It's ALL in your ATTITUDE!!

SIGNED! SEALED! DELIVERED! I'M YOURS! ha so hey I got your package!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhh! I absolutely loved loved loved it! like you have no idea. 

 The Scripture case is perfect! THANK YOU SO MUCH! and Mollie that Bracelet...classic.  Everything was perfect.  I loved the book mark and YW theme and carmel popcorn! it tasted like home! :) thank you.  SPENCER IS LEAVING ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhh. who else is freaking out right now?!? I haven't stopped talking about it for like 2 weeks.  Basically all of Canada knows that he's leaving for his Missh.  SO COOL. I am so proud. ahh. I love him.  He is only of the bravest and strongest kids I've ever known.  What a Stud. So I got a call from my RS president.. apparently she got an email from my mom talking about a raincoat.. haha AT ANY RATE, I gave it to her and she is sending it back for me. SO SWEET.  

I Had such an amazing week here in Brookswood.  We set three Baptism dates and it was awesome.  They aren't for a couple weeks, but please, please, please, please pray that they will happen.  The Investigators with these dates need this in their lives right now, more than ever! So please pray.  We taught one of them last Wednesday, and gave her the Book of Mormon, and invited her to read the introduction. On Saturday we followed up to see what she thought and in all seriousness, she was like, "I'm not that far.. I only got to the Book of Jacob!" um come again?! WHAT!? We were like, that's amazing!!!! ahhh. So that was totally radical.  

So Storytime.  On Friday it was 8:45 pm so we had fifteen more minutes before we had to be in for the night so after debating whether to head in or not, we decided we were going to quickly drop by this less active sister in our ward.  Well when we knocked on her door,  she answered,and tears were just streaming down her face. Mascara everywhere and she was holding her baby in one arm and on the phone with her mom in the other hand. She was all hysterical and told us there was a mouse in her kitchen! hahah I immediately dropped my bag and ran to the kitchen and she had somehow managed to capture it under an Ice cream bucket. So Sister Gale and I went into action mode! we got a rice crispy cereal box and ever so carefully slid it under the bucket.  than we got this square piece of wood furniture and slid it under that so we would be able to carry it without it being flimsy. this took like 15plus minutes mind you.  So together we both carried it out into the backyard onto this pavement away from the house.  I had a shovel and sis Gale had the broom. The plan was that we would put it in a box and than put that box in another box and than I would mail that box to myself! and when it arrived, I'D SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!!! ha no jk! The plan was that she'd knock the bucket off with the broom and than I'd SMASH it with the shovel! Well then we were afraid that it would be quick and run away, or run towards us, so we found this big bucket like the ones at Home Depot, and ever so carefully slid it into the big bucket! Well then we were like, we could drown it, but that seemed cruel, or we could just like stab it, ha but then after we started looking at it, it looked so innocent and weak! So there we were, the member was still just bawling, and she kept going back inside cuz she just couldn't watch, and it's getting dark, and the neighbors are just staring at us from their deck, and we don't know if we should kill the rat or set it free! We didn't want it to get back inside, but at the same time, it's one of Gods Creatures! I just didn't know what to do. There I was, shovel in hand, and I felt like Nephi when he was told he needed to kill Laban.  I was led by the Spirit to her house, not knowing before hand the things which I should do.  Than the Lord put this mouse in my path to kill and never before had I shed the blood of mouse/rat.  SO! When in doubt, pray it out.  So we said like two prayers and than we just killed it! ha Later, my District Supervisor said that it is "better that one rat should perish than have a whole nation dwindle in unbelief!" I still feel bad about killing it, but I did what needed to be done, and the member is eternally grateful!  The whole time she was just like, "I will sign any list! I will buy you groceries! I'll go out with you! I'll do whatever! we are like family now!" haha I just told her getting someone for us to teach and share the gospel with would be more than enough! :)  We told our ward mission leader and bishop this story and yesterday at church they were just laying on the jokes and announcing our rodent exterminating services to the ward.  haha Bishop called us the Sista Mafia.  I was like Kay too far. haha  

Oh so I didn't have pink eye at all last week and I wore my glasses everyday and than yesterday, I put my contacts in and my eye was completely red by the end of the day and all itchy. LOVELY! so I thought I cleaned my contact enough but I guess I should of just got a new one.  So we are back to square one.  

