Dear Family,
I thank the Lord every night for being able to serve in such
a great and beautiful area as Freiburg. Sister Jenson and I are super
blessed to be so busy and have so many people that the Lord has trusted us to
take care of. But we are SO BUSY, it's crazy!
This week we are Zone
Training in Singen (our first Zone Training with the new Freiburg Zone!)
and it was super inspiring. The Zone leaders mentioned how we are the
only zone in the mission that is not a stake, and how this area is about the
EXPLODE with success, and that's a new Zone was created. This area has
everything it needs to be a Zone (priesthood holders, church buildings, tithing
funds, etc) EXCEPT members. So this area is stressing missionary work a
lot-both with the full time missionaries and member missionaries. It's
just cool to know that we were put in this area for a reason, so that we could
help work miracles that this area has the potential of seeing. And they
kept talking about how cool it would be to have an Apostle come to make this
area a Zone...pretty much my motivation to work even harder!
We also had interviews with the President this week, and it
was my first time having a one on one interview with the President since I
started my mission. I was super nervous at first, but during the
interview I could tell that he is a man who is called of God to lead the
missionary work in this part of the world. Super grateful for him and his
work. And President and Sister Miles joined us for a district meeting,
which was cool.
Sister Miles talked about this new announcement regarding
missionary work and technology, and she said we won't know for sure what's
going on and how it's going to effect our mission until September. She
kept referring to Russel M. Nelson as 'Daddy' (she's his daughter-crazy,
right?) which was kinda funny. How intimidating would it be to have
an Apostle as a father in law?
The work is going great here in Freiburg! We keep
finding more potentials and getting new investigators, and Sister Jenson and I
are wondering how in the world we are supposed to take care of all of these
people! (I guess we have no choice to baptize all of them, so that we
have time to teach all of these new investigators!) But seriously, we are
the brink of so much success here, which is such a blessing. But whenever
the Saints rejoice, Satan gets furious. We have also been tempted and
tried so much this week, and there are days that are just really hard to work
for no particular reason. But those are the days that we see the most
miracles happen. It's scary to know how many forces are working against
us to prevent us from seeing this success, but it is even more empowering to
know that the forces of heaven are moving mountains for us every day to help us
in every aspect of our life. I'm glad that I have learned to rely on the
Lord during my mission, because I am way too weak to do this work alone!
It is a great experience, and I continue to love my mission more and
more.
Thanks for your prayers and letters and support!
-Sister Peterson
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| Sister Jenson & I climbed to the top of Munster last P-Day |
These are pictures of Hauptfriedhof (the cemetery by our
apartment.)
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