Hey everyone,
To answer some questions, yes, we are back on the bikes this week. We share the ward with the elders, and there's some slight jealousy there because their area has more "normal" houses and apartments, while we have all the nice big new ones. We live in our apartment, and what's funny is that it's exactly like the Westerville apartment I was just in, so it feels like home!
We're realizing that the most effective finding we do may be in serving others. We've also been getting service opportunities from ward members so we can fill our unproductive hours. We've found a couple potential investigators while tracting, but sometimes tracting is kind of a joke here. It's really forced me to be bolder and more authoritative with my door approach, because since everyone's more established here, I have to look like I know what I'm talking about and be somewhat impressive. I've never been fearful on doorsteps, but it's still cool to see how much more experienced I feel after my time in Westerville. How nice.
My district here is awesome and I've been reunited with my MTC companion, Sister Mathis!! It's been fun. Sister McCarty and I are still having a blast together, it's nice to be companions with someone who is on the same page as you are. The ward members here are awesome and I absolutely love everyone I've been meeting. There's a couple non-member families that love the missionaries as well who are incredible; one of them includes a 21 year old YSA who goes to the institute at OSU sometimes, and her dad is from Ireland so he has a cool accent (we are not teaching them but they know a lot of members and we feel that their conversion process will be on their own terms). The other family is a lady with an adopted high-school daughter, but she's convinced that she'll die a Catholic (we'll see).
We had a neat experience with one of the members on Thursday. We were tracting on a warm afternoon and it just wasn't working. We were feeling not-so-great and planned to swing by Sister Prisbery's house for a restroom/water stop. As we headed back to the car, Sister Prisbery pulled up next to us and asked if we would like to come over and have some fruit and water. She didn't even know that we were about to head over. At her home, she told us that when she saw us, she saw us as the Lord's servants doing His work. Then she had this strong impression to invite us over right then, and turned back around to talk to us. It's cool to see how real the Spirit is.
Women's Conference was pretty good (but still wayyyy too much singing!!!) and I loved what President Uchtdorf said about discipleship, and that it's something that should lift us up and bring us joy, and not burden us. I loved that. If we're truly trying to follow Christ, we should feel good and enjoy our day-to-day lives.
Last night we went to a mission home open house and brought a couple recent converts with us. It was great because I saw a lot of mission friends, and also saw Sister Malloy. Her and her new companion Sister Corbett brought Tony and Kali, and it was so awesome to see Tony!! He was so excited that I was there and he told me that he received the Aaronic priesthood yesterday! It was so good to see that he's been doing really well.
Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Petersen
(picture attached- Sister McCarty and I. Sorry I haven't taken any other pictures yet!!!)
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