Monday, July 28, 2008
Chance's Email 7/28/2008
wow thanks for the letters! i love hearing about all of the experiences you guys are having! i got mom's, dad's and marcus's letter today, i dont know if london sent one this week but i got hers from last week today, the one with more info on ryan. first of all you guys keep asking if i'm warm and i am, ha ha so don't you worry. dad, i read that thing that jeffrey r holland said and its amazing. he is so intense about his mission it's inspiring, i know we need to follow his counsel. it's hard sometimes cause my comp has had a lot of success but he knows how to have success while not working his hardest. for example, yesterday we were really low in our numbers for the week so we worked like crazy and got 7 new baptismal dates and found 7 new investigators, it was awesome. if only he could have that mindset that we are always low in numbers, then we would really be amazing.
about the baptisms... they were awesome but satan was ridiculously tempting that family this past week cause he knew they were going to get confirmed. edgar, the dad, has been looking for a new job and one looked really promising. he had an interview this week but didn't get hired because he has an accent from peru. racism is such a problem down here. they had many more difficulties and on saturday we recieved a call from the mom saying that the kids were leaving for peru that night. what???? ridiculous! so we talked to them on the phone for a long time and later that night they called and said they were leaving on tuesday instead but were at the mall and getting piercings. what???? so we thought it was like ear piercing and we show up at their house later that night and the kids andrea and adrian had eyebrow rings and lip rings! so we shared some scriptures on how the body is a temple and asked them to take them out. Then we shared experiences when we heard commandments that were tough and how we overcame them and the spirit was strong and we said that the rings needed to be taken out for sacrament meeting tommorrow and the confirmations and we left them. Well, they showed up the next morning and hadn't take them out. it was really hard. the mom and dad got confirmed and the dad was crying after he got confirmed and described it as, "feeling an energy when they put their hands on my head." i thought that was so cool! we are sending the documents of the kids to peru and we are hoping they can get confirmed down there. baptism and confirmation are like pb&j one without the other is incomplete.
this week has been tough, but i have really recognized what a great comp i have. we are opposites completely but he really is a great guy. thanks for your prayer mom i didn't feel really sick but earlier this week my comp did feel sick and i felt a little something in my throat so i took an airborne and prayed for help and i wasn't sick, i am sure part of that was your prayer! you are in tune with the spirit. our president is awesome he is always telling us how important it is to have charity for the chilenos and first and foremost our companions. this was an answer to my prayer cause i always thought it was the people before the companion. but, first we need to have unity then we can help even more!
dad, about some advice for your class, i dont have a lot of time in the mission but i wish i would've known that first and foremost is showing love for your comp and being united, also not losing the fire of the mtc. so many missionaries say that's so mtc, but mtc spirit is what makes people be converted. also accept what your trainer teaches you and listen to him but write down the things you like and the things you want to do different when you switch companions.
if i have a testimony of anything here in the mission its that heavenly father answers our prayers.mom and dad thanks for all the motivation and everything i love you so much, along with marcus and london of course ha ha, and thanks for all you have taught me. i hope to be parents like you later on in my life, how did you do so good? well, im getting chubby i'm not losing weight that's for sure so in the near future i may need a new suit from missionay mall. hopefully i can figure out how to send pictures. i'm gonna try right now. gotta go i love you so much and talk to you later.
elder peterson
about the baptisms... they were awesome but satan was ridiculously tempting that family this past week cause he knew they were going to get confirmed. edgar, the dad, has been looking for a new job and one looked really promising. he had an interview this week but didn't get hired because he has an accent from peru. racism is such a problem down here. they had many more difficulties and on saturday we recieved a call from the mom saying that the kids were leaving for peru that night. what???? ridiculous! so we talked to them on the phone for a long time and later that night they called and said they were leaving on tuesday instead but were at the mall and getting piercings. what???? so we thought it was like ear piercing and we show up at their house later that night and the kids andrea and adrian had eyebrow rings and lip rings! so we shared some scriptures on how the body is a temple and asked them to take them out. Then we shared experiences when we heard commandments that were tough and how we overcame them and the spirit was strong and we said that the rings needed to be taken out for sacrament meeting tommorrow and the confirmations and we left them. Well, they showed up the next morning and hadn't take them out. it was really hard. the mom and dad got confirmed and the dad was crying after he got confirmed and described it as, "feeling an energy when they put their hands on my head." i thought that was so cool! we are sending the documents of the kids to peru and we are hoping they can get confirmed down there. baptism and confirmation are like pb&j one without the other is incomplete.
