Hermana Rachel Ruth Peters

Jan. 6, 2015
Hello Family,

How is everyone doing? How is the year 2015 going to far? Hope all is well and that everyone is enjoying their new year. i know i am :)

This week was great and i feel so very blessed right now to be here in Costa Rica. :) It was kinda a slower week because everyone was still our partying, and not a lot of people were home Wednesday and Thursday for the New Year. So those days were a bit slower. ButWednesday night we decided we still wanted to celebrate this new year so we bought one of those floating lanterns and wrote all over it of things that we want to become this next year, and then sent it off into the sky right at 12:00. It was sweet :)

Then Thursday we got a phone call that Hermana Loza needed to go to San Jose the next day for a meeting because she is in charge of the retention. But they said that i could stay here in Liberia with the sisters there. So i get there and walk in and its Hermana Larsen, my companion from the MTC!! Haha crazy right? So it was fun to spend the day with her and her companion. Her area is a lot nicer that our area, and i really enjoyed being able to get to know people there. She kept saying how impressed she was with how much Spanish i knew. I guess i have learned a bit since the MTC.. ;) the only bad part about this was that we lost a day of work in our area... and we had already lostmonday night because i was sick... so we were a little stressed, but let me just tell ya, when you work hard, Heavenly Father will bless you.

So Saturday we worked really hard, and then sunday we went off to church, praying for investigators we were walking to church there were a bunch a police men off on the side of the road and a man talking to them with 2 kids. i just kinda glanced over and then kept walking and then realized that it was Victor and his kids!!!! i went running over and hugged the kids and talked to Victor! He had just barley got back from Nicaragua a few days before, hes been there since his baptism working on getting his papers and stuff to become a citizen here in Costa Rica. So i went running up and he yelled ¨Ahhh PETER PAN¨ hahaha then he started to joke that he was about to send all this cops out to find Peter Pan for him :) haha so we talked for a second, figured out where they were living and then went off to church. i was sooo happy to have found them and was basically skipping to church. We passed for 3 of our investigators and then went because we needed to be early so i could play the prelude music. so i was sitting there playing, so happy to have found Victor and also that we had a least three invesigators in the church. Then 2 more came in, then another, then another. By the end of the meeting, we had 9 investigators at church!! MIRACLES HAPPEN. :) i was sooo happy, and could really feel the love of heavenly father for all of these people :)

so ya Sunday was great! And i felt soo blessed, and knew that it was a little taste of fruit for my work, but i still know that i have a lot more work that i need to do. We are working right now really hard with 4 people, preparing them for baptism. One is hopefully this Saturday, he is the son of a member here, but lives with his mom. He is great :) so pray for him, and we are also working with 3 sisters that are adorable. i love teaching them because they really just soak in every word they say, and every time we leave i feel like i learned more than they did. They are amazing and are preparing to be baptized the 17th of January.

Well family i need to go but i love you all so much! I got my christmas package and i was like a little girl opening it :) haha you are all the best!! i also got a bunch of letters so THANK YOU ALL :) I am the luckiest missionary ever :)

Have a wonderful and safe week :) Do something crazy on Saturday for me okay?

LOVE YOU,

Hermana Peters