SAL

Dear Family,

So this computer is garbage. Just saying. The left shift and control keys don´t work. So if there is something that isn´t capitalized it´s becase i was too lazy to hit the shift key with my right pinky while hitting the other key with my right whatever other finger.

Also don´t expect many photos from this area.

But last weekend we had 2 baptisms and then a District activity. 2 of the 4 branches in Praia put on skits, then we missionaries put on a skit (that I wrote). It was fun and funny. The skit we did was all in Creole which was good because all the members here think it´s hilarious when American missionaries speak creole. It was a hit.

Today I did all the morning transfer driving around before being transferred myself (after missing a flight and running around a lot). So I really didn´t have much of a P-day. In fact, I really don´t have much more time today to write. But thanks for all the letters from you all. Mom, I did get that package with the mouthguard and goodies before I came out. Thanks!

Love,

Elder Peterson

Summer Break

Is over.

Dear Family,

I hear that many of you are already back in school and doing many of that sort of thing. That´s cool. Being in school is something that I sometimes miss. I always liked school.

These days it´s work work work. We did have a baptism this week. His name is Keny. He´s a really cool kid. It was so awesome to see his big smile when it came time to be baptized. There were some people from the other Branches that also got baptized and when Keny saw them get baptized he got really excited for his turn. Then when he came to church the next day he came in a white shirt and tie (the first time for him). And he´s got a friend that will be baptized this next week.

His truth is marching on.

Elder Peterson

the one picture is of the baptism. The other is of the missionaries at Cape Verde´s national championship soccer game last week. It was pretty sweet.

Stankers

Dear Family,

Stankers is the name of the dog that lives by our house. He´s a nasty, dirty, ugly black dog. But we give him our leftovers sometimes.

Two weeks ago I stayed with Elder Fonseca while Elder Josephson went to Mindelo. This past week I stayed with Elder Josephson while Elder Fonseca went to Brava and Fogo. It was interesting to spend a week with each of them and see how different it is. Both of them bring something different to our companionship and in this case I feel like 3 is better than 2. Despite my initial misgivings at hearing that I would be in a triple. I guess it really just depends on who the triple is with. I´m sure if it was with different people (certain Elders in specific) it would be a lot harder. But as it is, it´s going good. It´s going fast too. I can hardly believe that we are starting our 5th week together. Wah

I enjoyed the pictures that Neal sent from Bear Lake, but unfortunately for you, I really haven´t been taking that many pictures recently. Maybe next week I´ll get some good ones to send home.

And because I don´t have a ton to say this week I´ll tell a story. Yesterday we had to pass by the office because we had forgotten to send out an important email during the week that our District Leaders needed today. So we just passed by real quick to shoot off a few emails then headed back out to work. just fyi, the office is in our proselyting area so it´s not as big a deal for us to pass by as it may seem. But as we were leaving we saw some dogs jump around a corner barking. We passed by to see what it was and we saw 3 dogs fighting a cat. This cat was putting up a pretty good fight too, for being outnumbered. We stopped for a second to watch the fight but then one of the dogs caught it in its mouth and started shaking it. Elder Josephson didn´t want the dog to kill it so he picked up a rock and threw it to break them up. Only he ended up hitting the cat right in the head basically killing it. It was a good sized rock. When the cat got hit, it just dropped and started twitching. The dogs backed up a little and just looked at it for a second because they weren´t quite sure what had happened. But then they ran over and one grabbed the cat in its mouth and they ran off. Elder Josephson felt so bad that he had killed the cat that he was trying to help. But that´s my story for the day.

Stay classy,

Elder Peterson

Third Wheel

Dear Family,

This effect our triplet companionship came into play as was intended from the beginning. Elder Josephson went with President Oliveira to do some trainings and meetings in Mindelo while Elder Fonseca and I stayed in our area and worked like real missionaries do. Elder Josephson really liked Mindelo. It was his first time off of this island. With my history in the mission, I´m not worried about traveling. I could stay here the rest of my time easy. But it just depends on what goes down.

As far as the home front, we worked. It was kind of like when you were a kid digging a hole to china in our backyard. You started out all excited and just going at it and all that. After a while you start hitting some rocks but that doesn´t really get you. You just work around them and keep going. But you get to that point where it´s all clay and rocks and you just aren´t making any progress. I just hope that it only seemed like we didn´t make progress but secretly something is going on somewhere that I haven´t noticed. I´m just saying, yesterday we taught one single lesson. And we walked a lot.

That´s ok though. Today is P-day! And there´s not much a good p-day can´t fix. Or a good nights sleep. Or video games. wait.

I heard you all had a great time at Bear Lake. Well, most of you. Grant mentioned some vomiting there at the end, not pleasant. But I´m glad you all had a good time.

The gospel is true. Endure to the end is an eternal principle. That includes missionary work, church callings, and school. So just because things aren´t going the way we thought they should doesn´t mean there isn´t a window opening.

Love,

Elder Peterson

Sploosh

Dear Family,

There´s no better feeling than helping one of the Lord´s children enter onto the path of salvation through baptism. Saturday we had 4. Our zone had 6. As you can see one of the pictures. The 4 from our area are the two in front of me and the two kids on the left. Their older brother is the one smiling on the far left. He´s preparing for a mission right now. My companions are the two Elders on the far right. It was a great weekend. A good way to end a week full of work work work.

One of the other pictures is of soccer this morning and the last one is of the mission president´s son Saul, who finished his mission and is visiting here, in a typical back pathway. After playing soccer my companions and I went with him to the mission home. Turns out today is Sister Oliveira´s birthday so we sang her a primary happy birthday song. She insisted on making us pancakes. We went with Saul and President Oliveira to Sucupira for a little bit and then we went and got haircuts. If I didn´t have to get another haircut here I´d be happy. It wasn´t a bad haircut but... I´ll leave it at that.

Anyways, my life here is just dandy. Our three AP system is going to come into play this next week as Elder Josephson goes with President to Mindelo while Elder Fonseca and I stay here to work in the area. woot!11!

Well, stay classy I suppose.

Elder Peterson