this week has been tough, but i have really recognized what a great comp i have. we are opposites completely but he really is a great guy. thanks for your prayer mom i didn't feel really sick but earlier this week my comp did feel sick and i felt a little something in my throat so i took an airborne and prayed for help and i wasn't sick, i am sure part of that was your prayer! you are in tune with the spirit. our president is awesome he is always telling us how important it is to have charity for the chilenos and first and foremost our companions. this was an answer to my prayer cause i always thought it was the people before the companion. but, first we need to have unity then we can help even more!
dad, about some advice for your class, i dont have a lot of time in the mission but i wish i would've known that first and foremost is showing love for your comp and being united, also not losing the fire of the mtc. so many missionaries say that's so mtc, but mtc spirit is what makes people be converted. also accept what your trainer teaches you and listen to him but write down the things you like and the things you want to do different when you switch companions.
if i have a testimony of anything here in the mission its that heavenly father answers our prayers.mom and dad thanks for all the motivation and everything i love you so much, along with marcus and london of course ha ha, and thanks for all you have taught me. i hope to be parents like you later on in my life, how did you do so good? well, im getting chubby i'm not losing weight that's for sure so in the near future i may need a new suit from missionay mall. hopefully i can figure out how to send pictures. i'm gonna try right now. gotta go i love you so much and talk to you later.
elder peterson
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Chance's Email 7/14/2008
how is it goin fam???????
thanks for all your letters i was smiling the whole time while reading them i love love love love love love them. first off i got my package!!! holy cow i loved it ha ha ha thanks so much but was it really 65 bucks? if it was please send lighter packages and i will buy more here. i thought it was cheaper than that, i can buy stuff cheaper than it costs to send packages. i got everything ok and that is the address you need to use always. sorry i am really short on time again, the most time we get is 90 min, but the past 2 p-days we have been really busy. dad send those articles via dear elder it would be a lot better cause i have so little time on the computer. mom and dad, i hope you are relieved that i got my package mom. now dont go ballistic and send me a million cause its soooo expensive and i can just use my card here. i know of a REI type of store here that i can buy a sleeping bag for a pretty good price so ill prob do that. thanks so much for your prayers i am recieving so much help everyday. my comp and i are still so different but we are understanding each other better. my new mission president is president may. he is awesome! he kinda reminds me of rob deboer cause he is tall, skinny, and is way good at basketball. he lived in new york as a nonmember and got a scholarship to byu for bball, there he met his wife and was converted and served a mission to argentina. they both speak great spanish and are from orem utah. i beliveve his name is michael may. i had my interview with him and he helped me out so much. he related to me well because he is new too and he was very, very nice. our old pres was more of a matter of fact kinda guy and very blunt. but there are goods and bads to both but im really happy with him. we had a zone conf last week and it was awesome. we have zone class with our zone each week and every once in awhile we have a zone conf. i got to meet with all my buddies from the mtc and we had a goood time. we get together and talk about how crazy life is and share good experiences.
