Accident : )

Hello Family and Friends,

This week is the end of my 14th change in the mission. I only have 3 left in my mission! This change has been a crazy one! I have been up to my knees in office work and missionary work but i have no reason to complain. I'm learning so much. 

I'd like to share a couple of thing about this week that were pretty interesting. One being that there is a giant dent in the back of the Van. we were going pretty fast and all of a sudden there was a wreck in front of us so i had to stop very suddenly and then a moto came and i guess didn't see me and smashed into the back of me! : ( A police officer was standing right there and he saw the whole thing. After get everything all cleaned up and talking to the guy that was driving the moto he brought me over and he said that there was two options. "One, we all go over to the station and fill out a report and take down your information. It will take a bunch of time that i know you don't have. or, I have talked to the motorist and he said that all of the damages would cost about 500$, You can give him 500$ right now and we can call it good." Jajaja I wasn't having any of that! i told him that we would go down to the station to fill out a report. he nor the motorist seemed to be very happy about the decision. jajaja

The boys talked Marcelo into shaving 1/2 of his face!

Office Elder planning the coming changes

Some other news, Elder Johnson, my beloved companion for 4 changes, was special changed out this morning. I took him up to his area at about 4 in the morning with the assistants. He made it out!! I am now companions with Elder Castillo from Ecuador for the next couple of days.

Also, this week we had a World-Wide Missionary training Conference this past Wednesday. It was really great! we got together with our zone and listened to several Apostles and General authorities teach us on how we can be better missionaries. It was great!! It is always amazing to hear the Apostles speak and to learn from them. I learned lots of things that i am excited to put into practice. 

Some other good news is that a recent convert (Marcelo) that i have been working with for a long time is going to be submitting his mission papers this month!  I'm so excited to help someone have the same experiences that i have had on my mission.

Well that's about it for this week as far as i can remember! I love you all and i hope that you have a great week!

Love Elder Petersen