Elder Petersen has been called to serve in the México Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He entered the Mission Training Center in Provo, Utah on July 5,2012.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Cinco Meses Mas ? JANUARY 27,2014




Bueno, Hahah good day to you all(: Another fast week. I am just lovin every single passing day here in the lords work. Very grateful I am here! How are all of you?  Hopefully very bien y feliz.  I am sure thankful for all of your love and support and
I will never ever stop smiling cause I know I will always have it. Pretty crazy to think that January is outta the park.. Just gotta keep on goin and lovin it all. Hmm.. Well bout plum outta words with this doggone paragraph.. movin on. or how they say in french.. en avant! 

This week was good.. A lot of running around  but its all good.. I will just be excited to run around when I am the one behind the wheel(: There still learning how to drive here(: but yup a very good week.. Pretty sure I am in love with the quesadillas here.. Bout to go head and make my own dang quesadilla when I get home you can bet your bottom dollar on that one.. The days are heating up.. And it feels like its gonna be another hot one(: But ready and steady to take on this heat..(: Bout to go head and love it all and take in all the sweat and dirt! Wont ever have it again..! Might as well lace up my shoes and go hammer.. I know that the lord is helping me become the man I need to be.. The mission is something so very special and as hard it can be its worth every second. Lovin it. And never lookin back,..















I sure hope that is well up there.. (: Just know that I am thinkin of you all da time..(: Hope you all have a good week and know that I love you all.. Have a good ol week.. (:  I love you all..
Good one(: 

P.s. the pics.. well me just getting way too weird in the mirror,,  and good ole cookies and whipped cream(: 

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Elder Jaden M. Petersen 
Misión México Tuxtla Gutierrez
July 2012-2014
"Fight The Good Fight" 

La Buena Vida.. January 20, 2014








Hello to all of you! I just want you to all know that I love you and that I am doin very well. I sure am grateful for you all and blessed to have you in my life. I pray that you are all doin well too!

This week was a very fast one.. Like they all seem to be.. I am just blessed to be here and to be growing more and more each day into the man that the lord wants me to be.. I have been learning more and more about the atoning sacrifice of our loving Savior Jesus Christ with every week of this mission and it seems like this week it was in my mind and in our discussions every where I went.. This has become such a very special part of my life and the more and more I begin to partially understand it the more blessed and blown away I feel to know that he died for me. I was told to give the priesthood class 10 minutes in advance and I had to talk about the atonement. I felt the spirit very strongly guiding me and my words it was very amazing and I walked away from that class with my testimony strengthened 100 times more.. It really makes me emotional to talk about it cause it's something that I really don't comprehend but it is something more powerful and it's the reason why we can all live together forever after this life.. I love the scripture in John 15:13 that reads.. " 13 Greater alove hath no man than this, that a man lay down hisblife for his cfriends."  
I am doin good and I am thankful for the mission! I know that the Lord is watching over and protecting each and everyone of us.. He is preparing the roads we go down before we even go down them.. I know that all we need to do is obey and listen, thats why we are here.. I know that I am not perfect but I know that I can return to live with my heavenly father one day through his loving son.  Grateful for who I have become these past 19 months and grateful for these next 5 that i have left.. And as a good friend told me this week.. NUNCA ESTOY SOLO! (I am never alone.. ) I am grateful for you all and your love(: Hope you have and amazing week and I will be talking to you soon.. (: Be you ! And live this doggone life.. Hope it's starting to warm up!(: Thanks for all you do.. I am praying for you.. And I can feel of your prayers also.. Well until next week.. Keep on Keeping on.. 

--Elder Jaden M. Petersen 
Misión México Tuxtla Gutierrez
July 2012-2014
"Fight The Good Fight" 



Friday, January 17, 2014

Chahuites, Oaxaca.. Yup. ;]‏ JANUARY 13, 2014








Well howdy there.. There goes another week.. And my first one down in this area. I sure hope that you are all doin dandy and hoping that you are all safe and healthy. This week went by fast.. And I'm slowly but surely gettin settled right in here in this crazy place. We do more runnin around and helping the other missionaries more than working it seems like.. It's gonna take some gettin used to on my part, just gotta be humble and love everything that comes my way..! Crazy crazy that after this transfer I will have 3 left.. I am pretty sure I'm bout to be here till May and for my Birthday I will be traveling to my last area.. Pretty cool beans! 

This week was really good and went by pretty fast as I adapted to a whole different place.. The climate here is a lot like Tonalá so it's gonna be a blast(: Very humble place.. It's called the capital of Mangos here so I will be gettin my fix of mangoes and more here.. pretty stoked.. (: As we walk down the streets here you can see that all of many trees are loaded with mangos.. There is a bunch of different types to, point is I'm bout to gettin weird with mangoes.. They have shweet taxis here called moto taxis so I am gonna get a shweet pic for this coming week.. I have been gettin some good video to dad so we are bout to put together a good one..  This week we have been running around to do baptism interviews and the zone is pretty big so we do a lot of traveling in buses and taxis hahah the transport is a whole other story down here but hey what an adventure This week we traveled to Ixhuatán, and then Zanatepec and ate at a buffet that was shweet! It's the mom of Hermana Cárdenas so the missionaries eat free there whenever hahaa I loaded up on fried bananas rice and beans and taquitos with salsa... Lots of work! 

