Week #7 - Put Your Hair in a Ponytail and Fight For You

So last week, in an email from my mom she told me to put my hair in a ponytail and start fighting for me. It’s really a lot easier for me to fight for other people. I will fight for my family or my friends every day, but I was always taught that life is not about me so it is hard for me to put me first. But my mom is a lot wiser than I am so I have tried to fight more for me this week, and make sure I am okay. My motto for right now are those words from my mom. I am trying to do things that strengthen me and make sure I am happy and doing okay.

I didn’t say much last week about my mission. Hahah. I am currently in my first area and it is kicking my butt! Holy cow. I am in Ica. It is very different than Utah. Lots of dirt. My companion is Hermana Nunura and she doesn’t speak any English, so I am learning as fast as I can. I always have a headache because it is very hard. She is nice and is trying her best to be patient and help me learn.

This week we did a lot of contacting and a lot of walking. The roads here are crazy. We take little motor taxis a lot, and I feel like it is a near death experience every time. People are really nice though. Except I am obviously very different. It is already getting old being catcalled and whistled at all the time. Everyone calls me gringa and I’m not really a huge fan of that, but what can I do I guess. 

We have a lot of good investigators, and a few getting baptized in the next months so that’s exciting, and even though I don’t understand anything in the lessons it is nice to feel like we are making a difference for good in people’s lives.

Today we went and hiked the Dunes and it was way fun. Ica is pretty cool!

Love you all, and I do have a testimony of this gospel that I am trying to share in my very, very broken Spanish.

I know the church is true, and I know that God is aware of me and all of us and he loves us so much!! 

Hermana Jacey Petersen