All I could do was shake her hand, I'm a idiot!

The most embarrassing thing just happened to me! so Elder Petersen is sitting in a cyber writing his humble letter to his family, while 7 college students (women) walk in and sit down next to me! One of them asks to get my number and i told her no! hahaha she asks me my name and i shake her hand! hahhahaha I'm such an Idiot! i think I'm going to leave early because they just asked me to take a selfie with them! Therefore this is going to be short email because i need to leave before it gets more weird!

love you guys!!!!

elder Petersen!!!

**That's it!  That's all we got this week!  

The start of the Finish...

Family and Friends,

As you can probably guess by the title today is the first day of the last change in my mission. My time here in Paraguay is coming to an end. Even though i never thought it would. haha The time as passed by very quickly but i sure am glad that i have had this chance to serve the Lord here is Paraguay.

This will be a shorter letter just because there isnt a whole ton to write about this week. But i sure do love you guys and i pray and hope that you all have a fantastic week.

Love Elder Petersen

Baptism of Osmar

Hey Family and Friends,

Let me just start out by letting you all know how much i love you guys. Thanks for all of your support here in the mission. I sure needed it. Jaja

Elder Starks and I had a baptism this Saturday and It was perfect. Osmar Delpuerto was baptized this Saturday and he invited about 30 people to attend, 8 of which being new investigators. Things are going great here in my area. All of the work that i have put into the beautiful country are finally paying off! 

We have an investigator that asked us what he needs to do to serve a mission. I cant wait for him to become a member of this church and serve a mission and grow up a little bit just like i had the opportunity to do. He is a great kid! his name is Matias Ramirez. He is 17 years old and he is one of the most prepared people for baptism that I have ever met! I cant wait to help him leave on a mission. If he goes on a mission it will be the second convert of mine that I helped get of a mission. Now that's not to brag, I know that I was put in their lives because the Lord wanted me to be there, sometimes I'm still not sure why it was me! 

Its hard to realize that i only have about a month and a half left here in Paraguay. I wish i could just take these people back with me! If you want to learn to love someone really quickly, lose yourself serving them. I love this people. I cant express the way i feel about them now being in there presence for about 2 years now. Some of them have come to be some of my best friends and it will be very hard to leave them behind. Jajaja i knew this day would come i just didn't think it would come so soon and be this hard.

Well I've got about 7 weeks left so i guess I've got to enjoy it while I have them.  

I love you all so much and i thank you again for all of your support and love.

have a great week!

General Conference

Hello family and Friends,

This week topped off a great month. Lots of Lots of good things are coming our way here in Piquete Cuè and i have a feeling that the month of April is going to be at least 4 times better. I cant wait. I don't have a whole lot of time today but I love you all and I'll write more this next week. 

I love you all!!

Elder Petersen

Chat time:

How is everything?

Everything is doing really well here. My companion is doing well also. He is picking up on the Spanish thing. But there is still a lot to teach him.

What was your best experience this week?  

Probably General Conference!! for sure!! its better than Christmas here in the mission!

We are going to have a baptisms or two in the upcoming weeks. That will be great.

That is awesome!  Tell me about them.  Their story.

Well one of them is named Osmar. Her is 10 years old and his family is less active but we found him and he would like to be baptized. The other one is Matias, he is 17 years old and his girlfriend is a member of a nearby ward. He has come to church 4 times and he wants to serve a mission. We told him that he would need to be baptized before he can go on a mission and he said he would have no problem with it. He will be baptized on the 16 of this month.

Oh, I sent your final box!  I hope you like it : ) 

You have never sent a box that i have not loved! so for all of the previous and the one future box, Thank you so much.

I'm glad.  Unless you tell me specific things, I just kinda guess at what you might need or use.  I sent some CTR rings for you to give the kids, and I actually found them in Spanish.  Did you ever think that I would tell you I sent you LAST box?  I didn't!  

I keep telling people that the first 3 months were SO LONG AND HORRIBLE but the middle went so fast.  Now the last 3 months are DRAGGING ALONG!  Probably not for you, but for us...

Jajaja Its cruising by for me! ive got less than two months left and i think that it will go by really fast becasue there are lots of things to do here so ill be pretty busy. But i never thought that i would get to this point in the mission. I never thought that it would come to an end. But sure enough, just like everyone said, it came and went super fast.

How are you feeling about that?  Are you ready to be wrapping things up or not?  Some missionaries are ready to roll when the time comes and others really don't want to leave.  I can tell you that your family is ready!  We want you to finish strong but when that day comes, we're ready.  I hope you are too.  

Hahaha yup! I'm getting to that point!! I am getting to that point where i feel like i have done all that was asked of me and more and its time for me to go. Haha its hitting me but I'm still kicking!!