So it's been a wild week. We were without our car for almost 3 days, to get that bumper fixed that Sis. Pollock messed up in Zanesville last year. But we got some records done and had some good lessons with people. However, when we went to see this one investigator, his neighbor just bashed and anti-ed us like crazy, saying we were of the devil and were going to be cut down and whatever. Turns out, Jerome wasn't even interested but didn't have the backbone to say no to the missionaries. To his neighbor, we just had to end the conversation and leave, because he wouldn't even listen or let us say anything back. He was so clueless, and it was quite the test of trying to be Christ-like!
We met President and Sister Daines this week! Half the mission got together for a specialized training to see them. They are SO nice, and while we all love the Nilsens, it also felt good when we met the Daines. It was meant to be. That day we also had two meals with members, a lesson, and a meeting, so we lucked out and had someone driving us everywhere all day.
Funny story. We went to the Santillans' to do some house-cleaning and walk their dog while they were out of town. When we came back with the dog, we realized that the door had locked behind us, and we left the key inside, along with all our stuff. So after an hour, we walked to our dinner appointment (with the dog!) which thankfully was only 15 minutes away. It was funny when we showed up to dinner wearing service clothes and someone else's dog in hand! Thankfully, one of the Peterson sons was able to get ahold of Brother Santillan, and their oldest daughter had briefly stopped at home right then before leaving again, so we were driven back and were able to get back into their house! Haha.
Now for the not-so-funny story. We went on exchanges in Mt. Vernon this weekend, which was fun for the most part, and we had set up a family history booth at a town square event on 4th of July. Before wrapping up the exchange, we were all driving back from Chipotle, and I was driving our car with Sister Reed and Carter. I came to a stop sign, and when I got going again, this other car came flying up from a previous intersection and I didn't see it until it was in my face. I wrecked the front of the car, and the lady I hit called the police to do a traffic report and whatnot. It was really shocking for me and I was a mess for two days. Our car wasn't drive-able, the grill was messed up, the hood popped, and there was fluid leaking all over, so it was towed. We had to get a hold of a member to drive us the hour ride back from Mt. Vernon that afternoon. Yesterday my shin started hurting like crazy, because the impact was mainly on my side of the car, and must had gone through my right leg that was on the brake. I was almost limping around at our zone fun day today where we played softball again. The other sisters were okay.
So I have no idea when we're getting a car, but I know we can't walk our whole area due to the distance and freeways and everything, so it's been a lot of coordination with members for rides to places. It is holding back our work a bit though and there's people we just haven't gotten around to seeing that we had wanted to. It's also just really frustrating that we had JUST gotten our car fixed last week!!
But we were blessed yesterday. Steven came to our ward at 11 am, instead of going to the Lutheran church first. It was a miracle, after we put our foot down and told him we couldn't go to the 1 pm Sacrament Meeting with him anymore, and asking him why he went to two churches. It was just what he needed, because he went to priesthood for the first time and got to meet more members.
Sister Pollock though is seriously the best companion ever and I don't know what I would do without her! I know I've been blessed in several ways during this really eventful week.
Oh, and members aren't always too faithful with the "no desserts" thing... they will try to tempt us and it's kind of annoying, haha. Thank goodness we have to walk a lot so our metabolism stays up!
Love,
Sister Petersen
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