so about my baptism yesterday....it went awesome! i was really nervous but i said the prayer slow and baptized her slowly and i recieved strength and help and it went perfectly. i felt the spirit so strong during the prayer i almost broke out into tears. it really strengthened my testimony and i loved it!! we are baptizing a family of four most likely next week and im so stoked! they are so humble. they are new from peru and have had a lot of trouble with jobs and finding a good home and stuff so we have been helping them. they looooove the gospel and are ready for baptism. their contract for their house expired so we were freaking out trying to find them a new house. remember my first house i told you about that i lived in for 3 days or so?.... well we moved them into that house and its working awesome for them! it was quite the night. their power turned off in the house they were in so we went to help them move and their house was dark and stuff and we didnt have a truck to help them move so we called the elders chorum pres and he drove over in his mazda 626 that was no bigger than a ford taurus and we started loading it. well, it took 3 trips in the mazda and all of their things were in their new house. 3 TRIPS IN A MAZDA. this included their beds their fridge their dressers their clothes everthing! we have so much its ridiculous. but it will be such a good memory. we packed everthing but the front two seat so we could help unload everything and the elders chorum pres drove and we squished in the front seat it was awesome. the elder's chorum pres. loves classic rock and while driving to and from we were listening to it and i was lovin life! it including a little bit of ub40, phil collins, zztop, eric clapton and many more. you would love him dad. also i gotta go but one last thing.. we gave two blessing of health to two members this week and it was such a good experience. keep in mind it was all in spanish and i had no idea what to say but heavenly father helped me and it was such a great experience. i love you all and talk to you next week.
elder peterson
thanks for all your letters i was smiling the whole time while reading them i love love love love love love them. first off i got my package!!! holy cow i loved it ha ha ha thanks so much but was it really 65 bucks? if it was please send lighter packages and i will buy more here. i thought it was cheaper than that, i can buy stuff cheaper than it costs to send packages. i got everything ok and that is the address you need to use always. sorry i am really short on time again, the most time we get is 90 min, but the past 2 p-days we have been really busy. dad send those articles via dear elder it would be a lot better cause i have so little time on the computer. mom and dad, i hope you are relieved that i got my package mom. now dont go ballistic and send me a million cause its soooo expensive and i can just use my card here. i know of a REI type of store here that i can buy a sleeping bag for a pretty good price so ill prob do that. thanks so much for your prayers i am recieving so much help everyday. my comp and i are still so different but we are understanding each other better. my new mission president is president may. he is awesome! he kinda reminds me of rob deboer cause he is tall, skinny, and is way good at basketball. he lived in new york as a nonmember and got a scholarship to byu for bball, there he met his wife and was converted and served a mission to argentina. they both speak great spanish and are from orem utah. i beliveve his name is michael may. i had my interview with him and he helped me out so much. he related to me well because he is new too and he was very, very nice. our old pres was more of a matter of fact kinda guy and very blunt. but there are goods and bads to both but im really happy with him. we had a zone conf last week and it was awesome. we have zone class with our zone each week and every once in awhile we have a zone conf. i got to meet with all my buddies from the mtc and we had a goood time. we get together and talk about how crazy life is and share good experiences.
so about my baptism yesterday....it went awesome! i was really nervous but i said the prayer slow and baptized her slowly and i recieved strength and help and it went perfectly. i felt the spirit so strong during the prayer i almost broke out into tears. it really strengthened my testimony and i loved it!! we are baptizing a family of four most likely next week and im so stoked! they are so humble. they are new from peru and have had a lot of trouble with jobs and finding a good home and stuff so we have been helping them. they looooove the gospel and are ready for baptism. their contract for their house expired so we were freaking out trying to find them a new house. remember my first house i told you about that i lived in for 3 days or so?.... well we moved them into that house and its working awesome for them! it was quite the night. their power turned off in the house they were in so we went to help them move and their house was dark and stuff and we didnt have a truck to help them move so we called the elders chorum pres and he drove over in his mazda 626 that was no bigger than a ford taurus and we started loading it. well, it took 3 trips in the mazda and all of their things were in their new house. 3 TRIPS IN A MAZDA. this included their beds their fridge their dressers their clothes everthing! we have so much its ridiculous. but it will be such a good memory. we packed everthing but the front two seat so we could help unload everything and the elders chorum pres drove and we squished in the front seat it was awesome. the elder's chorum pres. loves classic rock and while driving to and from we were listening to it and i was lovin life! it including a little bit of ub40, phil collins, zztop, eric clapton and many more. you would love him dad. also i gotta go but one last thing.. we gave two blessing of health to two members this week and it was such a good experience. keep in mind it was all in spanish and i had no idea what to say but heavenly father helped me and it was such a great experience. i love you all and talk to you next week.
