Lunes: día de preparación!! This p day was a li'l bit different. There is typically nothing fun to do here in the Paris area, but we had to drive all the way up to Montpelier to get our car serviced, which is like a 45 minute drive. After that, we went to mama Vicki's house (one of our less actives) and taught her a lesson! Most of the time she was just trying to set me up with a Spanish elder who had served there a year before. lol
So for Facebook we had to change our profile picture to a picture of us and our nametag so we went down to the lake and had a photoshoot lol
Martes: We went BACK to mama Vicki's for breakfast and to help her wash all her dishes and clean her house. She ended up getting mad at us for not washing them fast enough, so she just made us sit down and watch her wash the dishes instead. We then tried to leave, but she was like "no, I'm not letting you leave, I'm going to make you tamales." So we kind of got kidnapped for a little bit and stayed at mama Vicki's house for like 5 hours. Whoops. We then went to Laketown and went on splits with this super cute girl who's leaving to go to Georgia on her mission next week!
Miércoles: Had a really good lesson with our investigator Maribel!! She is the one I mentioned a few weeks ago that is so so so close to getting baptized. We asked her today what is keeping her from baptism, and she told us about how hard change is and how she doesn't want to mess up. But, she knows that the church is true, and told us all about her testimony of the restoration. She is going to get baptized while I am here, I can just feel it!!! Also, my mission president told me and my comps that we had to clean up our FACEBOOKS this week for Mission Leadership Conference (MLC), so we spent a huge chunk of time today doing that. It was weird to be on my Facebook again and to see what was going on in all your lives. I knew that life was going on without me, but to see it going on without me was just super weird. I went home that day and thought to myself "wow, have I done anything important in the last 5 months? Am I just wasting my time?", But, as I thought more about it, this short time in my life where I am a missionary is so precious and special. I am bringing others and myself closer to our Savior. That certainly doesn't sound like a waste of time to me! Also, I had to untag, hide, and delete a bunch of stuff from my timeline, so if you are looking for something on there, it's probably not there anymore. Sorry folks.
Jueves: This day actually wasn't super exciting, sorry if i lied to y'all. We just did weekly planning. And, when you are in the last transfer of your mission, you have to do something called My Plan, so my comps just did that.
Viernes: we went to MLC!!!! We had to wake up at 4 in the morning to get ready, and then drive 2 1/2 hours to Pocatello. I was actually super nervous about going, since my comps are the sister training leaders, and I am not. I actually asked my mission president if I had to go, and he was like "yes, please come". So I was super nervous, since I am still a baby in the mission, and I was nervous that all the older, more experienced missionaries were going to be mad that I was there. But that didn't happen at all! I was actually already friends with a bunch of the missionaries there, and they were all so happy to see me there!! Even the mission president's wife told me she was happy that I got to be there, and one of the AP's was like, "hey next transfer you will be here for real Sister Peterson!" I really doubt that I will get called to be an STL any time soon, but hey, at least other people have confidence in my skills as a missionary haha.
MLC!!
I've said it before and I will say it again, Spanish missionaries are the cutest missionaries
Sabado: We had district meeting today, and as we pulled in to the church parking lot one of the elders in my district threw a DEAD SQUIRREL at our car. That was nasty. but anyways, other than that, we had a good meeting and I gave a training on humility!!!
Domingo: We were in church for like, 7 hours today. I was asked to lead the music in the Spanish group. We were asked to teach the lesson in the Garden City 2nd ward and then we were asked to sing in the choir too. Oh yeah, that girl we went on splits with earlier in the week?? The Laketown choir director asked us also to sing a song at her farewell. So we had to practice for that as well. Finally in the evening, we had a lesson with Vero (mama Vicki's daughter), and it was so so good! She shared her patriarchal blessing with us, which was so sweet and special. These are the kind of moments where I just love being a missionary.
This email was a li'l long and I am sorry, but so many things happened and I just wanted to tell you about all of them. I love you all so much. Have an amazing week!
-Hna Peterson
Us and the Paris sisters!
The sunrise one morning. Aahhh, I love this place so much
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