Steadfast

Whoa.

This week.

Seriously. Miracles all over the place. Kyanna was baptized. And then confirmed on Sunday. Her aunt and uncle are miembros. They bring her to church and she sits with her cousins and goes to primary and has all her primary friends now and we don´t even really talk to her anymore. It makes me so happy to know that even when we leave she´s gonna be ok. Kind of sad that we don´t really talk to her that much but happy that she´s part of the branch. 

I was reading in Alma today about the people right after the whole thing with Nehor & how they started getting swayed and there were a lot of faithful members of the church that left (Alma 1:22-25). How important it is to be STEADFAST and IMMOVABLE. It made me think a lot about last conference how I felt like a lot of the talks were about being prepared and protecting ourselves from the hard things and hard times to come. We´ve gotta be reading and praying and protecting ourselves from Satan. We have to protect ourselves and our families by reading and praying together everyday. It´s not enough to be super casual about being a member of the church. 

Victor and Raquel are this couple that we taught in the past. I was so sad when we dropped them. This week when we were passing by, Raquel was like, "Hey I have something to show you!" It was a little weird because Raquel actually kind of hated us. So I was confused why she seemed so excited to talk to us. 

She showed us pictures of two of her kids that the elders in the other branch baptized. It´s a little bit confusing and their story is crazy, but they have two houses. She wouldn´t give us the address to her other house because she didn´t want the missionaries to come. But the elders found her family. The two kids that live in her other house got baptized. And she told us that she can see a difference in her boys and wants to come to church! She and her daughter are excited about the lessons and we get to teach her! So excited. 

God´s got it all figured out.

Love you guys. 

Hermana Peterson

Boating

Alright, this week I´ve been thinking a lot about being yoked with Christ and the Gospel and as companions (Matt 11:28-30).

I came up with an analogy that is a little more modern that I love. 

Life is life tubing. It´s way fun. It´s a little bumpy. Sometimes it´s hard to hold on and our arms and hands get a little sore. 

It´s not as fun to ride with people that get thrown off a lot, or don´t like to go fast. You have to stop a lot, brush them off and get them back on the tube.

Then you have those people that hold you on when you go out over the wake and help you out. 

And then you have the feet draggers who drag their feet in the water because they want to go slower and they are scared. 

And last you have the crazies who like to go crazy fast and do dumb things and crash hard core. When you ride with them you get water in your nose, loose your swim shorts and have a head-ache. 

It´s basically the same with life. We want to be the companion or spouse or friend that helps out when our friends are out over the wake and struggling to hold on. We don´t want to be the feet draggers that complain and make the ride not as fun. We don´t want to be a burden or bad-example and help our friends crash. And when we are strong in the gospel, it´s so much easier to hold on. We all have moments when we are being whipped around and out on our side of the wake and it´s super hard to hold on, but with good friends, spouses or companions, they hold us on, tell the driver to let up and keep laughing. 

Super random. Not sure if that makes any sense. No one be offended if in real life you're a feet dragger or don´t like going fast or fall off easy.  Hahaha!

Anyway. It´s super important to have good friends and to be a good friend. I was reading in Mosiah about Abinadi and King Noah this week. I kind of feel bad for King Noah a little bit because to me it seemed like he didn´t really want to kill Abinadi at first, but because he had bad priest friends who encouraged him to kill Abinadi, eventually he crashed and burned. (Mosiah 17:11-12)

Love you guys like crazy. Have the best week ever. Be good people. Read your scriptures. Say your prayers. 

Hermana Peterson

Grapefruit and Doves

Fam!!!!

At the beginning of my mission, one of the missionaries told me not to try a mango for the first time at a members house. Wasn´t really sure why. But I totally understand now. They are a little weird and SUPER messy. Ha ha I´m sticky with dried mangoes. 

We had transfers this week! I´m staying here in Reconquista! SO excited. I love it here. The members are so great. Our rama is growing and doing so good and the members are way excited about missionary work. My new companion is Hermana Coronel. She is from Ecuador. She´s a cutie bug. It was really sad to be separated de Hermana Melton but I´m way excited about this next transfer. Time is FLYING. It´s already Febrero. WHoa. 

This week we went to the beach! SO pretty. We had to go out to Corrientes to do some paper work for mi companera and the officina is right there on the edge of a river. LOVE IT. 

Some Spanish mess ups that happened before Hermana Melton left:

We were talking to the Ice Cream man about the baptism of Jesus Christ and she was talking about how the espiritu santo decended. Dove in Spanish is Paloma. But instead she said Pomelo, which is Grapefruit. The spirit descended like a grapefruit :)

We were teaching about Joseph Smith receiving the priesthood from Peter, James and John or Pedro, Santiago y Juan. For some reason I forgot how to say Peter and said Pablo. Pablo, Santiago y Juan. Minutes later, we met three hombres and were talking to them, asked them what their names were- Pablo, Juan... and Domingo but before he got to Domingo we both started laughing. 

Bueno, I love you all!! It sounds like you are all doing so good!! I love hearing from you all! Tell Abi that I need to hear from her!!!! I´m seriously the most blessed person in the entire world. I have the best family and friends. I´m so grateful that my family is forever. 

Hermana Peterson