elder peterson
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Chance's Email 7/7/08
beloved family,
thanks for the letter it was awesome! i am stoked to hear that london is going to china! that is so intense and awesome! ya london i am sure that the food will be different but dont worry. the chileans dont even know what a burrito is. serious. i am also glad to hear that dads leg is getting better, marcus is searching for jobs, 4th of july was great, and the martins visited. i think you should tell everyone the package address because mike steckling tried to send me a letter and it got sent back as well. i am not sure where my pres lives now but they live in utah somwhere. our new pres is awesome and everyone loves him. we are all stoked. i dont have a lot of time today cause we did an activity with our zone today and it cut out on some of our pday time.. youll never guess what we did....paintball!! how awesome is that???? i had such a blast. i didnt think we could do it but ya we could. we took this bus to the middle of nowhere and played in this forest. they had brown jumpsuits, onepiece, for us and camo one piece for the other team and we had a riot! eric and i dominated kamikazzee style it was awesome. i have some pretty good welts to show too. unfortunately i forgot to bring my camera but eric brought his and elder marshal (my mtc buddy) had his and i aksed them to make copies so all should be good. this coming sunday we have 2 baptisms! i am stoked and i am performing one myself! i am really excited slash a little nervous because she is pretty big so i need to do some push ups and pray for strength. we have had some awesome teaching experiences. we found this family the delgado family and they are very genuine and ready for the gospel. they have been married for 20 years and have two kids and are new to chile. they are very poor and very humble. the dad works on sundays but after hearing our message he stood up to his boss and said i dont care what yo0u say this is important to me and im going to church and he went to church with us yesterday along with his wife and daughter. he loves the gospel and we have set a date for their family to be baptised on the 27th. its so cool this work. last week has flown by but the days are long. during our fast and testimony meeting yesterday a blind man in our ward got up, he blesses the sacrament almost every sunday, and he got up and bore his testimony and thanked heavenly father for all his blessings including his health and it was awesome. it really humbled me and made me think of how much i take for granted. after church we ate at an investigators house that is going to be baptized next week. she is awesome her name is margarita munoz and i want you guys to eat at her house when you come down. her house is safe and she is awesome. she was the first person i ever taught. we had rice, fries, fried eggs, and steak, random huh? but thats really normal, the food here is so different but i loved her food. what they do here in chile is serve shredded lettuce with oil as the dressing. plain lettuce with oil. then they will have cut up onions in a dish. then they will have in another dish tomatoes. you just dish it out and eat it, you dont mix it with anything its just the side dish soooo weird ha ha. they also have a really weird mayonaise here that most people like but im not fond of it. ok funny story. so we were eating with the flores family (the dry toast family, like greek wedding, but seriously they are the ones that feed us toast till we cant eat anymore) and the grandpa in the house was talking a lot and i noticed something; first, he always has a snaggle tooth and second, his teeth move when he talks, he has dentures!!! man, those things are not stuck in place at all, they are moving around like people in a packed wave pool. i couldnt stop staring, i felt bad ha ha. but one day we were talking and someone banged on their door really hard and ran away. the grandpa went out there and yelled every word in the book. i was afraid he was gonna yell his teeth out. we had a good laugh.
