"WELCOME TO DALE CITY" (Week: 21: 1/25-2/1)

What a crazy emotional week! Who knew that leaving your first area
would be this hard. I know there are people throughout Virginia who
need me, but I honestly miss Harrisonburg so much! It was my family
away from home and I know that family is where you hang your coats,
but still!

Monday: it literally flew by so fast! Sorry if the emails never came
through! Our side was down... Which was a bummer. But it's all okay!
We went to the Spray's to email because the Hermanas who live with us
were being foot zoned! So we emailed from there. Then we went to
Cinnamon bear Cafe! Cute little restaurant to eat! After that we went
sledding in the snow! So that was fun! We went over to the Crosby's
because they have a large hill! After that the DeMastus family took us
to dinner for our last night. We went to Chili's. After that we met
around and said goodbye to a few of the people in the ward. And then
it was time to head home.

Tuesday: transfer day! 😭😭 I really did not want to leave
Harrisonburg. But it's all okay! I guess! Well Sister Spray drove me
down to Transfer meeting down in Richmond. Lexi Crosby went down with
us and of course we had to stop by Cafe Rio! 👏🏼😍. YUMM! Well once
we got to transfer meeting, we were getting called to go to our new
areas. I am now in Dale City which is like a big city and very
congested. Well we got there around 4 pm and then went straight to the
apartment to drop off my bags. It was a crazy night! We ate dinner and
had a couple of lessons! Then we headed back home.

Wednesday: we went shopping for food! Because I didn't have any! And
then we tracked all day and tried to find people to teach!

Thursday: we had some awesome lessons! They were all sooo good! And
very spiritual! We also did weekly planning!

Friday: we had some awesome lessons. One lesson we had was with an
investigator named Ann. She lives with her Aunt and Uncle who are
members. We also had a lesson with a recent convert and she is sooo
sweet. Then we had a lesson with a referral named Nana. He is super
cool and wants to learn more. The people here in Dale City are so
humble! Then we went to the church to have Richard who got baptized,
try on a jumpsuit. Of course we then went to dinner. After dinner we
walked around our complex and knocked a lot. We found this lady whose
name is May! She is super nice and we asked if we could come back and
she said yes!!! She is super cool!

Saturday: in the morning we had Zone Meeting. We went to breakfast
with the Hermanas and guess who I am with again! That's right Hermana
Hala'eua!!! It's nice seeing a common face. Oh and my MTC Companion is
in my Zone and Sister Tibbits is also in my district! Crazy! Well
later that night we had the opportunity to have 2 baptisms! And it was
a,asking to see how happy they were when they got lifted out of the
water! I was so excited to be here and experience that. The Spirit was
sooooo strong!

Sunday: one day closer to P-Day! Aha! Words can't describe how weird
it is to go to church when you didn't have it the last week because of
snow! Crazy! But it felt so good. And everyone welcomed me in! So
awesome to see that!

Monday: today we are going to go to the Quantico Marine museum with
the Hermanas! So that will be fun.

So many pics! Where to even begin!

Oh Harrisonburg what a nice goodbye present!

Sister Ngosha! She's from Tanzania! 

Two baptisms this week! Christiana & Richard!! So amazing!!

Having fun in the snow! ❄️❄️


By the way email wasn't working for a lot of the missionaries last week! 😭 so I will be sending some more snow pics!

I am so grateful for all of the prayers and blessings. I can definitely feel the strength. I am so grateful for this gospel and the strength that it provides. I love you all and hope you all have an amazing week!

NEW ADDRESS: 4402 Worchester Drive #12, Dale City, VA 22193

Love,
Sister Pewtress

"NOT A GOODBYE, BUT A SEE YOU LATER" (week 20: 1/18-1/25)

"NOT A GOODBYE, BUT A SEE YOU LATER" (week 20: 1/18-1/25)

First off I can't believe that there is only one more week of January,
where is the time going?? Second off.... It's been a crazy week!

Monday: it all started with emailing all of y'all! So that's always
cool! Then we went shopping for food! Because who doesn't like food!
😂😂 after that we went bowling. It was so much fun! Let me just say I
am not a great bowler! Aha! But we had a bet that whoever lost, had to
buy everyone a frosty from Wendy's! So good thing I didn't lose! We
then came home and one of the Hermana's made us some real Hispanic
enchiladas! They were good! We then went out tracting!

Tuesday: we had house checks and car checks! So we did that, and then
we went out to Birdgewater! We do a lot of less active work out there,
and that's always fun! Later that night we had a relief society
enrichment activity, it was all on visiting teaching! It was soooo
cool!

Wednesday: we had the opportunity to hear from apostles... O watch an
all mission conference. Everyone around the world was able to watch
it. We watched it live, but some of the others missionaries around the
world weren't able too!


Thursday: of course we had weekly planning!! That's always fun! But
sometimes it's extremely long and boring. After that we tried visiting
some potentials and some other people.

