hey fam!
wow thanks for the emails i have spent a lot of time reading them today and some my friends sent some and like 5 from elder bentancur ha ha. he called today and was talking to me it was cool. well i'm doing really good. seriously. last week was tough cause i had a pretty big burden on my shoulders but now i'm used to it and i am actually feeling like i'm achieving my potential. it's awesome, it was tough last week but i'm growing from the trials i had. my comp loves to work and is really obedient so we are good there. sometimes he needs some encouraging but i'm ready to give it whenever. so i sent a letter to the house with a memory card with like 4 or 5 videos on it. it was really last minute so i forgot to delete some videos if they were stupid. the lady who stamped my letter was a little skeptic cause she felt something hard in the envelope and asked me what was in there and i tried to answer without lying but she put a green sticker on it so i dont know what that means but i hope it gets there. i got the package!! wow it was great. before i continue i just wanna say i stinkin love the packages but they are expensive so mom i'm living here in chile, there is candy here too and you can send the packages less often if you want cause i know they are like 50 bucks a piece. wow the package was awesome i loved the candy, spaghettios and cereal. they are awesome. i'm glad you have guessed good enough with the cereals cause there are some american cereals here but very few.
ok as for the work, we are lowering in our numbers since my comp left, but i'm learning a lot and we are working like crazy and being obedient and the blessings are waiting around the corner. one experience i had that i wrote in sissy's letter is we were knocking doors yesterday and came upon two young guns who were 19 and you could tell they were headed in the wrong direction so we were talking to them a lot and had a big gospel discussion about the plan of salvation and why we were at their door talking to them, we told them how much the gospel means to us and i could feel like i could really relate to them and i feel like we helped them a ton. i love sharing the gospel like that. i felt so happy after and things like that just make my mission. i know later on they are gonna listen to the missionaries and hopefully serve missions.
dad thanks for all the advice and mom for the quotes. wow i love nephi's psalm it's awesome, and some of those quotes are killer. i see roses everday knocking doors and i'm always gonna think of that quote now. no matter how awesome the mission is satan always tries to tear us down and see the negative. i have learned to be more positive about things and see the good.
well fam i need to go cause im gonna chat with mom for a little. marcus you're a giant, stop growing. at least i'm fatter than you. have a great week, love you all to pieces.
elder peterson
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Chance's Email 10/20/08
hey fam!
how are you guys doin? thanks for you letters i love them every single week. so ya i've got my new comp, ha ha he is an uber dork but he is a stud. he is so ready to work and is obedient with exactness which is all i could ask for. he has 9 mo. in the mission and in our mission we aren't assigned as senior or junior companions. i think it's better that way cause we feel like equals. i'm still in the same area and im running things now cause he knows nothing about the area so it's been a lot of pressure but i have learned so stinkin much! he understands everything of what the people say but his pronunciation is a little "gringo" but thats ok. he never complain he just follows me and we teach and work and it's all good. as for my spanish it has improved a ton this week cause im FORCED to listen more carefully and speak more. i can understand almost everything and i'm expanding my vocab each day. i could live on my own if i had to. but don't think im braggin cause i could do so much better. heavenly father has really blessed me with the gift of tongues and i dont thank him enough.
i haven't recieve the package yet but i'm way stoked. i hope it doesn't make me fatter than i already am. in our apartment we run up the stairs for excercise (all 20 floors twice) and i can feel my gut bouncin up and down, it's sad. it's not huge but it's not pretty. i hope there are some slim fast bars inside the package. jk haha i will lose all of this in the summer i'm almost positive. taylor is still in my zone and eric recieved a new comp on the island so he should be there for like 3 more mo. some good news about taylor, we had our conf with the pres and taylor said the opening prayer and when he ended pres. got up and was like isn't that amazing? how much time do you have in the mission elder toone? 6 weeks. look at that, he said, it's incredible how well elder toone can speak in so little time, how blessed you have been. he really gave props to him and really taylor speaks so well! a little later the pres shared some stories of basketball. he is like the chuck cutler of stories in church talks but with basketball. he was a coach and tells us tons of inspiring stories about his team and how they had success as a team. he has really emphasized teamwork as a mission and we set goals as a mission. it's awesome. i really love our president and i feel like we have a lot in common. just how he talks and stuff. he is really sensitive and i really feel close to him when he talks.
