Cast Your Nets to the Other Side of the Boat

Hey y'all!!! It was another great week here in Florida! It is so pretty here!! We found quite a few new people to teach this week including a French couple, and a Brazilian woman named Neide! I was so pumped to teach in Portuguese again it felt so good and made my heart happy hahah! Portuguese is the best!! My Spanish is improving but it's a work in progress😂
I forgot to mention that we met the new mission president, President Hollingsworth and his wife a few weeks ago! I love them!! They are so funny and have so much missionary spirit in them, I'm so grateful that they are here!! President Hollingsworth gave a training about the apostles and talked about how in John when they all go fishing after Christ's crucifixion and they catch NOTHING (even though they are experienced fishers) then when they are coming back in there is a man on the shore who tells them to cast their nets on the right side of the boat (like Jesus had done before) immediately they remember and recognize that's its Christ and as they switch the net to the other side they caught so many fish it almost broke the net. Then he went on to ask us if we were willing to show our faith and switch our "nets" to the other side of the boat even though it may make no sense to us! He invited us to think of ways in our work that we can switch our "nets" to the right side or in other words trust in God and follow his way even when we might be confused for a little while! It was a really good training and made me think good and hard about what I can do in my life to 1 recognize what I can change and 2 have the faith to follow my answer because I know that God's plan is ALWAYS better than ours. I have had to learned that the hard way sometimes! But I invite you all to do the same and pray to know what you can do to "switch your nets to the other side" and follow your answers with faith even if they don't make sense at first, eventually they will. Love you all so much, have a great week!!!
Love, Sister Peine
P.s. Sorry I kinda forgot to take pics this week but here is one of us eating rice with our hands with our Filipino friends, Haha

The Lizard!

Hey y'all,
Well this week was the best one yet! We started off the week in a lesson with Alex and Gwen, when we walked into their house a lizard came with us...well Gwen is kind of scared of lizards so she went running, Haha and we spent the good first part of our lesson hunting down the lizard for her. Haha, the lil guy was quick but we got him! This was really a solid lesson! We taught about the difference between intellectual and Spiritual knowledge and how we need to be like the people in the bible who didn't always understand perfectly what Christ was saying but they knew that he was Christ so they followed with faith anyway! We talked about how that is like us and we just have to follow and continue learning line upon line precept upon precept! We then invited him to sincerely pray and follow with faith on the answer he receives. We really focused on how there is no grey area with the BOM, it is either true or not. The spirit was really strong in the lesson and he really opened up to us, I just love Alex and Gwen so much. The world needs more people like them! We also took them to a baptism so that was really good and they liked it a lot! Please keep Alex in your prayers!! We also found a lot of new people tracting this week and got some really good return appointments for this week that we are excited about! Also HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!! 🎉🇺🇸 how lucky are we to live in the USA?!? God truly blessed this land and I'm grateful to live in such a great country! On the fourth of July we went tracting and found the most patriotic elementary school that I have ever seen in my whole life, they painted the school like the American flag! Haha we took some quality pics for y'all, that I'll attach! I also tried to make a watermelon icy thing for lunch that day and I hit the pulse button and then took the lid off not realizing it was going to start again and our watermelon icy exploded all over our house and us, I was honestly surprised how far it went, Haha we ended up with about a cup of icy :') those pulse buttons will get ya! We also did some tracting by the beach. We had to stay on the cement walk way but that's where all the people were anyway to watch the fireworks so it worked great. We had to leave at 9 p.m. and as we were driving home we heard them all go off, Haha so we didn't see any but we heard tons, maybe next year Haha! But we were able to talk to a lot of people on the 4th so that was good! Then yesterday was AWESOME!! The Lord helped us fill a whole pew full of our friends we are working with it was awesome! And the ward helped us so much with helping them all find where they needed to go it was a great day to be a missionary! The Citrus ward park is killing it! I love em! Well that's about it for my week! I'm convinced Sister Heap is my long lost Sister Haha we have a lot of fun and work hard together! Well I love you all and hope you have a great week! God bless America!!!
Love, Sister Peine

New Companion

Hey everyone! This week was the best week yet! Alex and Gwen that we've been teaching are doing great! I love them so much and this guy named Bill, Haha in the lesson this week we were telling him how we ate pig ear once and he just started laughing and saying "you will not believe what's in my fridge" then out of no where pulled a full pig head out of his fridge, hahah it was so funny! We just went grocery shopping and bought a ton of groceries because it's the start of the transfer and the food was GONE and we are trying to eat healthy and be more fit so we bought tons of protein bars and powder and what not and TONS of fruit and stocked up on like toilet paper and all that stuff, so we get back and we had to park far (not that far) but far enough that we didn't want to make more than one trip. So we both filled our arms with bags and then I had the toilet paper and paper towels (at this point I had to go to the bathroom pretty bad, bad combo) she has all her bags and then the watermelon and the pineapple so she was walking like a weirdo so we get going and the tortilla chips fell off my stack and then I stepped on them, they ripped open...then I laughed which made me need to pee more so sister Heap went to pick them up while I sat there bouncing like an idiot and she had to squat like a pregnant woman to pick it up so then I laughed harder and then she dropped her water bottle and it cracked so she kicked it all the way to our door and we were both laughing crying at this point then she squatted and picked up her water bottle and it fully broke and spilt all over our other groceries and then I was laughing so hard I lost all strength and my groceries started falling all over.... but we eventually got in, it's fine just some bruised fruit and I sister Heap's pants were soaked from the water bottle BUT we did it in one trip so we were pretty proud. This week my testimony has really grown in God's power, with his help we can literally do ANYTHING! Faith unlocks his power so hopefully you are all ALWAYS looking for ways to continually strengthen that faith and access that power and have his spirit with you. Love you all and hope you have a great week!
Love, Sister Peine

Brazilian Family!!

