Hermana Rachel Ruth Peters

July 6, 2015
Hi family,

Sounds like such an exciting week!!! MICHAEL I AM SOOO EXCITED FOR YOU!!! Oregon is sooo lucky to have you :) and i am sooo excited that we will be about to speak spanish together!!! :) And also congrats Grandma White!! That is so exciting that you got to do something you love so much!

So this week we really good, crazy busy, but really good :) i finally got to be companions with my best friend and lets just say it was the best day of my life. I wish i had a video of our whole day together because it was literally like a dream! i do have a few but they are too big to email so you`ll just have to wait :) Hermana Fowler came here to my area and we were like little fire balls just talking to everyone. In our first lesson together she was talking and then i said that i knew what my companion said was true. I had the biggest smile on my face to be able to say "my companion". it was really like a dream come true.

Also i already told you all about the reunion with the new president. He is a lot different from President Wilkinson but i know that i will learn a lot from him. And i am excited to work by his side. He is going to just keep changing this country to become even better and even stronger. I sent you the new address because everything that was of the mission before is not of the east mission. So send everything to the new address :)

Our investigators are progressing like crazy right now, and we are really seeing so many miracles. ahhh i am out of time.

Mom i am really sorry, i know you wanted a long email today, and i wanted to send one, i just spent tooo long trying to see my little brother open his mission call... haha but i promise next week will be longer, and i will tell you more. but dont worry about me. i have never been happier in my life. :)

Thank you for you love and suport!! i have the best family in the world!!!

LOVE YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!

love,

Hermana Peters

PS. take notes for me when president wilkinson speaks!! AHHH and tell him i say hi :)

1. We heard there was some flooding there, is it super super rainy?

Actually these last two weeks here in Escazu have been way dry. They say that they always have 2 weeks close to july where there is no rain and then more will come. So this next week i think we will be seeing more.

2. Tell us about your branch or ward, whatever it is. How big, the people, your assignments if any.

I am now in a ward, that has about 180 attendence every sunday. And right now i don't have any assignments just a normal missionary. there are 6 of us missionaries in this ward too. The people are great!! Lots of gringos, sometimes i feel like i am back in a normal ward in the states. But i really really like my ward!! .)

3. Where is your companion from, what is she like, how is your friendship, how is this companionship different than others? What is the best part?

Okay my companion is from Mexico and she`s great! She is a really hard worker, and has such power when she teaches. She is sometimes a bit truncky... because she`s engaged, and will be getting married in November.. but actually this week she has been a lot better. we had a leadership meeting with the new mission president and he actually spent a good chunk of time telling us that we cant serve 2 gods, so we shouldn`t be serving god and our boyfriend or girlfriend in this time. He told everyone to take down any pictures they had of their significant other, and to really give everything we have to the Lord. It was a big punch in the face for some, like my companion. But she was really good about it and really showed her faith, right when we got home she took down all the pictures and also her engagement ring. so that`s good. But the thing i like about her is that i really feel like i can be myself, and that she laughs at me :) haha its nice that we both know what`s going on in the mission, like i don't feel like i´m babysitting anymore. We are equal, and we are working hard :)

4. You told us that some of your area is rich, gatred entries and such, and that there are more gringos there. What else can you tell us about the area?

Okay so yes parts are way way rich, but others are poor, just like all of Costa Rica. You should search for Escazu in google maps and see what comes up :) it`s in the mountains which i really like, but which means walking up a lot of hills. haha the weather lately has been way nice, not hot, not rainy, just perfect. also its a really big area so we have to take a lot of buses and taxi to get from place to place.

4. Sometimes when you are walking do you look at a tree or flower and say, wow that is beautiful! ? There has to be tropical plants that smell or look gorgeous. Can you tell us about some?

OHHHH YAAA. everyday i just think i am sooo lucky to be here. Everything is soo green and the flowers here are soo pretty. and are everywhere. i don't really know how to describe them but will try to take pictures this week :)

6. What do you know about your new mission president? Things will be different, for sure. Just because it is different doesn't make it wrong. What changes, if any, do you see?

Okay so like i said we had a leadership meeting with him on Friday. We were all really nervous. But i really like him. His name is President Laboriel, he`s from Honduras so he has a different way of leading. I look at him more of like Captian Moroni, and we are his army. He is a lot stricter, but sometimes i think that is what a bunch of youth need. He has a very strong testimony, and soooo much energy for the work. He told us all that as representative of Jesus, we should be able to say the all of the articles of faith at any time. He also wants us to learn all the prophets of this dispensation, the living apostles..(now there are only 10.....) the books in the book of Mormon, D&C 4, and to really KNOW the scriptures. So i have been memorizing everything this past week... hahaha and he also said we cant drink any type of coke product. He is a lot stricter with the Elders, and says that the sisters are the flowers in the mission to help the elders looks better... haha but i really think he is what we need right now. It`s hard to change from someone you love so much, but i know that President Laboriel is also called of God.

7. So how are you? , how are you really, now how are you really really? :-);-)

I am really really good. And i´m not lying :) i feel really happy, and feel like i am really now becoming who my Heavenly Father wants me to be. :)