Happy Monday everyone! Another beautiful (almost spring) day! Well, this week has been quite the Roller Coaster ride for Siser Lamborn, Sister Trussell, and I.
Here's a little bit of what we did this week.
Monday: We had a family night with the Scott family (Amber and Chandler were baptized a month ago) and it went really well! Even though Amber hasn't been a member long, she is looking forward to getting a calling in the primary. We played "How to get closer to Christ". It involved a picture of Christ, some blue tape, and lots of pushing and shoving.
Tuesday: We taught an 8 and 10 year old all about the Restoration. Because I'm really an 8 year old in a 19 year old's body, I was able to help them learn by using some action figures and some cups. I don't know how it happened, but they were able to understand it!
Wednesday: We taught Geneva Scott. Now, this woman is probably the most stubborn woman that I have ever met. She joined the Baptist church a few years ago, but she reads the Book of Mormon every night, comes to church every other week, and she has told us multiple times that she knows that the Book of Mormon is from God, but does she want to get baptized? Nope. We've had so many spiritual moments with her, but on Wednesday night we were determined to get that woman to accept the baptismal invitation. Because her husband died a few years ago, we thought it appropriate to teach her the Plan of Salvation. It went way well and the spirit was very strong and when we asked her if she thought it was true, she told us that she knew that it was. But when we asked her to be baptized, she replied with a simple, "nope".
Thursday: Katherine Jackson committed to baptism! We have been teaching her for a while now and she was finally able to feel the difference, and we saw the difference it made! She was happier, brighter, and her house was clean and we could tell that she had been organizing. :) Later that day we decided to take Sister Trussell tracting for the first time. We taught this sweet old lady named Gladys and she had a tail-less cat. Yep. Kinda creepy. That night we had 3 coyotes in our front yard. Pretty cool, I know.
Friday! We had a girls lunch with the bishop's wife and we went across the Ferry to visit some people, but no one was home :(. After trying to see 5 people with no luck, we decided to visit a friend of ours in the hospital, but she was asleep. Frustrated, we decided to pray. The second we ended our prayer the lady next door caught our eye. She had just been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was having a rough day, so we gave her a Book of Mormon. Later that night we had a movie night at the Church and watched "The Work and The Glory" with some of the members and Katherine Jackson.
Saturday: (Now this is the crazy day. Hold on to your seats.) Because Katherine had accepted the Baptismal request, it was time to teach her all about the Word of Wisdom. Now, Katherine has been smoking cigarettes for 40 years and we knew that she drank coffee, so you can assume how nervous we were for this one. When we taught it to her, she looked up and said, "this was my sign!" Apparently she had been praying earlier that day for help to quit smoking and she was so happy to know that it was a requirement to stop. Usually it's the other way around, but hey, it worked out great. She also told us that she has no problem with tea and coffee and that she was excited for the new life that she was going to have. We attended a relief society spa day, and we got to teach a few less-actives. So not only did we get to paint our nails, but we got some pretty sweet lessons thrown in there too. While we were there we got a call from Amanda Brown, and she was in labor! She asked us to come down because she was scared and alone. So after some hard-praying and a phone call to president, we were on our way to the Gallatin hospital. 5 minutes after we got there, the doctor came in and told us that she was ready to have this baby. Yep, quickest labor ever. She looked at me and asked if I would hold her hand, and so yep. I was her coach that told her to "keep pushing!" And I might have almost passed out... She now has a beautiful baby boy named Nathaniel Aiden Brown. Never thought I would help deliver a baby on my mission...
Sunday: Always the craziest day of the week... The second that we woke up, we started making tons of calls to people to remind them of church and while we were eating our breakfast we got a call from Ms. Katherine Jackson. Expecting her to ask us what time Church started, we had been dumped. She told us that she had been going to her other church for 12 years and that she didn't want to abandon them. The real heart-breaker was when she told us to never go back to visit her. Devastated, we headed to church. We are still unsure what happened, but we think that her pastor must have called her and the guilt got her. It's amazing how Satan works, that stinker. On a good note, TONS of people were at church, so that's good.
Well, sorry for the massive email. I hope that everyone is doing well, and please pray for Katherine!
Thanks for all that you guys do,
keep keepin' on!
--Sister Peterson
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