So first one, we found out that for the week ending Jan 12, we found 1085 new investigators as a mission!!! It's so crazy! That is the most that the mission has ever found since it opened! And the Sister Training Leaders said that if we were able to up that by 100-200, we would be finding more new investigators than the rest of the American Northwest area missions combined. It's so humbling to be a part of this work right now. I know there are a lot of people who weren't happy (and some who still aren't happy) about consecrated finding time, but it is making all the difference in our mission. We are going crazy up here, and we really don't have many members, so it is even more amazing. The Lord really does bless up when we are exactly obedient and we work as hard as we possibly can. It comes from talking to everyone and being there when people are home. We just have to work as hard as we can and not waste any time and the Lord blesses us tremendously. Even if an individual companionship has a really hard week, it doesn't last forever! You just bounce back and keep going!
Anyway, so we found a family to teach this week! Well sort of a family. The mom has been less active for 30 years and is currently separated from her husband, but she has two kids (11 year old girl and 8 year old boy) who are absolutely adorable and so excited. The oldest has a baptismal date right now, but the 8 year old is scared of water. So we are going to bring the family to a baptism in Kelowna this week and then later on, we will take them on a church tour and let the 8 year old walk around in the font to see that it isn't scary. Anyway, the mom's records weren't even in the ward! We found her knocking on doors. It is so cool. I love them so much. The 8 year old boy reminds me so much of Michael, only a little bit quieter. He is also a huge Vancouver Canucks fan. So I'm going to have to be one too. He made me a Canucks bookmark the other day. I'm keeping that forever. E (the mom) said that she already sees how much of a difference the gospel is making in their family, and we only met them on Tuesday and started teaching her on Thursday and the kids on Friday! And they loved church yesterday. We are going to go have a family home evening with them tonight and watch Finding Faith in Christ or To This End Was I Born, because S (the 8 year old) doesn't know who God or Jesus Christ are and A (the 11 year old girl) only knows a little. But they are all praying and reading and just so golden!
It's been kinda foggy lately, which makes it a little hard to find, because even with flashlights, we can't really see anything unless there are streetlights around, and there aren't very many of those in our area. So we spend a lot of time driving around trying to find somewhere safe. It's a little annoying, but it's all good. We found another new investigator because of it, so it works out.
This is God's work. I know it is. There is no way everything could work out the way it does without Him being involved in every step of everything. It's interesting how, without taking away our agency, He orchestrates things so that we want to do what is right, and when we start going down the wrong way, he drops a big roadblock in our path. It's our choice to turn around or to try and climb over the roadblock, but our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ do everything they possibly can to steer us back on track, no matter what. They never give up on us, so we should never give up on anyone else. Who knows, you might be the one they need to get back on the path.
I love you all so much! Have a great week and work hard!
Love,
Sister Peterson
"There is not one of us but what God’s love has been expended upon. There is not one of us that He has not cared for and caressed. There is not one of us that He has not desired to save, and that He has not devised means to save. There is not one of us that He has not given His angels charge concerning. We may be insignificant and contemptible in our own eyes, and in the eyes of others, but the truth remains that we are the children of God, and that He has actually given His angels—invisible beings of power and might—charge concerning us, and they watch over us and have us in their keeping." President George Q Cannon
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