Washington is Awesome

Family!!!

Washington is awesome. So pretty. I love it. It's perfect.

My companion is awesome. She's only been out for 7 weeks so she's pretty new too. We are figuring it out together. They combined missions and split them and added stuff and missionaries are here from other missions because the Vancouver Mission is brand new, so it's all a little crazy but way fun!! They didn't have enough trainers for all the new missionaries so there are two girls in our zone that are training themselves. So I'm feeling pretty lucky, haha.

Part of one of the training activities this week was to find someone to commit to baptism by Sunday. Soooo. We prayed super hard.

Friday was rough because everyone fell through or wasn't interested and we had 0 return appointments.

Saturday. Miracle day. We set all our goals for the day and prayed that we would accomplish all our goals and find someone to commit to a baptism date. I learned a ton about the power of SPECIFIC prayers.

The elders called us and said that they found a girl that might be interested, so we stopped by. She had to leave to go to work, but her sister and her cousin were home and they wanted to listen. GOLDEN. This girl, I'm telling you, is so ready for the gospel. Andrea. She's 15. She's the cutest. SHE CHECKED THE BOOK OF MORMON OUT OF THE LIBRARY. Wait. Remember how she is 15??!??? We showed the Book of Mormon to her and she was like, "oh, I've read that. I liked it but I had to return it to the library. IT JUST STOOD OUT TO ME." ok. We are probably a little excited about that. She loves it. She was going to come to church yesterday but then ended up not being able to come. BUT. She and her cousin committed to be baptized August 17!!!

Also. We prayed that Mara's husband would be home when we stopped by. She is an investigator who was about to get baptized but her husband doesn't want her to so she hasn't yet. We wanted to be able to teach him because he is never home or around when the missionaries come. So ya. We prayed that he would be home. He was totally home... but he was ASLEEP. Very funny. Now we know. haha

Guys. Be specific in your prayers!

Spanish is great. Most the lessons we teach are actually in English because people either want to learn English, speak both Spanish and English or their kids speak English. We are serving in a Spanish branch. There are 12 of us in the branch. TWELVE. Crazy, I know. The members are seriously sooo good to us. They feed us dinner every night. It's so hard for me to accept food from them because most of them really can't afford it, but every week, they sign up to feed us. SWEETEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

Also, cutest thing ever. The stake primary kids put together bags of letters and treats and notebooks and sticky notes and pens and toothpaste and all kinds of fun things for us. SO CUTE. I was dying.

Also, in church I had to bear my testimony in Spanish. HA! The building is exactly like our old stake center in the 3rd ward so I felt right at home.

We live at a members house. The Bonnevilles. Nicest people ever. When we were driving to their house for the very first time we got lost. We needed to back up, so I got out of the car to tell the other missionaries that were following us to back up and there was a dog barking at me. When I got back in the car, I told my companion how I'm secretly really scared of dogs and how I'm so glad that wasn't the house we were living at.

Haha. Don't worry. The Bonnevilles have three dogs. But you know what the worst part is. They are super nice. And they love us. And they always come sit right in front of my feet for me to pet them. So who knows. Maybe I will become a dog lover. Hasn't happened yet. But it totally could.

K I love you guys a ton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have the best week ever!!!!

Meg

Hermana Peterson & Hermana Patton