fam,
i likey da ledders! thanks fam for some great letters this week. yes the story is true about the lump......yes..... just a heads up, i mailed mom a birfday slash mother's day package today so watch out for that. i am super excited for you to get it, i hope you love it.
i am so excited that you guys are reading that book. it's so amazing and i wanted to share it with the world! it's like my "wordly" book of mormon ha. but ya i remember loving it but i've forgotten a lot of it so keep emailing me quotes and tips. i'm going to try the things you told me on my companion and we'll see what happens. it looks like we are going to have a baptism this week! yeppers. his name is miguel and his sister's name is andrea and they are both getting baptized but andrea wants to wait one more week. we are gonna try to get them both this week but we will see how it goes.
so a little laughter, my companion and i have bunk beds and i'm on the bottom and my companion on the top. well my companion, like me, was real skinny when he began his mission and now really not skinny ha ha. each night i get a good laugh as i watch him struggle to get up into his bed by bouncing on my mattress.
this saturday we were fasting and i specifically fasted to have the spirit more strongly so that i could be a stronger instrument in the Lord's hands. as we left the apartment we walked a little ways and then i saw an older guy on a bench outside of his house with his pet chicken and i decided to talk to him. he ended up letting us in and we committed him to go to church the next day. i was really happy to have followed that prompting and talk to him. as we went to walk with him to church yesterday, we knocked on his door and as he opened it there was a lot of smoke and he said he couldn't cause he was cooking lunch. he lives in like a garage thing and it was full of smoke. he was practically having a barbecue in his house ha ha. i wanted to put him on a guilt trip but it was too funny and bizzarre that i couldn't. but we have an appointment with him today so we will see how that goes.
well i love you guys so much, thanks for the awesome letters, prayers, and support. you are my fuel. tear it up this week and don't let satan win.
elder peterson
Friday, April 24, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Chance's Email 4/13/2009
hello there.
i just wanted to begin my letter with a favor....could i get some MORE hump day cards? HELLO! as weekly zone class ended a few elders had gathered around the mail stack and said "elder peterson, come here.... what happened?!" to my suprise i found 31 hump day cards anxiously awaiting. so i don't have any support from home out here, i would appreciate a letter or at least a postcard. yeah ......that'd be great.
This week was a good one. we found...another person that is going to get baptized in may. what a blessing. i don't know why we have been so blessed. but we aren't working hard enough, we need a lot more, we kinda got a wake up call from the president this week and he made a few schedule changes to show the urgency we need to have. to finish a little about rosa, as we entered the water she went into a nervous reck and began praying like an evangelico (if you dont know what that means ask jb or andrew) and i was cracking up inside. as i told her that i needed to baptized her and said ready? she flung herself backwards to get baptized and as she came up out of the water she was coughing up water and wiping it away from her face, it was really something. oh yeah i just wanted to give a shout out to all those that wrote me hump day cards and grandma winda's weekly letter and parker, mckenzie and macey who have birthdays this month. grandma, i am thoroughly enjoying the stephens hot cocoa with homemade marshmallows you sent me. they are fantastic, they are the best!
funny story, as we were contacting this one guy, i noticed that he had a lump on his forearm about the size of the baseball. i asked him what it was and he said something in spanish that i didn't understand, i think it was a tumor, but he then went on and said "but i dont think it's that, i have always said it's my twin brother" yes.......the lump.....was my twin.
on a more serious note, i just wanted to thank you all for your prayers i have felt them and i think i have more support than any other missionary in the world. my mission president really helped me realize how serious our call is this week and set some new rules and i just wanted to inform you guys so you don't send music that is forbidden. if you wish to send me a cd, it needs to be pure hymns or primary songs and nothing changed from the hymn, like guitar or drums.
i just wanted you guys to know i love you so much and thanks for making me laugh in your emails and lifting and inspiring me, i don't know what i would do without you. you are in my prayers daily.
elder peterson
i just wanted to begin my letter with a favor....could i get some MORE hump day cards? HELLO! as weekly zone class ended a few elders had gathered around the mail stack and said "elder peterson, come here.... what happened?!" to my suprise i found 31 hump day cards anxiously awaiting. so i don't have any support from home out here, i would appreciate a letter or at least a postcard. yeah ......that'd be great.
This week was a good one. we found...another person that is going to get baptized in may. what a blessing. i don't know why we have been so blessed. but we aren't working hard enough, we need a lot more, we kinda got a wake up call from the president this week and he made a few schedule changes to show the urgency we need to have. to finish a little about rosa, as we entered the water she went into a nervous reck and began praying like an evangelico (if you dont know what that means ask jb or andrew) and i was cracking up inside. as i told her that i needed to baptized her and said ready? she flung herself backwards to get baptized and as she came up out of the water she was coughing up water and wiping it away from her face, it was really something. oh yeah i just wanted to give a shout out to all those that wrote me hump day cards and grandma winda's weekly letter and parker, mckenzie and macey who have birthdays this month. grandma, i am thoroughly enjoying the stephens hot cocoa with homemade marshmallows you sent me. they are fantastic, they are the best!
