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
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Chance's Email 3/16/2009
why is my family so great?
first thanks a ton for the letters and secondly, the package! ha ha it was awesome! i don't know why but i always get so excited when i see those fruity pebbles. my zone leader said "SAVE ME A BOWL!". but even better than the sugar were the letters and videos. i loved your letters and it's something that i'll always have so thanks a lot. i loved thinking back on some awesome memories. i have shown a few people the videos you guys sent and they were laughing pretty hard. i loved the video of you guys dancing it was a keeper! and floyd's message made me laugh pretty hard. that was nice of dr j to send me some hormonies to help me with the bobobpsy. i think my comp needs them more than me cause he was zonked out in church yesterday! you guys have gotta hear the chileans and how they sing church hymns, you would laugh. it's so slow, my companion plays the piano and he plays good, normal speed, and they are all lost and it's a disaster, so he has to slow it down like half the speed of normal. i have developed lots of patience ha ha. this week we were amazingly blessed again. we have really been low on people to teach and people progressing. we decided to do some extra things. as we left the house and prayed for extra help we went to visit michelle and she wasn't there. so elder mangels asked if her grandma was there. she hobbled out of her room(she is awesome and hilarious) and said hi and we asked if we could share a message with her and she said "claro que si" so we sat down and started talking about baptism and she was really open and we said "would you like to get baptized?" she again said "claro que sí". so we put a date and she is gonna get baptized. i don't think it could've been easier. all we have to do is ask the Lord for help and bam he is there. as we went to the next appt with her we began with a song and she can't read too well so she said i'll just follow. she had no idea what the words were so when we sang a long word like "evangelio" she would shout the last part of the word like "da da da da GELIO!" and we had to stop. we didn't even make it to the second line and my comp and i and michelle's aunt were cracking up! we had to not sing that appt. it was so funny. i still am holding back ridiculous laughter everytime we go there and i can't look at my companion. the grandma is rosa and is just hilarious and super strong. toady we made the cookies you sent me at marta and ivonne's house. they were heavenly and they love them as well. well i am running short on time as always and i have more emails to write but thanks so much for your love and support. i don't believe there is a missionary in the field with more support than me. pray for jose. we have lots of plans so that he can make it to church this week. i love you mom dad london marcus and fam.
elder peterson
first thanks a ton for the letters and secondly, the package! ha ha it was awesome! i don't know why but i always get so excited when i see those fruity pebbles. my zone leader said "SAVE ME A BOWL!". but even better than the sugar were the letters and videos. i loved your letters and it's something that i'll always have so thanks a lot. i loved thinking back on some awesome memories. i have shown a few people the videos you guys sent and they were laughing pretty hard. i loved the video of you guys dancing it was a keeper! and floyd's message made me laugh pretty hard. that was nice of dr j to send me some hormonies to help me with the bobobpsy. i think my comp needs them more than me cause he was zonked out in church yesterday! you guys have gotta hear the chileans and how they sing church hymns, you would laugh. it's so slow, my companion plays the piano and he plays good, normal speed, and they are all lost and it's a disaster, so he has to slow it down like half the speed of normal. i have developed lots of patience ha ha. this week we were amazingly blessed again. we have really been low on people to teach and people progressing. we decided to do some extra things. as we left the house and prayed for extra help we went to visit michelle and she wasn't there. so elder mangels asked if her grandma was there. she hobbled out of her room(she is awesome and hilarious) and said hi and we asked if we could share a message with her and she said "claro que si" so we sat down and started talking about baptism and she was really open and we said "would you like to get baptized?" she again said "claro que sí". so we put a date and she is gonna get baptized. i don't think it could've been easier. all we have to do is ask the Lord for help and bam he is there. as we went to the next appt with her we began with a song and she can't read too well so she said i'll just follow. she had no idea what the words were so when we sang a long word like "evangelio" she would shout the last part of the word like "da da da da GELIO!" and we had to stop. we didn't even make it to the second line and my comp and i and michelle's aunt were cracking up! we had to not sing that appt. it was so funny. i still am holding back ridiculous laughter everytime we go there and i can't look at my companion. the grandma is rosa and is just hilarious and super strong. toady we made the cookies you sent me at marta and ivonne's house. they were heavenly and they love them as well. well i am running short on time as always and i have more emails to write but thanks so much for your love and support. i don't believe there is a missionary in the field with more support than me. pray for jose. we have lots of plans so that he can make it to church this week. i love you mom dad london marcus and fam.
