#2 Week Dos

 

Que es popping. Missionary life has been great, kinda dope. I have got a full week down now!! Let’s go! Only like 100 and something left go. Last P- day Lando and I went over to Chapel Street. We got cooked by this older lady and her son playing some pickleball, and I got this wicked looking scrap on my hand. It kinda sorta looks like a heart.

So every day we start with Spanish tutoring with Hermano Bryan, who is sick, but he does no tutoring basically haha. He's there to answer questions, and leaves us to study on our own. I am no bueno at Spanish, but I just have to get down and practice and I'm sure I’ll get it.

I'm not going to lie, all of the classes are amazing and my district shares amazing things!! But I have no idea which classes taught me what. So they all kinda blur together. I think on Monday I doodled this epic lil plant, but that could have been on Tuesday my notes are kinda a mess. I could fill this e-mail with things that we learned, prophets, praying, and the plan of salvation. Honestly I could go on and on, I feel like I can explain every gospel phenomena. Haha that was kinda funny, but for reals, I've learned so much. My mindset has expanded in ways I didn't really expect. I've thought more about everything within the gospel. Before my mission the atonement was a huge part of my life, and I thought about it a lot. I never stayed contemplating the other lessons and blessings that the gospel has to offer, I held it very close to my heart. As I attend my classes in the MTC  we constantly are learning the lessons in preach my gospel, and while Jesus Christ and the atonement is connected to everything, we just accept the fact that it was connected and didn't really focus on the atonement, as we were learning the other things in the gospel. Thursday night we had a gospel study review on just the atonement, and to say it was amazing was a massive understatement. We had a substitute teacher, Elder Atkinson, and he was the coolest, we only got that one class with him, but everything everyone shared was just the best. It made me more excited to be a missionary, and to share the gospel with others. My motivation last week was 110%, but it slowly started to fade a little. After that I really was like ok, if I do this I gotta do it 100%. No half effort from me. I expect, and I know God expects me to do my best, even if I’m not sure I know what that looks like quite yet. I'll find it, and by then I should be able to talk to someone in Spanish haha. I think Alma 37 has become one of my favorite chapters in the book of Mormon. Alma 37:36 says:

“Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever.”

I love all of you guys.

te amo,

Elder Petersen (Max)

p.s. - Even if I’m still just at my house I would love to get emails and hear about your guys’ week!! So e-mail me!!

Here are a couple of different pics of my district.