Be Nice to Everyone! :)

I just wanted to share some miracles that are going on here in

Vacaville and introduce everyone to a few of our investigators. I will

do this by sharing some lessons we had and the miracles that we

witnessed.

1.) Preparation days are always fun but when things don't happen

according to our schedule, I get a little tense. Last Monday night,

The Mackleys were suppose to drop food off at five thirty, but they

called and said it would be late....more like 6. Though discouraged,

we were still grateful we got fed! It actually was the Lords plan

after all because we had planned for a member to come to a lesson with

us at 7. When we showed up to the lesson, the lady, D, was like "I am

in the middle of making dinner." And then right then, her husband came

home from an evening jog and introduced himself to us and he told us

that his wife told him we were coming over, and he was looking forward

to it, but that it slipped their mind that it was actually this day.

Sis agura, being the persistent saint that she is, said "we just have

a short message to teach, it won't take long." Moments later they

allowed us into their home. We started talking to them about what they

remember from the missionaries 13 years ago when they used to get

taught. She said she didn't remember much except that both

missionaries got transferred and stopped coming, and then a year later

her and her husband moved to Texas and lost complete contact with

people from our church.  We were able to teach them the restoration.

They have a great understanding of who Heavenly Father is, and the

purpose of prophets, and understand the basics of how/why so many

religions were formed, and how we got the Book of Mormon. The spirit

was so strong and they really grasped onto the lesson greatly! I was

able to Invite them all to be baptized! (3 of them, Joseph, D, and

helana who is 13!!) They said that as a family they would pray about

it. What more could we ask for:) Then the husband offered a kneeling

prayer at the end and we set up a return appointment for next week.

Miracles are real and we witnessed an incredible one!!

2.) We also were knocking and we were going to knock on a certain

house, and a lady walked out and told us that she's the caregiver for

an older woman named Fern who was sleeping. But the caregiver told us

that we could come back and that Fern would love a visit. So we went

back later and Fern was awake and invited us in right away! She told

us that a lot of her family has died: her husband, a few children,

etc. We asked her what she knows about what happens after we died. She

said "nobody knows!" Ha. So shared the Plan of Salvation with her and

told her that she would get to be with her family again someday. We

invited her to pray about the message we shared and she said she

would. We taught her how to pray as well as extending an invitation to

be baptized. She said the closing prayer and said she would pray about

the message and allow us to come back to meet with her again next week

and teach her about the restoration.

3.) (this is necessarily a miracle but it was funny!) So based off of

what we heard at general conference a few weeks ago, we have been

encouraged to be more persistent in our missionary efforts. We were

going through our ward list and thought we would go visit this less

active who we had never heard of or met before. This nice-looking lady

answered the door. We asked if this particular guy lived here, and

mentioned that we were the new missionaries in the area. She then got

very furious and yelled "I have already asked your church to not visit

us anymore. My husband isn't apart of your church anymore because he

is part of my church now! Want to know what I hate about your church?!

YOU GUYS ARE SO PERSISTENT!" I giggled on accident. We have been

noticed by someone not of our faith of the exact quality that the

prophets and apostles have encouraged us to be!

4.) On Thursday we were finally able to hit, for the first time, our

TWENTY (Contacts), THREE (Lessons), ONE (baptismal invite) all in the

same day!! It was AWESOME! I was on exchanges and figured it was my

time to shine, so I did! We had a street contact and invited him to be

baptized and he ACCEPTED! Too bad he isn't in our area.... Haha.

5.) On Friday we were able to go and teach the Standfills. They were

getting ready to head to Dixon to take Chad (25) to the doctors. We

briefly shared the restoration Mormon message with them. Elena is the

Mom and Wes is the husband. Wes doesn't like 'organized religion', he

says, but he keeps joining in on the lessons and he agreed to pray

about the message of the restoration and also to pray about the Plan

of Salvation that we taught last week. so! He was a new investigator.

We actually picked up 8 new investigators this week. That was

exciting!

