Familia Como les va?
Ojala que esten bien! this week was great. i want to write some personal letters today so it's gonna be a short one. first of i didn't go to the dentist cause he was booked liked barnes and noble (the dad jokes are rubbin off on me) so this wednesday i have an "examin" and then in another week the appointment so i basically won't have teeth by then. Dad...did you get the letter i wrote for grandpa peterson? if not i'll send it again. Sounds like the walkabout went good ha ha that's a good idea, the church is a lot different here. today we had a zone activity and watched this documentary on pres hinckley and i made the cookies you sent me mom, they were a hit! i loved the package!! i used the squirt guns on the dogs and they got even more mad!! so they are going to stay in the house. So this sunday diego is going down under! he is such a stud, everything is listo he just needs to talk to his padres. if they say he is good to go, listo! the donny osmond investigators, Barbara and Yasna, are going to get baptized the 24th and it's gonna be great. it's seriously so amazing to see how their lives have changed in less than one month. in literally less than one month people do spiritual 180 and are completely different people. can you imagine what wouldn't have happened if they had gone on a vacation during that one month? The Lord has people prepared, it's just our job to go out and find them.
This week we found a guy named ivan that is about 60 when we were knocking doors. A different man opened the door and then ivan said "wait! i want to talk to these jovenes" so he left and began talking to us. he started talking about the book of mormon. he is a little old and is evangelico so i was at first like "oh boy", cause normally the old people here are so closed minded. but i was wrong. he let us in and began talking about the book of mormon. the house we entered was the house of his cousin or something and he lives in a different city. he knew SO MUCH about the book of mormon. the best part is that he discovered it for himself. when he was visiting his family in this house where he was when we found him, he found a copy of the book of mormon and began reading it and was amazed. he told us he already knows that its true and that he wants to know more about it. we took his address and sent the address to the other miss ionary wher he lives. it was so cool to see the energy he has for this book. can you even imagine discovering somthing like that? imagine finding another published book that is another testament of Jesus Christ but from another tribe of israel. i would be sooooooooooooo excited to see what it taught me!!!
i know this gospel is true and i KNOW that we are in the only true church. what i have found out is that you only have to read the scriptures carefully to find that out. EVERYTHING in the scriptures points towards what our church teaches and it makes so much sense. i love you guys Elder Peterson
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Chance's Email 6/8/2009
Fam!
First off, thanks for the epistles written, they were delightful, and yes..........london..........i got your pics, they were awesome!! it was nice to see pics of my cuiñado. looks like im gonna get drilled at the dr hicks, chilean style, im gonna try to schedule an appointment and take a sleeping pill during the appointment haha. mom, how is your spanish, esta practicando? tell grandma winda thanks for my weekly dearelder. she is the best haha. ok some awesome news, Diego is my main man. he is so awesome and it looks like next week he will get baptized. correction, he is 15, and yesterday we had an appointment with him after church and he told us his conversion story (beginning from when we met him). he told us about his friends and how he likes to skateboard and that recently he hasn't liked his group of friends because they like to drink on the weekends etc. so he stopped hanging out with them cause he knew they were going down a wrong path. he has been looking for some new friends for awhile and said that we arrived just in time. He told us that he always made fun of the "mormons" like everyone does in the streets, and his mom told him that the mormons were coming over on monday, he was like "ah man...". they let us in and his parents didn't have much interest but he told us to keep visiting him. so we have gone and visited him with the bishop's son and they are good friends now and he loves the church in fact he went to seminary this morning at 5 am! i KNOW that he is going to be a misssionary one day and help lots of other people. it was a pay day for me, one of those days when you absolutely love what you do. better than a powder day at powder mountain. you know what im talking about dad. Also, we have an investigator that reminds me of chase hansen so much that its scary. his mannerisms are so much like his, even how he walks, its crazy. if we end up teaching him more ill have an excuse to take a picture and you can see for yourself. but he is really really weird it makes me laugh so much. i want to congratulate you guys on the ward activities you are doing. that is so awesome and i know that they are helping. i have realized that when i have been in a zone that was really united and had lots of teamwork, it was because we worked hard, and played hard together. on pdays we would do stuff and it was awesome, just like what you guys have been doing. great job on going out of the comfort zone and sharing the best news there is. don't be afraid!! be the watchmen like it mentions in ezequiel 37! we have this responsibility. we have been given freely, so we must freely give! there is nothing that makes me more happy in this world than seeing someone soak up the gospel and watching it change their life. i know that we can all feel the same, but it takes some effort. i love you fam and i'm so proud to be a part of the peterson clan, the best there is.
Elder Peterson
First off, thanks for the epistles written, they were delightful, and yes..........london..........i got your pics, they were awesome!! it was nice to see pics of my cuiñado. looks like im gonna get drilled at the dr hicks, chilean style, im gonna try to schedule an appointment and take a sleeping pill during the appointment haha. mom, how is your spanish, esta practicando? tell grandma winda thanks for my weekly dearelder. she is the best haha. ok some awesome news, Diego is my main man. he is so awesome and it looks like next week he will get baptized. correction, he is 15, and yesterday we had an appointment with him after church and he told us his conversion story (beginning from when we met him). he told us about his friends and how he likes to skateboard and that recently he hasn't liked his group of friends because they like to drink on the weekends etc. so he stopped hanging out with them cause he knew they were going down a wrong path. he has been looking for some new friends for awhile and said that we arrived just in time. He told us that he always made fun of the "mormons" like everyone does in the streets, and his mom told him that the mormons were coming over on monday, he was like "ah man...". they let us in and his parents didn't have much interest but he told us to keep visiting him. so we have gone and visited him with the bishop's son and they are good friends now and he loves the church in fact he went to seminary this morning at 5 am! i KNOW that he is going to be a misssionary one day and help lots of other people. it was a pay day for me, one of those days when you absolutely love what you do. better than a powder day at powder mountain. you know what im talking about dad. Also, we have an investigator that reminds me of chase hansen so much that its scary. his mannerisms are so much like his, even how he walks, its crazy. if we end up teaching him more ill have an excuse to take a picture and you can see for yourself. but he is really really weird it makes me laugh so much. i want to congratulate you guys on the ward activities you are doing. that is so awesome and i know that they are helping. i have realized that when i have been in a zone that was really united and had lots of teamwork, it was because we worked hard, and played hard together. on pdays we would do stuff and it was awesome, just like what you guys have been doing. great job on going out of the comfort zone and sharing the best news there is. don't be afraid!! be the watchmen like it mentions in ezequiel 37! we have this responsibility. we have been given freely, so we must freely give! there is nothing that makes me more happy in this world than seeing someone soak up the gospel and watching it change their life. i know that we can all feel the same, but it takes some effort. i love you fam and i'm so proud to be a part of the peterson clan, the best there is.
Elder Peterson
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