Permiso

Hey!!!!

 

I seriously love being a missionary.

 

This week at church, Isidora came all by herself and she brought her daughter and her 3 nietos. After church the members were SO GREAT. They were all talking to them, inviting them to the Relief Society activity, and the Young Women were all holding the baby... haha, YW are the same in the United States and Argentina. I was so proud.

 

Vicenta said the closing prayer this week in one of our lessons! She always has a ton of verguenza to do it and she has a hard time remembering how to do it.We explained to her a bunch of times and helped her remember and when she finally agreed to say it and did it perfectly I was seriously SO HAPPY. The things we get excited about.

 

There´s this word in Spanish. "Permiso." It means permission. Basically if you say permiso before you do something you can do whatever you want. I wish I could explain this concept to you a little better because it´s hilarious. It´s like inviting yourself to do something. For example, if you are standing at a fence and talking to someone and you want to open the door, you just say permiso and walk in without asking.

 

We have this adorable lady in our ward that reminds me of Grandma Peterson and whenever we eat at her house she always serves us up a ton of food. Then when we are almost done with our plate she will say, "Do you want more?" And before we can say anything she says, "Permiso" and puts a ton more food on our plate.

 

Love you guys so much!!!!

Hermana Peterson

 

Love You All!!!

Family!!!! I love you guys. Hope ya know that.

I´m scared to say this, because I don't wanna get jinxed now, but my companion and I are experts at baby distracting now. We had a ton of lessons where there were crying/crazy babies this week. One of us starts talking and the other immediately starts baby distracting until it´s time to switch. 

I feel like every missionary understands this, but so many times as soon as we start talking about Joseph Smith or the first vision SOMETHING happens. Someone drives by playing loud music, dogs start going crazy, someone knocks on the door, the phone rings... and the list goes on. But this week was the week of crying babies.   

We are teaching this lady, Vicenta. She´s so chill. The first time we met her and invited her to church she agreed to come and she actually did!! 

I´m so grateful to know how to read. She can´t read anything and I never even realized that there are a lot of basic things that you can´t do if you can´t read. For example, she couldn´t tell what bus to get on to go home. Or which sign was the bus stop and which was the street sign. I´m so excited for her and for Isidora because the church and the Relief Society will help them both out a lot. 

I love this scripture in D&C 123:13. It´s a new favorite! Look it up!

Don´t forget to pray for missionary experiences!!

Love you bunches.

Besos!

Hermana Peterson    

 

Plans

Family!!!

Izidora got baptized and confirmada this weekend! It was absolutely beautiful. When she got el don del espiritu santo she came back to sit down and was crying and was just like, "I feel so relieved." 

Of course, we were running around like crazy to get things worked out for the baptism like normal. I think it´s a pretty standard rule that you shouldn´t leave things cooking in the oven while you´re gone. It´s also pretty standard to not leave the font going while you're out working. Haha... we didn´t have a ton of time this week because of Mundial! So we had both the brownies for the baptism and the font going at the same time in two different places with the eternal investigator in the middle of the two that talks a TON. Luckily, the font didn´t overflow. BUT, we didn´t have brownies at the baptism...:)

Argentina is a little depressed. This week we were encarceladas and couldn´t leave the apartment for forever. But, we had on our Argentina Jerseys and our neighbor Sergio was keeping us updated. Por sus gritos. 

I don´t have a ton of time so I´m just gonna copy this thought from my study journal this week. Hopefully it makes sense cuz I won´t have time to go back and help you understand what I was talking about Haha. 

Alma 47:13. Lehonti. Kills me. It´s so important to stay firm. To be steadfast and immovable. (Mosiah 5:15). Lehonti had good intentions when he fled to the mountains but when Amalickiah got there he couldn´t resist the temptation. I feel like as the reader we are like, "Lehonti! What the heck?! What are you doing man?!" And it´s like that in life too. People are watching us and can see danger we can´t.  How nice it would have been if Lehonti had talked to some people about his decision before, but instead, in that same night, in a split second, he made the worst decision of his life. He made a plan without taking it to the Lord or talking to anyone else about it. Pres. Heyman was ALL about plans. And, obviously, the most important part about making plans is having the Lord´s help to make them and then to have his approval. 

No one make any crazy life changing plans without talking ém to the Lord first. Don´t be dumb like Lehonti. 

Also, I just feel like I should put this in here too. Everything in the church goes back to the Book of Mormon and the Prophet Smith. If you have doubts or a problem with a commandment, PRAY to know if the Book of Mormon is true and then look in the scriptures for an answer. (PMG chapter 5) 

Love you all!!!!!

Besos!

Hermana Peterson

When There's Love at Home

Fabricio and Marcela got married this week!!! It´s super weird. All you do is go into this old building, sign some papers, say I do and you're married. How hard is that?!? It kind of surprises me that more people don´t just get married here. They were super cute. We are way excited for Fabricio´s baptism this Saturday!

Izidora is adorable. She told us this week that she´s excited to be baptized because she wants to be clean from all her sins and wants to start over. It´s so cool when people really understand about baptism. Who doesn´t want to be completely clean?? 

She can´t read, but she always looks at the pictures in the folletos and at the beginning of the Book of Mormon and prays. She´s a champ. She´s getting baptized this Saturday too with Fabricio!

It´s cool that when we walk into people´s homes, we really can tell if the spirit is there or if someone is a member or not. We have lunch with this member family and every time we go, the spirit is so strong in their home. It´s a really humble house, but we feel more comfortable there than most of the homes we teach in. 

Our homes are the only other places on earth that can compare to the temples. And when we are living the Gospel of Jesus Cristo it´s obvious. That´s one thing that is so easy to see as a missionary. We are in hundreds of different homes, but the ones that always really feel like "home" are the homes of members where the spirit is present. I´m so grateful for family and that my home really is a refuge from the world.

I love you all!!!!

Hermana Peterson

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