6.) On Saturday we had a service project and I contacted this family

that happened to be walking down the bike path that we were clearing.

They were Spanish speaking and so after the continued walking, i ran

the opposite way and grabbed our Spanish elder, elder Cude (our

previous district leader) and said "a family just walked past a few

minutes ago and I'm pretty sure they want to get baptized. They're

Spanish speaking, a family of six! Go save them!" So elder Cude and

his companion ran after them and they talked to them about the gospel

and actually got an appointment with them for this upcoming week and

got their address. It was awesome!

7.) Saturday we were contacting and tracted into a lady named Mary.

She felt bad for us because it was cold and windy. So she let us in.

Ka-Ching!!! She offered us food and soda, and in exchange, we offered

her spiritual food and we taught her a lesson and got a return

appointment! She said she will go to which ever church her children

enjoy and like the most. We are excited to teach her family! Aothing

new investigator!!

8.) We have really been trying to focus on less Actives right now. One

less active we are working with is named Jamie Grant. She is amazing,

has 4 children. The transfer before I got to vacaville, I guess the

sisters tried to visit Jamie Grant ALL THE TIME but they couldn't ever

catch her and also she never texted them back. Last transfer we were

also to meet with her twice, but she never would come to church or

text us back. It's been exciting recently because we have finally made

it to the point where she texts us back, comes to church when she

isn't working, AND TEXTS US FIRST to ask when we can come visit her,

and she tells us her work schedule. It's been awesome! She has a

daughter who 9 and isn't baptized and also Jamie lives with her

boyfriend who we want to teach as well. So we are continuing to work

with them:) When she attended church, at the beginning she was a

little off set by her childrens behavior and she was very impatient

with them. By the end of church, she was so patient and so much more

loving towards her children. This is why we learn about Jesus Christ

at church. We learn more about who he is, and what he has done so that

we can align our lives with His. We could see a smile on Jamies face

as she left church with her children. That is what church does for us.

We go to church as imperfect people, and we should come out of church

with a renewed attitude and a deeper desire to follow our Savior Jesus

Christ. This starts by putting a smile on our face!

9. Lesson I learned this week:  While we were tracting and we came

across this Hispanic guy (like a white guy with Hispanic names) and he

said that he had only lived in vacaville for like 5 years, but that he

used to live in Arizona. I asked which part, and told him that I grew

up in Mesa AZ! He said "I loved there!" I asked him what cross roads.

Hahahaha he said POWER AND MCKELLIPS! I was like dude no way, I live

there! Hahaha. He lived behind Home Depot. And he was a substitute

teacher at Fremont junior high during the time that I was there. He

was an English substitute and I am pretty sure he was my sub one time.

He said he used to sub for the English teacher with a bunch of moles.

I forget her name now that I'm writing this but she was my English

teacher and we had subs every now and then and I'm pretty sure he

subbed for her! Haha, small world. Moral of the story: you never know

who you will come in contact with later in your life, so be nice to

everyone:)

Fun things we did this week: Spent 5 hours at the car dealership and

enterprise to get a car rental. I miss our brand new Chevy cruze

though. Our rental car we got smells like smoke but it has a sunroof

that we use each day! :) and we actually can afford to drive out to

the country to visit less actives because usually we don't have the

miles for it but now we do! :) The rental car enterprise guy was named

Kyle and his dentist is Bro Pedersen. Idk how we got on the subject

but it was a fun connection. Also, during the service activity a news

reporter was there and kept talking pictures of me and sister Baird

trimming down trees. Yep, you guessed it! Our picture made it into the

paper! I'll try to attach a picture.

Also, Thanks everyone who sent me some funny jokes!

I hope you all have a GREAT WEEK! I challenge everyone to try to find

1 missionary opportunity Each day. Even if this means that you are

just mentioning our church name to someone and inviting them, or

pointing out to some one that you meet that the have a great attribute

of Christ and then tell them the attribute they noticed. It's when we

forget ourselves and help others that we receive happiness!

