I hope you all had a great week and have had a great start to your spring break! I had a pretty crazy week but an awesome week like normal! I have lots of super cool experiences to share this week so I hope you are all ready!
We have had planned for a while to have a movie night as a ward for this past Friday. Thursday night we got everything ready and figured out for how we were going to do it and we were all super excited! Friday morning we got to the offices which is a part of the church where we meet and the power was out! It was out all day and we started to get worried as the time got closer because we had invited a ton of people! The activity started at 7 and at 6:30 we still did not have any power! We live across the street from the offices and we had power so we got as many extension chords as we could and stretched them from our apartment to out side of the church where we set up chairs and had the tv. We worked super fast to try to make everything work out! We were a little disappointed everything didn´t go as planned but we remained optimistic that everything would turn out. The other problem was the weather. The clouds were super dark and we thought it might rain which would have not been good at all with all of our cables across the street and we would not have had anything else to do. Although the lights didn´t turn on, it did not rain and everything all worked out! As soon as the movie ended, the lights turned on and everyone cheered, it was awesome! This little experience taught me a lesson I will never forget. The Lord tried our faith with the power outage. He wanted to see if, with everything going against us, we would give up. Although we didn´t have things work out the way we wanted, because we didn´t give up the Lord blessed us. We had an investigator that we hadn´t seen in a while come and it didn´t rain! This was a great blessing for all of us and especially for me. It taught me a great lesson that I will never forget! It helped remind me of a quote I learned in elementary school: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going". I have always loved this quote and this experience helped me remember it. I hope you can all learn something from this story just like I did. Life is not easy and we all have trials but as we keep moving forward and never give up we will be blessed and be happy!
This week was kind of a long week. We have transfers coming up and I have a lot to learn and had A LOT to do this week! I wasn´t feeling well all week and it was just kind of a difficult week. Although I was tired and not feeling well, every day I did my best to work as hard as I could for the time we had to work. As I did this I forgot about how I was feeling and was able to meet many great people and teach lots of new people! At the end of the long week a little boy who is getting baptized this next Saturday in our ward asked me to baptize him. This will be my first baptism in Argentina and I am super excited!! I know that the is Heavenly Father blessing me for my work this week and I am very grateful! I know that as we work hard when it is the hardest to work is when we receive the most blessings! I know this is not only true for me but for everyone as well! I promise you all that as you continue to do the hard things that the Lord asks of us in the hardest of times you will be blessed beyond compare!
This week I also learned how to drive stick shift!! There is only one Elder in the offices who knows how to drive it and he is leaving next week so someone else needed to learn how to do it and I was chosen. I was super excited because I have always wanted to learn and I know it will be a skill I will use for the rest of my life! I only had about 30 minutes to practice this week and I did fairly well, at least I think so! I only stalled twice driving to the store and back so I was pretty happy with myself! Just thought I would tell you all about that fun experience this week!
Just a heads up, I will probably be emailing Saturday this week because transfers are the next Tuesday so we need all of Monday to get ready! I hope you have a great week of spring break! During your week off of school and time to relax, look for some opportunities to serve! I love and miss you all! Until Saturday!
Elder Petersen
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