Pictures of Awesomeness (Feb 24, 2014)

This is us in our basement wearing helmets and glow sticks after
getting a tornado watch in our area. We had winds up to 65mph that
night along with some crazy lightning.

Letter from Tate, Feb. 17, 2014 + PHOTOS!!

Hello family and loved ones! I hope that you all had a wonderful
valentines day and that you all are staying warm with all this cold
weather....

This week has been pretty darn great, here's the synopsis:

- A man named Chris who is paralyzed from the neck down has decided to
overcome his fear of water and be baptized. The Matthews have been
working with him for a while now, and Chris now has the faith that
everything will be okay.

-A lady who we have been teaching for a while now and her boyfriend,
thanks to pure inspiration, have decided to come to church!!!

-Amanda Brown's father walked in while we were teaching her about the
restoration and he paid very close attention (which is a first) and he
talked to Amanda about it after we left. He asked her about Joseph
Smith and he seemed amazed with all that our saints went through.

- We didn't let anything get in the way of Valentines Day... We had a
festive breakfast and baked cupcakes that we delivered to people and
we went out to dinner with Phyllis (one of our investigators)

- We were out in the middle of nowhere in a desperate search for gas
and we came by a very old gas station that had a manual pump and
everything!

-We found out that we will be moving into the Matthews house when they
leave. On the plus side, they have a washer and dryer downstairs (no
more scary basement) but even though we will be updating our living
circumstances we are really going to miss the Matthews- they have done
so much to forward the work here and we love them to pieces.

Love you all to pieces! Don't forget to "Let your light so shine..."!

 -Sister P.

Letter from Tate Feb. 10, 2014

Hello family members and loved ones! 

Here's a little update on how things have been going down here in snowy Tompkinsville. I love you all and I hope that all is well! 

-We have had ice/snow storms every day this week and it is getting a bit ridiculous.

-Amanda Brown is having her baby so soon! She has asked that me and Sister Dixon go with her when she has it and well, it was approved.

Never thought I would be asked that on my mission...

- we got iPads! We love them and use them all the time with lessons
now. The gospel library has all the lds magazines, videos, and
conference talks.Talk about awesome.

-Our ward had a "Wild Beast Feast" on Saturday night. It was a giant pot-luck and people

brought all different sorts of "beasts" to share. I can now check off my bucket list that I've eaten deer meat. Ha, only in Kentucky.

-Thanks to our wonderful senior missionaries, we have been asked to sing in pretty much EVERY meeting that we go to. Everyone

has told us that we need to go on tour after our mission. Yep, I can see it. I mean, we are only 2 hours from the music capital. So hey, it shouldn't

be that hard.

-Miracles, miracles, and oh hey... More miracles! We are definitely seeing the Lord's hand in everything we do in Tompkinsville. 

There is a woman here who left the church 5 years ago and has finally decided to come back. All it took was a little fellowship from the ward and she was set.

-We might be moving houses! The Matthews will be going home soon and they asked president if we could live where they are living now... They can literally see the church building from their house, so that would be wonderful if it ends up happening! 

Alrighty, love you all bunches! 

--Sister Peterson