ok i will try to find a sleeping bag but i haven´t seen one yet. my bed isnt horrible but i know i have one of the best and i am a sleeping bag fanso i'll get one. well about the package it should be here this week. it usually takes 15 to 20 days so it should be here this week. the address my comp gave me for packages and letters is the following. my name, my mission and the following-----forestal 2680 of. 32 conchali Santiago Chile is the address that should be used. i am confident whatever address you used is ok but for now i think this one is better. our office is changing locations so i will try to keep you updated. the city i am in is vivaceta, if you happen to talk to someone who knows santiago tell them i can see the hipodromo from my window. dont fret too much about the recipes i have found ways to eat good ha ha and my comp cooks almost every night . he loves all the homemaking stuff like cooking and cleaning, he cleans almost everyday and the apt. has to be spotless. he loves shopping, he bought us some curtains for the apartment and he wants to buy a plant because he thinks our apartment is too plain and he watches cooking shows like the ones that are on at 3 in the morning that noone watches ha ha its funny. well i gotta go... thank you so much for your prayers, i am praying for you as well cause i am doing better than you think, i want you guys to be happy. thanks so much and tell everyone i am trying to write them. i love you so much family of mineelder peterson
thanks for the letter it was awesome! i am stoked to hear that london is going to china! that is so intense and awesome! ya london i am sure that the food will be different but dont worry. the chileans dont even know what a burrito is. serious. i am also glad to hear that dads leg is getting better, marcus is searching for jobs, 4th of july was great, and the martins visited. i think you should tell everyone the package address because mike steckling tried to send me a letter and it got sent back as well. i am not sure where my pres lives now but they live in utah somwhere. our new pres is awesome and everyone loves him. we are all stoked. i dont have a lot of time today cause we did an activity with our zone today and it cut out on some of our pday time.. youll never guess what we did....paintball!! how awesome is that???? i had such a blast. i didnt think we could do it but ya we could. we took this bus to the middle of nowhere and played in this forest. they had brown jumpsuits, onepiece, for us and camo one piece for the other team and we had a riot! eric and i dominated kamikazzee style it was awesome. i have some pretty good welts to show too. unfortunately i forgot to bring my camera but eric brought his and elder marshal (my mtc buddy) had his and i aksed them to make copies so all should be good. this coming sunday we have 2 baptisms! i am stoked and i am performing one myself! i am really excited slash a little nervous because she is pretty big so i need to do some push ups and pray for strength. we have had some awesome teaching experiences. we found this family the delgado family and they are very genuine and ready for the gospel. they have been married for 20 years and have two kids and are new to chile. they are very poor and very humble. the dad works on sundays but after hearing our message he stood up to his boss and said i dont care what yo0u say this is important to me and im going to church and he went to church with us yesterday along with his wife and daughter. he loves the gospel and we have set a date for their family to be baptised on the 27th. its so cool this work. last week has flown by but the days are long. during our fast and testimony meeting yesterday a blind man in our ward got up, he blesses the sacrament almost every sunday, and he got up and bore his testimony and thanked heavenly father for all his blessings including his health and it was awesome. it really humbled me and made me think of how much i take for granted. after church we ate at an investigators house that is going to be baptized next week. she is awesome her name is margarita munoz and i want you guys to eat at her house when you come down. her house is safe and she is awesome. she was the first person i ever taught. we had rice, fries, fried eggs, and steak, random huh? but thats really normal, the food here is so different but i loved her food. what they do here in chile is serve shredded lettuce with oil as the dressing. plain lettuce with oil. then they will have cut up onions in a dish. then they will have in another dish tomatoes. you just dish it out and eat it, you dont mix it with anything its just the side dish soooo weird ha ha. they also have a really weird mayonaise here that most people like but im not fond of it. ok funny story. so we were eating with the flores family (the dry toast family, like greek wedding, but seriously they are the ones that feed us toast till we cant eat anymore) and the grandpa in the house was talking a lot and i noticed something; first, he always has a snaggle tooth and second, his teeth move when he talks, he has dentures!!! man, those things are not stuck in place at all, they are moving around like people in a packed wave pool. i couldnt stop staring, i felt bad ha ha. but one day we were talking and someone banged on their door really hard and ran away. the grandpa went out there and yelled every word in the book. i was afraid he was gonna yell his teeth out. we had a good laugh.
