Alright what's up ya'll! I know you're all dying to find out what happened to our area and yes we were transferred! Our area is now Kissimmee (ki-sim-me) East which is awesome because it's crazy in Kissimmee. Elder M was a little overwhelmed with the transition but it's all good because this area seems super awesome. There is already so much for us to do so we are excited to get to work or at least I'm excited to get to work.
We are still ward sharing with some Elders who are super awesome and we already love them plus they like sharing so we set up what areas we would cover and we would send over any member or friend in their area and vice versa. So when they got a referral for this lady in our area they were kind enough to let us teach her. Well she ended up being super dope so I kinda feel bad. But she wants to get baptized and loves us already. Huge answer to our prayers because in every prayer this past week we have been adding in to find someone to baptize by the end of March because as a mission our goal is to have each companionship get 1 baptism every quarter. So we are super excited because she is very set on getting baptized and we think we can definitely get her taught everything she needs to know so that she can be baptized. Like this lady is super awesome. RIP to the Kissimmee West Elders but we are very grateful.
We also did exchanges with the Zone Leaders! It was so fun because I got to go practice my Spanish with Elder Turley, my Zone Leader from Conway who I was really tight with. So fun to get to spend the day with him even if it wasn't as successful as we had hoped. I did get the opportunity to bear my testimony in Spanish and I can confidently say I understand 90% of all things said in Spanish as we had dinner with some Spanish members. Also fun story is that we were supposed to show up for dinner at this one family's house but the meal calendar showed an address for that family's mom because they had moved out back in September! So after talking with her and she was definitely the hardest I've heard to understand Spanish but I still caught almost everything (that's the main reason I'm confident with 90%). Anyways it was a blast and to end the day off right we went to Twistee Treat which is like a little ice cream shop that is super good.
Those were pretty much the only exciting things that happened this week. We weren't able to work with I a ton because we were often busy in the mornings and she isn't available after about 4:00 everyday so we definitely want to focus more on her this week.
Something I loved from my readings of the Book of Mormon this week is from the end of the war chapters. In Helaman 3:27 it says, "Thus we may see that the Lord is merciful unto all who will, in the sincerity of their hearts, call upon his holy name." I love this so much because throughout the wars that the Nephites had with the Lamanites whenever the Nephites were prideful the Lamanites would gain some advantage but immediately as they turned humble again God would lift them out of their suffering and allow them to prosper again. I love that he is willing to let us make mistakes so that we will turn back to him again. But immediately when we turn to him he will lift us up. I saw something that was awesome on Facebook and it said "God doesn't love you in your mistakes but rather he loves you despite your mistakes." Just because we mess up doesn't mean it's over. Sure we will have consequences but as soon as we turn to God he will enable us to be healed through his son. I know that Christ lives and loves us so much more than we can even imagine. All he wants is for us to return to Him. He mourns when He watches us suffer especially when we suffer without His help. He went through the Atonement alone so we wouldn't have to go through anything alone. We will never understand, truly, His suffering but He understands, truly, ours. Turn to Christ everyday. He is pleading for you and I'm pleading for you.
I love y'all so much!
-Elder Pettingill
-good ol' jack brack love that guy
-Elder Turley and I at twistee treat!
-us with our delicious icey cream
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