Another Transfer has come and gone! Now it's time for a new adventure! I am leaving my lovely West Salem to serve in Forest Grove!! I will be in the Council Creek ward and will be companions with Sister Alvey. Also exciting and scary news I have been called to be a Sister Training Leader! Which means my companion and I are responsible for the care of the other sisters in the zone, so we get to go on exchanges. (I might be able to go on an exchange to Vernonia, my old area!!) We also get to go to an additional training meeting with all the other Sister Training Leaders and Zone Leaders.
Needless to say I feel inadequate for the calling but I am excited for the opportunities that await me! I feel humbled that I would be trusted with stewardship over these other wonderful sisters. I am excited to learn from them and be able to minister to them.
This week Sister Runs Through and I have become OBSESSED with missionary work! Because why not? This is a once in a life time opportunity to have every waking, and sleeping moment, dedicated to the Lord's work! How cool is that? Plus as we serve we are ourselves strengthened! This is an opportunity to learn close up from the master teacher and healer himself. I want to drink in as much as possible!
When you are obsessed with something you want to be as immersed as possible. You enjoy it and find energy in it. The little things, that might be tedious to others, become fun to you, and you crave more!
This scripture in Alma 26:36-37 is an example of a missionary who has reached this obsession with the Lord's work...
"Now if this is boasting, even so will I boast; for this is my life and my light, my joy and my salvation, and my redemption from everlasting wo. Yea, blessed is the name of my God, who has been mindful of this people, who are a branch of the tree of Israel, and has been lost from its body in a strange land; yea, I say, blessed be the name of my God, who has been mindful of us, wanderers in a strange land.
Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful of every people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth. Now this is my joy, and my great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever. Amen."
It truly is a glorious work we are engaged in, and I wouldn't give it up for the world!
Thank you for all your support and prayers!
Love,
Sister Peterson
1. We were taught how to make fried rice at Zone Conference... so we made some.
2. District Pic!
3. So when we came into the room the white board was all filled out with names of a K-pop band that some of the young women of the ward love, so we decided to change it to match our obsession...
4. just cuz.
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