Heart

Well, the Wind is keeping us sane out here in Coredlia! And we love

wind! :)This week slowed down a little bit. We still taught more lessons than

last week but most of them were online!

Monday we only taught one lesson, to our investigator named Rico. We

gave him a restoration DVD and told us that when he was little he
watched it and he didn't ever really remember what it was called, so
when we handed him this DVD he said that he would watch it right away.
After the lesson he texted us and said he loved it.

Tuesday we taught a lot of lessons. The coolest one was Tania. She was
a referral from another investigator and she is sweet. She has 3
children and is going through a lot. She should be evicted  because
she can't afford rent but for some reason they are letting her still
live in her apt still.  We did a house blessing with her and it was
way sweet. After I was done saying the house blessing I looked up and
she was in tears. We talked about the Holy Ghost and she could
definitely feel it!  We also invited her to be baptized. She is a
non-practicing Jehovah's Witness but is open to learning more!

Wednesday we taught a few homeless people. My favorite was Arthur. He
is a sweet man, maybe early thirties. He is going through a hard time
being homeless and all, and letting go of his past. He told us he
wants to go to church but he doesn't want people to judge him if he
doesn't dress like everyone else. He has a nice heart. We are getting
him connected with the ward employment specialist so help Arthur get a
job and get his life turned back around. He has a bright future ahead
of him, but he just needs to get things squared away first. Wednesday
was also the day we were having a contest as a zone for who could get
the most contacts. Obviously, my companionship won. We ended with 110
contacts, and 6 lessons. Score!!

Thursday we taught some awesome lessons. Started off with our weekly
service project for sis Kirkland and Book of Mormon lesson. Then
headed off to the hassells for a lesson with her grand daughter Mika,
who is loving with them for the summer. Mika was baptized at age 8 but
that's it. No follow up gospel discussions or anything and her parents
are not active anymore. We are teaching her all the lessons during
lunch time each week and they also feed us. :) good combo. She is
grasping the lessons really well and we also gave her a young women's
necklace, the torch one, and challenged her to start personal
progress.  Then we went and taught Steve Arendez. He was an
investigator in the area before we got here so he got passed off over
to us. He has been taught about 4 or 5 times and he is progressing
smoothly.

Friday was weekly planning.. Anyone who's been on a mission knows how

exciting that is.... haha. 

Saturday we did service basically all day. Sunday was relaxed. This was a 

calm week. This upcoming week we have back to back lessons schedule 

almost everyday. 

Here are some of our investigators to pray for: 

-Steve

-Karen

-Tania

-Tyesha

-Rico

-Mark

And pray for the Elect to be found all over the world :) Love you all!

♥♥Sister Peterson

Cordelia and our windy adventures

This week has been great! Slow, but great! We are having a fun time
opening up this area. Our ward loves sisters! :) hope you all have a
great week! Love you!! <3

450 Pittman Road #826

Fairfield, CA 94534

New address. Goodbye Vacaville

This was a bitter sweet weekend. We found out transfer doctrine. I am
leaving vacaville.

My new address will be:
450 Pittman rd. #826
Fairfield California 94533

I will be serving in Cordelia and opening up a new area there. I am
pretty excited. My new companion will be Sister Vanderniet. We both
love chick-fil-a and we now will be serving together in a city that
has one :) #sostoked. I love vacaville a lot and I cried during relief
society when they had me say the closing prayer. But I know there is
plenty good ahead for me in Cordelia so I am excited and happy for the
change!

I finished off strong in vacaville. Taught a ton of lessons and
definitely felt the spirit a lot. We had some great lessons. We guilt
tripped our investigators into coming to sacrament meeting for my last
Sunday here. It worked! (Miracle.) We actually used that excuse for
everything we did all week long :)  We did have a really great lesson
with our investigator named Tom. He has been taught the restoration
and the Plan of Salvation and now we are teaching him a few
commandments. We gave him a baptismal date (yay!!!!) for August 23
(miracle) and are so excited. We invited him to our ward Fourth of
July breakfast at the park and he came. He knows a few people from the
ward because they all go golfing together. Small world. :) He has
awesome fellow-shippers and that will help him feel more support as he
progresses. We taught a lot of lessons to less actives and part member
families. It is fun to help them find their testimony again and to
help them gain that desire to strengthen it. I had my last lesson with
the Ruckers and it was so sweet. They have gone from inactive to
ACTIVE!!!!! (Miracle.) It was an exciting journey with them and I am
grateful I got to be apart of that. I have felt the spirit really
strong during several lessons with their family and have learned a lot
from them as well :)    We had a solid lesson set up for Tuesday with
an investigator named Kassidy that wants to be baptized! The only
thing that is stopping her is her parents. Well a few weeks ago the
first presidency released a notice saying that lesson five is going to
be taught before baptism now, instead of after. Since Kassidy has had
all the other lessons already we decided to start with Priesthood and
Auxiliaries. Five minutes before the lesson she sent us a text saying
"my dad, tony, wants to come. Is that okay?" We said yes. It made us
so nervous because her dad has been reading anti Mormon literature. We
immediately called Ben Kroes- a return missionary who is a bible
scriptorian. Ben luckily was available at minutes notice (miracle) and
was the perfect fellow-shipper because he was able to answer tons of
Tonys questions about the Book of Mormon and the Bible. Tony said he
would like to learn more. (Miracle.) Then later that night we got a
text from Kassidy saying that her dad has been a lot more open with
her and he was starting to be more accepting. (Miracle.) This week was
just full of miracles.

Everyone tells me that leaving your greenie area is hard so my address
is at the top for when you feel inspired to send me a pick-me-up
letter :) love you all!!

Sister Peterson