#2.0

so thanks everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes! they were great! i acctually took so long reading all my emails and replying occasionally that i have like no time left... so sorry but thanks for the emails they were fantastic, i'm having a good day today so far, the ysa here are throwing me some kind of party tonight so that's going to be fun!

But it feels good to be 20, 1/4 of my life is gone, humm that's cool. well i don't feel much different than i did yesterday so whatevs.

this week went well we found some cool people.  a lot of different religious people.  this morning i finished reading the bible, that was a trip.

well, it was good to hear from you all.  the work is pushing along. the gospel really does change people for the better.  i've never met a person that hasn't been changed by it for good, and if anyone ever tells one of you otherwise, they don't know what they are talking about. :)

-Spencer

farmer tan, on my neck and arms...

yeah I got pretty burned picking weeds on Saturday for 5 hours. but it was ok in the end.

on Friday and Thursday the APs came and stayed with us so that was pretty fun. nothing super exciting happened during correlation like last Thursday...

Wednesday we went to Trebic, that is always good,

Yesterday we made cookies for everyone in our apartment building which was super fun, haha people were so confused why we were giving them cookies, the looks on their faces hahaha priceless. we also made some for some of the recent converts that we teach, and they loved them! and what's not to love, butter, sugar, more sugar and flour, oh and chocolate. like, what more is there to happiness?

oh last Monday we went to the zoo, there were these otters, I petted them, one bit me haha, I got it on video... good times haha.

the weeks are counting down, I have what... 16 left, i'm not quite sure but time is short so I have to pick it up to finish the work at hand.

have a great week see you next Monday, thanks for all the emails!

-Spencer

I actually told you everything yesterday...Mother's Day

No i'm just kidding, I still got things to say,

actually I have this way funny story I forgot to tell you yesterday, haha and by funny I mean not funny at all. so two nights ago right before we went to bed our carbon monoxide detector went off.  that was a riot haha.  so we called our president, he said that we just should make sure all the batteries are good then open the windows, so we did, then we turned the detector back on and it didn't go off all night. so, then we woke up in the morning and i'm not dead. but I have been living in fear for the past 2 nights. so that hasn't been mentally taxing whatsoever.

besides that, umm church went well yesterday. I led for the first time, it was pretty terrifying, somehow I got everyone singing the right songs and the speakers to go in the right order, so all is well that ends well. umm also yesterday we went over to one of our recent converts houses and my companion skyped with his family (I didn't want to because i'll see you soon) but while he did that I may or may not have watched the Czech vs German match of the hockey world cup and it may or may not have been awesome. The Czech Republic won (4-2). 

any way that's about it for my week. random fact that I learned this week McDonalds was started by a Czech guy from Plzen.

Thanks for all the support and emails!

Peace off!

-Spencer

May the 4th be with you alwa...well today!

so this week was pretty alrightish hahah funny story:

so we were in Brno, for training. as we were coming home by bus we came up to this detour in then road marked by a sign and we are going down the road and we come to this bridge that is marked 3,2 meters high, and the bus driver stops. Knowing his bus is 3.45 meters, he sits there a while thinking about it and then he calls his boss and he and his boss are having this discussion about how he could get under the bridge or if he could, it was so funny, i was sitting right there next to him, at one time he was discussing having all of the passengers go to the front of the bus weigh it down and then walk to the back of the bus as he goes under the bridge! so funny.  then he finally decides he cant (it's been like 25-30 mins) and so now he has to back up down this tiny, twisty road in this giant bus, so he starts employing the passengers to get out and guide him, and he has someone run to the back and pass along hand signals, it was quite the adventure! so then we just go through where it told us we had to turn. turns out they were just having a little party on the namesti for the 1st of may and all they had to do was move a little gate for us to go by, smh, haha, it was hilarious.

Bus-Bridge Misadventure

anyway that was probably the highlight of my week.  nothing supper exciting is popping out to me. it was kind of just an average week here in Jihlava,  nothing huge.

umm it sounds like everyone is doing well, have a good week!  keep up the good work!

and also that's really all i got when it comes to funny stories or anything, hmm, oh also on the more spiritual side, today i was reading in Hebrews 12 and it says that the lord chastises his children, so if you feel like you're going through a rough time at all, it's because God is counting you as his child and he loves you, "but if ye be without chastisement, then ye are bastards".  So be happy in your trials and you will become stronger.

Love y'all

-Spencer

p.s. i'll call you next week at 8:00am mst (on the phone)

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Email Time...

nothing happened this week.

end of email.

I literally thought about ending it right there, how mad would you all have been?

Happy Birthday Abbie and Adéla!!

the work is going along, still here, i'm healthyish so it's all good!

we're still helping people get baptized!

That's super exciting that Trevor and Tiffany got to find out the sex of their baby!

and seriously nothing exciting happened this week i'm sorry.  Have a good end of april everyone!!

-Spencer

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-HLAVA!!

so we got transferred!! i'm staying here in Jihlava, (you pronounce the J like a Y and the I like ee and the A like a dentist would make you) but yeah my new companion is from Mississippi so that's pretty cool, also yesterday I was made 1st counselor of the branch here in Jihlava, so that's pretty cool, i'm pretty excited to help out more around here!

Its kinda weird though, now that I'm a first counselor it's like a thing now, like I was in the Sunday School class for the youth, and usually we'd just go unnoticed if we were in a class like that. but the teacher was like "and i'd like to welcome Elder Petersen from the branch presidency we're glad to have his presence"

but it's also kinda cool because we'll have some general authorities come through so i'm hoping that i'll get to be in some leadership meetings with them that'd be cool.

other than that though, we had a pretty average week honestly. so i'm sorry If my emails are getting more and more boring like I've been here for 7 months about and so not that i'm in a rut but like nothing really new happens that much. I almost got in a fight hahah this guy, who was probably on something, was trying to convince me he was Jesus so I just agreed with him but he could obviously tell that I didn't believe it. haha it was nuts but yeah nothing happened.  

anyway love you all! good luck with the baby thing Trevor and Tiffany! oh and hey everyone, missions are important so go on one!

-Spencer 

Konference!

konference was good. we had a meal between sessions on saturday as a branch and it was pretty cool, the members just love american food, (prolly cause its full a butter and sugar) so alas now i have to translate the recipie for rolls into czech smh... haha

the rest of the week went pretty well, we had the opportunity to go to a soccer game on saturday which was way fun, went with the six of us missionaries and 4 of the ysa here in Jihlava so that was super cool... we lost though. 

i'm having a hard time remembering what we did last week because i left my planner... umm we had nothing much last week besides that, just preping for confernce and everything so yeah, but the work is stilll pushing along and even speeding up so it's really cool to see that people want goodness in there life, i feel like everyone really longs for the gospel, but the pull of the few who control the media make it seem like it's the uncool thing to do, and since there is no more honor in today's day people can't do what makes them happy if it's uncool, because they care to much which is sad.

well last message for the week, general konference was pretty clear this time, get married and be morally clean!

Peace off!

tl;dr watched konference, a soccer game, and peer-presure is bad.

-Spencer