Friday, June 5, 2009

Catching up!!

Hello Everyone - Well I am a little slow to getting this up and going. I just thought it would be fun for family and friends of Chase's to be able to see his photos he sends home and to read some of his e-mails he sends to us. I will start from when he got to Salinas, California.













Chase and his Mission President and his wife.












Chase and is First Mission Companion Elder Grigg.

12/01/2008
Its awesome! My first area is Salinas, California! Like an hour from San Jose! Its pretty sweet! I'm lovin the area, My new companion is freakin sweet! His name is Elder Grigg! He's from Colorado! He's way tight! And an awesome trainer! He's got like 8 months left here or so so he knows a ton and is way smart! So I'm learinin a ton from him and we get along great together! Everything is goin great here and I'm lovin the work! I'll talk to ya soon! Peace out!
Elder Peterson













































12/08/2008
Hey there! Whats crackin? haha.... Everything here is goin great here! I'm loving Salinas! The people here are pretty dang nice and are really willing to listen to what we have to say! Its pretty sweet!My comp is awesome! He's a way hard worker which is good for me but we still can have fun and get stuff done! He's teaching me how to play the Ukelee! I went and bought one! Its freakin sweet! haha But im way excited bout little reese comin soon! We have some people gettin real close to baptism already so thats exciting! But i gotta run... i'll talk to ya soon! Hope everything goes well with the baby! Can't wait! Love ya!





































Chase and Elder Grigg burning Elder Grigg's Pant (he had been out for 18 Months)








































12/15/2009
Everything has been goin great here... we got lots goin on! We got like three investigators set for baptism on the 27th of this month! So thats awesome! Its exciting! I love it!)














































































































2/16/2009
Hey there!!!! Whats goin on? Hows good ol pocky? haha So..... just to let ya know to start things off, im stayin here! Im not gettin transferred! Me and elder grigg are stayin in salinas for at least another 6 weeks! So im happy bout that! I didn't really want to pack all my junk up and all that stuff! It would have been kinda a pain in the butt! But ya anyhow.... this past week has been pretty darn good, no worries, no complaints here.... just gotta keep truckin along and work hard!

04/13/2009
...... we just found a new fam this week... a women named rosoura with 7 kids and there is no father figure in the picture..... but she is doin awesoeme and she wants to learn and so do her kids and they want to come to church so we'll see how it goes! Im excited for them and for the rest of our investigators! Its exciting seeing the gospel light up people's lifes and helps them in ways i would have never imagined! Its so true and amazing! But ya im doin great and keepin on keepin on!!!! haha Work work work! haha haha Its awesome work!!