Sister Emma Petty Charleston West Virginia

Hello Amazing People!!!  Guess what?? It's the start of another transfer. I have been a missionary for almost 8 months, and by the end of this transfer I will hit HALF WAY. I can't even believe it. Part of me wants it to all slow down, to just get to stay still and take in every single moment. Sometimes I think the best possible way to spend my eternity would be as a missionary.  And other times I don't. As much as I truly LOVE being a missionary, sometimes it's really hard! I can't believe I'm almost half way, but at the same time I can't believe I'm not even half way!! If that makes sense, haha. Well one day I was sitting in personal study and all these thoughts were running through my head. I felt this huge weight on my shoulders for all my friends we are teaching here in Peterstown. I didn't know how I could possibly be the missionary they needed. I felt so alone, and I didn't know how I would be able to do all that I needed to. That's wh...

  Hi everyone!! First off, I love yall :) I just wanted to remind you of that if you were wondering!! But also, let me tell you about something amazing: LIFE!!! Isn't that just the coolest thing ever??! We get to live here, on this beautiful earth, with these beautiful souls. I can't think of anything more wonderful than that.  I can't even find one thing to tell you about this week, because it was so full of brilliant moments! Everything from mountain music jams to catching fireflies, this week was simply magical. When I look back on this week, and honestly my whole life, I just see so many miracles. Those little small moments might not seem very miracle-y, but I know that is exactly what they are. God's fingerprints are all over this world, and all over your story!! He created EVERY GOOD THING. Big and small, it was Him! He created the fireflies that light up the dark and the music that warms hearts, and He did it all to make youf happy. Isn't that just incredible...

  Yall this week was WILD. First of all, I saw a lightning bug :) That was the coolest experience of my life!! Here's the second craziest thing from this week: We went by our friends house the other day and when we couldn't find him we walked around to the back. There was this little trailer hidden behind some trees! We walked up to it and I heard him talking inside, so I poked my head in!! We definitely startled him... he was right in the middle of making his moonshine! But good news, he was happy to have a lesson with us! Especially because it got us away from his moonshine still :) We talked about the Book of Mormon and shared our testimonies about how powerful it is! It can change your life when you read it and apply what you learn. I asked if he would read it and he PROMISED me that he wouldn't throw it away... every time I asked he just insisted, on his life, that he would NEVER throw the book away. Not throwing away Holy Scripture is definitely a good thing, but open...

  Hello hello everybody!! What is up??! Things out here in West Virginia are straight up VIBING. It's getting warmer, it's getting greener, and I couldn't be happier!! The only thing that would make it nicer? A working air conditioner :) We have spent SO MUCH time this last month driving our car to the dealership to get the AC looked at, and it's honestly been stressing me out a lot, haha. On those hour drives, with the sweat dripping off my forhead, I have a lot of time to think! And lately I've been beating myself up about how much time we spend working on our car, when we could be doing other missionary work... On one of these trips, though, we met just the right person at just the right moment, and she told us that she immediately recognized us as missionaries. She knew she needed to talk to us. After our talk she told us through her tears that she had really needed us that day :) I could just feel Jesus telling me that everything was going to be okay! This is H...

  Hello hello everyone! Thanks for tuning in to "how did Sister Petty embarrass herself this week?" Well let me tell you! I said the prayer at a dinner appointment and expressed my gratitude for Sally feeding us. There was a really long, uncomfortable silence afterwards, and it wasn't until Sister Humphreys told me in the car that I realized her name was actually Annie. That was a low point for me. But now let me tell you about the high!! This week we met with a cute little widow in our ward, and she was soooo sweet. I decided to share the story of the Widow's Mite with her (the one in Mark 12) and I shared the General Conference talk "Our Heartfelt All" by Elder Uchtdorf. I didn't think too much about it, until yesterday!! She got up in church and said that it had so blessed her to have us come visit. She had read through the talk multiple times, and the story of the poor widow just melted her heart. It made her realize that she was heard and valued, an...

  Hey hey everybody!! How's it going?? This week was AMAZING :) It's been kind of a crazy P day, though, so I'm gonna cut right to the chase: I almost died this week. Well, not really. But there were a bunch of wasps that kept getting in our apartment somehow and I think I damaged some of my organs by screaming so loud. But for real, if you hear about an apartment burning down in Peterstown, you know what happened.  This transfer our focus is on the Book of Mormon!! I thought that would mean pushing it more, and trying to get our friends to read it, but it's actually been the other way around!! We have a couple of friends right now who are taking it WAY seriously, I can't even keep up with them!! I realized if I want the people I teach to love the Book of Mormon, then I need to love the Book of Mormon!! And I am definitely starting to :) I think the more time you spend in the scriptures, the more you love them, because you realize that they teach us so much about Je...