Chance's Email 5/28/2008

how is it goin fam?????

i love you all so much and i never thank you enough for all the support you give me. i really am so amazingly blessed to have the family that i do! thank you thank you thank you! this was a wonderful week! we heard from pres monsons daughter last night at the devotional and it was so cool! her theme was "my father is a prophet" and she just went off on all the cool attributes he has and that we should all strive to have the same attributes! on saturday we had our zone conf and it was an amazing experience! we heard from 1 elder and 2 sisters and they told us their conversion stories! it was so powerful! the spirit is always so strong in zone meetings and i love it! some of my good friends here are: elder hawkes (sandy), elder street of (midway), elder weber (colorado), elder havea (tonga), elder collins (provo), and several others. i am getting to know so many cool people it will be sad to leave them in 10 days! wow 10 days and i'm outta here! i seriously cant believe it! i am so pumped i can't contain myself. i will let you know asap when my flight is. i get my plans on friday so i will let you know next p day.

i have continued to have spiritual confirmations as i teach lessons to teachers here and i get so excited everytime i talk about the plan of salvation. i did a pretty sick comparison to what my heaven will be like in marcus's letter have him show you. i know that heavenly father will always answer us whether it be through the scriptures or through another person or even our own thoughts. i love the spirit so much and i feel like a full reservoir in a monsoon.. i cant take anymore water (spirit) in my life cause im already overflowing! i am continuing to recieve the coolest experiences as i study the scriptures, it is not the same book as it used to be. it is more like my inspirational handbook now and a novel rather than the boring book it used to be to read. i think its cause i am applying it to my life so much more. i did another excercise about all of the attributes of the 2000 stripling warriors and how i can apply each attribute to my life and how i can improve on it. it is amazing how the scrips come to life when you apply them.

go ahead and send that suit back i will try to squeeze into it. hopefully, (but not really) i'll lose weight in chile so it will fit again. oh yeah, i also had to buy a new belt cause one doesnt fit anymore hahahaha, but seriously i'm not fat, it would be nice to have even more weight on. wow some choc covered rasberries sound delicious i never would have thought of that. i still have tons of cadbury eggs so im good on those for prob a year haha.

i am loving my district so much we get along real well and i have a stronger testimony of service. i have a cool exp: whenever i get up and tell myself im gonna have a good day, i have a good day! we really are the masters of our own destinies, and we can determine our attitudes. it's not up to other people but it's up to us.

that's so cool that you have set up the blog and everything, that makes it so much easier for me cause it makes me feel like everyone knows whats going on although i need to send letters still. mom thanks so much for the packages you are awesome and dad thanks so much for the stories and inspirtational talks you give me they are awesome. i love hearing from you every week! as i read that thing about heber c kimball i couldn't agree more. my circumstances aren't nearly as hard as his but i know heavenly father and jesus christ should always be number 1 in our lives. i also loved the words of pres faust when he says sometimes we just need to be unpopular and say this isn't right. i love it. i wish i would have done a little more of that before my misssion. i know standing up for whats right has such an effect on others cause it did on me.

well i am running out of time so i need to close. dad, my comp has his priesthood line of authority and it's so stinkin cool! is there anyway you could send me that so i can show my investigators? i love you so much and thanks for the letters and goodies. keep going strong- eternity hangs in the balance!!!

elder peterson