Another splendid week in Nashville!

Dearest family and friends,

 

This past week has been incredible! The weather was pretty bad for a few days, but on the 3rd and the 4th we were blessed with 80 degree weather with scattered clouds. Best. Days. Ever.

 

So, Monday... The YSA sisters were needing help moving from one appartment to another and once it was time for us to get back to work, we realized that we left our house keys at the sisters old place that was atleast an hour drive. The sisters were going to be late to a meeting, so we didn't ask them to come back. We thought to ask Donna to drive us to the old appartment, but the Sisters sadly had no spare key. So basically we were trapped outside our appartment in sweats and old t-shirts... For those that aren't missionaries, this isn't a huge deal, but for us it was really quite the pickle. We prayed for guidance, and God let us know that he wanted us to go and visit Donna. We ended up having a really good scripture read/lesson, so everything worked out okay.

 

Tuesday- We had originally planned to go visit some recent converts, but ended up running into Boboucaur and teaching him instead. Heavenly Father basically puts him in our path every time. We taught him all about the Word of Wisdom, and it's so interesting to see how his Muslim culture is fairly similar to ours. I mean, there's one God, right? So it only makes sense. :) Later that afternoon we taught a sweet lady named Connie Watkins. She had set her baptism date for July 19th, but sadly she hasn't been coming to church so we don't think that date will still work. The good news: She's reading her scriptures. Woo Hoo! We had dinner with the Richardsons and found out that they lived in the same subdivision as Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, and Carrie Underwood. So of course we had to drive by so that I could take creepy pictures of their houses. On our way home from dinner I decided to look at the pictures that I took, and well what do ya know, I ended up gettting not only Carrie Underwood's hockey player hubby in the photo, but CARRIE HERSELF. And we had no idea that they were even out! We saw a glimpse of the dog, but we definitely didn't expect to get a picture of the whole fam. On our way back from Connie's we got a phone call from the mission headquarters telling us about a referral named Andrew Brown and that we were to call him that night, so we called him after getting home and ended up having a wonderful, spirit filled conversation about how I came to know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was God's true church restored back to the Earth. Both Andrew and I cried during the conversation, and he told us that he had grown up baptist, but after having a baby girl he kept getting the feeling that there was something more. We're planning on meeting with him some day this week. :)

 

Wednesday- On the bus ride back home we got stopped by a woman and she had asked us to pray for her husband. We had a good talk with her about our beliefs on eternal families and new beginnings. That night we had dinner with Lesley and Andy Gibson (aka. Zooey Deschanel and Fabio). He's been a member all of his life, met Lesley, got married after only 2 weeks of meeting her, she's now preggy, and they're the cutest couple ever (other than Mackenzie and Will of course). He's a singer/songwriter and she's a manager for a band called "Parmalee". It's crazy how that's the norm here...

 

 

Thursday- We helpe Roxa (a recent convert) pack up and get ready for a big move. Because she didn't have carpet, she had taped down rugs all over... great idea, but getting the tape residue, however, was not my cup of tea. However, I do now have some rocking calves from squatting for so many hours. Later we taught the sweetest guy named Eddie. He was a referal from the YSA sisters, and our first lesson with him went so well! We ended up setting a baptism date for him for July 19th! Huge miracle!

 

Friday- The 4th was CRAZY in Nashville. Everyone was here and the streets were packed. I guess it has to do with the fact that Nashville's been rated #2 for best fireworks in the Nation... Nbd. That night we watched some fireworks with the YSA sisters and having our own little version of a southern BBQ. :)

Saturday- We went to a Messianic Jewish church with Donna (which was very interesting). They keep all the Jewish traditions, yet they read from the Bible. It was cool to see a mix of both religions in one chapel. We taught Baboucaur a bit of the Plan of Salvation! We just really need to get him to church.

 

Sunday- The one main highlight was our lesson with Mark on Sunday night! Because he wasn't reading the pamphlets on his own, we just had to read it with him. It ended up being a good lesson besides the fact that he was smoking and drinking while we taught it... He came up to us this morning and told us that he read the scriptures that we told him to read! Woot!

 

Well, love you all to pieces...

 

--Sister Peterson.

 

Pictures. If you look really closely to the one with the dog in the front, you'll see Carrie. :)

 

The other beautiful house is Miranda and Blake's.

Fourth of July pics!