i can't believe the news about kenz. i will miss her if she gets married but hey that's life i guess. i wanna hear from her. one thing we did yesterday was visit a lot of inactive members and commit them to come to the church. one thing our president says about the work is " there is no difference between a baptism and reactivating someone" i really love that he has said this because i feel the same way. why baptize someone if they aren't going to go to church and keep their covenants? this is something i want to focus on all my mission along with baptisms. it's something that doesn't show our success with numbers, but heavenly father wants. i don't care if i come home with less baptisms and more members active if that's what the Lord wants. i just want to feel like i strengthened the church and the wards where i served. ok for some more "light" stuff. we ate at a house for lunch this week and they brought out a soup for us and it contained a really thin watery broth with a big hip bone or something in it. it was called "sopa de hueso" which translates to "bone soup". it had like a sliver of beef on it and the rest was just there to flavor the soup with bone flavor haha. i was sad that mom and london missed out. also, soccer is HUGE here and whenever chile scores a goal the whole city knows it cause the streets erupt with cheers. also they beat argentina for the first time ever and cars were whizzin down the street and horns were blaring and it was insane! well gotta go. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISSY AND GRANDMA WINDA! I hope your birthdays are awesome. i love you fam and everyone else!
elder peterson
how are you guys doin? thanks for you letters i love them every single week. so ya i've got my new comp, ha ha he is an uber dork but he is a stud. he is so ready to work and is obedient with exactness which is all i could ask for. he has 9 mo. in the mission and in our mission we aren't assigned as senior or junior companions. i think it's better that way cause we feel like equals. i'm still in the same area and im running things now cause he knows nothing about the area so it's been a lot of pressure but i have learned so stinkin much! he understands everything of what the people say but his pronunciation is a little "gringo" but thats ok. he never complain he just follows me and we teach and work and it's all good. as for my spanish it has improved a ton this week cause im FORCED to listen more carefully and speak more. i can understand almost everything and i'm expanding my vocab each day. i could live on my own if i had to. but don't think im braggin cause i could do so much better. heavenly father has really blessed me with the gift of tongues and i dont thank him enough.
i haven't recieve the package yet but i'm way stoked. i hope it doesn't make me fatter than i already am. in our apartment we run up the stairs for excercise (all 20 floors twice) and i can feel my gut bouncin up and down, it's sad. it's not huge but it's not pretty. i hope there are some slim fast bars inside the package. jk haha i will lose all of this in the summer i'm almost positive. taylor is still in my zone and eric recieved a new comp on the island so he should be there for like 3 more mo. some good news about taylor, we had our conf with the pres and taylor said the opening prayer and when he ended pres. got up and was like isn't that amazing? how much time do you have in the mission elder toone? 6 weeks. look at that, he said, it's incredible how well elder toone can speak in so little time, how blessed you have been. he really gave props to him and really taylor speaks so well! a little later the pres shared some stories of basketball. he is like the chuck cutler of stories in church talks but with basketball. he was a coach and tells us tons of inspiring stories about his team and how they had success as a team. he has really emphasized teamwork as a mission and we set goals as a mission. it's awesome. i really love our president and i feel like we have a lot in common. just how he talks and stuff. he is really sensitive and i really feel close to him when he talks.
i can't believe the news about kenz. i will miss her if she gets married but hey that's life i guess. i wanna hear from her. one thing we did yesterday was visit a lot of inactive members and commit them to come to the church. one thing our president says about the work is " there is no difference between a baptism and reactivating someone" i really love that he has said this because i feel the same way. why baptize someone if they aren't going to go to church and keep their covenants? this is something i want to focus on all my mission along with baptisms. it's something that doesn't show our success with numbers, but heavenly father wants. i don't care if i come home with less baptisms and more members active if that's what the Lord wants. i just want to feel like i strengthened the church and the wards where i served. ok for some more "light" stuff. we ate at a house for lunch this week and they brought out a soup for us and it contained a really thin watery broth with a big hip bone or something in it. it was called "sopa de hueso" which translates to "bone soup". it had like a sliver of beef on it and the rest was just there to flavor the soup with bone flavor haha. i was sad that mom and london missed out. also, soccer is HUGE here and whenever chile scores a goal the whole city knows it cause the streets erupt with cheers. also they beat argentina for the first time ever and cars were whizzin down the street and horns were blaring and it was insane! well gotta go. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISSY AND GRANDMA WINDA! I hope your birthdays are awesome. i love you fam and everyone else!
