Sorry i didn't send my email yesterday, the internet went down and i wasn't able to send it off. But here it is! I can't believe that it is almost Christmas, time has been going by way to fast!! That is for sure. But this last week was a little bit crazy and a little bit slow but we saw a ton of awesome things happen and had a good week though.
To start it off we went on exchanges with one of the District Leaders in our Zone, I was with a really funny kid his name is Elder Quist. I went to down town New Orleans and we had a really good time. We got to visit some of the family's that they have, and we tried to find some new pockets for Spanish work for them, because there isn't a ton down there. We did that for a day or two and it was super fun to be able to go to down town New Orleans. It is such a big city and has some really cool things over there. Then the next day we had the couple that works in the office come down, and they had to give us a new phone because ours was broken. So when they came down they had about 1 million presents for people in our zone, so we got to spend the rest of the day playing Santa and go around our zone and give everyone there presents. It was cool because we got to go all the way down to Houma. and see the missionary's down there, and that is about one and a half hours away.
After that we went the rest of the week and got to go and try to see some of our people that we visit, and try to go and find some more people to teach. But on Saturday we got to go to a baptism in our zone. We got to go back to my last area Algiers and watch the cane family that Elder Bean and i found get baptized. It was super good they had all there family there, and a bunch of people from the branch came and saw it. It was super good to see them and talk to them again. But i felt kind of bad because the water was very low, and the missionary's didn't get there early enough to fill it up all the way. So when one of the boys was getting baptized they had to redo it almost 5 times because they couldn't get him under and his foot kept coming up . But it was super good and the smaller twins that they have turn 8 next month so they will be baptized, and the mom wants to be baptized with them, so i am very excited for that.
But we had such a great week and a fun time. This gospel is literally the best thing ever i could not imagine what my life would have been like if i would have never came out here. Also i am super excited to be able to see some of yall this Christmas, if any of yall want to come and skype i would love to see yall there. I think that i will be getting on around 2 my time, so it might be around 1 for yall but i will let my parents know for sure what time i am going to get on, and they can tell yall before. But i hope that yall have a great Christmas, and really remember the true meaning of it, and we can invite that spirit into our homes. Its such a gift that we have to have been given a Redeemer to be able to return to our father in heaven.
Elder Peterson
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