because he lives alone), I saw a woman so we walked in and I immediately know who it is! LOL! It was the JW's. So ya, I had no idea what to do so Sister Kirchoff (we were on exchanges) asked them if they were almost done and they were close so we just sat there and waited for them to finish....mission life is great! #awkward!

Friday morning we got some pretty awesome news! Next week we will be in Amarillo twice (zone conference and a special stake meeting) and Lubbock once (another special meeting). We are making history in the TLM! The whole mission has only ever gotten together 3 times and I was there for 2 of them! Make that three once we go to Lubbock to see President M Russell Ballard!! how cool!?? He's visiting us! This will only be the third time an apostle has ever visited our mission! It will be on the 23rd!

Have a great week y'all!!

Happy Valentines day!!

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!!!

Hermana Peterson

Sister Kirchoff, Walker, Allart & Peterson

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Change of Plans!

Hey y'all!

Hope you had a great week! We had a change of plans and I ended up getting a new companion on Tuesday afternoon. Her name is Sister Allart. She grew up in Indianna but came from Farmington, Utah. She is super sweet! She came from Lubbock so she is having to adjust to being in a small town again (:  we actually came out together but I am still a transfer ahead of her because of the CCM. She also graduated in 2016 so we are both 20. She is the oldest of 5. She absolutely loves being a missionary more than anyone else I have ever met!

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This week has been kind of a blur. We went to Amarillo to drop off Sister Toki and get Sister Allart on Tuesday and then we saw the Fish family on the way back. Kai still hasn't chosen a day to be baptized yet but he pinky promised that we could choose a date together this week! Other than that nothing too exciting has happened this week. It has been super cold! It looks like there is snow forecasted tomorrow and then Friday is supposed to be mid 70's again but who knows haha! We are back to having district meetings in Borger so that is fun to get to go back just not the extra driving haha!

Guess I forgot to tell you, Sue got married and baptized on January 13th in Fort Worth. Now they are back in Clarendon and will be moving back to Denton in the summer probably.

We have been asked to set a 6 month baptism goal with our branch president. We have decided on 8. It is going to require a whole ton of hard work but we know that there are prepared people here. It will be a stretch as Childress has only seen 2 baptisms in the past 2 years but we know that with the Lord anything is possible! We still have 4 people on date and Kai is pretty solid!

Hope y'all have a great week!

Love ya!!

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!!

Hermana Peterson

The Leastest People and the Mostest Guns

Hey y'all!

Wow, it has been quite a long week. I will give you the good news first! I am staying in Childress with sister Toki!!!!! (:  We are excited! I love her so much! This will be the longest I have ever been with a companion (this is our third transfer together). We set 4 baptismal dates this week!! Next is the bad news. We started off the week by Adam not wanting to meet with us anymore. It crushed us. It has made the whole week kind of hard. He was the most solid person I have taught my whole mission. The sad part is that we feel like he knows what he is giving up. It totally came out of nowhere. He texted us that he had just been going along with what we said even though he didn't really believe it and he just decided he didn't want to do it anymore. We went by his house Monday night and testified to him and told him that the church would always be here and then we left. I just hope he comes around one day. He knows the Book of Mormon is true and that this would improve his life. I think he is just scared of the changes he would have to make. Literally everything we do reminds us of him. It is so hard to lose him!! :(

So our investigators have been dropping like flies this week but we still got 4 new baptism dates! We committed Daniel to April 7th and he has been reading and he came to church yesterday! He is an older baptist man. We also committed the Pierce family (Elizabeth, Tommy, and Blayze) to April 14th! We are so excited for them! They weren't able to come to church yesterday due to sickness :(   (everyone here is sick! they even closed the schools here until Thursday) they have already been to church like 4 times though so we know that they are serious! Elizabeth called us last night crying when she found out that we both get to stay!! She was so excited!! It was so cute!!

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So my title this week....haha! That's Texas for you! (as summed up by a bearded Texan at the food pantry (:   )

Love y'all!!

Thanks for your support!

You can still send me letters!! (:  1305 Ave E NW Childress, TX 79201

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!!

Hermana Peterson

Our District Meeting at the park in Clarendon:

Lin:

Gotta love Texas!

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