elder peterson
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Chance's Email 10/12/08
FAM FAM FAM
WHATS GOIN ON? ok so first things first....my companion got transferred! i feel bad putting an exclamation point at the end of that but i really feel relieved in a way. as missionaries we can only progress so far with our trainers because naturally they do the majority of the work and whenever we have difficulties they help us out. well i am very relieved in a way and also i feel a heavy responsibility to carry on the work in my area with another missionary that knows nothing about it. it really is a blessing though cause now i can explode with all the potential i have. it's gonna be hard but i'm gonna grow a ton! my companion was a great elder but i was just so different from him. for my 6mo mark he threw a party at night in our house and bought a cake and asked some members to make brownies and chocolate chip cookies(very low quality) and we made pizza and partied. he really is awesome and i will remain in contact with him. he really needed me as a companion and i him. we learned a lot together and improved ourselves like no other. my new companion is named elder olsen. he is very very very different from my crazy uruguayan comp. he is from wyoming and is mr sci fi if you know what i mean. haha ya he has glasses and ya just use your imagination. well he is cool he isn't mr silencio so thats good and he laughs at little things so i thing we will be good. i don't think i have to worry about recieving too many hugs from him. i really loved your letters this week. i am shorter on time today cause i wrote marcus a letter and sissy a short email and i had some other stuff to do. can you guys believe i already have 6mo? it has gone by fast and slow cause it seems like it has been 10 years but each month flies by. i think the time is gonna cruise now cause i have much more responsibility. mom i'm glad to hear that you enjoy "one step at a time", i was happy to hear i motivated you! i am so stoked that bryce got his call again! i will definately pray for him and i have confidence that he can do it! please send him my love and tell him to "party on wayne" . what is his email cause i can email friends no prob. you can give him mine if he wants to shoot me somethin. im so happy to hear that you guys are recieving so many blessings. it makes me glad to know that i'm doing good not only for the chilenos buy for my family also. dad thanks so much for the dale carnegie advice! i can really use it and apply it for everything! president may has always told us that our most important investigator is our companion. once i put him first in everything and stopped trying to justify everything, our companionship improved drastically! it was amazing how my love for him grew and how our relationship grew. i just learned how to serve him and share what i have and give him love in the way he needed it. it was so so hard for me to do but once i did it i felt so good! i felt the help of heavenly father and i recieved strength to continue doing it. the lessons i learned with him are priceless and i will always remember that we are happiest when we put others first. TRY IT! could you ask bryce for rob davis´s address i have wanted to write the kid he is awesome. the advice i would say to give to the future missionaries is to follow and sustain you leaders in the mission, and put your companion first in the mission. forget yourself, the mission is about others. i was too blinded by worrying about doing the missionary work that i couldnt see that my companion was the one that needed my help the most. i feel like i was his companion to help him and if we did missionary work that would be great too but he needed my help more. i wish i would have learned that before my mission, putting our companions first. i love you all and i'm excited to hear the news from sissy, send my love to all!
