Søster Peterson travelled to Bergen this week, so she didn’t have time to send her “big” email on Monday as her PDay was today. She still had very limited time, but was able to send out her email today, so here it is.
LIFE IS GOOD EVERYONE!
Okay so this week was
crazy!!!! We got our new companion Søster Wadley and I love her!! I was a
little nervous to be in a trio, but IT IS AWESOME!!!! Søster Nielsen and Wadley
are hilarious and awesome missionaries! Søster Wadley is so cute! We all get
along so well and work hard, but have so much fun together!
We have been waking up with
bumps and bites all over us, so Søster Crabtree thought it might be bed
bugs.......... so we have been checking our beds and washing all of our
sheets..... So that is fun......
Lately on the street (3
times) someone has said *Hey Sisters* and kept walking!! THEY WERE AMERICAN!!
and just walked by and said hey! LIKE HELLO!!! These people don't realize how
uncommon that is for us!! But it is way cool that they said hi and recognized
us
We were at a bus stop by
Lill's waiting for the bus to come home and there was a man on the bench
smoking and drinking. He made it very clear he did not want to talk to us about
religion, so Søster Wadley, and Nielsen and I made small talk with each other.
He randomly turned to us and told us his son had died four years ago and asked
us to pray for him. The spirit was immediately so strong! It was awesome! We
told him that he could see his son again and we asked him if we could meet with
him and he said my house is right there stop by some time!! IT WAS CRAZY!!!! We
have stopped by every day this week, but no luck, but then we found out we had
been trying the wrong house! So we found the right one and will check again
this week!
It was Søster Crabtree's
birthday and she didn't even tell us! However we found out and surprised her
with the Elders at the church and had ice cream and a little party for her(:
Anita is coming along! We
are teaching her how to pray and at the end she goes *ha det Jesus* hahaha She
came to church again this week!
Freshman initiation for
the college in Tromsø was this week..... Of course it is right outside of our
apartment so we basically got no sleep this week!! They got into groups and
were tied together and had to take a shot from the 21 pubs in town.....
I have found that
recently it is so cool how people recognize that I am a missionary and
representative of Jesus Christ. So many people recently have asked us to pray
for them and I feel so blessed and honored that they ask us to do that.
We were contacting home
one night and we had stopped this man and we were talking to him and then there
was this guy from across the street I made eye contact with and he kept looking
at us and like stalling across the street and then he went into a store and
came out and we were still talking to the man and I whisper, *Wadley; I gotta
talk to him!!* she says *go!* So I ran away from my companions but I could
still see them and basically chased after this man hahaha. He wasn't too
positive, but hey you gotta listen to promptings when you get them!
So funny story… We were
waiting at a bus stop to go find a formers house and Sister Nielsen was talking
to a 21 year old guy and she totally fell backwards and ate it!!! It was the
funniest thing ever!!! I was trying not to laugh, but when I saw Wadley laughing
I lost it!! We could not control ourselves!! The guy tries not to laugh and
goes *gikk det bra?* and then Sister Nielsen just gets up and tries to act like
nothing happened and tells the guy she likes his shoes and he has good style
which made Søster Wadley and I laugh even harder!!! I just love these girls! I love that we can laugh with each other!
Søster Wadley, Nielsen
and I acted like cheerleaders for a night before bed and did cheers and my legs
were legit bruised and black and blue! These girls are hilarious!!
Elder Hoopes’ birthday
was on Sunday so we surprised him and for dinner and we made waffles!!!
Søster Nielsen, Wadley,
Lill, and I sang in Church on Sunday! We sang Joseph Smith's First Prayer to
the tune of Come Thou Fount! It was fun and Sister Nielsen and I even
harmonized!
CEDRIC came back into town!!!! Oh my goodness he is awesome! He came to Sunday school and sacrament! We met with him and he prayed for the first time!!! Søster Wadley was talking to him during the lesson and he blurts out *I just prayed in my head*, we all look at him and our mouths are dropped! We said, “how do you feel!?!?” He said warm(: And just kept on with the lesson! Oh he is the coolest!! Than the next day he texted us and asked us to send him scriptures to read to help him and that he had left his Book of Mormon at the church and texted us and said *I'm coming to the church to get my book before I leave, there ain't no way I'm leaving without my Mormons Bok!!!* HE IS AWESOME!!!!! His favorite word to say is *chill* and he speaks nynorsk so he is way hard to understand haha
Met with a man we
contacted on the street named Sonny. He prayed with us and in his prayer he
said *please help me find the way because it is like a needle in a haystack:*
We got ice cream of
course this week and we were about to get on a bus and food isn't allowed on
bus, so Søster Nielsen threw her ice cream into her backpack without even
thinking hahaha
Being in a trio has its
perks that's for sure!! We don't have to have someone in the church when we
teach men and we can ride in a car with men!
Aj took us to his Soccer
game and that was interesting...... It was so weird to drive in a car and the people
here are way good at Soccer!
The “one more” attitude
has really been pushing me and makes the biggest difference in my day! It is so
cool and helps me push myself to be a little better and do a little more
everyday.
Åndelig Tanker:
YOU WILL NEVER LOSE YOUR
COURAGE UNLESS YOU CHOOSE TO!!!!
ha en fin uke dere!! glad
i dere!!!
xoxox fra bergen!!!
Søster Peterson
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