T E X A S: Live worthy of Christ's Atonement

First off, Happy Valentines day!! Mine was great. I made pink cheesecake brownies and pink heart shaped waffles. I do anything and everything I can to make holidays special in the mission:) That's what Sister Slade taught me anyway. We also went around and heart attacked people's doors. When I was heart attacking, our ward missionary, Karla, she like walked out of her house...it was so awkward haha. I just ran away and hopped in the car where Sister Ogles was waiting for me so we could drive off. It was all way too much fun. I swear, the mission just makes weird things much funnier than they actually are.

We ate district lunch at this restaurant in Pampa...and it was so Texas. I don't think I truly understand what it means for things to be Texan, but this was definitely it. The cook came out with grease all over and explained his special for the day, which had this apparently crazy terribly spicy salsa...so of course we had to try it. I don't know how, but apparently Portales had a huge effect on my taste buds, because it wasn't spicy AT ALL. I mean, all the other people were dying, but it was like your average salsa...AMATEURS. Try serving in a Spanish branch and then you'll know spicy food:)

Anyway, this week had some of the worst nights, best nights, and weirdest days I've had so far on the mission. Lets just say my heart was on a dang ROLLER-COASTER. But all is well and I am loving Borger (officially.) Friday Sister Ogles was sick, so I did weekly planning basically by myself, and then we stayed in for the night. I cleaned and listened to Elder Holland chastise me for about 2 hours. Oh my goodness, that was fun. An Elder gave me a bunch of music and talks on a flash drive, so I had like 5 talks in a row to listen to by him. It was wonderful. Pumped me up for missionary work!

We also have a Book of Mormon class every Thursday night and it was so good this week.We had the highest attendance ever there! And many people were in tears. We really don't even do anything either. All we do is go in a circle reading the Book of Mormon, and then we stop every once in a while when people feel the spirit teach them something. It is cool. I love it, because it shows me how the most effective teaching is when I'm not the real teacher! Because I'm not at all qualified to actually convert these people, but the spirit does wonders when it comes to that work:)

I also translated at church again! Not sacrament, because our investigator's son did it for her, but I translated through all of relief society and taught Sunday school in Spanish. I felt bad in relief society because I seriously just talked through the entire lesson, but it was fun. Our investigator right now is amazing! I love her dearly. She's like our only Spanish investigator right now, so I love teaching her so much. And she makes us such good Hispanic food when we come over:) I was spoiled in Portales with all the Mexican food I got...It was soooo good.

Anyway, this week was good. I love being a missionary so much! I had more I wanted to write, but I have no time. Just know that this gospel is true! Today I learned that no matter what we do, we cannot actually do anything to save ourselves. We just have to live worthy of Christ's Atonement so that he can save us!

I love you all!

Hermana Peck