Real fast: The leaves are changing here and its gorgeous!!!!!!! SO PICTURESQUE!!!! {You can kind of see it in the pictures.}
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| Sister Esplin & I |
Monday was good we finished all our p-day stuff and all our appointments fell through so we were like oh man...we already did our backups what should we do!!! Then we remembered our Recent Convert Robinette lives right up the street so we decided to stop by and see if we could have a little Family Home Evening with her!! It was perfect!! She said she really needed a visit and we were able to offer to help her with the Food Drive this weekend! IT WAS PERFECT!!! I also was reading in the scriptures on Monday...not sure which one...but I came up with the motto DESIRE*BELIEVE*ASK*RECEIVE
Tuesday was good! We taught Sandra and she is so good!!! She is a bible researcher for a living so we were a little nervous but we have total faith that Book of Mormon can stand any test she gives it!! So we went with our member Bro. M (they are friends and he sounds exactly like Jeffrey R. Holland...identical I promise!!!) and we had a great lesson answering her questions and we FINALLY helped her see that the only way to know the book is true is to READ IT AND PRAY ABOUT IT!!! So we followed up with her this week and she said she had read some!! We are praying so hard that she will gain that witness from the spirit that it is true!!!! SHE LOVES JESUS AND SO I KNOW SHE WILL JUST FALL IN LOVE WITH THE BOOK OF MORMON!!!! So exciting!!! Bro. M shared a Jeffrey R. Holland clip off YouTube...SAFETY FOR THE SOUL!!! It's my all time fav!!! Look it up!!! Then we had to RUSH to our other lesson right down the street with Jenny our member and the two cute adorable babies!!!! There weren't as many "uh ohs" this time with the babies they were quiet and so sweet this time!! We watched a Mormon.org clip "Hope of God's light" to help her see how good god is and how just a small belief in him can change her life! We're going to give her a couple weeks to read and pray...and see how her faith grows after that!! We helped deliver bags for the BC Food Drive today! It was fun! People thought we were proselyting and we were like NO JUST TAKE THE BAG!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHA All day today we just weren't feeling good...it was weird... We had dinner with a member family and they are so cool!!! They live far away from Civilization and their property is BEAUTIFUL!!!
We had never met them before. They have lived here for 30 years, but they have gone on 3 missions!!!! We found out while we were there HE WAS A MISSION PRESIDENT IN ITALY!!!!!!! How cool is that???? MAN WERE WE NERVOUS NOW!!!!! We had a really good lesson with them about sharing the gospel with those they come in contact with and it was perfect! They said they had just been talking with their daughter about how to casually bring up the gospel! We all went through the Restoration pamphlet and took turns teaching the points!! It was fun!! By the time we were headed back home I was NOT feeling well!! All day I felt off...now remember...these members live FAR AWAY FROM TOWN!!! So it was a fun ride home through the winding roads through all the winerys and orchards...I ended up being okay though!! SURVIVED!! We ended our night just walking around town and we saw this guy across the road..he was the only one at the bus stop so we made our way over there and started talking to him! He was from the Philippines! Sister Esplin's brother served there so we had a good conversation! We told him about church and invited him and gave him a pamphlet to read! When we got home we were looking through our ward list and we found a less active with HIS SAME NAME from the Philippines and his story matched up perfectly with this member!!! WE WERE LIKE WOAH!!!! WE WERE TOTALLY LED TO HIM BY HEAVENLY FATHER!!! Wednesday we had district meeting and I trained on "Developing the Faith to Find". Funny how we always train on the things we need to improve on...I focused on how we can develop the faith and motivation by remembering that we're all children of God!!! It's a privilege to go and seek out our brothers and sisters and help them out!! We double booked appointments so we had to separate and go with the YSA sisters! I went with Sister Steele and we had a fun time teaching and preaching :) We both like Sushi so we planned that we need to do a sushi lunch one day hahaha We ended our day with Coordination and man was it funny!!! Bro. Burgess is seriously the funnest member I've ever met!! He was cracking jokes all night!!! it was a VERY PRODUCTIVE coordination we came up with a game plan on how we can help this ward get more involved with missionary work...the age old question of all missionaries hahahha In the middle Elder Edwards was saying, "yeah she's super down to read the Book of Mormon too" Brother Burgess goes "Wait..what does DOWN mean?" hahhahahahhahhahahahahha we had to explain it and it was SO FUNNY!!!!!!!! Then he cracked a tennis joke about Serena Williams and had us all dying...Sister Esplin still doesn't get it...maybe by the end of the transfer!!! ; Thursday our sickness finally caught up with us!!! We planned went out for about 30 min and had to come right back in! The nurse think we caught a stomach bug...GROSS!!!! So we hunkered down and worked in our area book!!! We found so many miracles though!!! I talked to a potential for like 15 min and it was GREAT!! By the end the conversation turned to politics and all that...so I ended it pretty fast seeing as I know NOTHING and I only hear the extremes from those we talk to on the street...so yeah....then I found some YSA people and passed them off to the Sisters and they went and visited one of them that I had a really good feeling about and she said she wanted to learn and come to church SWEET!!!! MIRACLES HAPPEN EVEN WHEN YOU ARE SICK!!! Here's something funny: while we were in Thursday and Friday we were trying to find this street a member lives on it was called PRETEND ST. we had laughed at it before but once we tried to find it IT DIDN'T EXIST IN KELOWNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHHAHAH IT WAS REALLY PRETEND!!! MAN THAT MEMBER IS REALLY FUNNY!!!!!!!! Saturday was the BC Food Drive! We went around and helped Robinette pick up bags full of food and then took it to the Food Bank!! It was raining so we got soaked!!! It was like a winter day!!!! :) We had a great day and talked to lots of people had some really good member visits...i'm starting to get vague because I'm running out of time hahhahahaha Here's a funny joke from today of course supplied by Sister Esplin" "Hey! What do you call a one legged woman...I was trying to think so fast about what it could be so I yelled "PEGGY"!!! Good one eh??? Well Sister Esplin looks at me weird and goes NO...AILEEN!!!! HAHAHHAHAHAHAH THEN WE DIED LAUGHING ABOUT HOW MY ANSWER WAS EVEN BETTER HAHAHHAHAHAH Sunday was good :) went to church! We have it in the afternoon so it feels like it takes the whole day up!! Then we were working in an area contacting referrals and a member family invited us in to have pie with them :) We were walking and we hear some one yelling "Sisters!!!" we got excited and then we turn and see it's a member hahhah They gave us homemade lemon meringue pie!! YUM!!! Overall it was good week!!! we have Zone Conference tomorrow in Vernon, BC so ROADTRIP TIME!!! Then of course there's the Relief Society Broadcast this weekend then next week is General Conference!! MY LAST GENERAL CONFERENCE ON THE MISSION!!! What????? It's going to be the best!!! I'm excited for these next couple weeks and i'm looking forward to the spiritual boost!! I love this gospel :) I'm so grateful for the Book of Mormon :) I love my family and so grateful I was raised with this knowledge and given the opportunity to serve a mission at this time in my life :)
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| Sister Steele :) I love her! |
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| My New Convert ;) |
Love you all,
Bye for now!
Sister Peterson
