Sister Peterson's Idaho Pocatello Mission Blog: Week 35: Mi corazón es café

Oh, and why is my heart brown, you might ask?? This week me and Sister Gutierrez made TAMALES together to go give to all the people in our area. We bought all the ingredients, borrowed various cooking items from some wonderful members, and then slaved away in our kitchen mixing the masa, soaking the hojas, and making two different types of fillings for our tamales (some with tinga and some with piña), and then letting them steam for a super long time. I actually don't lie to you guys; tamales are not my favorite food in the world but these ones we made were super yummy so I guess you can officially say I am Mexican now.

I told Sister Gutierrez we needed to take more pictures so here is us getting gas

Other neat things that happened this week:

- We actually ran out of hojas (corn husks) so we asked mama Vicky to bring us some and she did and her husband started to talk to me in English and she was all like "she can speak Spanish! Don't talk to her like that leave her alone!" It was funny.

Tamales!

- So we had to get new tires on our truck on Friday but we also had district meeting at the same time so we put our bikes in the truckbed, dropped our truck off at the tire place, and then rode our bikes to district meeting and it was actually so fun.

Riding our bikes in Montpelier and stopping to get aggie ice cream (it wasn't as good as BYU creamery ice cream but it was still yummy)

- This morning we rode our bikes to the beach and then flew kites. It was the most aesthetically pleasing thing I've done on my mission so far.

Flying our kites on the beach! (kachow)

- Did a service project where we helped clean up trash down by the boardwalk and I didn't think Garden City was a very dirty place until I went down there and there was trash like, everywhere. Heavenly Father gave us this beautiful earth and we need to take care of it you guys.

I love trash

- We have two investigators, Elizabeth and Janet, who are both kinda young and they came the the activity day girls activity and we helped them decorate cakes and it was so neat to see all the other little girls get excited that they had some new friends there with them.

Us with Janet and Elizabeth

Last night we got to watch this cool worldwide devotional from Elder Kearon about becoming less selfish and doing service for other people around us. It helped me reflect on my service as a missionary, and, before my mission, I was probably a li'l more selfish than I am now. Okay that is a lie. I was a lot more selfish than I am now. But, as we do service for others, our hearts will change and we will be able to turn outwards as Jesus Christ did. If you guys didn't watch it here is a link! I love you guys all so much. Have a good week and have fun chattin' to your fams or your missionaries this Sunday.

Love, Hermana Peterson