funny story, as we were contacting this one guy, i noticed that he had a lump on his forearm about the size of the baseball. i asked him what it was and he said something in spanish that i didn't understand, i think it was a tumor, but he then went on and said "but i dont think it's that, i have always said it's my twin brother" yes.......the lump.....was my twin.
on a more serious note, i just wanted to thank you all for your prayers i have felt them and i think i have more support than any other missionary in the world. my mission president really helped me realize how serious our call is this week and set some new rules and i just wanted to inform you guys so you don't send music that is forbidden. if you wish to send me a cd, it needs to be pure hymns or primary songs and nothing changed from the hymn, like guitar or drums.
i just wanted you guys to know i love you so much and thanks for making me laugh in your emails and lifting and inspiring me, i don't know what i would do without you. you are in my prayers daily.
elder peterson
Monday, April 6, 2009
Chance's Email 4/6/2009
what a week!
!wow i am worn out. general conference was unreal. but let's start from the beginning shall we? ok well my companion and i get along quite well actually and i am laughing a lot more cause he's a goob. he loves trying to speak english, in fact, he sat in with the english speakers to hear general conference. he is always saying things that make me laugh, it's fun. for example, we went to a pharmacy to buy some stuff and as we were leaving he saw a scale that measured your height and weight and other stuff so he took it for a whirl. the pharmacy lady and i were both watching to see the results pop up and when they did he let out a sigh...."i'm faught" in his latino accent. the pharmacy lady busted out laughing and so did i, i just dropped my head and shook it ha ha. as we passed by one of the references of the open house, they willingly let us in and as we entered their house to our surprise there were like 7 people sitting there and it was a family! we were celebrating as you can imagine. they all were willing to listen to us. it turns out that one was an inactive member and the others were all non members and only one went to the open house, a young girl. as we taught them the restoration and explained how the authority is here again to recieve a baptism, all four of the kids accepted a date to be baptized while the mothers were a little skeptic but liked what they heard. they agreed to sit in on every lesson and give their support. we visited them a second time last night and it looks like we are going to have 4 baptisms the 3rd of may! it was incredible! that whole week i was praying for help to recognize the spirit more and Heavenly Father answered my prayers. i had many more experiences that week.
i'd just like to thank the fam and friends for the awesome mail i have been receiving. first i wanted to let jim and adam know that i sent them letters about 2 weeks ago so they should be arriving. it was AWESOME TO HEAR ABOUT ADAM! grandma winda is always faithful to keep me up to speed with the fam thanks grandma i love your letters. also thanks to mumsey and poppy for the letters and cd i love it. thanks to noelle, jenny, sarah, grandma and grandpa peterson, zac, andrew, jenna, kenz, shane and everyone else who has sent me letters. the elders of my zone are jealous enough! i have little time so to sign off i just wanted to thank you mom dad london and marcus for the letters and for what you said. especially thanks mom for your letter you sent too late last week, it gave me a lot of comfort.
i can't believe i almost forgot to tell you that rosa got baptized!!!! she got baptized in between conference sessions on sunday and it was INCREDIBLE! i will write more next week but it was really funny too...not to leave you hanging or anything. i loved elder scotts talk, man does he speak with the spirit or what? i loved elder holland's and elder pearson's about faith and many more. they were all incredible. well i will talk more next week but keep going strong. i love you all.
elder peterson
ps it was AWESOME to hear from andrew, give him my email i need more seasoned veteran advice.
!wow i am worn out. general conference was unreal. but let's start from the beginning shall we? ok well my companion and i get along quite well actually and i am laughing a lot more cause he's a goob. he loves trying to speak english, in fact, he sat in with the english speakers to hear general conference. he is always saying things that make me laugh, it's fun. for example, we went to a pharmacy to buy some stuff and as we were leaving he saw a scale that measured your height and weight and other stuff so he took it for a whirl. the pharmacy lady and i were both watching to see the results pop up and when they did he let out a sigh...."i'm faught" in his latino accent. the pharmacy lady busted out laughing and so did i, i just dropped my head and shook it ha ha. as we passed by one of the references of the open house, they willingly let us in and as we entered their house to our surprise there were like 7 people sitting there and it was a family! we were celebrating as you can imagine. they all were willing to listen to us. it turns out that one was an inactive member and the others were all non members and only one went to the open house, a young girl. as we taught them the restoration and explained how the authority is here again to recieve a baptism, all four of the kids accepted a date to be baptized while the mothers were a little skeptic but liked what they heard. they agreed to sit in on every lesson and give their support. we visited them a second time last night and it looks like we are going to have 4 baptisms the 3rd of may! it was incredible! that whole week i was praying for help to recognize the spirit more and Heavenly Father answered my prayers. i had many more experiences that week.