Write or Email Sister Peterson :)

Email:

kinsie.peterson@myldsmail.net

Mailing Address: 

Sister Kinsie Peterson

293 Shasta Drive Apt 210
Vacaville, CA 95687

Easter Week!

I hope you all had a great Easter and were able to center it around Jesus Christ. We had a great week and saw many miracles. My week went something like this:
Monday- we went to Fentons with the nice lady in 3rd ward. She bought 5 companionship's lunch and huge banana splits. I tried to do the banana split challenge (it has 1/2 gallon of ice cream on it) and failed! I couldn't finish it but it was delicious until I started throwing up. Haha!!! Then we went to our dinner appointment and guess what we had for dessert: ice cream. This was the first time I had to refuse it because I already ate way.too.much!
Tuesday- amazing day! We taught 6 lessons and saw so many miracles. Came across less actives ward members and invited them all to sacrament meeting on Easter Sunday!
Wednesday- we went contacting for about 3 or 4 hours. It was really neat because we met this guy (maybe 40ish) and he said that his daughter had some type of program first aid training at our church building 3 or 4 years ago and he has been wanting to attend but didn't know if it was invite only or if everyone was invited! Bingo! We invited him to come to church with us and we hopefully will see him this upcoming Sunday!! (Everyone is heading out of town because this is their spring break right now.) We kept contacting and then came across a bunch of kids playing outside and they just finished a water balloon fight! There was a few in 4th grade, a couple in 3rd grade, and a couple in 2nd grade. Some of them are actually in the same class as some little kids in our ward and we found out that they were friends with them. They really loved talking to us and started telling us their plans for spring break and such. It wasn't long before their mom came outside and told us to stop talking to her children about religion. We quickly said bye and left. As we were heading through the rest of the Court and visiting the houses next door, we heard the mom saying to all the kids and neighbors, "don't talk to strangers. You know better." Blah blah blah. We quickly finished up that street and we leaving. On our way back to the car the children started yelling "go away strangers" and "we hate strangers" "no body likes you" and other rude comments. We smiled and waved "bye! Have a nice day!" It is incredible to watch the impact that parents really do have on children. Whether parents realize it or not, kids are always aware of what you do and take their parents example. It taught me a lot about how I want to raise my children because I don't want anyone to have to feel like how we felt as we were getting yelled at and threatened by 8, 9, 10, and 11 year olds. Our day lightened up as we went to our dinner appointment at the Schraders. They have 8 kids and it's always a party over there. They are such great examples to their children and it was like night and day difference from the children having a water balloon fight and the Schraders children. As we let Christ into our lives, our attitude changes, and our purpose in life. Christ was the greatest example of Love and how to treat others. He went around serving and making others happy each day. May we all strive to be more Christ like and share a smile with a stranger- you never know the trials or challenges they might be facing!
Thursday- We had a Facebook lesson. Right now we are teaching two boys- one from India and one from Nigeria. It's pretty neat. Then we headed out to start tracting in Crystal Springs to get our 20 contacts. We were looking in lds tools and it showed that a member that we had never met on crystal springs so we decided to stop and meet him. His wife said he was sleeping and I looked through the front window and saw a bed in the front room, but no one was it in. Eventually he woke up from the couch (haha he heard my loud voice) and the wife invited us in to meet him. His name is William and he was baptized 15 years ago. He's about 60ish. Well we had a great lesson with him. He is very ill and can't go up any stairs, so that's why the front room is now his bedroom. We had a lesson with him and his wife. While we were talking, sis Agura was acting sort of different. When we left, sis informed me that last transfer her and her comp went to get their car fixed and he was there as well and saw their name tags and started bashing! Saying that there is no God in Heaven because if there was, why would he allow him to suffer so much here on earth! And a bunch of other stuff. Sis Agura told me that all she could do was bear her testimony and walk away. When we were at Williams house she realized that he was the man that was previously bashing with them and that he was a member!!!! We will work with him more this transfer and help him strengthen his testimony. his testimony has been shaken as he has had to deal with a lot of health problems in his life which is causing him to be immobile and feel helpless. We also had a very powerful lesson with Judy frendo about the restoration. She believes and reads from the Book of Mormon but doesn't have a testimony of Joseph smith or the restoration. So we are going to keep working with her. She has been investigating for 10 years but if she doesn't start keeping commitments we will need to stop visiting her until she reaches out to us and tells us that she's ready to be serious this time. Afterwards a member took us to Mel's Diner and then we rushed off to a meeting with the stake presidency. It was sister Agura and I, the zone leaders, and the stake presidency... And then on Skype was the mission president! It was so awesome having him there and being able to see how much effort goes into missionary work from the president, stake presidency, zone leaders. I felt privileged to be there! Sis Agura is an STL so since we can't be separated, I was there to participate. It was awesome. Before we headed in it was funny because Sister Agura said "Don't talk" hahaha and so i didn't say anything, and then President Abla said "Sister Peterson, tell us your thoughts on [this]?" I gave sister Agura the "I think i NEED to talk" look and gave my input. The zone leaders afterwards said that i was awesome with the things i said. Yay!

