Brief Review of the Week

As you can imagine with 8 1/2 weeks to go, most of our Skype session was spent talking with Whitney about plans for returning to college and her return home.  We had some fun questions such as "What's the worst/best thing you've been served to eat?" and "What was your worst/best door knock experience?" She reminded us of the man who fainted face first right in front of them after opening the door -- that was right at the start of her mission!  She looked and sounded great!

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Hey everyone, 

Since I got to Skype home yesterday for a good amount of time, I'm just going to be brief in listing off what happened the past week. We've been out working and trying to find people to teach obviously, but in other news it's been a really good week. We me this lady named Barbara on the street, and though she wasn't interested in learning, she called us right away for us to do some free manual labor, haha. So on Wednesday on Saturday we went over and did some of the most random yard work I've done on my mission. But we think it's softening her heart towards us a lot and so we'll see. Missionary work tends to be a very slow process, we also taught two less-actives this week, one's a single mom and the other is a 22 year old guy. We've been making some progress with Amy though, the single mom. 

Zone conference was this week and it was awesome. I actually had fun for once doing some role-plays with other missionaries, haha! But what was really good is that President Daines discussed with us the importance of understanding the Atonement more and digging deep through all the layers of it. There's a lot of different powers of the Atonement, like cleansing, healing, redeeming, sanctifying, etc. What I liked the most is how we talked about the ENNOBLING power of the Atonement. Of course there's the enabling power that helps us move past our own abilities and strengths, but the ennobling power is what helps us to eventually become NOBLE. We were sent to Earth to do something great and to become something great. My biggest takeaway from zone conference is to remember to look UPWARD and FORWARD to what we can become. Because we all have so much potential. 

Love you! Have a great week!

Sister Petersen