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