Friday: the day it started to snow! 😍❄️❄️ so pretty! We literally
drove all day trying to find people who would let us in to teach them
about the restored gospel!  But no one really allowed us really in! We
taught a really nice women of the Brethren church. Her faith is so
strong and is wanting to  strengthen her faith even more. Then it
started to snow really bad! My first real snow living in it. Yes I
would go up to Cedar City, Utah and have snow, but this is just
different. You actually get to walk around in it. So much fun but so
cold. The snow storm was so bad that we had to park our car and walk
to the Spray's house because we would get stuck from how much snow
there was, and the plows couldn't come out. It was a crazy experience!

Saturday: we tracked for pretty much the whole day, but the funniest
thing that happened that morning was this guy was trying to get his
car out of the snow, well it took him a good 5 hours to get it out,
but while he was doing that he hit a car. So that was crazy! But our
car got "grounded" and so we had to walk everywhere. We contacted
potentials and a lot of other people. It was a crazy day and that was
a huge memory! We also stopped by the Walton's and we stopped by at
the Crosby's and they were willing to feed us and keep us warm! Thank
goodness for great members!

Sunday: well church was cancelled because the snow was so bad and
people couldn't get into church, so we went out and shoveled people
out of spots. We also went over to the Walton's and helped shovel
their elderly neighbors yard.. Man was that a work out, but while we
were doing that we started having a snowball fight and they had some
sleds so we went sledding! It was a very successful day!


Saturday I got some sad news! I am actually being transferred out of
Harrisonburg! Nota quite sure where I will be headed but I am
extremely sad! I am so grateful for the members here and all those who
were willing to help out with missionary work!

I love this gospel and I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to
hasten the Lord's work!

Until next week... Here are some snow pictures!!

Love,
Sister Pewtress

"High Five......... Toooo FAST!" (Week 19: 1/11-1/18)

Well we didn't have a baptism this week. But that's okay! Bill Should
be getting baptized sooner than later. He's waited almost 2 years to
be baptized...

Monday: P-Day always seems to fly by. And I hate it. Not cool or fun.
But while my companion was sleeping the Hermanas and I did face masks.
It was soooo fun and it felt so good! That morning we got foot zoned
by a member in our ward. It was so cool, she basically rubs her
knuckle into your foot and gets the toxins out. I hope y'all don't
think I'm crazy, because I'm not. She hits this one spot right by your
big toe and it hurts like crazy!!! Well guess what that means? That's
the snore spot. So I hopefully don't snore anymore! 😴 😂 that night
we visited with a less active or I should say inactive and we are
trying to get her back to church. She is just very hesitant!

Tuesday: we raked our baptismal guys leaves up. And man was it cold.
We got bishop and his wife to help us! It was super fun. And I was
talking with the bishops wife and decided that I want to go into
dental hygiene! But honestly it will probably change! 🙄 but while we
were there we saw our baptismal person not living the word of wisdom.
So we weren't quite sure what to do.. 😳 later that day we went and
talked to potentials and tried figuring out if they were interested or
not. Some were and some weren't. But later that night we visited with
an inactive member who is trying to come back to church! She is super
sweet and just a really awesome lady!

Wednesday: we went out to Grottoes which is this really small town on
the other side of town. Super fun place. Sister Walton actually drove
us out there. She is sooo much fun! We talked and talked and had
smiling contests and so many other fun things. We headed back into
town and we went over to the church to have Bill Payne get his
interview for baptism. Then later that night we had an awesome lesson
with Laurie. She was the girl who wants to be baptized but can't
because of her mom. Long  long story. Hopefully she can be baptized
soon!

Thursday: weekly planning day! We visited again with another inactive
member. Lorna is soooo soooo funny, and we aren't quite sure why she
doesn't come to says it's her husband, but we know she can totally
come! That night was just tracting and finding people.

Friday: we had Zone Conference down in Charlottesville. And it was all
day! It is always good to see some missionaries that have come out
with me. So so fun! And then we came home and had dinner with the
Sprays! That family is sooo awesome! We had pizza! I feel like we
never ever get pizza. Later that night we had an awesome lesson with
Laurie again and we read from the Book of Mormon. So good. The Book of
Mormon is soooo powerful! But while we were at Zone Conference we get
this call saying that this guy met some member at Walmart and that he
wanted to learn more. So we had an awesome powerful lesson and he said
he wanted to be baptized!!!! Crazy!

Saturday: we had a lesson win Bill Payne in the morning, and then
after lunch we headed out to Bridgewater,and we did some work out
there. We also helped sister Cason with some of the food. Then we
headed out to bishops house to have dinner. Guess what we had! PIZZA!
Haha! Papa Johns pizza! YUMM! And later that night we visited with
some less actives!

Sunday: the best day of the week! Sunday was great! It always is! We
also had missionary coordination meeting at Brother Mathusek's our
ward mission leader for 2 hours! And we just figured out some things
on how to help the ward get involved in missionary work! Super awesome
day! Well crazy, but good week!


I love you all! And I know that this church has the fullness of the
gospel and that Joseph Smith is a true prophet who has restored Jesus
Christ's church for our day!

Have a great week! And REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!

Ohh yeah, we made Cafe Rio pork salad last week! I guess you could say we were missing it. 😂

It snowed yesterday while we were at church! ❄️😱 not enough to stick, because it's gone today, but it's 18* 

Compy and I!

Oh and transfer calls are this week! Pray that I don't get transferred! So that means don't send anything this way! 😘
Love,
Sister Pewtress