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