I had a really cool experience this past week when I was doing a baptismal interview for a little girl.. She lived in a little shack by the ocean thats where we took the pics, anyway.. here name is Anseth Abigail Moreno Lopez. She is 12 years old, but it was amazing to see this little girls faith.. She has been through so very much, and she is so very beautiful! The coolest part was when she looked me in the eyes and told me that she knows with all of her heart that she knows that Jesus Christ loves her, and that He is always holding her hand.. I just sat there smiling and she was too. I felt like a fire was burning in my chest! Pretty dang amazing the people I am meeting.. It's what I will miss most about this amazing mission.. 
Well just know that I love you all so very much! Your always in my prayers and I am countin down these short days until I am right back there with you all again.. I know that it is hard but we are being blessed so very much. Just gotta keep on fighting that good fight! 

Here is to another great week.. I love you all so very much! Until next time.. Adios(: 

"Time is a precious thing. Never waste it." - WILLY WONKA 




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Elder Jaden M. Petersen 
Misión México Tuxtla Gutierrez
July 2012-2014
"Fight The Good Fight" 



Tuesday, January 7, 2014

New Year, Get Weard.. (: (Weird)‏ January 7, 2014





2014 is in the building.. KORT your 11.. I just wanna tell you all Happy New Years.. I love you all and that I am gonna be givin you all giant Hugs and chillin with you all this year(: Hope this letter finds you all happy dappy and feelin good.. Thanks for all your love and prayers.. (: I am doggone proud of my Petersen Family

This week was a winner.. Right off the bat.. I am outta here! I am being transferred.. hahah.. I will be serving in the Salt Lake City South Spanish speaking mission.. (: Just kiddin.. I have been transferred to Chahuites, Oaxaca.. It is the only state of Oaxaca that is in our mission.. And that's where The Lord needs me to be.. I have 4 transfers left.. I bet I am there for 3 more and the last one I will be finishing in my last area.. (: I am pretty excited for the opportunity to work as Zone Leader I am just gonna keep on bein me.. (: Been reading Jesus The Christ in my studies and I just learn to appreciate and marvel at what he did for us everyday.. I know he is helping me grow and learn.. I'm excited to meet some new people and get to know a new area.. 

I just want you to know that I love you all so very much.. I am amazed at how fast the times goin.. I am always thinking about you and I know that your all doing great things.. Thanks for all your love and support.. HERES TO A DOGGONE BEAUTIFUL YEAR(: 2014
Love You ALL!!! talk to you soon!! 


"You Should Never, Never, Doubt What Nobody Is Sure About." -- Willy Wonka

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Elder Jaden M. Petersen 
Misión México Tuxtla Gutierrez
July 2012-2014
"Fight The Good Fight" 



Monday, January 6, 2014

2014 (:



Hello (: How are all of you! I just wanna let you all know right off the bat that I sure am blessed to have an amazing family like you.. I am so very grateful that we could talk.. I was one happy dude.. Even tho that it was hard to say goodbye and I struggled a day after to it wasawesome ans such a well needed blessing to see all of you and I am just more than anything very grateful to have been able to talk to all of you and see you all(:  I LOVE YOU ALL

 The last week of 2013 has come and gone.. Lookin back on the amazing year I have had just makes me that much more grateful for all I really have in my life. I have been blessed and I am amazed by all the many blessings that I receive daily. I learned so very much about myself this past year. And I've been reminded more than anything that I have a loving and caring Father in Heaven that wants nothing but the best for me in all that I do. I learned that he sent his son on a mission that would change all of humanity forever. I learned that his only begotten son Jesus Chirst completed with his mission with perfection and charity, which is the pure love of Christ our Savior and Redeemer. I am amazed at all that he has given me and I've learned that I need to be in thanksgiving daily. I know why I am here,and even tho it might be hard sometimes all I have to do is remember that someone a lot better, someone a lot greater has walked before me.. I know that he is walkin with me every step of the way.. 
This week was shweet.. We were able to witness a miracle this past week and it was just a reminder that the mission is for me.. I cant believe like I always say that I am in my last  months here. I am gonna give it all that I have.. And thats all I can do.. Very grateful for your support and love also.. (: You make me go and go.. Cant wait till we are all reunited and chillin once again.. (: 4 transfers and I will be rollin in hot to that SLC airport(: We will be having transfers this coming Monday so I will let you know what goes down.. (: 

I love you all and cannot believe that 2013 is in the books its been a year of major growing and learning for me for sho.. (: I am grateful to be moving on to 2014 and I sure am curious to see what it will bring for all of us.. Come what may and love it(: My theme this year is.. Look Not Behind Thee.. I have a shweet mormon message I am gonna send with this.. Anyway.. Just know that I am very grateful for all of you and wish I was there celbratin and poppin sparkling apple cider with you all to but it will all be here soon enough.. (:
I LOVE YOU ALL!

WILLY WONKA-- "So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you."


--
Elder Jaden M. Petersen 
Misión México Tuxtla Gutierrez
July 2012-2014
"Fight The Good Fight"