OH, my recent convert Karen had a baby shower thrown for her last week by some women in our ward and she handed out these numbers on paper and whoever had the number she picked got this candy bar that was like the size of my arm! Well she totally rigged it and gave me the winning number! hahahah I just love her too pieces. so funny. 

Oh, one last thing, so in ward council they always make jokes about the High Priests and how they don't do much but sit around and all that, and this one just just cracked me up and I could not stop laughing yesterday. So the YM Pres was like to the High Priest guy, "...a couple years ago the high priest cleaned my gutters, you could do that again.." (he was lying kay) and then the hp guy was like, "ya and they've been in the gutters ever since!" ahahaha, ok, well I thought it was pretty hysterical. haha anyway I have to go because I am out of time! Oh, I had a good talk with president Tilleman and ZC. 

Hey the church is true and the book is blue! seriously though. 

I love being a missionary.  

I love my area.  I love the Brookswood ward. 

I love my Savior.  

So remember, by small and simple things are great things brought to pass! 

BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE! We are all a part of God's army, people.  

    WORK IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     1-10-15. five stars!!!!         LOVE SISTER JAYNANNE PETERSEN

5 Months and Still Going STRONG!!!

Hey hi Yo! I CAN'T BELIEVE SPENCER GOES TO THE MTC NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhh.  That is just so so so so so so so crazy. How is he doing?! Is he living it up while he still can?! jk you can live it up in the Czech, baby.  I hope he got my letter.  Spencer I love you.  I am so proud of you.  Words can not describe how proud I am of you.  You are such a great example. ya give me strength to carry on every day.  Trust in the Lord. Work iT. Nuff Said.  

SO can you believe that I have been out for five months!?! how crazy is that?! I just couldn't believe it.  Like, it goes by fast when you don't think about it, but in other ways..it goes by so slow! The key is to stay focused, and positive, and busy.  The days are long, the weeks are short (kinda) and when you get a month down you feel like a champion!!! 

Mom I got the rain coat you sent me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhh.  I love the color! Thank you so, so, so, so much! You wanna know something funny though..... it's the exact same coat as the stinky one! like, exact same, but different color! ha I was like, nut-uh! ha and it kinda sorta really big on me.. so I'm not sure what to do.. I mean it works and I can put it over my black coat maybe, but yeah. 



Tomorrow we are having a Zone Conference so hopefully if You sent anything to the office, I'll be able to get it!  yip yip! <-- like on air bender..oh appah.  haha anyway! So, this past week was pretty good! We weren't able to see Moroni's quest, but I heard it was amazing! Yesterday at church, they just had the youth bear their testimony about it and it was so powerful.  I was so touched.  All the adults just went off on how amazing the youth were and it made me kinda get homesick for my North Ogden First Ward Youth.   Then I started thinking... bad sign I know... and I'm not a youth anymore.  When I thought about that, well it was just really hard.  It was the first time in my life when I didn't know where I fit in. Like I can't explain it.  I just felt weird.  Like, I'm too old to be in Young Women's, but I'm not really in Relief Society right now cuz of the whole mission thing and it's just weird.  I don't know what my role is at age 20. (when I'm 22 I'll know cuz of t-swizzle, but right now I'm like huh?)  I know my missionary role, but other than that, I just don't know.  I'm not talking future crap though because I never worry about that kinda after-mission stuff cuz I don't need to worry.  I'm just saying that I felt really small in this big plan.  I don't have time to analyze or get insecure about it though, so, oh well.  I guess I'll just.. yeah.

So, there is this old lady in our ward who told me I always say that people (like her) are so sweet so now she calls me Sister So-Sweet! haha isn't that funny? I was like, you are a nut! 