i'd just like to thank the fam and friends for the awesome mail i have been receiving. first i wanted to let jim and adam know that i sent them letters about 2 weeks ago so they should be arriving. it was AWESOME TO HEAR ABOUT ADAM! grandma winda is always faithful to keep me up to speed with the fam thanks grandma i love your letters. also thanks to mumsey and poppy for the letters and cd i love it. thanks to noelle, jenny, sarah, grandma and grandpa peterson, zac, andrew, jenna, kenz, shane and everyone else who has sent me letters. the elders of my zone are jealous enough! i have little time so to sign off i just wanted to thank you mom dad london and marcus for the letters and for what you said. especially thanks mom for your letter you sent too late last week, it gave me a lot of comfort.
i can't believe i almost forgot to tell you that rosa got baptized!!!! she got baptized in between conference sessions on sunday and it was INCREDIBLE! i will write more next week but it was really funny too...not to leave you hanging or anything. i loved elder scotts talk, man does he speak with the spirit or what? i loved elder holland's and elder pearson's about faith and many more. they were all incredible. well i will talk more next week but keep going strong. i love you all.
elder peterson
ps it was AWESOME to hear from andrew, give him my email i need more seasoned veteran advice.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Chance's Email 3/30/2009
fam,
hows it goin????????? sounds like the costa rica trip was EXCELENTE! the zip lines and the waterfalls... i talked to my buddy in my zone and he told me that there are hundreds of waterfalls there. he loves it there and talked it up a lot. well i don't have a lot to say this week so i'll keep it short as well. yesterday there were transfers and my companion left. it was hard. we had lots of success together and just enjoyed the mission like crazy. i have a new companion from columbia. he was the companion of one of my friends with whom i began the mission, elder marshall. his name is elder bolaños and he seems like a real nice guy. i'm excited cause i know i am going to learn a ton from him and they had a lot of success where they were so we will combine our melons and see what we can do. sad news, jose-the man we have been teaching with one leg, didn't go to church yesterday and we visited him later and we were really demanding and direct in our message and told him NOW is the time to act and repent, if you do, you'll get blessings beyond your fondest dreams, but you need to DO IT. he had a lot of excuses why he couldn't continue or go to church more. we talked for about an hour and we had one of his member friends (inactive) helping us out a lot and i know her testimony is getting stronger by helping us. she used to be a missionary and she inactivated for some reason but she has been helping us with him. she is going to visit him this week and try to talk to him more but for now we are leaving jose for a time. i hope he can get his views in line with those of God so he can have more blessings in his life. it was really hard to experience that yesterday but i know that when one door closes another opens. one thing that makes me really happy is that my prayers are improving a lot. i need a ton of help from Heavenly Father and i know he has been helping me but my prayers have been more fervent. sometimes we fall into a routine and forget that we are actually talking to God, but when i pray better i feel so good and i know he is listening. it was so great to hear from grandma about adam. i am so glad he is doing so great. the book of mormon has so much power and we all need to keep reading it. i wanted to thank jim also for the awesome letter he wrote me. keep it up. tell bryce i got his package and it was incredible. ok well i gotta go, lots of work to do and lots of miracles to be a part of. thanks for your prayers and letters, packages, and everything else!!! i don't know what i would do without the support i have. i love you all!
elder peterson
hows it goin????????? sounds like the costa rica trip was EXCELENTE! the zip lines and the waterfalls... i talked to my buddy in my zone and he told me that there are hundreds of waterfalls there. he loves it there and talked it up a lot. well i don't have a lot to say this week so i'll keep it short as well. yesterday there were transfers and my companion left. it was hard. we had lots of success together and just enjoyed the mission like crazy. i have a new companion from columbia. he was the companion of one of my friends with whom i began the mission, elder marshall. his name is elder bolaños and he seems like a real nice guy. i'm excited cause i know i am going to learn a ton from him and they had a lot of success where they were so we will combine our melons and see what we can do. sad news, jose-the man we have been teaching with one leg, didn't go to church yesterday and we visited him later and we were really demanding and direct in our message and told him NOW is the time to act and repent, if you do, you'll get blessings beyond your fondest dreams, but you need to DO IT. he had a lot of excuses why he couldn't continue or go to church more. we talked for about an hour and we had one of his member friends (inactive) helping us out a lot and i know her testimony is getting stronger by helping us. she used to be a missionary and she inactivated for some reason but she has been helping us with him. she is going to visit him this week and try to talk to him more but for now we are leaving jose for a time. i hope he can get his views in line with those of God so he can have more blessings in his life. it was really hard to experience that yesterday but i know that when one door closes another opens. one thing that makes me really happy is that my prayers are improving a lot. i need a ton of help from Heavenly Father and i know he has been helping me but my prayers have been more fervent. sometimes we fall into a routine and forget that we are actually talking to God, but when i pray better i feel so good and i know he is listening. it was so great to hear from grandma about adam. i am so glad he is doing so great. the book of mormon has so much power and we all need to keep reading it. i wanted to thank jim also for the awesome letter he wrote me. keep it up. tell bryce i got his package and it was incredible. ok well i gotta go, lots of work to do and lots of miracles to be a part of. thanks for your prayers and letters, packages, and everything else!!! i don't know what i would do without the support i have. i love you all!
elder peterson
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