Catapillar War

Oct 13, 2014

Oh man, it’s crazy how fast the time flies.  I can’t believe that I’ve been in the mission for almost 4 months now. It seems like just yesterday I hopped on a plane to come here.  I’ve almost graduated training. YES!!

It’s crazy to think of all the things I’ve learned just in this short amount of time and every day seems to be faster than the last.

A couple of strange/cool things happened this week. I’ll start it out with and caterpillar fight. haha sounds funny doesn’t it??  So, during the day it gets super-duper hot and humid, so we usually stop by the church and grab some water but all around our church, there are thick, fat, juicy caterpillars.  My comp. Elder Fielding thought it would be funny to stick one on his shoe and then kick it at me and it worked. haha but I wasn’t having any of that’ so I picked the same one up and through it at him. Things came to pass and we had a caterpillar war. haha it was super-duper fun but the cool part was that they would stick to your shirt. Oh man, it was pretty funny (poor caterpillars)

The next strange thing that happened was on Sunday at church. We were sitting in class and I had my hand up on the chair next to me and sitting behind me was a little kid named Joel (about 4 or 5 years old) and for some strange reason, Joel started pulling out the hair on my knuckles. haha it was super weird at first but then it kinda started to feel good he did it for about 10 to 15 minutes until class ended.  I don’t know if he feels the same but I feel like we bonded.  Joel...what a boss!!

This week we also had the opportunity to go to one our colonies called Naranjahai.  We went out to visit some members and they served us lunch which was super nice but when she set the plate down in front of me she said "Now, this isn’t normal meat" haha  What kind of thing to say is that?? haha  Well, it turns out, it was cow liver and it also turns out that I . . . don’t like cow liver!! : (  Imagine that!!  

To get back to our house we have to take a collectivo (bus) so we waited for almost 4 hours for a bus to take us back home.  We sat and waited as two different buses passed by us.  I don’t know if they didn’t have room for us or they just don’t like Mormons (or Americans). 

Last night we received a call saying that we needed to go down to Asuncion to sign for migrations which stinks because our area is 8 hours away and we had to be there in the morning but today at the migrations office, one of the assistants and I contacted people while we were waiting.  We contacted and man from Sweden and a couple from Germany.  The man from Sweden was there to start a new life because he did "some bad things and needed to leave the country".  It kind of made me wonder but then the couple from Germany seamed really interested in what we were teaching them and took a pamphlet but they said they would only take our pamphlet if we took theirs so we said that’s fine and took their pamphlet…turns out that they were Jehovah’s witnesses. Bummer : )

Anyways, this week went really good, not so much in the way of working, but it went alright. We are going to have to drop some of our investigators this week because they are just wasting our time when we could be focusing on someone who can progress. I guess we will see how it goes. ;)

I love you all so much and wish the best for you.

Love Elder Petersen