So, last week we went on exchanges so I went to Langley YSA for the day and I was comps with this new missionary names Sister Weller and we had so much stinking fun.  Like we drove to Abottsford for an appt cuz YSA covers everywhere, and we took the wrong exit and ended up getting SO SO lost.  We drove around for like two hours trying to find our way in this city that neither of us have been in and it was the biggest joke.  See Brookswood uses numbers so it's so much easier to figure out.  Abbotsford is just a bunch of Street names!  We were laughing so hard the entire time.  Like we were just cracking up at everything.  every five seconds I would pull over and we would try to read their map, that has completely fallen apart, and it was just so funny.  What a nice stress reliever.  I haven't laughed in a while! ha it was so great.  Well during all of this, MY eye was just irritating me like crazy.  Come to find out, I GOT PINK EYE! what? yeah random right? and the thing is, I have washed my hands and used hand sanitizer so much cuz Sister Gale is all about getting rid of germs so it was so unexpected.  So then Sister Weller and I were just laughing even harder because there was like goop coming out of my eye and it was so gross and it was all red and I could barely see and we were trying to teach someone with ADHD and all she kept doing was looking at my eye and commenting on it and it was just ridiculous.  So we ended up going to the pharmacy and getting drops.  I'm all better kinda.  Still red but no goop.  So it's a glasses kinda week if ya know what i'm saying! 

I don't know why I keep getting sick.  I think it's God's way of telling me or well making me slow down and TAKE IT EASY cuz I just want to go go go and I am trying to be this over achiever and it's not working out so well.  I don't want to slow down tho! ahh. so frustrating.  Too much depends on me.  I'm learning to slow down and have patience with Sis Gale tho, cuz she isn't speedy, cuz she is new and she doesn't know what's really going on.  She is just this nervous little thing and super bashful.  I know she got put with me because she has no confidence really so I just love her and encourage her.  But really though.. Training in Brookswood is easy cuz I know the area SO SO well, but trying to teach someone who is quiet and tired all the time is hard.  I do lots of the talking.  I try not too, but she won't, so someone has to say something or gets real awkward.  

Anyway, I want to tell you a story about this investigator we are teaching.  He is so solid.  LIKE SO SOLID! He doesn't have a baptism date, but I feel so good about him.  He just married this inactive older lady in our ward and he wanted to know more about her faith, so he got on mormon.org and requested missionaries.  Well, we met with him two weeks ago at the church and taught him the Restoration.  It was kinda a crazy lesson cuz we started really late, cuz we were waiting for our female member present, but it went well in the end.  Well Last week we taught him the Plan of Salvation at the church and his wife came.  The lesson was SOOOO powerful.  He had already read all the way up to 1 Nephi chapter 5 because he couldn't sleep and something told him to read.  He loves it.  That is a miracle people! like others do not read that much! Only Karen ever did.  He is golden.  So during the lesson, I was asking him these inspired questions (cuz i was basically teaching the whole lesson myself) and at one point he said that his wife was telling him about the Celestial glory and how the only way to get there with her is through the temple.  Well, tears filled his eyes and he expressed to us that he wants to take his wife to the temple so that they can be together forever.  It was so moving.  We were all crying and the spirit was so so strong.  He loves her so much.  It's beautiful.  So we invited him the second time with a date to be baptized, and he wasn't sure, but we are all going to pray about it.  We had his wife say the closing prayer and in it, she thanked God for helping her come back and rekindle what she knows to be true and she thanked us for helping her feel the spirit again in her life. It was a great prayer.  So they both came to church yesterday and they just fit right in.  Like it just worked.  They looked like they already belonged.  It was great.  We are seeing them again tomorrow at their house so please please please pray for him and pray that he can get baptized SOON.  The adversary is gonna work on him the more he discovers the truth. Please pray. Please. I beg of you.  It's people like him and moments like that, that help me to keep on going.  

The church is real and true.  I love my Savior Jesus Christ with all my heart and I am forever grateful for the atonement.  I would be lost without it.  The Lord is my rock and I am so happy that I get to be a missionary for Him.  I want you to know that I know that Book of Mormon is true and I encourage you to just read it.  If my investigator can, I know you can to.  It's the most correct book of any other book on this planet.  I know Joseph Smith translated it by the Power of God and I know that he was a true Prophet.  I know that Thomas S. Monson is a true Prophet and I love him.  I will go where the Lord wants me to go and I will be who he wants me to be, because I owe it to him.  He is my Savior and My Redeemer.  

Well, have a great week everyone.  And, I challenge you all to bear your Testimony next Sunday.  I know it is scary and nerve racking, but the Lord is on our side so we need not fear!

Remember that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.  Be strong and of Good Courage.  Work iT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1-10-15 five stars!
LOVE SISTER JAYNANNE PETERSEN