Hey y'all!!
Well this week was wild haha, We found a Brazilian family to teach and I’m so excited about it, They are from Sao Paulo, I was sooo excited!!!!!! This week I start my last full transfer so that is crazy to think my mission is officially ending...... Our puzzle has had a lot of success, tons of people came up to us at church yesterday wanting to share their missionary experiences and put their puzzle piece on. We were so excited! Members are soooo important in missionary work! We also go the transfer calls this week! My companion will be leaving, and my new companion’s name is Sister Heap, I’m so excited to meet her. Sister Palmer and I will get to hangout at BYU so that will be fun too! Well our teaching pool really grew this week and we are excited! I love you all and I hope you all have a great week!!!
Love, Sister Peine

Become as a Little Child

Hey everyone I don't have much time but I promise that next weeks email will be more exciting! It rained everyday this week haha LOTS of rain and humidity, my hair looks super great haha!! We had a hard time finding new people but our friends Alex and Gwen from the Philippines came to church again so that as exciting! I just love them so much, no matter what is going on or the problems they have they are just so happy. I was also reading some talks this week from President Nelson and I noticed how much he says he loves kids, and I love how in the Book of Mormon it actually tell us to be more like children...meek submissive, humble, patient, and it goes on (Mosiah 3:19. ) I love that scripture because even if we are are adults or older in age we can still have a spirit like a child. Through the atonement of Christ!! It makes me so grateful for the atonement! So I hope you all notice those attributes of little kids around you and try to be more like them. I think we can actually learn a lot from them haha! We;; I love you all and I hope you have a great week!! Te amo!!
Love, Sister Peine

Visit from the Prophet

Hey everyone, So this week we saw the prophet so you could say it was a pretty great week! We also got to go to the Orlando temple which was so fun. I love temples so so much! A lot of our appointments fell through this week but we still worked really hard. We also spoke in church, I spoke on how through small and simple things are great things brought to pass.... Then related it to the gathering of Israel and how we are all small and simple pieces of a much bigger picture then explained a small activity we are wanting to do with the ward. We made a cool puzzle poster for our ward to help see how much work we are getting done, my idea was inspired by a cool quote I heard, "When performance is measured performance improves...When performance is measured and reported the rate of improvement accelerates." So I will send pictures but basically when they do something off the list we gave them they get to put a puzzle piece on the puzzle and get a small piece of chocolate then when the puzzle is finished we will have a ward BBQ. I hope that made sense, haha I will send some pictures, but we are excited and the ward seems really excited about it too so its gonna be great!! We are also doing a 40 day fast with the ward for missionary work each day a different person fasts for strengthening and growing the ward. We also saw the prophet at a HUGE stadium in Orlando, we were also pleasantly surprised when the members that gave us a ride picked us up in a Tesla, haha it was such a nice car (I'm not in Brasil anymore) I will send some pics!! There were a couple of missions there and thousands of members! It was amazing, President Nelson is truly called of God. I also love how much him and Elder Utchdorf (who was also there) love their wives. They are so cute!! They talked about the importance of inviting people to come and see! I hope y'all are inviting everyone to be a part of the gospel every chance you get! Three powerful words that can change lives "come and see" so invite!! Love y'all have a great week!!!
Love, Sister Peine

Eating Pigs Ears!

Hey y’all, well this week was an interesting one, ha ha we met a lot of unique people I guess you could say! One of my favorite things about serving a mission is the different people you meet. Especially here in Florida because they come from all over the world. We didn't find very many new people to teach this week but we did have some solid lessons with Gwen, Alex, and Errick!! I just love them all so much! Gwen and Alex are from the Philippines and they are the happiest people I have ever met, they also really love making us Filipino food so that's been a good time. Haha like last night we got to eat pig ear......... it was kinda like chewing on a balloon full of pretzels or something I dont know quite know how to describe it. Haha different for sure, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. We did a lot of finding this week and working hard!! Next week we get to go to the Orlando Temple for zone conference and then on Sunday we are going back to Orlando to a huge stadium that president Nelson will be speaking at!! Its going to be an exciting week!! We also got our 72 hour kits packed up because its hurricane season here, hopefully we don’t actually have to use them though, Haha! Well that's it for my week, I'm excited for next week! I hope you're all making your scripture study happen, each day I've noticed that sometimes I just read to read so this week I really made it a goal to read with a question or a purpose and genuinely study the stories and it was cool to see how much I could get out of it even if it was just for 20 minutes before I went to sleep! I hope y’all are reading with a purpose or a question and if you’re not I challenge you to do it and then write down what you learned after each study! He truly can speak to us through his words, the scriptures! I love them!!! And I love all you, have a great week!!
Love, Sister Peine
Quotes of the week:
"Yeah I speak 2 languages too!! Hillbilly and English"
" I was just curious if y’all have 6 wives, because I am a one woman man!! I can’t handle more than that!!"😂😂😂