The week we have been waiting for!!!!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

SO there will be about a hundred pictures if I am able to send them all, it´s going UBER slow, but lets seee. PIctures from last weekend and from this weekend. IT WS AMZING!!!!!

Marcos and Patrícia got married on friday and then Baptized with João pedro on Saturday!!!! Marcos afterwards gave an AMAZING testimony that made me want to cry! HE is so amazing!!! He already has an interview marked with the bishop for the priesthood!!!!! I am SOOO excited!!!!!!

Also Cauan got baptized and he is adorable. After he was confirmed h sat down next to his mom and said "yay, i got the holy ghost!" he was so excited! It´s adorable!!!!! This weekend was literally a MIRACLE!!!! I am so happy!!!!

We are also working with a couple other people but I´ll write more about them next week!!!!!

The pictures explain everything :D

Stay happy always!

Love you all

Sister Peterson

Most Pictures are on last week's post

The Lord helps his servants!

Hiiii

So this week was super awesome.
  

We went to a different area everyday to help find new people to teach. So we only spent one afternoon in our area and that day we spent planning our activity, which turned out AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Talk about blessings from the Lord!!!  A couple things fell through and I ended up having to play and sing the guitar...i learned a couple of hymns in about 10 minutes, that was interesting. And then someone picked one and I had about 30 seconds to learn to play it....that was difficult haha, but it´s nice improv practice!!!

But it was an activity about the plan of salvation and we were all in a plane and the Flight attendants were selling cookies, cake, pop, and water and the people had money to buy them, but everything was super expensive so they had to use their 'white papers' to buy the food. It was really interesting. It was super fun!! Then the people who kept their 5 white papers (covenants) went to the celestial kingdom, 3-4 terestial, and 0-2 telestial. They only stayed there for about 5 minutes and then they could visit the other kingdoms to see the things they "missed" and we ended with testimonies and experiences. But it was AMAZING!! People found each other after the mix up and they were hugging and excited to see each other and people heartbroken that they have to be split up, it was just a wonderful experience! And everything worked out!!!!!!!!!

I almost forgot to mention that I made 240 cookies for this activity. And not just normal small cookies we had to have HUGE cookies to represent pride and let´s just say that Saturday was Cookie day!! Haha

Gabriel has had a traumatizing experience with water so we are going to help him this week try to get over his fear so he can get baptized!

Cauan went to church on Sunday in church clothes and he was adorable!!!! He sang in the primary program and he is so excited to get baptized!!!! We taught him a couple lessons this week with pictures and designs and activities and he understood SUPER well!! He is a really smart 8 year old!!! he is super excited to keep learning and get ready for his baptism. It will be when his "uncle" can come from São Paulo to baptize him. He is wonderful!

Marcos and Patrícia got married on Friday

Marcos and Patrícia's wedding day

Marcos and Patrícia are getting married friday and baptzied with João Pedro on SATURDAY!! I am soooo excited! It is going to be AMAZING!!!!!! He is so amazing!! His grandma passed away, he was diagnosed with kidney stones, and he is having financial problems and still he fasted and went to church and paid a fast offering. He is the Example investigator to me!!! He never gives up!!!!

Sandra and Maria Eduarda from the 3rd ward got baptized yesterday, I forgot my camera to send pictures, but if you remember a lady cutting my hair, it´s her!!!! She is amazing!! Love her so much!!! She is a sweetheart!!! She wanted us to be there so we ended up running from our ward to hers and on the way someone gave us a ride!! God is so good to us!!! He looks out for us in all the different ways in our lives!!!!

We are so excited for this week!!!

Work hard and stay strong!!!!! Keep reflecting on General Conference and everything you learned!!!!!!! 

Love you much!
Sister Peterson

Marcos and Patrícia got Baptized with João pedro on Saturday!!!!
Marcos afterwards gave an AMAZING testimony that
made me want to cry! HE is so amazing!!! He already has an
interview marked with the bishop for the priesthood!!!!!
I am SOOO excited!!!!!!

We are also working with a couple other people but I´ll write more about them next week!!!!!

Also Cauan got baptized and he is adorable.
After he was confirmed he sat down next to his mom and said
"yay, i got the Holy Ghost!" he was so excited! It´s adorable!!!!!
This weekend was literally a MIRACLE!!!! I am so happy!!!!