ok i will try to find a sleeping bag but i haven´t seen one yet. my bed isnt horrible but i know i have one of the best and i am a sleeping bag fanso i'll get one. well about the package it should be here this week. it usually takes 15 to 20 days so it should be here this week. the address my comp gave me for packages and letters is the following. my name, my mission and the following-----forestal 2680 of. 32 conchali Santiago Chile is the address that should be used. i am confident whatever address you used is ok but for now i think this one is better. our office is changing locations so i will try to keep you updated. the city i am in is vivaceta, if you happen to talk to someone who knows santiago tell them i can see the hipodromo from my window. dont fret too much about the recipes i have found ways to eat good ha ha and my comp cooks almost every night . he loves all the homemaking stuff like cooking and cleaning, he cleans almost everyday and the apt. has to be spotless. he loves shopping, he bought us some curtains for the apartment and he wants to buy a plant because he thinks our apartment is too plain and he watches cooking shows like the ones that are on at 3 in the morning that noone watches ha ha its funny. well i gotta go... thank you so much for your prayers, i am praying for you as well cause i am doing better than you think, i want you guys to be happy. thanks so much and tell everyone i am trying to write them. i love you so much family of mineelder peterson
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Chance's Email 6/30/2008
hey fam!
thanks so much for all of the letters! i love hearing about how you are doing and everything. first of all happy birthday dad! i hope it was great! im stoked you all had a blast at the beach house! dad i cant believe you stinkin ate it on the longboard that is hilarious/ scary/ ouch! dont feel like a dope though i want you to continue to be young, just dont kill yourself doing crazy things until after i get home ok? so from what i hear if i understood correctly you guys miss me? ha ha well i want you all to know i miss each of you individually in different ways and as a family. i love you all so much and love hearing from you. but dont let yourselves feel sad when you miss me, just smile and be happy that i have this awesome opportunity. it does no good to be sad. i love you all so much and i have found a way to continue to miss you but not feel homesick.
this week has been a lot better than last week, i am understanding more of the language, i can communicate with the people a little better everyday and i am not feeling sad when i think of you guys. i have learned so much patience and humility from elder bentancur its great. we love each other but we have our difficulties. dont worry its nothing serious but pray for unity for us.
london thats cool that the china thing looks good, that would be killer! i know it would be a perfect experience for you! keep me updated, including your feelings about it. mom im so glad you can close your eyes and still see me and imagine me. i can always imagine you guys and i love thinking of the good times. dad thanks for the help and suggestions. i think i sleeping bag would be killer! you dont need to send one ASAP but i think i would love that. and ya i will prob buy a heater or somethin soon. something i could use are those earmuff things that clip around the back of your head cause we can wear beanies but they are kinda discouraged. as far as food goes i pretty much miss everything so you can send whatever ha ha. but dont worry mom im ok dont wig out and send me 10 packages ha. the packages and mail are sent to the office and each zone meeting we have we pick up our mail. i think dear elder would be the fastest way to send me recipes that i can look at. it usually takes about a week i think for a dear elder to come. but i think that would be the best way. i was able to recieve the pictures! holy calf! (pun intended). thats insane i hope your are ok dad ha ha. marcus thanks for the letter i cant wait to see all your cool clothes you bought and stuff. about the job thing, just get one its not that bad ha ha. it really is a good thing and you get money ever two weeks and can spend it on whatever you want, who cares where you work just get a job so you dont have to continue working for free ha ha.
so we have this family that we teach that consists of 2 daughters around 10 years old, a mom in her 30s and her mom in her 50s. they remind me exactly of the family on practical magic, the family of witches. they all live together and have a bunch of cats and laugh and cook and have a messy house and love us and just have a good time. yesterday, the grandma, hermana guerrero made a bunch of calzones rotos which are similar to the scones you make on halloween mom, they are delicious! she kept feeding us some and gave us some to take home. there are also empanadas here that i havent tried but they look delicious! and a thing called sopapias. they are round and flat and yellow and are scone like as well . mom you need to write these down so you can get the recipes when you come down. i love them! i just dont know how to ask for recipes and stuff ha ha. there is also another family, the flores family, they have some teenage boys, their parents and their grandparents and other relatives. they all live together and just enjoy each other. they are all loud and just sit around and watch tv, eat, and laugh, i love going over to their house. many of them are members but there are a few that arent. as soon as we enter their house they turn off the tv,invite us to the table, bring us coke or other soda, and some toast (on this different bread which is delicious), and invite everyone to the table where we talk and laugh and eat all the toast we possibly can. then we teach them a lesson. antor, one of the adults, loves the gospel but doesnt feel like its his time to be baptized so we are working on him. there are also 2 19 year olds we are working on as well. one has a baptismal date for next month and another loves to hammer us with questions and we are trying to help him but he just needs to excercise faith and believe.
