IT'S SNOWING!!!

Hey everyone, 

So as you may have seen on the news, it's snowing here a ton already. There were snow flurries the past few days, but it didn't stick and accumulate until last night. We woke up this morning with quite the surprise! We were VERY lucky to get the car back yesterday right before it hit. Unfortunately, after a week of tracting every day and biking in freezing temperatures, I got totally sick yesterday, for the first time on my mission. This is probably going to be the longest winter of my life. 

The one highlight from the first half of the week we taught Laura, our new investigator from Mexico. For Sister McCarty and I, it was one of the most "Preach My Gospel" perfect lessons we've taught on our missions, and Laura totally felt the Spirit and wants to keep reading the Book of Mormon. We have another lesson with her tomorrow night.

The big news of the week is that STEVEN GOT BAPTIZED!!!!! I got to go back to Westerville and be there, and give the talk on baptism. No one in the ward knew I was coming, and Steven didn't either, so when he saw me he jumped!! Haha. After he was baptized, he bore a powerful testimony of the Spirit and the Book of Mormon. He's very spiritually in-tune, and he said how the Spirit was what brought him to church, and that the Spirit in the missionaries had a huge impact on him. He's definitely matured and grown in the gospel a lot since I first met him, the change was incredible. It was so rewarding to see him get baptized, especially since I was the missionary who taught him the most. Afterwards he thanked me for my patience in working with him and that of the missionaries he's met, he would never forget me. How tender!

Have a great week!

Love, Sister Petersen

Pictures:

#1: Steven's baptism!

#2: Us and the New Albany sisters, Sister McCarty and I look kind of similar to Sister Ogletree and Sister Russ, haha.

#3: Me with one of my favorite Westerville members

#4: Biking, cold, and not too happy....

#5: Messing around with giant stuffed animals at a dinner appointment with the kids

#6: Another day of biking... and it got colder....