Hello Everyone!!
So this is my second time writing this email! Right before i was about to send it everything got deleted! So here we go again. But I got transferred this week and my area is called Algiers! It is across the river from Downtown New Orleans. I am really close to all the cool fun stuff! I also got a brand new comp who is fresh off of the airplane! His name is Elder Bean. He is from Layton Utah, but he was born in England. So i have been practicing my English accent with him and it has been getting a ton better! But i am so excited for this transfer we are going to be working hard and having a great time down here!
We cover both the English and Spanish branches, so we will be doing work for both! Also our area is about 6 or so miles from our work, and i'm finally on a bike!!! So i will finally get to use my bike out here!!! Also my address is 500 Wall Blvd #246 Gretna, LA 70056. If yall want to send me any goodies ;) Also every Elder down here in the Algiers/Westbank was doubled in and everyone has no idea where anything is or where to go! So its going to be fun finding everything and getting use to everything down here.
But nothing to crazy happened this week! I got to go and say good bye to everyone up in Baton Rouge Tuesday since it was our Pday, Wednesday we had transfers and we came down to Algiers! We have been unpacking, and we had to clean our apartment because the Elders who where there before left it a huge mess and they hadn't done anything with it for a long time! We have been trying to figure out the area and ride our bikes around! But nothing to crazy for this week!
We had a cool experience the other night when we were out for dinner for one of the Elders Birthday down here! We were at chilies and we were having a good time and just eating and talking! Our waiter was very nice and she would talk to us a little bit here and there! And when we were leaving we started to talk to her a little more. And while we were talking one of us asked her what church she went to! And she started to talk to us about her church and a little, and then she started to talk to us about how her mother had died and some other things. And then we just started to share our testimony's about the plan of salvation. She loved it and wanted to know more, and after we exchanged our info she told us that she had kind of seen people like us around before. And the missionary's had come a lot to eat there. Every time that they came she said that she would always end up helping them, and she wanted to talk to us about our church but was to scared and wanted them to start the conversation! It was such a eye opener to me of no matter where we are at or what we are doing, we should always be looking for way to share the gospel and to help some one out! Because you never know who has been prepared to hear the message! But i am really excited to be down in New Orleans and to see what it has in store for me! I hope that yall have a good week and are loving life as much as I am! hope yall have a blessed week!

Elder Peterson

Elder Peterson & Elder Bean