20th Bday 8.19.16

 What did you all do to celebrate my birthday?;) Just kidding haha We did enough celebrating here for me! Some of the members threw a surprise party for me and made me a huge cake and got me an argentina jersey! For lunch we had an asado which is very rare and another cake! It was really special! Good way to spend my only birthday in the mission! I really love this ward!  Love and miss you so much mom!

Out of the Offices! 8.17.16

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

July 25, 2016

A family in our ward where the mom is active but her husband and two sons aren´t are super funny! The oldest son does like midevil fighting and he has like the whole outfit and everything! The other brother was showing us the helmet and he told me to put it on so I did. It just slid on and I had it on for a couple minutes and I tried to take it off and it just wouldn´t come off! They all thought I was joking but then when they saw how I hard I was trying to get it off they kind of got worried! haha We tried for like 10 mintues and it finally came off! My ears were super red and burning and my head hurt after for a while to but now everything is okay!

7-18-16

Mom,

Looks like you all had a good time boating! Can´t believe it has been a year since we last did that, crazy! I cannot believe Gabi and Joshua are going into 6th grade! They are getting so big! Is Joshua getting a litle bit skinnier? It looks like it! I had a good week! I am having some problems with my companions but that´s okay. It´s not that I am having problems with either of them but they aren´t getting a long very well.. Elder Núñez has been super sick this week so i hope I don´t get sick as well.. It is pretty cold here, but this week it should be warming up and it isn´t supposed to rain all week which is good! I wish I could go to the temple so bad!! It has been over 6 months since I have been and it is pretty sad! I think we are going pretty soon and then I will be going with Eduardo and Jessica in November which I can´t wait for!! What should I say to the byu coach?? Here is a picture of what we had for lunch yesterday at the Johnson´s!! German pancakes and biscuts and gravy, so good!!! 

Chivilcoy 7.11.16

This week we had a special training in Bragado which is like a two and a half hour drive and it reminded me of drives to Utah. Chivilcoy is on the way out to Bragado and on the way back we had to bring back the Elders from the training to their area (Chivilcoy) so while we were there I stopped by an investigators house from when I was there and it was really good to see her!

Keisy´s baptism! 7.11.16

Surprise Text from The Piccardo Family 7-3-16