Chance's Email 6/15/2009

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