Almost done...in Argentina!

Having fun!

It has been really good. we only have 4 more days left and they are all the classes that tell you the dangers of your mission. its going to be pretty fun. id rather not talk about the language. haha just kidding. it is very hard though. everyone is so much more ahead of me. but i know that God answers prayers now so maybe ill ask him. ; ) i have a teacher down here, is name i hermano hertler who is so cool. he makes me laugh every time i see him. he has had the hardest life you can possibly imagine but he is still strong in the gospel and keeps his little brother close to the gospel as well.

I'm so excited to finally go the place i was called to serve. it has been raining and flooding in paraguay and i'm excited to go help out. i also heard that the elders in our mission all get a machete because some of the villages that we are going to have to go to are in the middle of jungles. i saw a picture of one of the mosquitoes in paraguay and body of it was as big as my pinky finger. oh yeah. bring it on Paraguay.

i love hearing about home. and i'm stoked to get the package with more pictures of you guys. i sleep on the bottom bunk and i stuck all the pictures underneath the top bunk so i can look at them before i go to bed every night. i want to know more about whats going on back home, i love to hear about what you guys are doing. oh i've been getting super swole (swollen/buff) downhere i'm pretty sure i've gained like 32 pounds of muscle. hah just kidding if anything i've lost about 10 pounds.

we went proselyting and got put in a new area. we had a dog follow us where ever we went. it was a pretty cool dog. we named him Doge ( Dow-ge) he is now the official dog de la iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días. oh haha we were talking to these four guys sitting on a bench waiting for the bus and i was preaching away and one of the men offered elder heckel the beer that he was drinking. it was a very nice gesture but then i explained to him that we don't drink alcohol. it was pretty funny. elder heckel is so oblivious. he didnt even know what was happening. haha he thought he wanted him to hold it for him. so he grabbed it. thats when i explained that we don't drink. then the man took it back and threw it way. the people here are either really receptive because they are looking for anything to give them a better life or they already have a good life and they want nothing to do with you.

i love you guys and i want you to know that i'm doing great. it is now only 23 months until we again. thats not too bad.

Love Elder Petersen