Argentina Week 1

Hello family and friends! Well I am finally in Argentina and I am loving it!! We will start with the flight.. The flight from Atlanta to Buenos Aires is about ten hours and we flew during the middle of the night! I didn´t sleep at all and was really uncomfortable for most of the flight until I asked an Hermana in my district who had an aisle seat to switch me, that was very nice of her to switch me! I had a lot more leg room and it was a lot better! The flight was the first time I realized how fast they talk here! I was surrounded by Argentines! There was like over 50 missionaries on our flight to Argentina, it was awesome!! All of the other people on the plane kept laughing at us and talking about us. I could understand some of it but not all of it. What I did understand I just ignored. When we landed we were greeted right away by the AP´s and our mission president and his wife. They are awesome!! When we left the airport we went to the Argentina MTC to pick up the missionaries who are also in our mission. In total there were 15 of us! We went to the mission office and talked a little about the mision and then started working right away! We went and contacted in the plaza. I was with Elder Brockbank who is also a new missionary and we didn´t have very much success but we learned that we will be able to do this by watching other misisonaries who have been here for a while. The next day the whole mission got together because last transfer they read the book of mormon as a mission. They finished the whole book in just 41 days!! We had classes and lessons and other things for most of the day. I just wanted to find out who my companion would be and the area I would be working in for the next 12 weeks at least. I was so anxious! My companion´s name is Elder Núñez and he is from Peru!! He does speak english but we never really use english. It has been tough but this is what I asked for and the Lord gave me what I asked for! I know having a Latino companion will help me so much! I have seen improvement in my spanish in just this short little time! The area I am in is Caseros. I am in the district Loma Hermosa B and Elder Núñez is the district leader. Our ward is Loma Hermosa and I already love it! The people here have been so welcoming and kind to me! I have been a little frustrated because I can´t understand everything that they are saying and I can´t participate in lessons as much as I would like, but everyone has been super surprised when I tell them this is my first week here. That´s a good sign! Our area is very successful and we also have a lot of the members of our ward in our area. In our very first lesson we asked Yesica (Jessica) to be baptized and she accepted!! I was so excited and am so excited to see her get baptized! I don´t have much time today because of the holiday here today so I will tell you more and send pictures next week!! I love and miss you all but there is nowhere I ould rather be right now in my life than Argentina doing the Lord´s work! 

Love,

Elder Petersen