Friday- We were able to teach a lesson in a members Home for the Standfills! There spirit was so strong as we taught the plan of Salvation.

Saturday we contacted most of the day. We also taught three lessons and met this guy at a trailer park and he said that he wants a church to attend because he hasn't been to church in 6 years! yay! He's one of those sweet, old Walmart greeters. Hopefully we see Him later today :)

Easter Sunday: WE HAVE INVESTIGATORS COME TO CHURCH!!!!!!! MIRACLES HAPPEN FOLKS! Two investigators and they brought their 2 children and also a less active family came to church as well! It was just filled with joy and the speakers were awesome as well as the children's choir. I felt the spirit and I hope our investigators did as well and that we will be able to have them join with us again.

If any of you actually continued reading all the way down to the bottom of this email, send me a reply with some funny jokes! Our District leaders are awesome and we tell jokes to each other a lot and are in need of some more! :) I hope you all are having a great week. Continue to Follow Monson's counsel from October 2013 conference and reread or listen to the conference talks from this past conference especially and receive even more revelation for yourselves and/or for your families! I love you all!

Sister Peterson

293 Shasta Drive #210

Vacaville CA 95687

Survival of Transfer 1

Another great week! We had some awesome lessons and picked up 3 new investigators!! My week went something like this :) (also, this was typed on my iPad which likes to auto correct everything, so beware -there may be many typos!)

---Monday we had an awesome Pday. We went to this Asian market and got phillipeano food and all sorts of crazy things! We also bought Balut (Duck egg). It's really interesting because the duck is like developed on the inside (it has hair!) It's not just a yellow thing like in normal chicken eggs! We boiled it like a hard boiled egg and sister agura ate the yolk stuff and I ate the duck. Tasted like (hairy) turkey! I figured I had to eat it so that I could tell everyone for the rest of my life that I ate something weird on my mission. :) We also taught a gal in the ward who is a recovering addict, alcohol and smoking, and she is so special. I love her so much. She was/is very open about her problems. Her mother is so strong and is such a wonderful example. I love the families in the ward here, and their example to me of Christ-like love. 

---Tuesday we had our last district meeting with one of my favorite elders, elder Frankom. He is getting transferred. He is the funnest elder I have met so far! Afterwards, we went and had 2 lessons on Facebook and a lesson with a less active dad and nonmember mom. We had the ward mission leaders wife join us and she is from whales and has the cutest accent. We had some very good contacts today and taught a lot of key points as we were on people's front porches. That was one of our goals from district meeting and we were able to already put it into action! 

