Well as you have already read, I'm down to 8 months left in the mission!! I'm not liking that fact that i end is in sight!! Oh well, i guess I'm just going to have to work even harder.
This week was pretty interesting for my companion and I. We had the awesome opportunity to take our 8 seater van up to my old area, Pedro Juan Caballero 4th Branch and do an Open House. We had a couple of miracles that happened to us along the way. First, We were setting up for an Open House in my old area and out on the main road there was a car parked off the side of the road and a family trying to figure out what to do with there non-functioning car. A couple of us elders walked over and saw what we could do to help them out with their car. There was nothing wrong with it for as much as I could tell so we just pushed it off of the main road and invited them to come over and see the Open House while their car took a break. After a while of trying to convince them to come in they did just that. They came and stayed the whole time. When they left their car started up like nothing ever happened and they were on their way.
It may not seam like such a huge miracle but it was to me and it showed me that God still is a God of miracles.
The biggest problem that we had on our trip was that our clutch gave out going up one of the long hills. We got about half way up the hill and it gave out! So there was a little town on the side of this huge hill so we got out a pushed this dumb 8 seater van up and over this hill so that we could get it to coast down the other side. Man that thing is heavy and even worse going up hill. As it got going we found that it would be better to not stop it because we might not getting going again. We finally got it up and over the hill and we just had to take it slow all the way back to Asuncion which was about 5 more hours! we had a lot of people honk and us and flip us of because we were going about 35 to 40 mph in an 80 mph speed limit zone. But that's alright because we made it back!
But before we came back, we were able to do a couple of things up there. One of them was go to the border between Paraguay and Brazil. We actually bought a couple of hammocks up there from a Brazilian man who had the thickest accent I have ever heard. He wanted 300 thousand guarani's for 2 of them, which isn't bad but I thought I could bid him down to 250 for both, so i gave it a shot in Portuguese, I did it!! jajaj i felt like a accomplished life!!
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| Boarder of Paraguay and Brazil |
So That was a lot of fun. Another thing that was pretty fun was getting to see all the old members and especially my convert Ignacio. Luckily i got to take a picture with them because it is probably going to be the last time a ever see them! After Saturday night we went to church Sunday morning in a group out in the middle of nowhere called Naranjahai which means sour orange. I don't you if you all remember me talking about it about a year ago but i love this place and i love the people out there. We have our church meetings outside with the chickens and cows. The only problem was that it was so hot. it was over 110 F° and 100% humidity. You best believe i was sweating like crazy. But it was really worth it!! I had a great time and learned a lot.
I love this Gospel. I have seen it change my life as well as others when we live it. Stay strong to it and your life will be more pleasant!!
I love you all!!
Elder Petersen
Lots and Lots of fotitos
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