Hola everyone! Yes, if you were able to read my subject line, it was my birthday this week and I am now 20 years old! I can already feel the surge of new, non-teenager adult responsibility and maturity come over my body. Thanks to everyone who sent emails, letters, and packages to me on my birthday; I have a very special place for all of you in my heart. On my birthday I was sung to about a bajillion times in Spanish, and my dear, sweet mom sent me a wonderful package full of birthday presents, so all the girls in my branch threw me a cute little birthday party. Also my mom sent me a pumpkin bundt cake (best flavor AND best type of cake) for my entire district to share so basically I'm the coolest kid in my district now. The best present I got however, was for devotional, Bonnie L. Oscarson, General Young Women's President, came and spoke to us for devotional! She talked about how we all have divine mission calls because the Lord knows us perfectly and has a purpose for all of us, and how this is the one chance in our life to be valiant, consecrated missionaries, so we shouldn't waste it. Her talk was just what I needed to hear that day and has left me spiritually filled ever since.
Other than that not much has happened this week, my Spanish has improved tremendously and I was able to teach the majority of our lesson to our investigator yesterday. I've been kind of scared to open my mouth in class and in lessons, but I was able to finally overcome that fear and just start speaking; the Gift of Tongues is very, very real. On a funny note however, I did accidentally say "perro" instead of "padre" when I was trying to say something about my dad so that was pretty embarrassing (père is the word for father in French and French is still slightly in the back of my mind). I was a little worried because my companion was sick this week and I had to miss class to stay with her, but another hermana in my district also was sick so we were able to go on splits and I got to go to class, so this girl's Spanish es muy bueno. Also none of us went to class yesterday morning (because we had to watch Elder Hales's funeral), so I ended up not missing any class.
We were supposed to teach a lesson but got a little distracted
some highlights from this week:
- on Sunday the guy who was the executive producer of the new bible videos came and spoke to us and he's the coolest guy and my new hero
- my whole district decided to play sand volleyball for exercise time and turns out all of us are kind of good at volleyball?? who knew. also I climbed a tree
- since my companion was sick we had to go to the pharmacy to get her some medicine and it felt so good to be in the outside world finally wow
- we had Chikfila for dinner on Monday and I think my testimony increased 1000x
- Sister Oscarson told the choir that we could give MoTab a run for their money which I'm going to tell you right now, we totally could MTC Choir is the bomb
So hey, all of the talks from General Conference are up online now! If you did not watch Conference last week, I STRONGLY urge you do to so. My favorite talks were President Uchtdorf's (from both the morning session and the women's session, Elder Holland's, Elder Callister's, President Eyring's, and President Nelson's, so if you were to go read/watch any of them, I would really suggest those.
I love being a missionary and I love all of you so much; I hope you all have a wonderful week this week! Les quiero!
Hermana Peterson
Birthday cake
Preaching the gospel to the whole world
Spikeball champs
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