Monday, April 20, 2015

"Another day"...

Family and Friends

Like most weeks we walked a lot for no good reason, then we would walk to our next lesson and they "weren't home" or "otro dia" (another day)... sometimes missionary work is hard! jaja

Cool thing about area is that there are about a thousand pigs! Still not sure why but there are! haha
 
It rained like crazy this week with a couple days of pure rain!! Rain = Missionaries worst enemy (besides Satan)!!

This email will be a short one because one of the sister missionaries needs to use a computer but everything is going great here in my area and my comp. is great as well!! 

     I love you all! have a good week!!

Elder Petersen
 
Letters between dad and Jeff:
Hello Jeff (Elder Petersen)

I hope you have had a good week. I hope that your new area and companion are good. Please tell us about both of these. We are fast coming up on Mother’s Day and are really excited to Skype with you. The first few months you were out seemed to go so slowly, but now it’s hard to believe you have been out ten months and soon it will be a year.

I wish you were here right now so that we could just talk and spend some time together. It is a little after 3:00AM and I am at the Payson Temple. I got a call about 1:00AM because the brethren assigned to security on the night shift never showed up. It’s pretty quiet, so I thought I would send you my next email. No I still do not like doing all-nighters, but it has been great to spend all this time at the Temple. Even though it is not dedicated, you really can feel the spirit here. There is so much excitement about the Temple. Within 36 hours of open house tickets becoming available, they ran out. They gave out 300,000 tickets in that time. I have been told that they intend to give out 100,000 more this week. There have already been some neat experiences where members and non-members have been touched by the Temple.

About the career thing for you. I have been thinking and started collecting job bulletins in a file folder for you. The job bulletins have all types of information about what the requirements are to get that job, education, training, experience, etc. That way you can read through them when you get home and see if any of them appeal to you. I know that you have been doing some growing, I saw quite a bit before you left and have seen a great deal more in your emails. So I am not 100% if your interests have changed, but for better or worse, I think you have the “public safety” gene in you. Sorry about that. I think you want to help people, I think you want to go to work every day and to some extent be able to do, see and experience different things. I think you would like to be able to get outside or work outside. I don’t think you really want to work in an office or a factory or something like that, unless I am wrong.

Sometime this winter Amanda and I are going to start working on seeing if we can get you into BYU, so that you can take advantage of the half tuition, you will still have to work some to put yourself through college, but why pay full price if you don’t have to.

I guess that’s all for now. I know that God loves you. He loves all his children more that we can imagine. I have am truly blessed that he sent you to our family.

I am so proud of you. I love you very much. Dad

Hey Dad,

I look up to you so much Dad. I saw that you always put family first and I've also seen how it effects the lives of those who dont. I would much rather have a happy family like we have. But I've also noticed that its going to be super hard. How did you do it? Honestly one of my biggest fears is having one of my kids fall and not being able to enter into the Celestial Kingdom with the rest of the family. Did you ever have these fears? What did you do have such a great family but still have such a great career. I know that there has probably been a few problems in your life but it sure looks like youve got it down! You have a great career and a great family. I am so blessed to have you as my Dad. I love you so much!!

Have a great week Dad. You deserve it!! I love you!!

Elder Petersen

 

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