Hey everyone!
I was emergency transferred this week to Westerville, which is in the central area of the mission, in between Columbus, Powell, Dublin, and New Albany. One of our areas is actually in Columbus. Compared to Zanesville, it's more upscale and can be described as a sprawling suburb. I really love it. I don't have my address yet (just haven't looked at it or figured it out), so sorry about that, but you can keep sending mail to the mission office (packages have to be first class or priority though to be forwarded). The mission office is only like 10-15 minutes away so mail can be forwarded here pretty quick.
Monday night at 7:30 pm we got the call from President that Sis. King was going home the next day and that we both needed to pack everything up and be at the mission office at 9 am the next morning. It was stressful packing up so quickly, especially since our area was going to be temporarily shut down so the apartment had to be spotless.
Tuesday morning I met my new companion at the mission office, Sister Baldridge! She's from Murray, UT and has been out for 11 months. We get along great. A week and a half earlier, her companion had to go home for medical stuff, so she was put in a trio companionship with the Westerville 2nd ward sisters. It worked out pretty well, because then we got to get put together and go back to just the Westerville 1 area. We have a nice apartment complex too... it has a gym!! I was super excited about that, haha, and I've been able to run on the treadmill every morning!
Since President and Sister Nilsen were running late, we had to run over to the mission home and it was a quick drop-off for Sister King. Sister Baldridge and I then left in the car we had in Zanesville, and it's weird because I also still have the Zanesville phone, so we have two phones right now for two different areas. There were members calling me about dinner appointments there, and I had to say, "Um... we're not in Zanesville anymore..." We literally disappeared overnight. Thankfully though the elders in that ward are actually going to take our area now.
This week has been a COMPLETE 180 degree turn on my mission. It's so great. We're out all day and doing the work, and I absolutely love it here. I've been drinking out of a fire hose this week, trying to take in all new info, especially since there's a lot more investigators and things going on out here. And Sis. Baldridge has only been in the area for a couple weeks, so we've been figuring out a lot together.
Had a couple lessons this week. I met Carmen, who has two children and we're going to set her up for a plan towards baptism this week. We got Linda to church, another investigator, who we are also going to try and set up a date for. It's funny, because she feels like she needs to "bear her testimony to the Church" before getting baptized.
We've focused a lot on finding, and found 3 new investigators. On Saturday when we were going to see a potential, we said hi to this guy, and then he came back and stopped us to give us a card advertising his upcoming book he wrote. We exchanged cards with him, giving him a mormon.org card, and started telling him about what we do, and explained the Book of Mormon. He thought it was so cool that Christ came to America. He then said he had actually been praying while walking over there and then felt impressed to stop us and give us a card for his book. His name is Theophilus, and we set up a return appointment to teach him more. He's so cool.
We had a specialized training this week, and it was my new zone meeting with my old zone, because both zones are in the same stake (it's a HUGE stake geographically). It was crazy to see my old zone, and friends like Sister Burton and Sister Pollock! I do miss my first zone, and I miss some of the people in Zanesville, but otherwise I was fine with packing up my bags and leaving. I just really love my new area. Also, it has the Inniswood Metro Gardens here (google it), so we'll go there one day. It's so beautiful around here.
Being a missionary is great. I've been tired a lot, but it feels good to hit the pillow each night knowing that I worked hard that day. I also attached pictures from this week, with the redheads in the OCM at training (saw Sis Mathis again!), and with Sister Baldridge. I'll send more this next week of the area.
GO BUCKEYES! (The madness is increasingly setting in)
Love,
Sister Petersen
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