elder peterson
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Chance's Email 3/2/09
fam and a half!
how is life? it sounds like you have seen some amazing things like apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth. what a coincidence cause today we had the priviledge to hear from elder jay jensen of the seventy and it was amazing!!!!! i loved it and he knows how to speak and captivate his audience i'll tell ya. few times have i been so glued to a talk. i think it was so awesome cause i'm in the mission and everything he said he could apply to us personally as missionaries. he also is 100% fluent in spanish which suprised me, it was great. a few things he said that i liked were "you teach what you are" a little of what you said dad. also he said "2/3 of our message is non verbal, we are the message, its not what we say" i loved that. he was hilarious and had us laughing quite a bit. he is just way down to earth and i've heard that he has memorized the book of mormon. go figure, so this week was awesome! ivonne was baptized, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. and her brother who just turned 20 and has a girlfriend and a new baby girl, came to her baptism. he is really nice so hopefully the miracles continue. they would have to get married but i see nothing that impedes them. it was sad to hear about grandpa but i'll keep him in my prayers. i am constantly praying for family members...how are they all doin? progressing?
i can't even imagine how incredible it was to have pres. packer and elder hales speaking to you guys. that is really amazing. it's such a big deal when we hear from a seventy here and i can't even imagine an apostle. so here it's cooling down, in the night at least and we have seen a few less spiders so that's always good. our ward is so strong and i feel so blessed to have the bishop we do. i think the ward likes him so much cause he knows how to have fun! he isn't uptight or too serious, well he knows when to be and when not to be. and he just brings a lot of energy to everyone. we are going to do a service in marta's house this saturday and he wanted to play soccer after. we said that as missionaries we always play in the morning at 6 and that they should come play with us. he challenged us and said BRING IT ON and so we are gonna play with the young men and the bishop. that's the type of guy he is and he is always having a barbeque on saturdays at noon with different ward families and just takes care of his sheep. one thing i like that elder jensen said is that he decided to do somethings while he was on his mission, these included: praying daily and nightly, reading every day from the scriptures, paying his tithing, and living worthy of a temple recommend. he decided to do these things for the rest of his life and has done it ever since. i know it's the little things like that that are gonna keep us active, strong, and blessed. well i gotta go i'm running out of time, tell my cousins i wanna hear from them more! and my aunts and unks, they can always shoot me an email or dear elder. i love you mom and dad marcus and london. keep up the good work and never be afraid what man can do, only what God can do. live with an eternal perspective.
elder peterson
how is life? it sounds like you have seen some amazing things like apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth. what a coincidence cause today we had the priviledge to hear from elder jay jensen of the seventy and it was amazing!!!!! i loved it and he knows how to speak and captivate his audience i'll tell ya. few times have i been so glued to a talk. i think it was so awesome cause i'm in the mission and everything he said he could apply to us personally as missionaries. he also is 100% fluent in spanish which suprised me, it was great. a few things he said that i liked were "you teach what you are" a little of what you said dad. also he said "2/3 of our message is non verbal, we are the message, its not what we say" i loved that. he was hilarious and had us laughing quite a bit. he is just way down to earth and i've heard that he has memorized the book of mormon. go figure, so this week was awesome! ivonne was baptized, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. and her brother who just turned 20 and has a girlfriend and a new baby girl, came to her baptism. he is really nice so hopefully the miracles continue. they would have to get married but i see nothing that impedes them. it was sad to hear about grandpa but i'll keep him in my prayers. i am constantly praying for family members...how are they all doin? progressing?
i can't even imagine how incredible it was to have pres. packer and elder hales speaking to you guys. that is really amazing. it's such a big deal when we hear from a seventy here and i can't even imagine an apostle. so here it's cooling down, in the night at least and we have seen a few less spiders so that's always good. our ward is so strong and i feel so blessed to have the bishop we do. i think the ward likes him so much cause he knows how to have fun! he isn't uptight or too serious, well he knows when to be and when not to be. and he just brings a lot of energy to everyone. we are going to do a service in marta's house this saturday and he wanted to play soccer after. we said that as missionaries we always play in the morning at 6 and that they should come play with us. he challenged us and said BRING IT ON and so we are gonna play with the young men and the bishop. that's the type of guy he is and he is always having a barbeque on saturdays at noon with different ward families and just takes care of his sheep. one thing i like that elder jensen said is that he decided to do somethings while he was on his mission, these included: praying daily and nightly, reading every day from the scriptures, paying his tithing, and living worthy of a temple recommend. he decided to do these things for the rest of his life and has done it ever since. i know it's the little things like that that are gonna keep us active, strong, and blessed. well i gotta go i'm running out of time, tell my cousins i wanna hear from them more! and my aunts and unks, they can always shoot me an email or dear elder. i love you mom and dad marcus and london. keep up the good work and never be afraid what man can do, only what God can do. live with an eternal perspective.
