Hey Family,
I thought I would just send a little letter about this week and all the wonderful things that have happened. It is so easy to feel the spirit here, I love it, and it just makes me happy. One of the coolest things in my opinion is the MTC choir. We just work ona song for the Tuesday BYU devotional and it might even be on the BYU channel, so maybe you could record the devotional and see me on a weekly basis! Our whole district has the smae goal, and that is to obey all the rules, that that is what we are striving to do. On Sunday when I was going over my personal goals and reflecting about the past week I realized that I am following all the rules to the best of my knowledge, and the results have been that I am finally learning to invite the spirit when I teach lessons and things like that. On Thursday in the TRC we were practicing speaking Portugeuse and I did so well. I was having a good talk with a guy about families, it was very basic and I probably didn't conjugate some of the verbs correctly but I could tell that the guy got the message of what I was saying.
Today is the coolest day because it is P-day (preparation day) and also temple day. I woke up to six inches of snow and did my personal study and we went to the temple. We decided to eat at the temple cafeteria instead of the MTC regular one, because we heard that it had good food there. It was amazing, I had some amazing soup and amazing mash potatoes and gravy. I think we will do that every Friday now!
Dad you need to not shovel. That is not good that you hurt yourself again, I could have done that for you before I left if you would have asked or Allison and Megan could learn to do a little pine handle backhoe work! Mom you mentioned that you talked to Sister McCorkel and she works here-I will keep my eye out for her and hopefully run into her sometime.
Tell Little C (Ciara) and Lyska that I need their addresses to write back. I don't have time to do it on the computer so I need home addresses if anyone writes me. Tell Savannah to write at dear elder or by hand because I don't have time to type back.
I hope all is well at home, I always keep you in my prayers. I love you guys and am glad for the support. Have a wonderful day and see you in a little less than 2 years.. Keep writing and packages are fun too because there is so much mystery to them. Have a wonderful day-hope this letter makes it even better.
Your son, Elder Jordan Matthew Peterson
P.S. Jordan's Visa is coming through-he will be heading to Brazil in 1-3 weeks!
