Motherhood

Hello all!

This week I learned how to be a mother. Well started learning, I have a feeling it is a life long pursuit. Sister Leifson is doing great! It's fun to be able to pass on my knowledge and weirdness to someone.

We had a great lesson about prayer with Ramon this week. We were also able to teach someone new! Yay! His name is Clint and he is a really sincere guy who knows now that he needs to read the Book of Mormon and pray to know if it is true. We also had a really good lesson with a less active member. We read Mosiah 10 with her and helped her to apply it to herself and she said it was exactly what she needed. I love the spirit! This work would be impossible without it. Which reminds me of one of my favorite chapters from the Book of Mormon that I read this morning Alma 26. Check it out!

We set really high goals for our companionship this week and were able to achieve them! We may not have had the greatest outward success but we did what we set out to do. Today in interviews with President Tateoka he said something like "you will face disappointment but if you are diligent you will not be disappointed in yourself." So true!

I love y'all and hope you have a fantastic week! Now I'm going to go call my family😍 bye!

Pics!

-It's Sister Nelson and Sister Everett!! (my past STLs back on vacation!)

-being weird

-Oh this is Sister Child, Sister Andersons companion.

-us again

-Us role-playing with Kevin the waterbottle

February 11, 2019: group email :P

Hello everyone!
It's time for a new adventure! The first half of the week was spent preparing for the other sisters to come and trying to cover both areas at one time. After the new sisters got here we have been full steam ahead! Sister Leifson has been doing really well. She is very willing to jump right in to missionary work. We have been doing our best to talk to everyone this week and we have met some fun people!
Sister Leifson is from Richfield Utah and comes from a family of 4 brothers and 1 sister (The opposite of me! Look at that!) I am excited to be her companion and get to teach along side her.
Carole accepted the date of March 16th to be baptized on, that is my last weekend in the mission so I'm crossing my fingers that it happens so I get to be here for her. She is so ready! We are trying to help her work up the courage and take that leap of faith. I am excited for her!
I have been doing well this week and have felt supported through all the change. A simple thought that just keeps sticking with me is that faith is not trusting and then everything works out, it is trusting even when nothing works out.
I love you all bunches! Have a wonderful week and don't forget that you are a child of God!
Sister Peterson :)
PS. It snowed.

February 4, 2019: Welp it's transfer time again🙃

Hello everyone!

Where to even begin? Well this week has been really good! We had MLC and it was very inspiring. There was a part where we talked about using music as we teach, which has been something I have done on and off throughout my mission. Music is so powerful and really does bring the spirit into teaching and high stress situations.

This week we saw some good progress in the people we are teaching. We finished the first 3 lessons with Martin and he told his fellowshiper that he is excited to start learning about the commandments! Martin and Ramon were both able to attend a baptism with us this Saturday and they had a wonderful experience and Ramon said it felt really good. We are breaking ground with Carole! She has been taught the same things over and over but now we are finally moving on to something new! We taught her the Word of Wisdom this week and she completly accepted it without question. She knows it's going to be a little hard but she knows she can and needs to do it!

Now for transfer news! I thought my fate was to just pass away quietly in my sleep but nope I guess the Lord had some different plans. Sister Anderson and I are both staying Sister Training Leaders but we are also both trainning!! Just last week Sister Anderson and I had said that we were fine being the "cool aunts" of the mission but looks like we are about to be moms!

Sister Anderson is going to pink wash Forest Grove 2nd ward and I am staying in Council Creek. We will all be sharing the apartment and the car. It's going to be a wild ride! I feel a wee bit nervous about the changes but more so I feel filled with energy and excitement!

Spiritual Thought:

"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them." -Ether 12:27

I have so many weaknesses. And the more I learn about Jesus Christ, who was our perfect example, the more evident they are in comparison. But coming unto Christ is not meant to make us feel down on ourselves, instead He can lift us up as we humble our hearts and desire to change and become more like Him.

This is an excerpt from this last week's Come Follow Me lesson. I had never thought about this scripture in this light before but it really stood out to Sister Anderson and is another great example of the power Christ has to make our weak things become strong.

"Jesus Christ and His gospel can change you. Luke quoted an ancient prophecy of Isaiah that described John the Baptist’s mission and the effect that the Savior’s coming would have: “Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth” (Luke 3:5; see also Isaiah 40:4). This is a message for all of us, including those who think they cannot change or do not need to change. If something as permanent as a mountain can be flattened, then surely the Lord can help us straighten our own crooked paths (see Luke 3:4–5). As we accept John the Baptist’s invitation to repent and change, we prepare our minds and hearts to receive Jesus Christ so that we too can “see the salvation of God” (Luke 3:6)."

I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!

Sister Peterson :)