elder peterson
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Chance's Email 2/23/2009
hows the fam fam?
so emiliana was baptized yesterday! it was an awesome experience because after she was baptized her family bore their testimonies and you could feel the spirit strongly and when her husband bore his i was so happy because he talked about how now they can be sealed together as a family in the temple. i realized that it wasn't just a baptism, it was much more, through the Lord i am able to help change lives here. some other crazy news......ivonne, martas daughter is progressing so fast that she is gonna get baptized this sunday! she is reading the book of mormon like crazy and understands it all. she has gone to a few activities and just loves everything. most crazy is that as we were teaching her and talking to her she was so excited about everything and she said "after someone gets baptized, how long do they have to wait till they can serve a mission?" we said a year. and then asked "why? do you want to serve a mission?!" she said "yes". i was like yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. that got me so excited! she hasn't even been baptized and already wants to serve a mission. i was pretty happy. but ya we still need to teach a ton so hopefully in a week you can hear good things. we struggled a little this week with finding people. we have been praying to find a family so we are gonna do all we can this week and i know we will be blessed. i just wanted to send a thanks to grandma winda and the update on adam. i have been praying daily for adam i was so so so so excited to hear good news about adam. thanks grandma. trevor crump sent me an awesome email and helped me to realize the things that are of real importance out here. president may is always pushing us harder and harder and i'm gonna give it my all again this week and i know that the Lord will help us out. when we are on the Lord's errand we are entitled to his help. dad i really liked what you said about being valiant in the pre earth life and now we need to be valiant here. it helped me to realized that there really aren't a lot of changes. we are just separated from the presence of God. when we think about it that way, it's not so much a life of changing, but staying faithful so that ONCE AGAIN we can live with him. we are the same, we just forgot how great it was before this life. i love you guys a lot and thanks so much for your prayers, i still need them ha ha. you are in mine. live like it's your last day!
elder peterson
so emiliana was baptized yesterday! it was an awesome experience because after she was baptized her family bore their testimonies and you could feel the spirit strongly and when her husband bore his i was so happy because he talked about how now they can be sealed together as a family in the temple. i realized that it wasn't just a baptism, it was much more, through the Lord i am able to help change lives here. some other crazy news......ivonne, martas daughter is progressing so fast that she is gonna get baptized this sunday! she is reading the book of mormon like crazy and understands it all. she has gone to a few activities and just loves everything. most crazy is that as we were teaching her and talking to her she was so excited about everything and she said "after someone gets baptized, how long do they have to wait till they can serve a mission?" we said a year. and then asked "why? do you want to serve a mission?!" she said "yes". i was like yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. that got me so excited! she hasn't even been baptized and already wants to serve a mission. i was pretty happy. but ya we still need to teach a ton so hopefully in a week you can hear good things. we struggled a little this week with finding people. we have been praying to find a family so we are gonna do all we can this week and i know we will be blessed. i just wanted to send a thanks to grandma winda and the update on adam. i have been praying daily for adam i was so so so so excited to hear good news about adam. thanks grandma. trevor crump sent me an awesome email and helped me to realize the things that are of real importance out here. president may is always pushing us harder and harder and i'm gonna give it my all again this week and i know that the Lord will help us out. when we are on the Lord's errand we are entitled to his help. dad i really liked what you said about being valiant in the pre earth life and now we need to be valiant here. it helped me to realized that there really aren't a lot of changes. we are just separated from the presence of God. when we think about it that way, it's not so much a life of changing, but staying faithful so that ONCE AGAIN we can live with him. we are the same, we just forgot how great it was before this life. i love you guys a lot and thanks so much for your prayers, i still need them ha ha. you are in mine. live like it's your last day!