the grandma we've been teaching has slowed her progression a little but we are continuing to teach her. she is a widow and has dreams of her spouse telling her not to join the church. these dreams really affect her progression. we are helping her though and i believe she will soon be baptized. as far as other investigators go we have a bunch and right now have 17 baptismal dates. not all of them will happen, but im thinking next month we should have at least 10. also we have found some other families that just have a light in their eyes when we teach them. they have set baptism dates and they are ready. its hard to understand how people continue on in this life without the gospel. i cant live without it.
we had the opportunity to go to the temple this week and eat at the presidents house, for the last time because we get our new pres tomorrow, and the temple was awesome. i was able to relax and let my mind focus on the temple. it was all in spanish but at times i had a headset to help me. oh ya somethin funny, when we were teaching the practical magic family, we were watching a movie on the restoration and this fly kept on crawling on the tv. very distracting so i leaned forward and hit the tv with my planner and tried to hit the fly, well i thought i missed and we continued watching and them i felt some thing on the back of my planner. it was the fly. i had nailed it and it was half smooshed onto my planner. we all had a good laugh and now i have fly guts stained on my new planner ha ha. it was very funny. well i gotta go, last word, next package you send could you send my wallet that i sent home, and also maybe some frito bean dip, the salsa stinks here so i need some bean dip, well thats all i can think of right now, i love you all so much and ill talk to you later.
love elder peterson
thanks so much for all of the letters! i love hearing about how you are doing and everything. first of all happy birthday dad! i hope it was great! im stoked you all had a blast at the beach house! dad i cant believe you stinkin ate it on the longboard that is hilarious/ scary/ ouch! dont feel like a dope though i want you to continue to be young, just dont kill yourself doing crazy things until after i get home ok? so from what i hear if i understood correctly you guys miss me? ha ha well i want you all to know i miss each of you individually in different ways and as a family. i love you all so much and love hearing from you. but dont let yourselves feel sad when you miss me, just smile and be happy that i have this awesome opportunity. it does no good to be sad. i love you all so much and i have found a way to continue to miss you but not feel homesick.
this week has been a lot better than last week, i am understanding more of the language, i can communicate with the people a little better everyday and i am not feeling sad when i think of you guys. i have learned so much patience and humility from elder bentancur its great. we love each other but we have our difficulties. dont worry its nothing serious but pray for unity for us.
london thats cool that the china thing looks good, that would be killer! i know it would be a perfect experience for you! keep me updated, including your feelings about it. mom im so glad you can close your eyes and still see me and imagine me. i can always imagine you guys and i love thinking of the good times. dad thanks for the help and suggestions. i think i sleeping bag would be killer! you dont need to send one ASAP but i think i would love that. and ya i will prob buy a heater or somethin soon. something i could use are those earmuff things that clip around the back of your head cause we can wear beanies but they are kinda discouraged. as far as food goes i pretty much miss everything so you can send whatever ha ha. but dont worry mom im ok dont wig out and send me 10 packages ha. the packages and mail are sent to the office and each zone meeting we have we pick up our mail. i think dear elder would be the fastest way to send me recipes that i can look at. it usually takes about a week i think for a dear elder to come. but i think that would be the best way. i was able to recieve the pictures! holy calf! (pun intended). thats insane i hope your are ok dad ha ha. marcus thanks for the letter i cant wait to see all your cool clothes you bought and stuff. about the job thing, just get one its not that bad ha ha. it really is a good thing and you get money ever two weeks and can spend it on whatever you want, who cares where you work just get a job so you dont have to continue working for free ha ha.
