Hello Family,
So things are looking up around here. I have found that the days that seem
to be my very lowest, the days Satan is working on me the hardest are the days
that as I hold on, things break through. Sister S and I are finally fine. We
aren't best friends or anything, but we are fine companions. I think it was a
lot that she is new, and so she was adjusting to missionary life. Now that she
sees the way that things work, she is trying to help me carry the load. For the
first time (I think) she finally sees everything that I am constantly thinking
about and working on to help the work and our investigators. We talked about it
this past week, and there is a lot less tension in the relationship.
I am still learning myself how to handle the daily stresses that come with
missionary work, but I am working my hardest to rely on the Lord, and with Him
get through the trials of each day. I know that it is the Holy Ghost that is the
real teacher, and am just focusing on keeping the Spirit with me, and it will
all work out. In my email back from President how training is going, I had told
him how stressful it is, and he told me that I need to just concentrate on being
a good missionary, not a perfect trainer, or whatever else I worry about, but
just to be the best missionary I can possibly be. As I focus on that, things are
coming together. I can't control our inv. or my companion, or the situations
that come up, but I can control myself. I am just so grateful for all the
support I have from all the people who love me, at home and out here. We were at
our investigator's house, John (he has a problem with the Book of Mormon) but as I closed
our lesson with a prayer, I asked that our families would be safe as they are
far away from all of us who were in the room. After the prayer, he said "Sister
Peterson, your family is not far away!" -I thought, I know they aren't across
the whole United States (he's from Florida) but Utah is still far! and as I gave
him a confused look he replied, "Your family is here, all around you." Meaning
the people I am teaching and have grown to love, the people in the ward, and
those people who I am around daily. I feel like I constantly learn more from my
investigators than they learn from me. It is a true testimony that though I am here doing
God's work, He has not left me alone, but is extremely mindful of me, and what I
also need. Because little did John know, but that pierced my heart, because it
is true. :)
Ok... about the baptism with Sara this weekend. Yesterday she brought this
boy to church with her, and last night when we went over for our lesson, he was
there again cooking in her kitchen. So when we first get there she says to us
that she has been thinking about it and wants to wait to be baptized until THE
SPRING! She said that she feels too stressed right now, and then it will be
thanksgiving, and then finals and so she just thinks the spring will be good! :(
We talked it out and I asked if she had received that answer in prayer, and so
she said she will pray about it and tell us her answer on Wednesday! :( But as
we kept talking to her, it comes out that this boy is her boyfriend and he has
no interest in the church, and she said that they are now looking for a church
that they BOTH want to go to!!! Mind you she has only been dating this boy for 2
days!! :(Stupid boys ruin everything!) The most ridiculous part about it is that
when we taught her like the 2nd time she was having boy troubles with another
guy and she said she prayed about it and felt like she shouldn't have a
boyfriend right now! And then this!! Satan is working on her, so we just keep
praying, because we have done all we can do. Grrrr. So we'll see. I'll let you
know!
Anyhow that's all for this week! We have been meeting some amazing prepared
people! I'll update you next week!
I love you all! thanks for all the support from those I love!
xoxoxo-Sister P.
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