elder peterson
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Chance's Email 2/8/2009
hey!HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW MARCUS
i'm so glad you guys loved the little package. ok well marta got baptized yesterday! it was awesome!!!!!! the saturday before we had a family night with the ward and we invited pres. and sis may to come and speak and it was awesome. we had a bunch of new people that the members brought to the activity so hopefully we can teach some of them. ok well keep in your prayers: totti claudia and bilma. i think they will be our next baptisms after emiliana on the 22nd.. she is good to go. ok well a funny story. yesterday my comp felt a little sick and felt like he had to spew the whole day but i was like, ya it's not that bad let's go and work the days almost over. so we continued to work and like and hour before we had to enter for the night we visited totti. she told us her aunt just died and she seemed ok but i know it was a rough day. so my comp began to talk and explain about the plan of salvation. she lives in some apartments that are open. like the stairs and hallways are outside. well we were talking to her outside her door and there was a balcony next to us and as my comp began to talk he said "just a sec" and went over to the balcony and spewed! he spewed like 4 times and totti and i were trying hard not to laugh. after 4 spews from the second floor, my comp returned with a smile cause he felt a lot better ha ha ha. we laughed quite a bit, i couldn't stop laughing. ok another random thought. i was eating my beloved pringles a couple nights ago when i looked at the pringle guy on the can and i noticed somethihng......it looks like DAD.. the moustache most of all. so i have decided on dad's grandpa name and it's pringles! isn't it perfect! and the kids will say it like pwingles. it's perfect if you guys don't agree i don't know what i'll do cause it's perfect. i got the package and it was full of love. i'm eating every bit of it. i love the cd you guys sent it's great. and the letters too especially napolean dynamite. just a heads up. keep sending me the small memory blue memory cards cause the other memory cards they are gigantic, i can't print fotos off cause they are too big. so don't buy more just send me them cause that's what i need to print off pics and send to people. also i wanted to give a shout out to adam, sheyenne, and chad whose birthdays are this month. ok well thanks for the letters they are great. i'm lovin the mission and i am so happy. after martas baptism i saw her walk into the bathroom soaking wet as a lady in the ward went in to help, along with marta´s daughter and they gave some screams of joy! marta was so nervous until she came up out of the water and she had a huge smile on her face. i don't know if i already read this quote toyou guys but ezra taft benson said: true happiness only comes by making others happy. so true isn't it. i love that quote. also a missionary shared a thought with me. he had the definition of a missionary written and shared it with me. MISSIONARY: Someone who leaves their family for a short time so that others may be with their families for eternity. pretty cool huh? that helped me forget myself a little. i love you guys so much and well see ya next week.
elder peterson
i'm so glad you guys loved the little package. ok well marta got baptized yesterday! it was awesome!!!!!! the saturday before we had a family night with the ward and we invited pres. and sis may to come and speak and it was awesome. we had a bunch of new people that the members brought to the activity so hopefully we can teach some of them. ok well keep in your prayers: totti claudia and bilma. i think they will be our next baptisms after emiliana on the 22nd.. she is good to go. ok well a funny story. yesterday my comp felt a little sick and felt like he had to spew the whole day but i was like, ya it's not that bad let's go and work the days almost over. so we continued to work and like and hour before we had to enter for the night we visited totti. she told us her aunt just died and she seemed ok but i know it was a rough day. so my comp began to talk and explain about the plan of salvation. she lives in some apartments that are open. like the stairs and hallways are outside. well we were talking to her outside her door and there was a balcony next to us and as my comp began to talk he said "just a sec" and went over to the balcony and spewed! he spewed like 4 times and totti and i were trying hard not to laugh. after 4 spews from the second floor, my comp returned with a smile cause he felt a lot better ha ha ha. we laughed quite a bit, i couldn't stop laughing. ok another random thought. i was eating my beloved pringles a couple nights ago when i looked at the pringle guy on the can and i noticed somethihng......it looks like DAD.. the moustache most of all. so i have decided on dad's grandpa name and it's pringles! isn't it perfect! and the kids will say it like pwingles. it's perfect if you guys don't agree i don't know what i'll do cause it's perfect. i got the package and it was full of love. i'm eating every bit of it. i love the cd you guys sent it's great. and the letters too especially napolean dynamite. just a heads up. keep sending me the small memory blue memory cards cause the other memory cards they are gigantic, i can't print fotos off cause they are too big. so don't buy more just send me them cause that's what i need to print off pics and send to people. also i wanted to give a shout out to adam, sheyenne, and chad whose birthdays are this month. ok well thanks for the letters they are great. i'm lovin the mission and i am so happy. after martas baptism i saw her walk into the bathroom soaking wet as a lady in the ward went in to help, along with marta´s daughter and they gave some screams of joy! marta was so nervous until she came up out of the water and she had a huge smile on her face. i don't know if i already read this quote toyou guys but ezra taft benson said: true happiness only comes by making others happy. so true isn't it. i love that quote. also a missionary shared a thought with me. he had the definition of a missionary written and shared it with me. MISSIONARY: Someone who leaves their family for a short time so that others may be with their families for eternity. pretty cool huh? that helped me forget myself a little. i love you guys so much and well see ya next week.
