Heeeelllllooooo family :)
I hope you allll ate soooo much food on Thanksgiving :) because I did!! So ya I will just get straight to it. Here is Escazu there are a ton of gringos like I`ve already said, Our Bishop (who is gringo) planned a big Thanksgiving dinner and invited all of the families in our ward and also invited 2 other gringo families, so i basically felt like i was in the states again. They were playing football and everything!! Soo weird but it was nice to really celebrate Thanksgiving. And have REAL food. (ya mom i will be honest, I am soooooooo excited to eat your food again) So ya i got to have a real Thanksgiving dinner in Costa Rica. But wanna hear the coolest part??? Okay i am sure you all remember Noel Paysen, she was the Mormon that won the skeleton in the winter Olympics. Ya she was there!!!!! i ate Thanksgiving dinner with an Olympian!! :):) she`s soo cool and super humble. soo humble that I didn't even know that she was famous until she had left. So I don't have a picture... but it was cool to meet her :)
So onto the real good stuff. :) For the past month we have been visiting a cute couple, and their 6 year old daughter. They weren't progressing super fast, but we just went with them once a week because we could feel something special with them. So on Tuesday we went over to see them. We were talking a bit, had the opening prayer and then before we started to teach the lesson we had planned, we asked them if they had any questions that we could answer for them. Claudia said yes, her eyes got teary and started asking us why there is soo much wickedness in the world. i don't really know what is going on in the world right now, but sounds like a bunch of wars, and innocent children are dying. That is what effected her the most, is that young kids were dying. This is a question i think many people in the world have, but in this moment we were able to testify to her that even though there is a lot of things going on in the world, God still loves us, and has given us a way to live in the world and not be of the world, through the way we have our homes. I have seen from our home, that no matter what is going on outside, if we have a Christ centered home, we will never need to feel scared or worried. Also we taught her about the seconding coming, because everything that is happening in the world is telling us that we need to prepare now!! it was the perfect chance for us to ask them how they felt, if Christ was to come tomorrow, and in this moment they opened us to us. And told us they want to change. There process will be slower, they need to get married and she works on Sunday, but i know that one day they will be members of the church and will be able to feel the peace and joy that comes from the gospel.
Also this past week the Municipalidad, like the city council, had activities in the church all week so we set up a little table and with the other 4 missionaries we took turns being there and were able to talk to sooo many people, over 200 contacts. It was amazing. Also something cool this week was having Jennifer Lopez leave with us to go on visits and hear her testify about her conversion, and about how she overcame her doubts. I love her!!!
So everyone has been asking me how i feel, and well I feel sooo ready to have the best week of my life, I know that there are more people waiting for me this week and I am going to find them. I am sooo happy to be a missionary, and am going to work harder than I`ve ever worked this week.
I love you all!!!!!!
Have a wonderful week :)
Tell Michael i say hi if you talk to him :) I am sooo excited he is getting out to his mission now :)
Love,
Hermana Peters
soo we had an amazing thanksgiving and silly me, i didnt take any pictures.. just this one... haha i will tell you all about it in my big email. but ya loca=crazy :) haha
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