Week 32: Miracles and Hope {British Columbia}

WOW....WHAT A SUPER GOOD WEEK!!! Monday was our awesome P-day...stressful and busy as always!!! We had lunch with Beth { she's a recent convert} which is always nice :) she is so lovely!!! After she drove us in her convertible to feed

the Chickadee's at Campbell Valley Regional Park!!! THE BIRDS WEIGH LIKE NOTHING AND ONE LANDED ON MY HAND AND ATE THE BIRD SEED!!! Remember...I'm from the desert, so this is all new to me!!!! It was so cute!!! We had a lot of fun being bird ladies for the day!!! Monday night...THIS IS THE BEST PART!!!!!! We went and had a member visit with THE MASONS FROM CAMPBELL RIVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brother and Sister Mason were coming to see their sister, Sister Gomerich, in our ward and attend the temple and so we got to meet with them and catch up!!!! They filled me in on Campbell River!! I miss it so much!!!!! It was such a bittersweet night!!!! I love them so much :) Monday we got a text from one of our investigators that she had read a BUNCH of stuff online and wasn't sure if the church was for her now...OH NO!!!!!!!! We were so nervous!!!! I don't like lots of confrontation and anti stuff because it just makes me upset and frustrated!!! I was really not looking forward to our lesson the

next day!!! When I was praying that night I flipped open my scriptures and it opened to Mosiah and on the side I had written "Hush Your Fears." It talked about how the people prayed that the Lamanites' hearts would be softened so I inserted the investigators name. The next day we met with her and her mom. She said that she had prayed that night and she had her Bible and Book of Mormon and just asked God to help her and she got a CLEAR IMPRESSION that she was doing the right thing. So she said I don't have any of those questions anymore!!!!!! IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! She is doing so good now!!! She had that spiritual experience and it is totally motivating her to press forward and overcome anything in her way!!! She's being baptized May 1st or 7th....haven't decided yet :) Wednesday we had a fun day! Started with District Meeting and after we decided to go tract down near the USA border! It's

in our area :) hahaha We did lots of walking there's like a mile between each house her, but it was super pretty though!!! When we knocked on doors they kept asking if we were with the derby race...we were like, "No silly we are missionaries!" Eventually we learned that a church in town does an annual car derby race thing on that road every year and it was that weekend. LIKE LITTLE RASCAL STYLE CAR RACE!!!!!!!!!!!!! So cool!! hahaha We had dinner at one of our favorite member's houses and we did a role play restoration lesson with them! We sat around and taught one of their daughters who was the investigator. It was HILARIOUS yet SO GOOD!!! Every member should practice teaching the lessons out of the Thursday was slightly more eventful this week we had an awesome lesson with Cathy our May 1st or 7th baptism date!! We did lots of finding too.....see more eventful :) hahaha jk Friday we met with Jolene!!! She's an investigator we have been trying to get a hold of for a month! This was our last time! AND she was

home so we got to teach her!!!!! It was so good!! She asked us all these questions and why we wear skirts and it was funny!! Later in the day we had a super good miracle! We were tracting in a trailer park and we knocked on a random door. We actually said we would pick the trailer that looked most "grandma like" because most grandmas are nice to us :) So we knocked and started talking to this lady and she said well do you want to come in. I was stoked!!! We went in and taught her the restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon to read and she said she would!!! She is from Fiji!!!! It was awesome!!!  SATURDAY WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!! So all the missionaries in the Langley and Abottsford area drove to HOPE, BC!! Hope is this little quiet town and is surrounded by mountains!!!  SO BEAUTIFUL!!! We gave HOPE SOME HOPE!!  

Sister Vermeran

So there were about 27-30 missionaries and we each got paired up with a member and we TRACTED THE WHOLE CITY!!!!!!! The church is really new there, so we passed out invitations to an open house!! It was so much fun!! We found so many people for the Senior Missionary Couple there to teach!! It was a miracle packed 2 hours!!!!! I was paired up with the best member ever from Abbotsford Sister Vermeran! On the second door she was starting the conversations and totally loved it! We had a lot of fun!! She said her husband trained the family to invite people. She said they will be out at dinner and he'll slide a card to their daughter and say "You're up!" and whoever he chooses has to pass the card out to the waiter/waitress!!!!!!! haha I was Sunday we had 2 investigators at church!!! Cathy came with her two kids and they did so great!!! Her daughter HATED nursery though...haha!!! They all want to come back next week!!!! Overall it was a great week!!! Lots of miracles and fun moments!!! I hope you all had a great week as well!! I've heard it's been POURING in Vegas!! All I have to say is HAHAHAHH!!!! It's been so WARM AND SUNNY here!! We switched weather :) It's kind of hot though...like 75 degrees!!!

FRIENDS & FAMILY! If you want/need to send me something can you PLEASE send it to the mission home address! Please and Thank You!

Sister Shelby Peterson

8440 Williams Rd.

Richmond, BC

V7A 1G6

Bye for now!!!

Love you all,

Sister Peterson