Christmas, basically
Hey all!
Thank you to those who emailed me and sent me letters! I wish I had more time today to write, but the computer was really being a bum today. Hopefully I get more letters and emails out next week!
This week was really a spiritual journey for me. I want to just highlight a couple of things. On Thursday, we had a zone training from the mission president. This training brought Sister Wood and I a lot of comfort. We had been praying recently about what Pensacola really needs. We felt strongly that it was the less active members that needed reaching out. This training was all about how our mission is going to focus a majority of our time on reaching out to less active and part member families. I couldn't be happier. He also had us focus on family history to do so. One thing that stuck with me was when our STL's were training. Sister Stewart was talking about how excited we get to be baptized and what a great experience that is. Then she said, what if you were told at that moment you couldn't be baptized and that you had to wait? Well, little did anyone in that room know that I had experienced exactly that. I had to wait a year after getting so ready. This is exactly how people's ancestors feel while they wait in the spirit world. They have to wait for them to do the work, and often, be taught by the missionaries! We are therefore focusing on the temple. Not baptism, but the temple where we can have even more baptisms.
Sorry, I am really low on time, but know that general conference was quite the spiritual game changer for me this weekend. I gained such a testimony of our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ. I know that Jesus Christ is our elder brother and did everything He had to, to get his siblings back. I am out of time, but I will leave you the day titles just so you have them :)
Monday: Funerals Can be lessons
Tuesday: Real People. Real Tender Mercies.
Wednesday: October 27th
Thursday: My Purpose in Florida, Tallahassee
Friday: That Mission Grind
Saturday: Better than Christmas
Sunday: The Testimony I have Been Praying For
Thank you for your prayers, love, and support. I promise I will get more out to you all next week!
-Sister Peterson
I have this poem on my wall:
Don't You Quit
I have this poem on my wall:
Don't You Quit
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
