Hello family and friends!
How is everyone doing? I hope everyone is enjoying the last little bit of their summer and getting ready for school! I want to apologize for not writing for a while and I promise I will be better! This week was a really amazing week with lots of big changes! I have now left the offices and am in Santos Lugares, right next to where I started my mission in Loma Hermosa! The ward is super great and I love them already! What is even more crazy is my new companion! His name is Elder Meneses. He is from Brazil and now has one week in the mission! He is super awesome and is such a hard worker! We get along really well and are seeing lots of miracles! He already speacks really well and is learning very fast! He already teaches better than I do and is actually training me! I am learning a little Portuguese with him as well which is cool but not as cool as spanish, I was definitely called to Argentina for a reason! haha
Here is one of the miracles that we have had since being here in Santos Lugares. On Thursday our second full day in the area we were at the church to pick up a new member list and a young man names Juan asked us to teach him! He has been coming to the ward mutuals to play soccer with the young men and decided he wanted to learn more! We taught him right there and had a really great lesson! We also got to know his mom who is really amazing! She is really worried about Juan and is super happy that we are helping him. During our lesson she called Juan to see where he was and was so surprised to hear that he was in a church that I had to talk to her so that she believed him haha! She later on found him reading the Book of Mormon that we gave him and was even more surprised. After that she really wanted to learn more. Yesterday we had a lesson with her and it was really special! As my companion shared the first vision with her the spirit was so strong and after she told us with tears in her eyes that she is going to do what Joseph Smith did and pray and ask Heavenly Father if this is true and if she needs to be baptized. I know that she will receive her answer and I can`t wait to see her all in white at her baptism! This is just one of the many miracles we have seen opening the area here in Santos Lugares! And another blessing is that we haven`t gotten too lost haha!
I hope you are all enjoying the olympics! Everyone is talking about them here and are super excited about the basketball team! It is cool to see everyone with their flags out and all wearing Argetina shirts. I really love Argentina and am enjoying my time here so much! I cannot believe how fast time is passing by!
Thank you all for the birthday wishes! I can`t believe I will be 20 years old in just a few days! Thank you for everything, I hope you all have a great week! Love and miss you all!
Elder Petersen
