Happy Easter!

Dear Family,

What better way to celebrate the ressurection of Jesus Christ than by sharing it with others? My Easter was pretty good. Church was a little frustrating because so many of the youth in our branch were so disruptive and disrespective during Sacrament meeting. People were going in and out almost constantly. It was absolutely ridiculous.

Then later that day we found an interesting family. There was the Grandma, the mom, the daughter, and the daughter was pregnant and due for that day. Unfortunately the mom and daughter live in a different area. But we're planning on passing their information to the other elders.

This past week was good. Not every week can be super awesome and this wasn't but it was good.

Next week should be a little more interesting. Oh yea, and today we had transfers. I'm staying in the same area with the same companion. That's good. I like Elder Smith.

But until next time,

Elder Peterson

Another Day, Another... Something

Dear Family,

This week we got contacted by a Jehova's Witness. Like, he approached us while we were talking to one of our members at her house, gave us a pamphlette and sat there talking at us for like 10 minutes. We tried to get out of it as pol

itely as possible and after a while, the member invited us in to get us away from him. So that was nice.

Also, the computer I'm working on is having problems and it isn't accepting my SD card so no pictures this week. Sorry.

Elder Smith decided to paint his bed so for the past few days his mattress has been sitting on the ground. When he took it apart he didn't realized that he wouldn't be able to paint it until today. So that's kind of funny.

Also, we went to a new area this week that we hadn't visited yet. Probably because it happens to be the highest point in our area. There's this big hill right in the middle of our area that basically the rest of our area goes around. Up to this point we hadn't climbed up to the top. It's quite a workout. And since then we've gone up there every day to teach people. I"m almost used to it. With time I will have thunder thighs.

And I don't know if I've mentioned the italian pizza place we found yet, but we ate there again. It was delicious. Italian brick oven, wood heated. He cooks the pizza in 5 or 6 minutes no joke. And it's awesome. I haven't had american pizza in a long while so I can't make a fair comparison, but I would say that this is better. Just saying.

But that's the less than average stuff that happened.

Elder Peterson

Missionary Hair Part

Dear Family,

Starting last Friday, I began wearing my hair with a part. It will continue until next Friady. Just FYI.

This past week started rough. Like being locked out of my house rough. You know. We managed to get back into our house that night, but it still wasn't fun being stuck out. That's fine. Tuesday was actually a quite decent day. Although in one of my lessons the chair fell out from underneath me. I didn't get hurt, but I was quite surprised. It was one of those cheap plastic lawn chairs and the legs bent out. Junk.

Saturday we had Zone Conference. That went well. I got a few letters and a package from Dad with pens and replacement shaver heads. Thanks dad! Then we had a double baptism that afternoon. Win!

Well, stay cool.

Elder Peterson

Conference and Santo Antao

Dear Family,

I hope all of you were able to enjoy conference. Neal said he was only able to catch the priesthood session. Thank the Lord for technology. Neal you can find all of the sessions on the church website and watch them. Unfortunately for my stress level, my companion and I were in charge of setting up an English session of conference for the American missionaries. The only way we were able to work it was to run it from the chapel on the other end of town because the internet in the chapels here is too weak to support both an English and Portuguese transmission at the same time. My comp and I rode the bus more last weekend to get between our house, the distant chapel, and the near chapel than I think I have in the past 9 transfers. We also used our fair share of taxis when we needed to move quickly. We were running around like chickens with our heads cut off as we tried not to be late to sessions and other appointments between sessions. We mostly succeeded. And it was all worth it. This conference was very good. It may be my point of view, but this conference seemed focused 100% on the needs of some of our investigators. I wish we had the conference report now so we could share those talks with them. Maybe I can find them on the church website...

Also, wednesday and thursday my comp and I went to Santo Antao for a division. It went well. But then we returned to Santo Antao today for our Zone Activity. We took a van to the top of this mountain and then walked the trail down. It was way fun. The views were awesome. But we got back a little late.

In fact the reason I am sending this so late instead of just waiting until tomorrow at lunch or something and proselyting right now like I'm supposed to is because I'm locked out of my house. I didn't forget my keys. In fact we have them with us. But for some reason or other, or key isn't opening our door. I think the lock is busted on the inside. This isn't the first time it's happened. Our landlord lives next door and we would have been able to get into our house from his roof, but he wasn't home. So we're waiting for him to get home so we can get into our house. Proselyting is a little difficult in plain clothes and without scriptures. I'm just saying.

Well, that's all for today. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I know a lot are of me, but that's just how it goes. I really didn't take that many with me I just happened to upload most of them instead of the other scenery pictures I had. Of which there are not a few.

Until next time,

Elder Peterson