Week #11 - THE PROPHET
The beginning of the week was just the exact same things. Contacting and teaching and a lot of walking. I still have no idea what anyone is saying. I can tell I am getting better, but just very, very slowly, and I want to be fluent now. One thing I know I am learning here is patience. Hahah. I can tell you though that the gift of tongues is real. I don't understand that much in lessons, and I can't say much, but I can bear a simple testimony. We were teaching an investigator this week, and we taught the plan of salvation. I love the plan of salvation so much. This investigator never understands my Spanish, and often times it is frustrating to me because I am trying my best, but this lesson in my broken Spanish I told her how much this plan meant to me and she understood me. The gift of tongues is for sharing the gospel, and that is exactly what it helped me to do.
Another thing that happened this week was that we changed our pensionista. Our old one wasn't really that good so we changed it, and now we just eat at a restaurant everyday. So that is fun, and it's good. So I will probably get fat, but oh well.
Also I mentioned in a past letter that I was getting hives... Yeah, that is still happening so the doctor just gave me a bottle of allergy medicine, and the president says I can just take it whenever I get hives. Hahhaa.
The end of our week was very different and so exciting. We went to Lima for the prophet. President Russell M. Nelson along with Elder Stevenson, and the entire area presidency came and we were able to go and listen. It was incredible. The prophet talked to us about 3 Nephi and the Book of Mormon and being fishers of men and fishing where the fish are. My favorite talk though was by his wife. She talked to us about the reality of the adversary and how the fight with sin is real, even for a prophet. But it just shows how important our message really is. Satan makes it hard because he doesn't want this message shared. She said we can be successful, but Satan will never make it easy. Every day I would love Satan to lay off and stop trying so hard. He is the one making me homesick, and he is the one making me frustrated with the language. He is the one making me feel inadequate, and question my purpose here, but it just shows how important the gospel is.
I am grateful for the opportunity I had to listen to the prophet, and the opportunity I have to share my testimony every day, even if it is in VERY broken Spanish.
LOVE, Hermana Jacey Petersen
PS HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD ON SATURDAY!!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
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