A Missionary's Work: Faces

3/6/2017

Magandang hapon mga awesome tao!

Ya this week was kinda crazy from transfers and teaching and traveling. So in transfers (I felt it coming) I lost Elder Dela Cruz and now have Elder Jaena (like HI-na). He's pretty darn cool and way different from my last companion. I always think of it as we're each assigned a specific companion, that we will learn something from their strengths and weaknesses and can grow and change from them.

Though besides that craziness, it's all good here in Bongabon, Philippines. The people are still freakin' awesome and it's about to be super hot fire here, summer is coming. We will be working hard here and sweating it up, ha! I am considered by all (by "all", that means only me, ha) to be the fix-it-up man. I fix everything especially if I'm stressed or need to take a break.

So the cool part of this week was today actually. We went way up in the mountains to take some pictures. It was great. We saw waterfalls and rivers. I also got to see an area of people where there was little of anything, just a few shacks and at least 1-2 hours from anything. You know how you can see how someone is doing in their eyes. Yea, I saw in one 19ish guy with 2 kids in a small, falling apart shack, the wear and tear of life. I could see he felt like he was at a dead end and needed help. Then I thought about the gospel of Jesus Christ, something that has changed my life in such a huge way. I am serving 2 years in a foreign land teaching people, and it isn't even close to a sacrifice, but a privilege. I have seen the change, the hope gained, the faith build, that has happened to people through his gospel.

So that's my cool experience for this week, love you all, stay Pogi!

Elder Peterson