Watch This Video!

I love you all. 

https://www.lds.org/training/wwlt/2013/hastening/members-and-missionaries?lang=eng

Hey, Check out this clip!!!! I love it!! We watched this in a conferencia that we had this last week and I absolutely love it.

Pray for missionary opportunities every day! As a family and individualmente!  

We had a talent show this week in the branch. SO FUN. Every one participated! I´m in love with our branch. My favorite little girls danced and sang. I was dying of cuteness. And us four hermanas changed up the words to this song that they love here. And then the branch made pastafrola. SO HEAVENLY.

Have an awesome week!

Mucho Amor!!

Hermana Peterson

Be Like a Little Child

This week was really great. We´ve been putting a lot more emphasis on Menos Activos and retention as a mission so it´s definitely been a little different with some new rules and goals and stuff, but I love it. 

Our branch wants to be a ward so badly. They are the most amazing members ever and are working so hard. (Something Sarah said last week) I LOVED how she talked about her Mission president saying that it wasn´t HIS prayers and faith but the prayers and faith of his stake that helped him get better. I totally felt that way this week. We have been having a lot of success with menos activos but I know it´s because of the effort of everyone here in the branch. Because of all their prayers and visits and fasts and meetings and studying. We´ve got a couple returned missionaries that are coming home now that are gonna help out a ton in the branch! 

After we get baptized we have to perseverar hasta el fin! You can´t just stop right there and think everything is done. If you aren´t going to church, get back to church! Repent! You can´t be fully repented or clean until you participate of the sacrament. Nothing unclean can be in the presence of God.   

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY. I love being a representative of Jesus Christ. One of my favorite things in the world is teaching or talking to little kids. We were walking away from a lesson with these adorable children and they waved and yelled goodbye to us until we couldn´t see them anymore. They were jumping up and down and wanted us to wave at them for so long. I can´t help but think about His teachings to be like the little children. And when I see Him again, I´m probably gonna be jumping up and down like that too. :)

I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Have an awesome week!!!

Remember who you are!

Hermana Peterson

Waste and Wear Out Your Life

HAPPY DAUGHTERS DAY!!!

Cool! Yesterday was Daughters Day for our family & "Dia del Nino" [Children's Day] in Argentina. We didn´t even plan that! haha! But, they also have a holiday for just about everything here. My companion and I made heart shaped cookies to celebrate. Keeping the Peterson tradition alive... Argentina style.

We always invite the investigator to say the closing prayer in lessons. Fabricio has had a TON of lessons so he totally knows the drill. This week we had our first lesson with him as a member. When we asked if he or his wife wanted to say the closing prayer he put his hands up and was like, "Ya me bautice" or "I´m baptized now!" hahaha! They have some friends and family they are going to bring to the next lesson so maybe we will have someone to say the prayer then. :)

This week we went to visit a family menos activo [less active] and, I´m not gonna lie, I walked away from their house super sad. They told us that they just didn´t want the responsibilities that come with church attendance or to DO anything: Scripture study, FHE, church, nothing. The mom felt like the church requires too much. Just that morning I was reading the talk from Pres. Uchtdorf, Come Join with Us. 

He says, "We do not require anything, but the Lord asks that we consecrate all." And it reminds me of a quote from Joseph Smith that says, "A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has the power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation."

I wish I could quote that whole talk for you because it is SO GOOD. So maybe you can read it this week!!! Ya? 

And also, we are focusing on family history a ton these days. I know that everyone feels like there isn´t missionary work to do in Utah... but there is! Also, don´t forget that family history is the same work= Missionary work for the other side!

D&C 123:13, "Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them." Waste and wear out your life sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ! We are so blessed to have it!!!! 

Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

I miss you tons

I'm so grateful for you guys

Mucho amor,

Hermana Megan Peterson

Foto:

Selfie with Daughter's Day cookies  

"So ganster you can find us bakin' cookies at night..."

[technical difficulties- sadly, I can't load this year's Daughter's Day selfie] Sooo-

 

Last Year's Daughter's Day Selfie :)

& ...a bonus pic...

Daughter's Day 2006  :)

Very Good!

Fabricio got baptized this week!! He has demasiado verguenza so he didn´t want anyone there at his baptism to see. So it was a VIP baptism. Just the people that were necessary to hacerlo were there. And guess who he wanted to baptize him. The abuelo in the branch that is SO OLD. Hilarious. He didn´t want anyone else to do it. Only the abuelo. Haha! Apparently they are BFFs. We asked him how he felt after the baptism and he said, "Very good." In English. hahaha! That kid.

Our Sunday School class was SO HOT this week. At the end of the class one of the guys finally turned on the fans. An investigator that came to church for the first time this week was asked to say the closing prayer and said, "Thank you so much for the air." We were cracking up. He definitely understands the concept that we say the things of our heart.

At the baptism on Saturday, there were HUNDREDS of little children. And while we were waiting for the people to change the rama was singing some hymns. Justo, the first hymn we start singing is Love At Home. There were children screaming, running up on the stand, car alarms going off right outside, moms yelling at their children and this super loud toy going off the entire song. I was dying. That song. Classic.

Sunset- You can´t tell very well in the pic. Argentine sunsets are my new obsession. Right after the Book of Mormon, of course. ;)

Isidora, her daughter and her nietos at the Relief Society Activity.