I hope everyone had a great Halloween!!
We had a Halloween party for our Eikaiwa class and it was so much fun!!! We did the classic toilet paper funny challenge and introduced the Monster Mash to them! They all really enjoyed it!
A member named Sister Odani took us to the yummiest food place ever! Usually I am not a shrimp person, but the shrimp was SO GOOD! I don't think I will ever get over how good that food was!
On Saturday we had a combined zone conference and it made me SO HAPPY to see all my missionary friends! Unfortunatly it was the last time I will see some of them which makes me so sad! Especially my beloved mother, Takahashi ć§ćŠč! But we will see each other again, I just know it! I am sorry, I am going to the zoo today, so I do not have time to write more!
When we were with Sister Odani, she shared this scripture with us...
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
I know this is true. These past couple months have been really hard for me. I miss my home more than ever, I am tired and unmotivated, but I feel like slowly God has been pulling me out of the water. I still have really hard moments where I just want to give up, but then I remember the love that God has for all his children. Right now, I know that He is shaping me into the person that I need to be for my future and I am thankful for that.
I have to go, but I love you all and God does too!!
<3 Sister Peterson
11/04/2024
ps don't forget to wish Ryker and my mom a happy birthday this week!! Yayyy partyyyy
On Tuesday we got told if we were transferring or not! Guess what?!? I get to stay in Gokiso!! I anticipate this will be my last transfer here because typically missionaries stay in 1 area for not much more than 3 transfers, but we will see what happens in the future!
On Tuesday we got to go to institute with our friend and did a Tae Kwondo activity! I swear I am going to come home as a Samurai Ninja. 
We also had a little Halloween party on Friday at institute too which was fun! I got my cheeks painted us pumpkins hehe.
We found some high schoolers playing volleyball in a park and joined them. It was really fun. Haha
The season is changing and outside is my perfect temperature! Where you can get away with a short sleeve or a long sleeve. It is so nice. Unfortunately with the season change comes exhaustion. I am so tired all the time, it's killing me. I promise I am going to bed and waking up on time!! I just cannot make it through the day without a 15 minute nap during lunchtime!
That is really all I have for you this week. We have been busy, everything is kind of blurring into one. This week we are going to do a Halloween party for our English class which I am excited about!
Okay the scripture I have been lovingg these past couple days is Alma 18:32
I absolutely died on Tuesday. I randomly got really sick and basically slept all day, but on Wednesday we had a lesson in the morning so by God's grace I was okay enough by then. My voice is still a little dead, but I don't have "the fevers" anymore!
Also I keep getting in trouble because I keep saying "like" when I am speaking Japanese. It's really bad. 2 different elders have already told me I should not do that. ITS A HARD HABIT TO BREAK! 
BAPTISM #3 WHATTTT WOOP WOOP!
Last Pday we went to the Nagoya Castle and it was so cool! Unfortunatly we can't go in the big castle due to construction things, but there was this other building we went in with all the history and stuff in it. It was super cool! The artwork was beautiful!
Japan Tips!!
I recently have been loving the word Brave. I feel like it is such a powerful word. I think if we want to get anywhere in life we need to be brave. Take those first steps and be brave enough to keep going even if you cannot see the end goal. To be brave enough to choose to trust in something we cannot fully understand. Brave enough to say the words that seem scary to say. As a missionary it is almost required to be brave very day. It is hard, but so important. 
Yagisan is progressing really well towards baptism! Her baptism will be NEXT WEEK!!! AHHH! Right now we are figuring out how the baptism will work because she is in a wheelchair. We have a plan that will hopefully work. I will update everyone next week on what happens. I anticipate and really hope it will be a spirit filled experience!!
I hit my 7 months!! Woah crazyyyy. It is weird to think that this time next year I WILL BE HOME!! This time last year I though the same thing but that I WOULD BE IN JAPAN! Well here I am. I know the time is going to go so fast, so I really have to be careful as to what I take for granted. For example: the amazingly cheap ice cream you can find everywhere!
Basically I record music now. For real! After zone conference a handful of missionaries were recording music for a mission video and someone must have forgotten to send me the music in advance to practice or something... but I happily joined and surprised myself by my sight reading. Just don't tell the people in charge that I snuck my voice in there. 
