March 30th, 2015 | HEyoOO

Well this week was great!
We found a new Investigator!!! We trackted into her last week and she said that we could come back on Tuesday, and when we did she was there!! super weird we were expecting her to not be there, because that's what normaly happens.
We ended up teaching her the plan of salvation and later in the week we taught her the restoration, she is a little shy and it's hard for her to get around because she is blind in one eye so she didn't make it to church but she's really nice.
We also had an interesting conversation over the phone with a Muslim, he told us we were wasting our time and ruining other peoples lives... and other stuff but we were polite and we may be meeting him in the library this week. He said he would give us Korans in English so that could be cool.
we are also teaching another Muslim named Mustafa, he is really nice and we had a baptismal date with him but he needs to get his mothers blessing first.
Other than that things were great this week... we ran a 10k on Monday and then 5k every day except for Sunday... Transfers are Wednesday and James is staying here with me. So he will "kill" me. It's hard to believe that I will only write like 6 more times before I am home.
LOVE YOU ALL
Äldste Peterson

this is what I get to run through every day!

March 23rd, 2015 | Well I'm alive, and well

This week was simply full of stuff... on Monday the highlight was emailing of course and running the 20km to and back from the Baltic, we have kept the running up and even did a 10km this morning!!!
On Tuesday I went on splits with Elder Featherstone in Västerhaninge, it was cool.
On Wednesday we had a normal day and then Thursday was District meeting and at night we traveled to Nynäshamn where we boarded a ship and we went to Gotland which is an island off the coast of Sweden. It's super cool, if you want to check it out on the web or something.
We were going there because my companion is the District leader and they have a baptismal candidate that needs an interview... it was about a 3 1\2 hour boat ride and we ended up getting to the Elders apartment at 1 in the morning.
The next day we got to meet the baptismal candidate and one of the Elders Investigators, then we went and contacted in the old part of the city which honestly just felt like sightseeing because it was so cool.
anyway we got back Saturday morning and then had a really good lesson with Mary who is a member in our ward, she is from the Philippines and was baptized about three years ago. It was great.
This week flew by so fast! and I can't believe that I only have two months left.... well one and a half. Love you all and thank you for the letters... it's so cool that Collin got his mission call to Rochester, New York!!!! I am so excited for him, but also glad to be able to hang out with him for a bit before he heads to the MTC.
LOVE YOU ALL!,
Elder Peterson

P.S. sorry if my letters are boring or hard to read or whatever, at least I'm consistent though haha

Me and Elder James on the Visby wall on Gotland

us and the Visby Elders in their car

on the wall

on the boat back to the mainland

a big rock by our house

March 16th, 2015 | another good week

Well this week was great! we have been able to see a lot of improvement with our relationships with the less actives we are working with and might even have one coming back to church. I think the highlight of my week was this morning though when we ran to the Baltic sea and back... it was so fun! We had a goal as a companionship to do this run which is about 20 km for four weeks now and to complete it was a real pleasure.
I'm sorry I don't write all the cool things that happen to me because there are so many but I'm just lazy like that I guess.
Moral of the week though is "don't drink"! Drunks have been a pretty prevalent part of my mission but this last week it was especially prevalent. It is so sad to see people literally drink themselves to death. Anyway I hope that everything is good back home.
Love you guys,
Äldste Peterson  

The big ole Baltic Sea

the sun is back!!!

a cool old Volvo, we were trackting in the area and I just had to take a pic of it

I'm so old Sweden sent me a retirement plan! (haha no it's sent to everyone that turns 22 this year in Sweden)

We made it!!!

This is a runestone,

March 9th, 2015 | another good week!

Well this week was really good... we still get out an run every day which has been super fun... unfortunately I don't have a lot of time today but here is a quick story I shared in another email.
Our area has been gaining traction and we are finally having more people that we regularly meet with. I am excited to tell the stories instead of having to write them down... but I did have a pretty cool experience this week. We had trackted into a less active member that was really nice... and the day after we were on our way to a swing by... for some reason I felt like going a different way than we would have normally and naturally we contacted people along the way... anyway we walk by this building and a drunk guy carrying a bunch of alcohol yells at us and says "hey aren’t you guys Mormon?" (this is all in Swedish of course) anyway I said "yes we are... have you met with missionaries before" he said no but then as we were talking with him an older lady probably in her 40s came out of the building and the drunk guy started talking to her then she started talking with us and it turned out that she was pretty interesting in what we had to say, and the less active who we had trackted into the day before is her dad... so anyway we taught her about the Book of Mormon and gave her our card.
anyway things are going super good, LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!

Elder Peterson

March 2nd, 2015 | Well Handen is Awesome

This week was so good! First of all I am super pumped that my comp is willing to go running every morning with me!!! and we live so close to the temple that we just run there and back every day... it's awesome.
This week we did a lot of finding work, due to us reopening the area. I love it but it's challenging, It does help me keep my mind here though which is really good as I am snart klar på mission (soon done with my mission).
I got to see Stefano from Vendelsö again and We are going to go to lunch with him this week just to catch up on old times.
I don't have a ton of time because on of the computers is down this week and there area a lot of missionaries that need to email.
but this week was just AWESOME.
Love,
Äldste Peterson

Me and James running like Champions!

we went to Gamla stan today for P-day and just wandered around.... love this harbor.