The pictures explain everything :D

Look at them all Progressing :D

Hiiiiii

This is sign outside of the secretaries office

How is everyone doing???? We are doing AMAZING here!! :D

Our investigators:

Erika is amazing!! She went to church yesterday and liked it!! She is stopping to drink coffee and she is excited for her baptism this weekend!!! We are going to make homemade pizzas with her and her family tomorrow. I will try to remember to bring my camera!!! We are going to work with her husband too, he works a lot so we haven´t been able to teach him, but he has already had contact with the missionaries and he likes the church!!!!!

Gabriel was interviewed and will be baptized this weekend. He loved church yesterday!! The young men in our ward welcomed him in with open arms!!!! His mom is amazing!! And is coming back to church super strong! They are such a wonderful family!

A pigeon decided that it wanted to live with us...
and it kept hitting the window and couldn´t get out,
so I had to open the window to help her.

Marcos, Patrícia and João Pedro are great as always :D They are super strong and excited for their wedding and baptism next weekend!! They weren´t able to come to church yesterday because Marcos´grandma passed away and they were at the cemetery, but he is doing okay. He is super strong and always turns to the Lord for help.

Michelle, Cauan and Matteus returned from Recife. Cauan wants to get baptized so we are going to work with him this week to get ready. Michelle wants to get baptized too but she has to figure out her situation, if she is going to stay with her boyfriend or not. But they all came to church on Sunday and it was wonderful!!!!!

We made cookies for a FHE here,
it was sooo much fun and they turned out super well
even though I didn´t have all the ingredients haha.

We are working with a couple other people but they aren´t super firm, so we will see if we will keep working with them or not, and I´ll let you know!!!

This week we had a lot of fun and success!! We are excited for this next week!!!! 

We were teaching the word of wisdom the other day and I decided that I am going to write MY Word of Wisdom (MY WOW) to help with my personal life. I know there are things I do and eat that make me feel good and active, so I am going to try to put this into effect. Then I will WOW myself with how much better I feel each day :D I challenge you (because I´m a missionary and that´s what we do :D) to write your own WOW, and see how it really blesses your life!!

Love you all!

Sister Peterson

Conference was AMAZING!!! :D

Hiii!

Wow Conference was the highlight of my week!!!

I would like to share EVERYTHING, but you will all read about it in the ensign next month, but I will share some things I particularly loved!!

Boyd K. Packer talked about how we say, "someone must pay for this!!!" He gave us the best answer..SOMEONE ALREADY DID! Christ has already paid for everything!!!!! It´s amazing!!!

Conference also talked a lot about obtaining our own testimonies and being spiritually strong through personal revelation. I have noticed the impotance of this. Here on my mission I cannot lean on the testimony of someone else. I have to be strong for myself. And there will be a time in EVERYONE´s life that they will have to be strong for themselves. That´s my invite to all of you, really gain your own testimony of Christ and the prophets because that is what will keep you strong and firm even in the worst storms of life!

We need to take responsibility for ourselves, salvation is individual. We need to each be a strong element personally! They also talked a lot about parenting. I would just like to send a smile of thanks to my parents who have been the best examples I could have ever hoped for!!! Thanks Mommy and Daddy, you are the best parents in the world, I love you!!! All the things they talked about today, YOU taught me! I´m glad that I had this as a child for it to grow into a habit. I love you!!!

Also about the sacrament!! There was a lot said, that must mean that it is SUPER important!! And it is!!! It is our blessing to be forgiven of our sins and made clean, make it a spiritual experience!!!

We all know that life is hard, but I love how the prophets and apostles remind us that WE AGREED to all of this!! We agreed to the sickness, the hard times, the trials, the sadness, everything. We wanted and were anxious to come to this earth. WE WANTED THIS!!! Let´s show that we still do!

It was interesting how straight forward everyone was in this conference. You are doing this wrong, stop, and make it right. No beating around the bush. So we just learned all these commandments that the Lord has given to us, what are we going to do with them??? SIster Cabral has us make check lists for everything, make a check list for conference and then APPLY it to your life. YOU WILL SEE THE DIFFERENCE!!!!

Our investigators are doing well!!! We met a new family we started working with and a lady Erika who went to one of the sessions of conference and liked it!! I´ll update you more on everyone´s progress next week!!!

love you all :D

Sister Peterson

PS

I loved how they were able to speak in their native language!! Talk about amazing new things!!! :D

One of my favorite things I learned that I will teach to EVERYONE:

Learn the power of prayer verse the routine of prayer!!

LOVES!!