Living Out of a Carry On

Dear Family,

In case you didn´t get it from the title of this email, I traveled quite a bit this week. It was cool but we didn´t get much opportunity to work in our own area. We were supposed to go to the Volcano on Monday, but our flight that was supposed to be on Tuesday got moved to Monday. So that ruined that Zone Activity. And we spent our P-day in Praia. Did I mention that that day was also All Saints Day, which happens to be a national holiday here? That meant that all of the grocery stores were closed. That was a pain trying to find food. So we ended up staying in the Zone Leaders apartment which is directly adjacent to another apartment of Elders one of which is Elder Brown, my MTC companion. So that was fun.

Tuesday we did a little division, Elder Silva went with the Zone Leaders and I went with Elder Brown and his companion to teach in the morning. In the afternoon we had our Zone Leaders´ Council. We went back to Fogo on Wednesday morning and went straight to Mosteiros for a Baptism Interview. Because there isn´t a hiace back to São Filipe in the afternoon we stayed there the night on another mini-division. Thursday was a normal workday but friday we walked a lot and worked little. On Saturday we went to Patim in the morning for another baptism interview, but we got a car out there late. Then one of their investigators didn´t show up so we lost time waiting for him. That afternoon we waited for him to show up in São Filipe but he was late so we lost more time with that. Needless to say we didn´t get much work done on Saturday.

But, on Saturday we did learn about transfers. And guess what, I´m serving with Elder Brown again. Woot! He came here to Fogo today and we´ll be serving together again about the same time of year that we entered into the MTC. And if we stay together one more we will have passed through the MTC together and then served during that same time of year the next year in the field. Needless to say, I´m super pumped for this transfer.

Love ya,

Elder Peterson