Are you ready for another weekly letter of GREATNESS!!!! THIS WEEK WAS SO GOOD!!!! Ahhhh!!!! I only have 30 min to write!!!!! FIRST.....TRANSFERS!!!!!
**I AM STAYING IN LANGLEY, BROOKWOOD WARD but Sister Hawke is going to Sooke, BC on the island :( Oh my goodness!! My heart about broke!!! We retired to bed on Saturday and we hadn't gotten a call so we were SAFE then...10:55PM we get a call...we both woke up and yelled YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!! Then the assistants gave us the news.....sad day!!! I love Sister Hawke so much!!!!!! She is the funniest person you'll ever meet!!! We were two peas in a pod!!! We completed each others sentences and even dressed the same 6 out of 7 days a week! Seriously we had so much fun this transfer {probably why we're being split up hahahha} She will love it on the island though! My new companion is Sister Brimhall. Not even sure how to spell it...or if that's right. The assistants called so late I don't really remember! She has been out 3 months! We're going to have a blast though!!! This area is so good you can't not have fun!!! So here's the play by play for this week!!!
Monday....{our P-day} Sister Hawke got a SUPER BAD migraine! We we're emailing and she says "uh...sister....I can't see!
"OH MY GOODNESS!!! My pre-motherly instincts kick in!
Poor Sister Hawke I probably smothered her hahaha but she slept it off all day and I FINALLY got to write in my journal...my poor posterity will hate my journals hahahahaha :)
Anywho...Tuesday was AWESOME!!! We went on exchanges so I went with Sister Lai to Abbotsford!!! Sister Lai was born in China, but is from Australia SO OF COURSE she literally has the coolest accent you ever did hear!!!! They work with the YSA there in Abbotsford, so we got to contact on the University of Fraser Valley Campus. IT WAS SO WEIRD TO BE BACK ON A CAMPUS!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness! It's hard to believe I graduated almost a year ago!!! TIME IS FLYING BY!!! Later that night Sister Lai and I met with a recent convert named Jasper. He's super cool! Hasn't been showing up at church lately, so we just dropped by. We shared a of Book of Mormon chapter with him 2 Nephi 32 and THE SPIRIT WAS SO STRONG!!!!!! We asked him what part he liked and he said how we have to ask and knock in order to receive. Then I
had a really cool experience where the Spirit seriously took over! I started saying things and I don't really remember much of what I said, but it was something like we need to rely on Heavenly Father and sometimes we can't do it all on his own. Next thing you know he is tearing up and opened up about some tough experiences he was going through and how he grew up having to do it all on his own. I HAD JUST MET THE KID HAD NO IDEA ABOUT ALL THAT!! It was so neat to be able to connect with him through the spirit. It made me feel so good!! He said he would try harder to come to church and ask for help so it was REALLY GOOD!!! Yay!!! Wednesday we ended exchanges and we both saw lots of miracles while we were separated!! Wednesday night we met with a family in the ward who is preparing their daughter to be baptized!!! They want us to teach her the lessons!!! So we had dinner and then taught her the Plan of Salvation using the cut outs!! It was so special to have her and her parents talk about the plan of salvation together. They were so proud of their daughter and
at the end she pointed to the celestial kingdom piece and said I
Cool Streak Over....Cut. Edit. Roll Tape.
BUT! Nonetheless, we had a super good lesson with her! We taught the Plan of Salvation and she had so many questions!! We went into some deep doctrine stuff!!! She's pretty much a genius!!! The best part was when we talked about the spirit world after we die. She asked if we believed our ancestors/relatives could visit us from the other side. We said we believed that the veil is really thin, and that we both have
felt the presence of ancestors especially in the temple as we are
doing their work. She started crying and shared a cool story!! So her grandma had been very sick and her son when he was a toddler used to wave and blow kisses to the grandma when she was in the hospital. After she {the grandmother} had passed away, Jolene saw her son one day wave at the corner of the room and blow a kiss!!! She said she belived her Grandma was right there. It was amazing!! The spirit was so strong after she told the story!!! The Plan of Salvation is so great!! I love teaching it to people because it fills in all the holes and brings so much comfort!!! She loved it and the lesson was so good!!! One of my favorites on the mission!! Friday we had Zone Meeting with President Burt!!! Always good! I learned a lot!!!! After we went tracting and got kicked out of a complex by a preacher...not very Christlike preacher man!!!! One thing we learned in Zone Meeting was to pray with investigators on the street!!! So all day Friday we tried to do that, and we got some really solid potentials!!! Also, on Friday we learned that #hashtags aren't cool anymore :( This young woman in our ward told us "only the old people use hashtags" OUCH!!!!! HAHAHAHA IT WAS HILARIOUS!!! Saturday was so good!! We had a great lesson with Cathy about the Holy Ghost and then took her into the Temple waiting room to just sit and feel the spirit! COOLEST EXPERIENCE ON THE MISSION!!!!!!!!!! She was just hit with the spirit and so was I!!! It's been 7 months since I've gone to the temple and let me tell you I just miss it! It was so great to just sit and feel of that sweet spirit :) She had so many questions about the temple and she's already planning on attending the temple when she can!!! She has the temple set as her goal!!! Keep praying for her!!!! She is amazing!!!!
That's about it for this week!!! I don't have much time, but we had so many more cool experiences :)
Here's to another 6 weeks in Brookswood!!
I'll be here for sure until May 31st!!!
Love you all so much :)
Sister Peterson
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