These past two weeks have been pretty darn eventful, I'll tell you
what. Here are the highlights:
- Christy Hammer is going to be baptized! We were talking about the
blessings that come from being baptized and she looked at sister Dixon
and said, "okay, let's do this". And just like that she decided to be
baptized.
- We've been trying and trying to get Phyllis to stop smoking and she
has finally agreed to do the stop smoking program again. We will have
to be on her like an obsessive girlfriend, but boy it will surely be
worth it. She is doing so well and we are very proud of the great
choices that she has been making.
- A man named Don whom the elders are teaching has been attending
church for a while now. At one of our study groups Elder Matthews
randomly decided to take Don's picture and asked, "now, wouldn't this
look better in white?" All it took was that one comment to touch his
heart. The Sunday before last he turned to the elders and said, "let's
talk baptism." He was baptized on Saturday March 1st and sister Dixon
and I gave a talk on the Holy Ghost together. Yep. We even share the
pulpit. His wife and him plan on going to the Nashville temple soon to
do baptisms. Happy happy happy.
- Last Thursday night sister Dixon experienced her first "tornado
warning" and I don't think we'll ever forget it. We had thunder and
lightning off the wazoo accompanied with 60mph winds. She saw that we
had to "seek shelter" so her first response was to book it down to the
basement. She was down there for 5 minutes until she realized that we
were already in shelter. She's the bomb.
- Yesterday we had a big farewell type of thing for the Matthews. We
had 9 speakers that day. We had our mission president and his wife,
the stake president and his wife, our high councilman and his wife,
the bishop, and the Matthews. It was equivalent to a mini general
conference I think. All of them did such a fantastic job and you could
tell that they all prayed for inspiration on their talks by the way
that they touched the hearts of our investigators. We had 130 people
attend church btw :). MIRACLES.
- After 4 days of semi-nice weather, we got surprised with 4 inches of
snow/ice. Time to bring out the garbage bag sleds.
Things I've learned this week:
- patience is everything
- you should never pet a dog without asking the owner if it's okay first.
- Heavenly Father has a perfect life-plan set up for us.
- McDonalds has free wifi.
- you can ride your horse through the McDonalds drive-thru (this
actually happened).
- you should never befriend brown cows, because they're beef cows.
I learned that the hard way.
- in the south you call toilets "commodes"
- the scriptures really do have all the answers.
I love you all 'snow' much.
Keep on keepin' on!
-Sister Peterson
Here are some pictures:
Elections are coming up and this sign is definitely one of our favorites.
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