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!!
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
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