elder peterson
WHATS GOIN ON? ok so first things first....my companion got transferred! i feel bad putting an exclamation point at the end of that but i really feel relieved in a way. as missionaries we can only progress so far with our trainers because naturally they do the majority of the work and whenever we have difficulties they help us out. well i am very relieved in a way and also i feel a heavy responsibility to carry on the work in my area with another missionary that knows nothing about it. it really is a blessing though cause now i can explode with all the potential i have. it's gonna be hard but i'm gonna grow a ton! my companion was a great elder but i was just so different from him. for my 6mo mark he threw a party at night in our house and bought a cake and asked some members to make brownies and chocolate chip cookies(very low quality) and we made pizza and partied. he really is awesome and i will remain in contact with him. he really needed me as a companion and i him. we learned a lot together and improved ourselves like no other. my new companion is named elder olsen. he is very very very different from my crazy uruguayan comp. he is from wyoming and is mr sci fi if you know what i mean. haha ya he has glasses and ya just use your imagination. well he is cool he isn't mr silencio so thats good and he laughs at little things so i thing we will be good. i don't think i have to worry about recieving too many hugs from him. i really loved your letters this week. i am shorter on time today cause i wrote marcus a letter and sissy a short email and i had some other stuff to do. can you guys believe i already have 6mo? it has gone by fast and slow cause it seems like it has been 10 years but each month flies by. i think the time is gonna cruise now cause i have much more responsibility. mom i'm glad to hear that you enjoy "one step at a time", i was happy to hear i motivated you! i am so stoked that bryce got his call again! i will definately pray for him and i have confidence that he can do it! please send him my love and tell him to "party on wayne" . what is his email cause i can email friends no prob. you can give him mine if he wants to shoot me somethin. im so happy to hear that you guys are recieving so many blessings. it makes me glad to know that i'm doing good not only for the chilenos buy for my family also. dad thanks so much for the dale carnegie advice! i can really use it and apply it for everything! president may has always told us that our most important investigator is our companion. once i put him first in everything and stopped trying to justify everything, our companionship improved drastically! it was amazing how my love for him grew and how our relationship grew. i just learned how to serve him and share what i have and give him love in the way he needed it. it was so so hard for me to do but once i did it i felt so good! i felt the help of heavenly father and i recieved strength to continue doing it. the lessons i learned with him are priceless and i will always remember that we are happiest when we put others first. TRY IT! could you ask bryce for rob davis´s address i have wanted to write the kid he is awesome. the advice i would say to give to the future missionaries is to follow and sustain you leaders in the mission, and put your companion first in the mission. forget yourself, the mission is about others. i was too blinded by worrying about doing the missionary work that i couldnt see that my companion was the one that needed my help the most. i feel like i was his companion to help him and if we did missionary work that would be great too but he needed my help more. i wish i would have learned that before my mission, putting our companions first. i love you all and i'm excited to hear the news from sissy, send my love to all!
elder peterson
Monday, October 13, 2008
Chance's Email 10/6/08
what up fam?
first i'd like to give shout out to everyone that is sending me letters. i got a letter from sissy and grandma winda this week thanks a lot and thanks everyone else. grandma winda i can always count on an awesome letter from you every week. how are you doin fam? i'm doin so awesome. i'm glad you got the letter from my companion. i read it before he sent it and it was really really nice. my focus has changed and a big part of it was pres monsons talk about love and his birthday wish which was to find someone that needs help or love and give it to them. so right now im trying to forget myself and go to work with love. my companion has taught me a lot but i value that lesson the most. some of the talks i liked the most were president perrys it was really cool. i loved elder bednars on prayer i can really improve my prayers. i love elder wirthlins on not letting afflictions get the better of us. i loved every single time pres monson talked, i really have accepted him as the prophet and love him to death. dad is right. the general conference is completely different on the mission. i was sooooooo stoked to listen to it, and we got to listen in english and i loved it! i didn't feel sleepy the whole 5 sessions. there were 4 missionaries from the US in a classroom in the stake center (everyone has to view the conference in the stake center, not in their homes). we had a small tv and we were all ears and whenever they said things about the missionary work or just great things we were like YEAH! or WOW that was strong! it was so cool. i was suprised how many times they mentioned being grateful for our blessings and that it's an abomination if we aren't thankful enough.
we have had some great activities lately, most include just uniting as a zone and going and talking to everyone in the streets or knocking doors in someone's area. i see taylor every week and his spanish is doin awesome. he is always so enthusiastic and talking and it seems like he has had more time in the mission than he does. he opened an area with his trainer. they are both brand new to the area and that's really tough to do, especially for a brand new missionary, i think that shows how much the Lord trusts in him. he is taking the mission like a stud.
