ALEJANDRAS BAPPY

YO YO YO! Another week down! It was a wild week! I feel like I have been thrown in a million directions this last week! We had Zone Conference and we also had a Zone Blitz! So everyone swapped Companions for the day! Then we also had SOOO many lessons and SOOO many new people we found to teach! 


On Saturday for our exchange I stayed in our area and I was Companions with a Native Spanish speaker! So we pretty much spoke Spanish ALL day! My brain was fried!!! 


But we had a crazy miracle! Our friend Alejandra has wanted to get baptized for SOOO long but she hasn't been able to because her boss won't let her leave the house! And she also doesn't have a phone because it's been broken so we have struggled to get ahold of her! Well on Saturday I got a phone call from Alejandra asking if she could be baptized the next day!!!!! Well it took lots of calls and craziness but our ward came in clutch and she was baptized! 


My spiritual thought this week comes from some experiences I continued to hear about so many people's experiences about coming to the U.S. and the struggles that it was for each of them! One of the members was telling me about his story of traveling here and how it was so unsafe and he got stabbed and many other things! But the entire time he said all he prayed for was to keep his Bible with him! It made me realize how clear his priorities were and how important it was to him to have the Bible!  


I thought of how I have always just had the Book of Mormon and Bible in front of me! I have never been in a situation where It was life or death and I thought about wanting my BoM more than anything else! In this moment I learned what a blessing it is to have the Book of Mormon and Bible in my life every single day! I also realized how I need to show my appreciation for it and I can do this by reading and studying them often! 


I know that we will receive guidance and blessings each day as we read them! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BOOK OF MORMON AND BIBLE! 


Love y'all have a good week! Don't forget to tell Miss Jess happy birthday! 


Love Like Jesus 


Love, Hermana Peterson


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