Hermana Rachel Ruth Peters

Mar. 3, 2015
Hi family,

How is everyone doing? Looks like you guys will be having a nice cold snowy March.. haha but better late than ever right? haha

So this past week we had a really cool experience. Hermana Perez and i have been working really hard to find new investigators because we dont have very many people to teach. So we have been talking to as many people as we can, but not finding people that want to listen to us. So we were talking to our District Leader one night and he said ¨Okay Hermanas, do you have faith?¨so we said yes of course. and then he said ¨okay tomorrow you are going to find a family of 5, in a house with a black fence. One of the kids in this family will be 7 years old.¨ so we were like okay Elder.

The next day we went out, with a lot of faith in our hearts, stopping at every house with a black fence. There were a lot.. haha and we werent finding people home, and werent finding people that wanted to listen. Then a big chunck of something got in my eye and it killed. Like the hurt when you cant open your eye. So hemana Perez was like we are really close to the house, lets hurry back to get your glasses. As we were walking back, out of the corner of my hurting eye i saw a black fence. I stopped, yelled ¨Buenos¨ (thats like ringing a doorbell or knocking a door here) and out walked a lady. We started to talk and then she was like ¨would you like to come in?¨ ummmm yessss please ;) haha so as we walked in the told us how she lives with her husband and right now her daughter and her two kids... family of 5, black fence... okay just one more thing!! so then we asked how old were her grandchildren. She said ¨One of them is 13 and the other one is 7.¨ WHAT?!

As we began to talk, it turns out that this family is an inactive family, as of like 10 years. There were very active and then something happened that turned them away from the church, and they havent been back since. i was sitting there thinking, and after this past week i have been thinking about this. Because this past week we didnt find the new investigators we wanted, not even close. But that doesnt make me a good or bad missionary. It is if i am fufilling my purpose which is to invite others to come unto Chirst. not only those that arent baptized, but also those inactive, less actives and members of the church.

So miracles happen. Faith is real. And although there were many times this past week when i felt like i was a bad missionary, i know now that i am doing what i was called here to do. My Heavenly Father has a purpose for me, for Hermana Peters. and maybe right now that means that i need to learn patiences, learn that it isnt what i want, but what the Lord wants.

Well i ran out of time, sorry this is shorter. Know that i love you all sooo much. Thank you all for you words of support and love, especially today. it was just what i needed.

Never doubt yourself, or God´s plan for you. I know that i never will again.

Love you all,

Hermana Peters