elder peterson
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Chance's Email 2/4/2009
Wahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! thats a big wahoo for dad's hole- in-one and a big wahoo cause my week was awesome! dad i can't believe you finally got your single! that's soooooooooooo killer. i knew that me being on the mish would bring you luck. so i guess it's my turn during marcus´s mission. i was so pumped when i saw the pictures. you sure chose the right club cause it stinkin LANDED IN THE HOLE! that is incredible. i loved that picture of the divot and stuff. were you doin chris farley cartwheels? i hope so. ok well this computer has been a real test of patience for me so i'm a little short on time but this week we found twelve new people to teach and some have baptismal dates! i was so excited and i'm ready for this month. Marta is going to get baptized on sunday! tonight we have a family home evening with her and her daughter is going to come. wish us luck. marta still needs to feel a little bit stronger about joseph smith and stuff but i know it will come. as for emiliana on the 22nd... she is accepting the teachings, her kids are helping us out a TON cause she is ridiculously busy and never gives us time to teach her so basically her kids are doing all the work. but if we get all the teachings in on time then it should work out this month, if not it'll be for march. but ya we have some others that are on the way. as i reflected last night on my mission and what i'm doing differently now than earlier, i realized that succes comes when we put the work in the Lord's hands and try to humble ourselves and purify our hearts and work like crazy. i've already tried and i CANNOT teach without the spirit or without His help. i'm just a kid in the street if i don't have the spirit and if i think i can do the work my own way. i think the success started to come when i realized that and tried to change. i'm really trying to love the people more and i loved what you said mom about damien and others that loved their people on the mission and i want that kind of love. david o mckay said something that i love he said. "true happiness comes only by making others happy". it's true and so many nights after working i can't keep the happiness i have inside, like last night, i was singing and doing whatever to let my energy out. i love this work and how my testimony is growing. sure this work has it's way tough days and the rough times are more often than the good times but when it's good, it's way good. marcus that's great that you got to change jobs, enjoy each job you have and try to learn from each one, but ALWAYS try to have a job. i was just thinking this week about you guys and i am so grateful to have the family i do, i wouldn't handpick any other brother, sister, mom, or dad. i have the perfect fam. thanks for all the love and support you give me and for the stories you tell me. i hope the ward isn't too tough to get used to, it sounds like it should be ok still. we still have some fun people. i think i should get the package you guys sent tomorrow, if not it will be next tuesday. k well gots to go i hope you guys have a killer week. something i remembered from the dale carnegie book is that we should always try to give compliments. someone said if we give 10 sincere compliments to ten different people each day, our lives will completely change. try it. i wanna encourage you all to read that book its amazing and i use its principles everyday. send me some advice next week on some stuff you read, i don't remember it all. k gotta go, i love you guys and keep it up. elder peterson
oh yeah, the other day i saw two drunk guys in a fight and they were basically punching the air cause they were so drunk and they both fell down and were trying to fight, it was pretty funny.
oh yeah, the other day i saw two drunk guys in a fight and they were basically punching the air cause they were so drunk and they both fell down and were trying to fight, it was pretty funny.
