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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Cockroaches!!!!!

Hey y'all!

It's been another crazy week! Monday night we had dinner with Danna, Raysha, and Adam. The dinner was great but then our spiritual thought was hit by a bomb. Lets just say that Danna was reading her Patriarchal Blessing and Raysha was trying to interpret it. Danna wouldn't accept our commitment that we left her. Raysha doesn't want to meet with us.....Adam is still about the same....ugh! We taught him about Temples and Families this week. He had a really hard time having an eternal perspective.

Sister Toki had a stomach bug on Wednesday so we had to stay in all day. We just called formers all day and updated records.

We watched the Restoration in Chinese with Lin this week!

We had dinner with some more missionaries from the triangle ranch this week! They came down and took us to Pizza Hut.

The Pierce family came to church again! We still haven't been able to meet with them again because they live in Quanah...

Not really sure what else to tell y'all about haha! It has been a good week!

I have seen cockroaches for the first time this week.....ewwwwww! It was a lady that a member referred us to. I felt so bad! It was so so so so so so so gross!!

Love y'all!!

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY!!

Hermana Peterson

How Can We Help You with That?

Hey y'all!!

We don't have a lot of time to write today so sorry if any of this doesn't make sense! We have done so much again this week! We are so crazy busy!!

Monday night we taught Kai the restoration using cups and it went super well! We also taught him the plan of salvation using cutouts and he was a little distracted but overall it was good. We tried to commit him to baptism and he cried....he is kind of afraid of not being able to do the right thing and he is afraid of what his dad would say if he didn't get baptized so we have to address that again tonight. We are planning on extending the date of February 17th!

We had a great time at zone conference! Like all of the missionaries were sick but so far we haven't gotten what they have. Yay! We got Ling a Chinese Book of Mormon! She has already read to page 9!

Friday we had a lesson with our investigator Grace. She is a 74 year old Presbyterian lady. She is sweet! We had a pretty good lesson at a members house who lives in the same apartment complex as her! It was perfect! We then got to see the last little bit of President Monson's funeral :(

We have 2 new sets of missionaries out at the ranch and we had dinner with one of them this week!

We spent basically all of Saturday in Memphis! It was great! We met some awesome people!

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We also went out and met a less active member in Lakeview. We are hoping to go back soon to paint his living room for him. He is 83 and lives alone so we need to find a member to come out with us. We taught Adam and his best friend, Wyatt! We taught them the restoration with cups as well! It went great and Adam made him take a Book of Mormon haha! Hopefully he will read it! We then headed to Amarillo for stake conference but only made it to the last half. We then got pizza and sat in the car making phone calls until the sisters we were staying the night with got home.

Stake conference on Sunday was really good as well. They reorganized our stake presidency so we had 2 general authorities there. The Fish family even came!! We also got to meet some less actives in Clarendon on our way back which was good. We saw Adam again on Sunday and were able to go over the baptismal interview questions. Unfortunately it doesn't look like he will be ready in time for the 27th but I know he will still be baptized soon! This is where the email title comes in (: we were asking him if he would live the law of chastity and he said something along the lines of "We're working on it guys! I am right now but I know how I would act in certain situations so I don't know if I can promise that..." Sister Toki, who had lost focus and not heard the answer then goes on to ask Adam how we can help Adam live the law of chastity....lol! Not gonna lie, I wanted to kill her but I was laughing too hard! So Adam's mom life vomited on us this week! Her fiance of 2 years has been cheating on her. It was pretty sad! She wiped her snot all over Sister Toki haha! Then we had that lesson with Adam and Wyatt and then as we were about to leave his mom said she was going to Georgia and that Adam needed to make sure Raysha (15) gets to school....she just left! Crazy! We have no idea when she will be back. So ya, Adam is now responsible for his little sister (and Raysha's boyfriend that lives with her) so ya, now Raysha and her boyfriend are living alone and Adam is in charge of them....

Last night we had dinner at Danna's with Adam and his little sister, Raysha! It went great until the spiritual thought where Danna totally bombed everything.......oh goodness......members are great (sometimes!) It will all be fine but she just forgets that they don't know about some things. I won't get too into it but lets just say she started to read us her patriarchal blessing.....lol good memories!

Well, that is just a few of the main things that happened this week! Love y'all!

READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY

Hermana Peterson