Hey everyone,
Last week I reached my halfway point on my mission, and it was even on a Wednesday, haha. As I thought about my mission so far, I understand how some people can be really prideful about their missions, because you learn a lot and go through a lot! And if the winter here doesn't kill me off, I'm feeling pretty good about the rest of my mission!
I went on an exchange with one of the Sister Training Leaders this week in Worthington. It's been a while since I've seen lower-income housing, haha. We've been struggling with filling in our slow hours in Lewis Center, and the exchange didn't give me a lot of ideas. We just simply don't have any old people in Lewis Center to visit! And there's only one single lady in the entire ward! Anyways I'll stop complaining. However, the exchange helped me refocus a lot, because I've honestly felt very aimless since coming to Lewis Center. I've realized that I don't trust in the Lord enough and don't pay attention to what the Spirit tells me as much as I should. So when we're wondering, "What the heck are we supposed to do right now aside from tracting for 10 hours?!?" I need to be more willing to give in to the Lord's will of what we should be doing and where.
Though President Daines told us to avoid tracting when we can, we just had to go back to tracting each day for a set amount of time, because right now it's all we have when we're not seeing members. However, we saw some miracles happen because of it. When we had a lesson fall through with Lenn's on Saturday, we were with Todd, a high school senior who came for the lesson. He was like, well should we go knock some doors? Sister McCarty and I were a little reluctant because it was Saturday morning and most people don't answer their doors, but we tracted for about an hour. Todd was inspired, because out of the 4 people we talked to, 2 of them were interested and we're coming back to teach them this week.
We've also been teaching this one guy, Dan, who lives with his adult son Wes. Dan is a pretty good guy, and was a potential investigator, but when we saw him outside one day he agreed to learn more about the Book of Mormon. His son Wes though is one strange cookie. He'll bring up all these random topics and just go off, but he is reading the Book of Mormon to examine and research it for himself. So who knows, maybe he'll feel something!
Our crazy story of the week happened on Friday night at 8 pm. We had planned to go to Worthington Arms, the random trailer park way out in the corner of our area, to visit some less-actives. Bad idea. A minute after we left the car, we witnessed a drug deal. A few teenagers went up to a trailer, knocked on the window, a hand came out, and there was an exchange and the teenagers walked away. Then some other teenagers were making some comments as we walked by (we're pretty well known up there) and said some snarky things about Christians as they were smoking and who knows what else. We booked it out of there shortly after, cutting through people's yards so we could avoid them, haha.
Sorry I didn't take any pictures this week! We went to OSU today for a zone activity, and played soccer by the football stadium and then hung out at the institute building. And when we were out on campus, I had left my bag with my camera in the institute building.
It's supposed to snow by the end of the week, but before then, it will be in the 20s and 30s. That should be quite the adventure since we're on bikes this week. No one instructs the missionaries on bike safety or what to do in bad weather, so we kind of just wing it and see how we feel about the situation. It will be an eventful winter.
Love,
Sister Petersen
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