Taking the Shots: August 2017

"MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄" (Week 68: 12/19-12/26/16)

What an amazing week! I just wanted to wish you all a Merry CHRISTmas!

This has seriously been such an amazing Christmas, especially with it being on Sunday and being able to go to church! I love being a missionary. I am so grateful that I have been able to be a missionary for these two Christmases, because He is the reason for the season. The world is so caught up in it being so commercialized, and we truly forget the real meaning of the season. Being a missionary, we just get to go tell everyone about the reason and what a joyous thing to proclaim!

This week we had our Christmas Conference with all of the mission. And so that was fun!

The rest of the week we did service and taught a couple people over Skype. (A new tool that our mission has to teach people). The work is hastening! How great is that.

And last night I was able to see my family over Skype. The last time until I get to see them in 3 months in person. How crazy! Time is seriously flying. And I do NOT WANT TO COME HOME!

Oh and on Christmas Eve, we played Pickleball with an investigator! Super fun!

I know that Jesus Christ is our Brother, our friend, our Counselor, and more importantly Our Savior. How great is that. Without the restored gospel we would not know about the great Plan of Happiness!

I am so grateful for you all and for all of your wonderful gifts. Thank you sooo much! Have a wonderful New Years! And Stay Safe!

Pics below! Sorry there are a ton!

Till 2017

I love you! Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Pewtress

MUG SHOT

Merry Christmas 2016 from Sister Olson and I

THUGS

Merry Christmas from Sister Pewtress

Sister Olson and I

Charlotte (member), Sister Olson and I. 12/25/16

Christmas Eve tiredness

Christmas Conference special... CAFE RIO.

Sister Johns, Sister Olson, and I. (left to right)

FROST

Santa called us his helpers.... we told everyone to change and be nice!

Breakfast with the Hermanas. Hermana Winterton and Hermana Eddington

"JOY TO THE WORLD ✨🌎 "(Week 67: 12/12-12/19/16)

What a wonderful week that we have had! We have worked our heads off and seen so many miracles. :) Sister Olson and I have been able to help so many people this week come closer to Jesus Christ. We were able to teach Joseph every single day except on Saturday but that was okay!

I am so grateful for this Christmas season. One of my goals that I had this year was to finish the Old Testament by Christmas. And I DID IT! It was soo cool to see how the things we do here in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, went on long ago in the Old Testament times. I am so grateful for the scriptures and how we can continue to learn and grow to become more like our Savior Jesus Christ. This week I just wanted to share a scripture out of the Old Testament!

In Isaiah chapter 9 it reads;

"6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

How wonderful is it, that we have a Savior who brings us peace, allows us to feel good, is our Father of the earth who we can pray to daily, our God, a Counsellor who we can turn to when we are struggling. How Wonderful the baby boy, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.

I am so grateful for my Savior Jesus Christ and for his redeeming love. Without it there would be no Christmas season or any of us at all! Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can grow and become like Him! I invite you all to draw closer to Jesus Christ by focusing on the REAL meaning of CHRISTmas!

One cool thing that I was able to do this week was go to an Addiction Recovery Meeting with someone we are teaching. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has a wonderful program for anyone who is struggling with an addiction. It has parts of the 12 Steps in the Alcoholic Anonymous program. Well we studied out of step 2 about Hope, and it was really cool. One of the people there talked about how hope is a feeling. I know as we have hope in things that our faith in God and Jesus Christ will grow and we will be able to draw closer to him!

Oh and we (mostly I) was able to give blood at the Red Cross blood drive. It was soo cool! Donated in 7 mins! Whooohooo!!!

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! 'Tis the Season!

I'll be home for Christmas

NEXT YEAR!

I love you!

️

Love,

Sister Pewtress

Donated Blood for the first time :)

TRACTING IN THE COLD!

We turned into zombies.. YIKES!

Sticky CHEX MIX!

Face Masks! :)

"BELIEVE🎅🏼✨" (Week 66: 12/5-12/12/16)

Wow, faith is such a amazing thing. We have had to have so much faith this week. This week at UVA was pretty dead. We had been contacting and no one was listening. Rough life, but that's okay. Everyone was going through Finals, right before Christmas Break and so a few people listened but we got no return appointments. It was a pretty hard week.

We did see some cool miracles. We were riding the bus back from grounds and we were coming close to our stop... and I see this lady who was sitting across from us and she looked all warm and so I just commented on her scarf and beanie and we talked for a while. She had asked us if we were students, and we nicely stated that we were missionaries. She then stated that missionaries a while ago came and knocked on her door!!! Ahh, well we invited her to listen again to the message and she said she would, so that was a huge blessing and a lovely miracle that we saw this week!

Sister Olson and I sadly.... hit our (gulp

) 15 Month mark, which was sooo crazy. So to celebrate we went and ate at Sushi

we even took lots of fun pictures! It was soo crazy to think that we have been out for that long, because it sure doesn't even feel like that.

I am seriously sooo grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I know for a fact that we are not perfect.. we are anything but perfect, but because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we can be made whole! I love this gospel sooo sooo much and am soo grateful for this time to serve!

I love you all soo very much! Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Pewtress

:::PICTURES:::

How our moms feel about our 15 months