---Wednesday for power hour all of these miracles seemed to be unfolding! First off we were able to see the Gregstons and have a lesson with them. They were street contacts and started being taught last transfer. Also we were able to then go and meet Shelly and Kent together and teach them more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They are referrals from the singles ward sisters. We have tried to contact them about 19 times, but Wednesday we finally met them both! They have a 2 or 3 year old Jayden and Shelly is due in June with baby #2 on his way. They are naming it Myles! They had a lot of questions about the church and they LOVED us!! Kent's mom is a member in another ward and also Kent's sister in Utah is a member and is very active. And Shelly's best friend Kelly (in first ward) is leaving on a mission soon. They are an amazing family and it was awesome. We gave them two books of Mormon and we are excited for them to read from it & share their experiences with us! As we were leaving Kent said, "are you sure you don't want your book back? Where can we buy some so Shelly can have one also?" I grabbed sister aguras Book of Mormon that was on the couch and said, "here's another! Is two enough?" :) they are AWESOME!  Then afterwards we rushed out and realized we didn't get 20 contacts yet so we contacted two more people on the streets and we able to read home! Yay for miracles from power Hour!  Cool story though, at Gregstons, He was telling us that he is looking for a job because wants to be able to support his girlfriend and their two kids. And we got his email and said we would give it to the ward employment specialist. Well, when we were at Shelly and Kent's he was explaining that he is the hiring manager at his company and he jokingly said, "know anyone looking for a job?!" We were like "YES! Can we give you his email?" And he said he would interview the gregston guy! (Don't know his first name haha ;) miracles exist folks!!!

---Thursday was mellow. But it was the funnest day in the mission so far! Nothing spectacular happened but Sister Agura and I had SO much fun contacting. We get along really well. We laughed, joked, plucked wings off dragonflies, laughed, almost got attacked by mosquitos, met funny people, heart attacked peoples doors, laughed, and taught some awesome lessons. We also had a stake relief society activity and it was incredible. I am a Mormon woman was the theme and they did a great job. Also they sang the song "I'm a Mormon" from the tape, songs for a Mormon child. It was so cute. I used to listen to that tape from Deseret book when I was like 6-9 ish! 

---Friday was weekly planning, which I am actually beginning to enjoy. We were able to meet with one of our potentials/new investigators, Elena Standfill. She actually told a member of our ward that she wanted to take missionary discussions. Then they had a death in the family and it pushed time back a little but she is almost caught up with everything and we are going to begin teaching her the lessons. We shared a quick uplifting video (mm) to her on Friday and she loved it.  We also found out transfers Friday night and sis agura and I are staying together. The other elders that are serving in our ward are getting a CAR finally! We are SO happy! Now they can stop being late to all of our dinner appointments hahaha. Jk

---Satuday we blitzed the area for third ward-which is always fun to do. And we also went to contact some referrals. Success! We taught this man named Joey. He is our intense, 72 year old Roman Catholic. He is reading the Book of Mormon but says that he WILL NOT pray before he reads... He never lets us teach, because he just has way too many questions. We will continue to teach him but are giving him a month or two. He says he needs to read the Book of Mormon all the way through before we continue. We are okay with this! Also we have become awesome match makers. But before I tell you about all that we will wait until our dates actually go through for our fello ward members ;) we went to the Havalli's for a member lesson at the 8 o'clock hour and they were so sweet to us. We sort of do this "let's just show up" thing and we have a lot more success. They left us with a ton of goodies to take home. Yay! Also I received an AWESOME Easter package from my fam. #loveyouall!

---Sunday was a very calm day. We had all of our lessons fall through, and nobody was home that we tried to get ahold of. I did get my pictures figured out on my iPad (it wouldn't let me send pictures before) so be expecting more pictures now :)

---Today this sweet lady is taking all of the missionaries to Fentons for lunch, Score!! Have an awesome week everybody!!!!!!!!! 

Sister Peterson

The Light in a 7-year-old's Eyes

General conference was amazing this past weekend. I am pretty sure every missionary email this week will have that same sentence in it! 

