Week 61: Happy Halloween!!! :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND HAPPY NEVADA DAY!!!!!!!!! 

I hope everyone is having a BLAST!!! Today we all dressed up like we were from each other's hometowns so:

Sister Hoffman: Sister Peterson from Las Vegas (Gold and Black, Bling!!!!, Gucci scarf, and over the top make up! She looks stylin!!!)

Sister Peterson: Sister Steele from Hawaii (red dress, colorful lei, blanket scarf turned into a lava lava, and shell earrings) 

Sister Steele: Sister Hoffman from Utah (Teased hair, fake eye lashes, t-shirt dress, and other stereotypical things...no green jello though) :) WE look so good!!!!!!

So here's the run down of my week:

Monday we had a dinner with the Englands in our ward!! They are awesome!!! I love their house!!!! They were the first members I met when I got here! Then we stopped by one of our investigators at her work! I tried Butter Chicken Pizza! It's an Indian dish just on pizza :) She is AMAZING!!!! She had an arranged engagement to someone back in India and she called it off!! It's been so hard for her not talking to her family and close friends but she has been reading the Book of Mormon, she knows it's all true, and she even fasted with us yesterday!! Keep

her in your prayers!!! Tuesday we met with Jenny, Kendall and their babies!! They are so cute!!!! Jenny said that her friend died AND SHE PRAYED FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A HUGE STEP!!!! She had enough faith to say a prayer to a God that she doesn't even know exists!!!! So cool!!!!!! We're going on a church tour tomorrow with her!! We also did a service project for this lady the sisters met like last year! She called us out of the blue and asked us to rake her leaves...we were so excited!!! We had to change in the car and it was literally the funniest 5 minutes of my life!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH One of my companions who shall remain nameless fell off her seat while putting on her tights and I was in the drivers seat, so I had literally NO ROOM TO CHANGE!!! it was SO FUNNY!!!!!! ANYWAY I haven't raked leaves in a long time!! HOLY LEAVES!!!!! BIGGEST MAPLE TREE I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It took us 2 days to finish it and we bagged like 25 bags of leaves!!! We drove by yesterday and it

looks like we didn't even rake them all up!!! hahah Fun Times though!! While we were working she came outside and said my neighbor saw you working and she wants to know who you are here's her number!!!! WE GOT A REFERRAL FROM IT!!! BLESSINGS!!!!!  We had to take our other car into the shop to get new winter tires put on! Luckily we have two cars because we're covering two areas so we were able to make it to all our appointments!!! Tuesday night we drove to Vernon, BC to meet with the Stake President and report to him on the missionaries and areas in the zone. I was driving and it was SO DARK!!! Had to watch out for deer too! I'm getting quite experienced in driving in rural Canada ;) hahah Wednesday we decided to drop by MaryAnne. I had gotten a prompting to just drop by instead of text her. So we did and we ended up having a really nice lesson with her!! She keeps saying she knows God has a greater plan for her...she feels that...so we told her IT'S BAPTISM!!!! She wanted more to read from the Book of Mormon, so we gave her an awesome chapter that will help her see what we mean!! Thursday we went on
exchanges with the sisters! Sister Hoffman went to West Bank and Sister Steele and I stayed in Kelowna with
Sister Amat from Malaysia :) We had so much fun!!! We taught some good lessons and saw some miracles!! Sister Amat is such a good missionary! She is so good at testifying in lessons! We met with Meghan a new

investigator from a few weeks back! We taught a simple Restoration lesson and she felt the Spirit! We saw tears in her eyes!!! PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR THIS RESTORED GOSPEL!! WE ALL JUST NEED TO FIND THEM!!!! She was asking so many good questions!! We brought our fav member Kendall and she did so good testifying of us! She is an amazing member of our ward!! We went to a ward activity 50's and over Halloween party! They had chili and all sorts of yummy treats!!!  Saturday we had a great day!! We had a lesson with our investigator from India! She is still reading the Book of Mormon and promised to fast with us on Fast Sunday!! She did!!!! She's amazing! with all the hardships she's going through she is doing it with grace and relying on the Lord! We met with Aileen (recent convert) at McDonalds where she works AND THEY ARE DOING MONOPOLY!!!! We got tons of stickers! I was so excited!!! We had a really good lesson with her about family history and temples! She is going to go to the temple in November!!! At the end...Sister Hoffman accidentally threw away our Monopoly board!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW WE HAVE TO START OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Later that day we started talking to some people on the street and they told us that we don't believe Jesus Christ is our Savior!!! THAT MAKES ME SO SAD AND UPSET!!!!!!!! They were bashing us real bad and then we somehow got on the topic of the Plan of Salvation and the after life. And we were testifying of the after life and how we will go to the Spirit world. They looked at me all weird and were like

that's false. I brought up how Jesus went and taught to the people in Spirit Prison and they said that's not true at all...blasphemy!!! I was like NO IT'S NOT!! I studied it this morning! I said you should go home and read 1 Peter 4:6 and 1 Peter 3 it talks all about the spirit world....It was really cool how I was able to recall those specific scriptures. The spirit was really strong as we testified to them of the restored gospel and how parts of the Plan of Salvation are contained in the Book of Mormon. I hope they look up those scriptures :)

Sunday was BUSY as always covering both wards!!! We had really good fast and testimony meetings on Sunday! We have stake conference next week so we had it this week!  After church we had another road trip to Fintry, BC It's a little place on the west side of the lake. It takes about an hour to drive there but the YSA branch president lives there. The road was so narrow there were deer all around and it was so dark!!! We had a ton of fun being on deer watch and stuff! We made it there safely! When I turned off the car, it was SO DARK! we couldn't even see our hands!!!! PITCH BLACK!!!!! Soooooooooo cool!!! The drive back was much better! We didn't see any deer!!! It was a fun experience!! On the way back we also came across a Spanish EFY song by David Archuleta....IT'S SO GOOD WE HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO IT NON STOP!!!! We don't know the words but it's still good!! hahahah That's my week...I think...lots of fun! Lots of lessons! Lots of service! The Spirit has been so strong in our companionship! We're working so hard!!! 

I hope you all have a great week :)

Love,

Sister Peterson :)