Thanksgiving Week

Hey everyone, 

Thanksgiving was actually pretty nice as a missionary! The day before we had our dinner appointment that was combined with a pie party with other ward members. On Thursday, it snowed a little in the morning so we headed out later (and what missionary goes tracting on Thanksgiving morning?!). We had our dinner in the afternoon at a member's home, and the food was really good though I'm not a Thanksgiving dinner person at all. Later they dropped us off at a former investigator's house for another get-together, and we didn't eat anything there but were sent home with 3 take-out boxes of food. The former investigator was AWESOME and talked to all her friends about who we are and what we did; we didn't have to do anything but show up! We did her dishes though (because there was a TON), and that amazed everyone there. We also did dishes at the Sorensens (the member family we ate with earlier), so it felt like we did a million dishes that day. But that's ok, it was a great day! Mo, the former investigator, drove us home afterwards in her friend's Mini Cooper. It was my first time riding in one, and I still really want one of those cars some day, haha. 

We did a lot of biking this week, and it wasn't as cold this week but still in the 30s and 40s. The weather is so weird, yesterday it was over 60 degrees and today it's back down to 37. But it's December now so I legitimately want snow, we're actually hoping it comes again this week!!

We had a specialized training this week about the "He is the Gift" Christmas initiative. If you haven't heard of it yet, go to christmas.mormon.org, and watch the video! It's really good! Also, for those who get the Ensign magazine, use those pass-along cards that are attached to this month's issue!! Sister McCarty and I got 250 of those, and the goal is to talk to 10 people every day about it. We hit our goal on Saturday from knocking doors, so that was a good start!

As a mission now, we are also doing 3 hours of family history each week. Sister McCarty and I went on Family Search and we were like, we have NO idea what we're doing..... (and I took two Sunday school family history classes at BYU.... how embarrassing...). So we're winging it. BUT, I found out that I've descended from several King Henry's of England, along with other royalty going back to Denmark, Normandy, Norway, Finland, and even Turkey in the first century (and that was just in one family line). It's cool stuff. 

In other good news, OSU beat Michigan on Saturday (go Bucks!). The bad news is that we had NOTHING to do that afternoon! However, before having nothing to do, we finally taught Lenn's again! Plan of Salvation.... good stuff.... we extended baptism and he said he was thinking of getting baptized soon. We just need to get him directed to being baptized in our church, and not by his current pastor haha. 

Lewis Center is quite the place. In search of things to do, we biked to the township hall as recommended by a member to ask for service opportunities in the community. The lady at the front desk said there were none around. What kind of town is this?!

Have a great week!

Sister Petersen

 

PS: We made gingerbread houses today at a district activity!