On Friday we had a late dinner with the Hodges, a super kind family from port Rico! We enjoyed our time but by the time we left, we only had 1.5 hours to get our mission goal of 20 contacts. We didn't want to return home until we got 20, so we went out in the dark and began. We sing hymns everywhere we walk, and it helps us not be so nervous, and to have the spirit. I was a little hesitant to be knocking in this sketchy complex, but the friendliness of the first apartment we knocked on Gave me confidence and reminded me that God is there, aware, and watching over us. The first apt we knocked on was the home of this little girl, no older than 7 years old. We explained who we were and the mom went on to tell us that she doesn't believe in God or Jesus Christ. Right at the moment the beautiful 7 year old girl exclaimed, "I do! I believe! I believe in God!" Sister Agura told the mom that it was nice that she allowed her daughter to believe what she wants to. The little 7 year old girl told us that she had a pink bible, but when her younger sister learned how to read, she gave her the pink bible to the little sister as a gift. From this experience I learned how lucky we are to have agency to believe. But also we can learn that even at the age of 7 years old, we can live life in a way that allows us to learn of And believe in Jesus Christ and God, our Heavenly Father. With the precious 7 year old growing up with a mom who has no belief in Christ, I admire this little child's faith and desire to believe. :) 

This week we did exchanges twice. I like Doing exchanges because I get to learn from the other sisters in our zone. We have some awesome sisters in our zone!! :) One of them is from Gilbert, Toree Day. I'm sure someone in our family knows her family. 

In general conference, Eyring talked about how we will always remember the words of the hymns we learned when we were young. I love how in my family we got to learn a new hymn growing up each week before school. To this day, I know most of the hymns, and remember the words of the songs that I have sung with my family long ago, in elementary school. Sister agura and I walk around contacting and singing hymns together each day. All day, everyday. Hymns bring the spirit into our day and remind us of our Savior Jesus Christ. 

Just like Elder Ballard suggested at conference, I thought I could share with you what I am studying in PMG this week: I am studying lesson 2! The plan of salvation. Preach my gospel outlines key points in teaching the doctrine, and also suggests scriptures for further explanation. I know that as we study this more, we will be able to have more courage and boldness in sharing our beliefs with people not of our faith, because we will have studied it for ourselves, and dug into the scriptures to gain more knowledge  and increase our testimonies of these simple and truthful doctrines that set us apart from the world. Let's all hasten the work of Salvation together!! 

I hope all my Arizona family and friends get to watch the Easter pageant this Easter Season! This will be the first year that I don't get to watch it, so enjoy it in behalf of me! I love you all! :)

Sister Peterson

iPad!

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Day 25!

The Funnest Hard Work I'll Ever Do :)

Sorry this is a really long email, but this week has just been incredible!! We have seen so many miracles and have seen the Lords had in many different ways. We met with one of our investigators, Judy frendo, (eternigator of 12 years) and she is an amazing woman. She has such wonderful stories about how Christ has helped her but she says she struggles to feel Gods love. She has an addiction to tea and doesn't feel like she can overcome that because it causes her to be in a lot of pain (headaches, migraines, body aches, etc) and because of her low tolerance for pain, she has no motivation to obstain from it. We testified to her that as she tries to follow and keep the word of wisdom that she will be able to feel the love of God and be able to overcome her addiction to tea! She needs to have faith that God can help her and then run with it until she has conquered her addiction. We can all apply this same lesson. We all have within us, something that we need to work on or an area of our lives that we can improve on. I challenge everyone his week to raise the bar, allow yourself to change and allow yourself to feel an increase in love from God as we rely on Him to help us get through our trials.

Each night after dinner we do what is called "power hour" with the family we ate with. Power hour is when we all combine our faith and pray for miracles to happen as we go out contacting or teaching lessons after dinner. We have done this for the last 25 nights and we have seen SO many miracles.

