So, I just realized that in my subject from last weeks e-mail, I said that it was transfer 4. But it's transfer 5. I wish it was transfer 4. Then I would have more time. Yesterday was 7 months from when I entered the MTC, and I don't think time has ever gone so fast. It always seems that time goes slow when you want things to be over, and fast when you want it to last. You just have to make the most of every single moment that you are given.
We got our first snow on Saturday, so I got to break out the winter boots and slosh around. A lot of people kept asking if we brought the snow with us, but unfortunately, we had to tell them no. It didn't really stay though. Just on the tops of the mountains, so not super far from where I live, but far enough. The flakes were enormous at one point though. It was super fun.
N is doing amazing! He is going to get the Aaronic Priesthood on Sunday. He would have gotten it yesterday, but yesterday was stake conference. He is so ready and so prepared for all of this, it's crazy. We've started teaching him the new member lessons, because he doesn't have home teachers yet (they are in the middle of calling a new elder's quorum president, so there isn't anyone to assign him home teachers yet) and he just soaks it all up. He honestly just teaches himself, and I am lucky enough to be a witness to the process.
It was a really really slow week for teaching. 3 total lessons, and one of those was a new investigator we found Saturday night. Everyone seems to be sick or super busy with work, or just not home. It ends up meaning that we do a ton of finding, which can be hard at times, especially when no one is home. But it all works out in the end. We do our best, but we have to allow others to make their choices as well. And sometimes those choices hurt. But you just have to shrug them off and keep moving. Be a duck. :)
I am super excited for this coming week. On Friday, all of the missionaries outside of the lower mainland are going to Richmond for a multi-zone conference, and Elder Paul V Johnson of the Quorum of the Seventy is coming. The lower mainland missionaries will meet with him on
Monday, but we travel on Thursday, meet on Friday, and travel on Saturday, so that it doesn't mess with church services. It is going to be super amazing! Also, it means that I am going to be able to see some of my favorite sisters again. It's great. That does mean it is going to be a little harder to hit all of our goals this week. We've set some pretty lofty ones in relation to what the standards of excellence are and what we have been able to accomplish in the past. We still have the goal to baptized twice in November and twice in December, even though November will take a miracle, as we only have one date right now. But, it can and will happen.
President Tilleman, during Stake Conference, shared an amazing experience that he had at the mission president's seminar last week. At the end of the seminar, Elder Aidukaitis stood up, grabbed the pulpit, and pledged himself to the hastening of the work, so that the mouth of President Monson will not fail. President Tilleman then pledged himself, in Stake Conference, to the hastening of the work, as Elder Aidukatis did, so that the mouth of President Monson will not fail. President Monson is the Lord's Prophet, Seer, and Revelator on the earth today! He has declared that it is time to hasten the work, and now it is our job to hasten it in our lives, and to pledge ourselves to the work, so that the mouth of the Prophet will not fail! It is our duty and our responsibility!
I love you all!
Sister Peterson
D&C 58:8-6
Behold, verily I say unto you, for this cause I have sent you—that you might be obedient, and that your hearts might be prepared to bear testimony of the things which are to come;
And also that you might be honored in laying the foundation, and in bearing record of the land upon which the Zion of God shall stand;
And also that a feast of fat things might be prepared for the poor; yea, a feast of fat things, of wine on the lees well refined, that the earth may know that the mouths of the prophets shall not fail;
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