Chance's Email 1/26/2009
Fam famity fam
thanks for the letters i got a ton today and the computer has been way slow so i have little time. guess who just walked into the internet place where i am? elder espinel! i haven't seen him since he went to the island. i was so excited to see him. cool well another miracle week and way fast week i don't know where it went..... but this whole week we were looking for people and found no one until saturday. talk about a trial of faith right? so last sunday the bishop gave us a reference to a lady whose whole family are members and she has been going to the church for 3 years now every sunday but hasn't chosen to get baptized yet. her husband got baptized 18 years ago and her two kids got baptized when they were 8. we went to visit her and talked a little things were good and then we asked if we could share a message with her. we began talking about baptism and asked her what she think it is that impedes her being baptized. she said nothing, (good sign). she said she always liked what the church taught her kids and people always said she needed to get baptized but she never chose to do it. we talked a little more and explained why it was important and then extended a baptismal date for feb 22nd. .........she accepted! her daughter was in the room, she is 17 and she gasped. i looked at her and she was smiling so big! it looks like she has never accepted a date before and so it looks really promising. then her son walked in and we told him what happened and he gave his mom a big hug and was like YAAAAAY. and then her husband found out and they are all way excited. it was a miracle. we worked really hard the whole week and saturday is when the Lord decided to bless us. i never imagined that we would be blessed like this but the Lord works in mysterious ways and always comes through. i'm so excited and i know it was the Lord and the bishop listening to the spirit that made it happen. we were just instruments. i felt a load of joy and i'm so excited to see the baptism. it's the week after transfers so pray that i will stay! i can't believe that about jury duty london. what a test of patience! i will pray that something works out. patience is a life long challenge to overcome and we need to pray to the Lord for help. tell kenz i got her email and i'll try to write her next week. oh and london i am emailing my mtc teacher marcus johnson who you went on a date with and he said "your sister probably thinks that was a way awkward date cause i was still way weird" ha ha but he is a STUD. marcus that's hilarious about jesse. i sent you a letter today along with two memory cards so keep your eyes peeled. dad thanks for the cool stories and info. mom thanks for the spiritual experiences and the great details, i don't ever mention how much i love the details cause i don't have time but i love your letters. i love you guys a ton and some more great news. ......i was looking at the baptisms our mission had and guess who got baptized yesterday.....paula! the lady you were praying for and that i had a way good lesson with her and we put a baptismal date the night before i left my last area. isn't that awesome! i'm so glad that the elders were blessed with success with her. i know that baptism is going to turn into many more! mom something i was thinking about the other day is when we were in the drivers license place and we had to wait for a long time and everyone had grumpy faces and were frustrated and we were like, ok let's make one of the workers smile or laugh. and we did ha ha. i will always remember that especially here in chile cause everyone are workaholics and need a good smile every now and then. we need to put a smile on the world's faces! i love you guys.
elder peterson
thanks for the letters i got a ton today and the computer has been way slow so i have little time. guess who just walked into the internet place where i am? elder espinel! i haven't seen him since he went to the island. i was so excited to see him. cool well another miracle week and way fast week i don't know where it went..... but this whole week we were looking for people and found no one until saturday. talk about a trial of faith right? so last sunday the bishop gave us a reference to a lady whose whole family are members and she has been going to the church for 3 years now every sunday but hasn't chosen to get baptized yet. her husband got baptized 18 years ago and her two kids got baptized when they were 8. we went to visit her and talked a little things were good and then we asked if we could share a message with her. we began talking about baptism and asked her what she think it is that impedes her being baptized. she said nothing, (good sign). she said she always liked what the church taught her kids and people always said she needed to get baptized but she never chose to do it. we talked a little more and explained why it was important and then extended a baptismal date for feb 22nd. .........she accepted! her daughter was in the room, she is 17 and she gasped. i looked at her and she was smiling so big! it looks like she has never accepted a date before and so it looks really promising. then her son walked in and we told him what happened and he gave his mom a big hug and was like YAAAAAY. and then her husband found out and they are all way excited. it was a miracle. we worked really hard the whole week and saturday is when the Lord decided to bless us. i never imagined that we would be blessed like this but the Lord works in mysterious ways and always comes through. i'm so excited and i know it was the Lord and the bishop listening to the spirit that made it happen. we were just instruments. i felt a load of joy and i'm so excited to see the baptism. it's the week after transfers so pray that i will stay! i can't believe that about jury duty london. what a test of patience! i will pray that something works out. patience is a life long challenge to overcome and we need to pray to the Lord for help. tell kenz i got her email and i'll try to write her next week. oh and london i am emailing my mtc teacher marcus johnson who you went on a date with and he said "your sister probably thinks that was a way awkward date cause i was still way weird" ha ha but he is a STUD. marcus that's hilarious about jesse. i sent you a letter today along with two memory cards so keep your eyes peeled. dad thanks for the cool stories and info. mom thanks for the spiritual experiences and the great details, i don't ever mention how much i love the details cause i don't have time but i love your letters. i love you guys a ton and some more great news. ......i was looking at the baptisms our mission had and guess who got baptized yesterday.....paula! the lady you were praying for and that i had a way good lesson with her and we put a baptismal date the night before i left my last area. isn't that awesome! i'm so glad that the elders were blessed with success with her. i know that baptism is going to turn into many more! mom something i was thinking about the other day is when we were in the drivers license place and we had to wait for a long time and everyone had grumpy faces and were frustrated and we were like, ok let's make one of the workers smile or laugh. and we did ha ha. i will always remember that especially here in chile cause everyone are workaholics and need a good smile every now and then. we need to put a smile on the world's faces! i love you guys.
elder peterson
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