Monday night we ate with the ward mission leaders family, sister Kroes prayed that we would be able to see miracles and find those people who were willing to listen, and that wanted to learn more. We all put our faith together and headed out for the night to find and teach. We were knocking apartment buildings and the first few people we came in contact with were nice, but they weren't interested. On about the 7th house, this man named William Flint opened the door. He was so sweet to us (a miracle already) and we told him that we wanted to share a Message about the restored gospel and about how families can be together forever. He told us that both of his parents had passed away and that it was just him now. We invited him to church on Sunday and offered a ward member to pick him up if he was interested in coming. He said, "I'd love too!" I was shocked. We've never had someone be so willing to come to church during the first contact with them. We exchanged numbers and continued knocking. 8:45 came around and we decided to head back to the car so we could make it back by 9 to our apartment. As we were walking back. This man approached us from the dark and said "hey you." I couldn't really see the face, but he seemed nice so I said "hi!" He said, "it's William!" He told us that he tried to call us just to verify the number we gave him but it didn't go through. He showed us the number he dialed and we realized he put in a wrong number. We corrected it in his phone and then he said , "I had to check and make sure the number was right so I can come to church on Sunday. After the line didn't ring through I had a feeling to come outside and that I would be able to find you, and I did!" The Lord is already preparing him :)

On Tuesday we had all of our lessons fall through, and we also had two dinner appointments. Our first dinner was with this Family from Thialand! The Mackleys! They cooked us thia food (dad you would have loved this so much! I tried to get the recipes but it didn't work. Shucks!) they actually know the bunkers that live 1/2 the year in AZ! Haha sister agura was like "wow, from out of the country and you're still making connections!" The elders roll their eyes every time I make another connection at dinner. Haha. Because I always know SOMEBODY each night at dinner that we can find in common with our dinner appt family. :) Then we headed off to our 2nd dinner- phillipeano food. It was interesting, but at this point I was also ready so full and couldn't eat anymore. The lady kept pulling out more food and more food. I took little bites and did the whole 'take a bite, drink juice, and swallow it all together' thing that my dad taught me about from when he went on a mission. Bingo! It worked. After the 2nd dinner we went out for power hour and saw another miracle! We were able to meet this man named Cody, about 20 years old. He was so curious about the church and about us being on a mission, and about the ysa ward! We got to talk with him for about an hour and he said he wants to come to church! He gave us his address and phone number and we are so excited! Unfortunately since we are not over the ysa ward we don't get to teach him, but it's still a miracle because the elders in the ysa ward have no investigators so the fact that we were able to find a potential for them is exciting! We were so excited to call the singles ward elders (Mallory and bowler) & tell them we found a potential investigator for them! :)

Wednesday all of our appointment fell through but we were able to randomly show up at less actives homes and have doorstep lessons! It was awesome! Along with all of our schedule appointments falling through, our dinner did as well. We showed up and they had forgotten and weren't home. But it rained most of the day on Wednesday so I was happy!!!! :)

Every Thursday we go and visit this sweet lady in our ward. Her name is Pat Vandelaar. She is older (74) has a fractured food, bad shoulder, and possibly a lump in her breast. Because of her health she cannot make it to church so we share a spiritual message with her each Thursday. It has become the highlight of my week. She has no children, her husband died in 2000, and she is an only child and I think her husband was as well. It's so sad. But she loves us and we love visiting her. It rained/sprinkled all morning and afternoon and we got to tract in the rain!!!!! It made me happy! Our lesson on Thursday with our eternigator, Judy frendo, fell through. We found out that she fell Wednesday and broke her spine and then fell again Thursday and broke her wrist, on top of the immense amount of pain that she's already in from her bad back that she just got 12 or 13 pins in 2 weeks ago.

Friday my companion had a meeting in Santa Rosa with all the other STLs and zone leaders so I got to be in a Trio. I think I prefer just two missionaries in a companionship instead ;)
Saturday we got the amazing opportunity to watch the General Women's Broadcast and it was AWESOME! The spirit was so strong and testified to me the importance of sharing with others that we ARE daughters and children of God.
Sunday WE HAD A NEW INVESTIGATOR COME TO CHURCH! William followed through with his commitment to come to church! Lucky for us it was fast and testimony meeting and all the primary children got up and shared how they know the church is true and that prophets are called of God and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God!!!!! So tender. He said he loved it and we are excited for us to teach him about the restoration later tonight!

I hope you all are doing GREAT!!!! Love and Miss everyone!!

Sister Peterson!