london i cannot believe that you went to the great wall of china! that's gotta be amazing! it sounds like kenz is gettin serious with this guy, tell her to send me a dear elder or letter on questions or if she just wants to talk. i hope i getta see her wedding ha ha. london i'm glad you like the people you are with, whoa one sec, im in a place writing you guys and gangstas paradise is playin and im thinkin of you!! what a blessing to hear this song ha ha just kidding. but ya continuing, i have learned to like my comp a little more despite our grand differences. transfers are this sunday. im anxious to find out what happens haha. marcus what a STUD.COM for getting your eagle. i was able to see some of the photos but not all of them cause computers are retarded here. but wow what a milestone. mom, i am so thankful to have a support like you back at home and to send me love, not only in packages and letters but in your prayers as well. i love you so much and wish i could do more for you here in the mission. i will just give this 2 years my all and i think that's all you want. dad thanks so much for the wisdom and advice you send me about how to do the mission. i don't know what i would do if i couldn't turn to someone who had done this before. you have taught me everything i know and i use your advice everyday. you can send me articles in packages yes. they should all be off lds.org cause others aren't approved for the mission. thanks for being such an awesome, caring dad, i love you.
ok a little advice for adam. i was reading an ensign from february of this year entitled "our sons choices" show that article to dave and janie and i think it will give them lots of comfort. i gotta go thanks for all you do i love you from chile to china to utah and back.
elder peterson/ance
o ya and i have found myself and my companion teaching together in spanish in the middle of the night, we are both up in bed teaching a lesson to the door.
first i'd like to give shout out to everyone that is sending me letters. i got a letter from sissy and grandma winda this week thanks a lot and thanks everyone else. grandma winda i can always count on an awesome letter from you every week. how are you doin fam? i'm doin so awesome. i'm glad you got the letter from my companion. i read it before he sent it and it was really really nice. my focus has changed and a big part of it was pres monsons talk about love and his birthday wish which was to find someone that needs help or love and give it to them. so right now im trying to forget myself and go to work with love. my companion has taught me a lot but i value that lesson the most. some of the talks i liked the most were president perrys it was really cool. i loved elder bednars on prayer i can really improve my prayers. i love elder wirthlins on not letting afflictions get the better of us. i loved every single time pres monson talked, i really have accepted him as the prophet and love him to death. dad is right. the general conference is completely different on the mission. i was sooooooo stoked to listen to it, and we got to listen in english and i loved it! i didn't feel sleepy the whole 5 sessions. there were 4 missionaries from the US in a classroom in the stake center (everyone has to view the conference in the stake center, not in their homes). we had a small tv and we were all ears and whenever they said things about the missionary work or just great things we were like YEAH! or WOW that was strong! it was so cool. i was suprised how many times they mentioned being grateful for our blessings and that it's an abomination if we aren't thankful enough.
we have had some great activities lately, most include just uniting as a zone and going and talking to everyone in the streets or knocking doors in someone's area. i see taylor every week and his spanish is doin awesome. he is always so enthusiastic and talking and it seems like he has had more time in the mission than he does. he opened an area with his trainer. they are both brand new to the area and that's really tough to do, especially for a brand new missionary, i think that shows how much the Lord trusts in him. he is taking the mission like a stud.
london i cannot believe that you went to the great wall of china! that's gotta be amazing! it sounds like kenz is gettin serious with this guy, tell her to send me a dear elder or letter on questions or if she just wants to talk. i hope i getta see her wedding ha ha. london i'm glad you like the people you are with, whoa one sec, im in a place writing you guys and gangstas paradise is playin and im thinkin of you!! what a blessing to hear this song ha ha just kidding. but ya continuing, i have learned to like my comp a little more despite our grand differences. transfers are this sunday. im anxious to find out what happens haha. marcus what a STUD.COM for getting your eagle. i was able to see some of the photos but not all of them cause computers are retarded here. but wow what a milestone. mom, i am so thankful to have a support like you back at home and to send me love, not only in packages and letters but in your prayers as well. i love you so much and wish i could do more for you here in the mission. i will just give this 2 years my all and i think that's all you want. dad thanks so much for the wisdom and advice you send me about how to do the mission. i don't know what i would do if i couldn't turn to someone who had done this before. you have taught me everything i know and i use your advice everyday. you can send me articles in packages yes. they should all be off lds.org cause others aren't approved for the mission. thanks for being such an awesome, caring dad, i love you.
ok a little advice for adam. i was reading an ensign from february of this year entitled "our sons choices" show that article to dave and janie and i think it will give them lots of comfort. i gotta go thanks for all you do i love you from chile to china to utah and back.
elder peterson/ance
o ya and i have found myself and my companion teaching together in spanish in the middle of the night, we are both up in bed teaching a lesson to the door.
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