A Missionary's Work: Truth Hurts, But Builds More

7/10/2017

Hey everybody! How's it going on the North and to the left-ish side of the world? Ha. It's going great here. We're eating well and actually, like every other night, we invite this cool member to come and cook with us. He's pretty good and it's never boring for sure. We always end up cooking outside and it's a blast.

It's been so fast...The other day I was transferred to Paco Roman, now I'm going on 4 months here. Wow, when old people say time flies, I can testify they are way right, haha (no offense to old people 😉).Life just seems sweeter when you take in the memories and moments. Especially the people you're around. These people here are great and I am always soo much more happy when I'm with them, especially teaching them in their homes with their families.  Besides, tasting some great fried bugs (like grasshoppers) and finding some cool back woods houses... it's been a great week.

Now something that I have been working on, is learning from the truth. There are a lot of ways to learn from truth, but this kind is different. Let me explain in an example. My companion and I had a little bit of a hard time for a small period of time where he sort-of blew up about some things I was doing that he didn't like. I thought of what he said and instead of being mad and trying to shove his weaknesses in his face like I used to do, I pondered on what he said. I thought about, if we want to become better children of God, we need to be willing to accept all and be willing to work on it. I realized what he had said was true and decided to work on it. It's not always easy to take the truth, especially when it really shows your weaknesses, but if you have the mind-set of becoming the person that God sees you being able to become, you will take the truth and correction and become a little better. My invitation to you all is to don't immediately be offended from some kind of correction or truth but ponder it and work on your divine potential. Love you all... seeya in another week!

p.s. We got to see how they cook Dog. Ya that smoke smelled...

Elder Peterson
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