Week 37: What A Week!!!

Monday we had interviews with President Burt. He's seriously the best!!! He is so inspired!!! It was like I was being interviewed by the Lord himself!!! I love the Burt's!!!!  Tuesday we met with a former investigator named Sharon...we walk in

and she pulls out this Tuxedo cake she bought for us!!! Then she says everyone that comes here gets a glass of Hot Cocoa...it was like 26*C {78*F} outside and we were DYING,, but we drank that hot drink and had cake...at 10 in the morning!! hahahah After our cake and cocoa we visited Jolene!!! She had read halfway through 1 Nephi!!! SHE'S CRUSING THROUGH THE BOOK OF MORMON!!! We did a lesson on Lehi and the vision of the Tree of Life...GREAT DISCUSSION!!! She just wants to learn learn learn!! She said she is reading the Book of Mormon and still learning and just waiting for something to convince her that she needs to join herself with a religion...specifically ours! She said she feels good energy from the Book of Mormon and she believes it has truth she just has to read the whole thing! So we are just trying to make sure we have the spirit with us in lessons so it can bear testimony to her of the truthfulness of our message and that she will feel the desire to be baptized!!! She is such a great person and I admire her for thoroughly researching it out!! It takes lots of work and faith to keep reading and praying and searching!!! Keep praying for her please :) We visited Cathy too :) She's doing so good!!!! She loves the gospel even more than
last week!!! :)  Our ward is having a Luau in a few weeks and she has joined the women in a Hula dance!!!! hahaha We were surprised to see her at the church dancing away hahaha But we're so glad she has friends and feels comfortable enough to just go by herself! Wednesday I had African food again!!!!!!!!! It was really good!! This family makes us "americanized african food" They are so sweet to us!!! This family will hit their 1 year mark of being baptized at the end of this month!! It's awesome to see how they have progressed and how the gospel has blessed their lives!!! Thursday we met with Jolene again :) Love her! I think I mentioned it before, but she runs a talent agency and so she is just super busy all the time but she is so calm and collected!! She gets calls during lessons some times and it stresses me out how she has to figure stuff out quick and get people to set but she's just cool as a cucumber!!

SIDE NOTE:

{Sydni...a few weeks ago she was sending people to a Prison Break set....yes!!!!!!! I thought it was over!!!!! BUT IT'S NOT!!!!!}

Back to Missionary stuff :)

Thursday we met with Sunita!!!! We brought Sister Tusi because they are both from the South Pacific...well they just bonded like that {finger snap}!!!! They started singing songs from their childhood...it was really funny!!! Anywho...so we had a really good lesson with her! We taught her about Baptism and Sister Tusi started talking about the Temple and how in the temple we do work for the dead...she was like wait what?!?! You do what?!? So we had to explain how baptism is essential and we do proxy baptisms for people who have passed on and haven't been baptized! SHE THOUGHT IT WAS THE COOLEST THING....it really is!!!  She said her parents were never baptized and she wanted to do the work for her parents....we said okay you can do that... but YOU HAVE TO GET BAPTIZED FIRST!!!!!!! She said YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We set a date for June 5th :)  She said "How do I prepare?"...perfect question my friend!! Meet with the missionaries and let the spirit work with ya!! We are really excited!! She was so excited to read the Book of Mormon where before she wasn't. And she said she wanted her whole family to learn about the gospel so it could help them!! It was a tender moment!! We love her!!!

Friday we did some SERVICE!!! Sweet!!! Did you know Plastic Grocery Bags can dissinegrate?!?! Needless to say it was a very static-y project!! we had to use tape to get all the little pieces of the bags!!! hahah It was fun!

Saturday was our walking day we walked all the way from our house to the mall! You don't know how far that is, but it was a decent walk northward!! We contacted in the mall and had some really good conversations. I met a girl who served a mission {for another church} in Uganda so I told her all about Derek and his fun adventures!! We had some funny and awesome experiences that day:

1st- We were standing on a street corner and this lady in a car was staring at us...so a little voice said make sure she can see your tag and just smile really big hahah so I did...when she passed us it was a Less Active we had been trying to see!!! She

definitely saw my badge so hopefully she will remember us and give us a call!

2nd- It was HOT and we walked past this park with sprinklers....WE WANTED TO RUN THROUGH THE SPRINKLERS LIKE 2 YR OLDS!!!!!!! We didn't... but I can't wait to swim next summer!!!

3rd- We had a Purdy's Ice Cream Bar! Purdy's is like See's Candy! They take a vanilla ice cream bar...dip it in white chocolate...then 2x in dark chocolate!!!  OH MAN IT WAS SO GOOD!!!! So messy though!! We got it everywhere! Sister Brimhall had some on her face and I told her to wipe it off, but she had even more ice cream on her hand so she couldn't!!! We probably looked like hooligans!!! So funny!!!

4th- We went to stake conference!! President and Sister Burt were there and gave great talks!!! We love them :) We got home SUPER late from Abbotsford, but it was great to hear such good speakers!! Sunday was crazy!! Stake Conference was broadcast to our chapel in Langley but it didn't work!! We sat there for an hour while they tried to figure it out... They tried Skype, phone calls, apparently they had all these iPhones on the podium at the Stake Center but eventually it all didn't work :( So they sent us home!! We were bummed!!! Overall it was a GREAT WEEK!!!!!! Lots of fun and lots of work getting done!!! Hope you all have a great week!

PRAY FOR MISSIONARY OPPORTUNITIES!!!

Love,

Sister Peterson