EMAIL: Mon, October 15, 2012
10:44 AM
Subject: Exchanges
Hello
Y'all!
This
last week was great! On Friday we were
able to do exchanges with Sister Cole and Sister Squarcia. I am so grateful that Sister Hansen had the
opportunity to work with Sister Squarcia, even if only for a day. I love Sister Squarcia so much, and she
taught me so much when we were companions. It is sad to think she is finishing
her mission this week and will be returning home to Italy
I had
a really good exchange with Sister Cole.
She came to Rowlett with me. We
didn't have many lessons scheduled so we ended up tracting a lot. I am amazed
by how much Sister Cole has changed into an even more amazing missionary. She is so bold but also loving. I love remembering when Sister Cole and I
were companions in the MTC and how were we trained together. We have both changed so much and become much
better missionaries than those few months ago. It was so great to be able to be
her companion for a day. Sister Cole and I worked so hard, contacted everyone,
were exactly obedient, and we were still able to have a great time together and
with the people we were talking to. I love Sister Cole so much! I can't believe
the 2 of us are a few weeks away from being half finished with our
missions. She taught me so much and
reminded me just how fun it is to be a missionary and share the gospel. Sister
Cole and I keep trying to convince President Durrant to let us be companions
again at the end of our missions- I guess we will wait to see what happens.
Everything
else is going great. The Lord blessed us
with 5 investigators at church yesterday!
I don't think I have seen that many at church since my first transfer
back in Grand Prairie
Two
of the investigators that attended church were Shawanna and Zavier Stokes and
their 2 little girls. They are such an
amazing family. We only found them a
couple of days ago. They were out
playing football as a family, so Sister Hansen and I decided that we needed to
talk to them. They were interested in the message we shared about families and
they have been wanting to get back to church, so they invited us to come
back. We had a lesson with the Stokes a
couple of days later on Saturday and then they came to church on Sunday. Everyone at church loved this family and
believes that they are ready for baptism.
They definitely seem prepared and we hope to keep teaching them and
changing their family to become closer to Christ. They are awesome!
The
only downside of this story is what happened when we went to talk to them
playing football the first time. They
were playing in the middle of a field with pretty tall grass. As we were about to step into the field
Sister Hansen said, what about chiggers. For those of you who don't know what
chiggers are... they are just horrible. From what I understand, they are little
black bugs, kinda like ticks, that burrow into you skin and you can't get them
back out. You can't really see chiggers
and you also can't really kill them. I
guess you just have to wait until they die and then a couple of months later
they will scab over and their dead little bodies will finally fall out of your
skin. Well... I dismissed Sister
Hansen's worry about chiggers saying that we needed to talk to the family. All seemed well. The next morning I woke up with red, inflamed
chiggers burrowed all over in my legs. They itch so terribly and don't look too
great either. Apparently I still had
chiggers inside my shoes because I kept getting bites the next few days. The good news is, all my bites are getting
better now and Sister Hansen luckily ended up with no bites. So that was my bug adventure for the week.
Love
y'all and hope you have a good week.
-Sister
Peck
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