so we have this family that we teach that consists of 2 daughters around 10 years old, a mom in her 30s and her mom in her 50s. they remind me exactly of the family on practical magic, the family of witches. they all live together and have a bunch of cats and laugh and cook and have a messy house and love us and just have a good time. yesterday, the grandma, hermana guerrero made a bunch of calzones rotos which are similar to the scones you make on halloween mom, they are delicious! she kept feeding us some and gave us some to take home. there are also empanadas here that i havent tried but they look delicious! and a thing called sopapias. they are round and flat and yellow and are scone like as well . mom you need to write these down so you can get the recipes when you come down. i love them! i just dont know how to ask for recipes and stuff ha ha. there is also another family, the flores family, they have some teenage boys, their parents and their grandparents and other relatives. they all live together and just enjoy each other. they are all loud and just sit around and watch tv, eat, and laugh, i love going over to their house. many of them are members but there are a few that arent. as soon as we enter their house they turn off the tv,invite us to the table, bring us coke or other soda, and some toast (on this different bread which is delicious), and invite everyone to the table where we talk and laugh and eat all the toast we possibly can. then we teach them a lesson. antor, one of the adults, loves the gospel but doesnt feel like its his time to be baptized so we are working on him. there are also 2 19 year olds we are working on as well. one has a baptismal date for next month and another loves to hammer us with questions and we are trying to help him but he just needs to excercise faith and believe.
the grandma we've been teaching has slowed her progression a little but we are continuing to teach her. she is a widow and has dreams of her spouse telling her not to join the church. these dreams really affect her progression. we are helping her though and i believe she will soon be baptized. as far as other investigators go we have a bunch and right now have 17 baptismal dates. not all of them will happen, but im thinking next month we should have at least 10. also we have found some other families that just have a light in their eyes when we teach them. they have set baptism dates and they are ready. its hard to understand how people continue on in this life without the gospel. i cant live without it.
we had the opportunity to go to the temple this week and eat at the presidents house, for the last time because we get our new pres tomorrow, and the temple was awesome. i was able to relax and let my mind focus on the temple. it was all in spanish but at times i had a headset to help me. oh ya somethin funny, when we were teaching the practical magic family, we were watching a movie on the restoration and this fly kept on crawling on the tv. very distracting so i leaned forward and hit the tv with my planner and tried to hit the fly, well i thought i missed and we continued watching and them i felt some thing on the back of my planner. it was the fly. i had nailed it and it was half smooshed onto my planner. we all had a good laugh and now i have fly guts stained on my new planner ha ha. it was very funny. well i gotta go, last word, next package you send could you send my wallet that i sent home, and also maybe some frito bean dip, the salsa stinks here so i need some bean dip, well thats all i can think of right now, i love you all so much and ill talk to you later.
love elder peterson
London Is A Hit At EFY!
London was asked by the Bishop of our ward to be a volunteer counselor at EFY this summer. She began her amazing week of fun and fatigue on June 9th. These darling girls (above) that she is sandwiched in between were her girls for the week. She and her girls along with her co-counselor (Brian) and his boys were a 'company' called "No Temptation".
Throughout the week this company became well known in their session for being energetic and friendly to everyone. They were an extremely cohesive group that developed great love and respect for one another.
It was an emotional night for London on Friday when the boys in her company presented her with a dozen roses and a notebook they had all written in expressing their love and appreciation for all that she had done for them and taught them throughout the week! London said this has been one of the most rewarding things she has ever done and would like to apply to be a "paid" counselor for next summer! Apparently it's quite the process to become a counselor, but she has a few leaders that were quite impressed with her abilities and want to recommend her! GO LONDON!!!
Marcus Has Run In With Wild...Barbed Wire!!!
Marcus had a much more impressive story to tell than just running full speed into an obstructed barbed wired fence and having to pull the embedded barbs out of his stomach. Yes, I think his story involved a cougar and a cobra if I'm not mistaken.
Just for the record all you teenagers...Mother DOES know best! See the shirt Marcus was wearing when attacked by the vicious fence? Well, he was a bit peeved at his mother for making him change out of his brother's shirt before he left to hang with his buddies. I would think now he's pretty grateful to mom for saving him about $25 buying Chance a new shirt!
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