Argentina Week 4

Hello family and friends! I hope you all had a great halloween and also a great week! I learned that they do have halloween here but it definitely is not the same as back home! Only a few little kids were dressed up and no one really goes trick-or-treating. People just get together with their families and friends and have little parties which is kind of like home. It made me miss and think of you all and all our family parties and get togethers that are always so fun! I had another great week here in Argentina and had some cool experiences! Today, being the first day of the moth, we had to go to Billinghurst to the bank to take out our money for the month. We did not want to have to cook today so we decided to get something in the city and got McDonalds! It was the first time I have had mcdonalds in a long time! It definitely isn´t as good here as it is there and it is a lot different! It was wierd ordering in a different language and was pretty difficult but I did it! We had a cool experience there as well! Two workers there came and asked us if we would like to donate some money for a charity here and were definitely trying to flirt with us to make sure we would which was really weird! haha but we said we would if they would take a little card, which they did. We gave them 5 pesos and got to write our names on the little hand they put up on the window. When they were about to leave I felt like I should give them a book of mormon. I don´t ever bring anything when we go to Billinghurst because we have to take a train and a bus and we don´t really need anything but this time I brought my backpack with the book of mormon´s. I am so glad I did because I was able to give them both one for them to read! It was a very neat experience and I really hope they read it and feel of the peace and happiness that comes from reading. They are not in our area but hopefully they will talk to the sister missionaries who are in their area! I had another amazing experience yesterday! We were on our way to pick up an investigator who is 80 years old and can barely walk. It took us over an hour from when we picked him up to when we got to church. He is such an example to me and such an amazing man! This isn´t even the best part of the story! Walking to the bus stop two black guys stopped us and started asking us about churches here in english! They are from Nigeria and have been here four months and have been trying to find a church that they can go to where they can talk to someone in english because that is all they know. I was able to talk to them and they came with us to pick up our investigator and stayed with us and went to church! I figured out that they have been living with people who are of the traditional religion and sacrifice goats and cows all the time and do really weird stuff! These two guys hate being there because they juist feel terrible and are not happy. That morning they prayed so hard to be able to find the true church where they would be able to worship the way they would like and know. They are christians and we explained that we are too and they were so happy to hear that! Elder Jarvis, Elder Vance and I were able to teach them during priesthood and we had an amzing lesson! Elder Vance translated sacrament meeting for them and one of them wanted to bear his testimony so he did that for him as well! It was so amazing! It reminded me a lot of the story of the restoration and of Joseph Smith! I am so grateful Heavenly Father placed therm in my path and I was able to help them! I know this gospel will bring them happiness just like it has for me in my life! This gospelñ is true and I love you all! I hope you have a great week and know how much I love and miss you all! 

Love, 

Elder Petersen