April 22, 2013

Mom,
     We had a couple interesting things happen this week. We were out visiting the family that needs to get married, and they were driving us back home. He cuts off this van pretty good, and the van has to slam on his brakes to not get smashed into. It was pretty crazy, but apparently he didn't see it at all! And then we got pulled over. The cop asked for all the papers and stuff and they talked abut what happened and what not. He ended up not getting a ticket, but that is not the interesting part. Another cop walked over to the passenger side of the car and asked for all of our Identification cards. SO me and my companion and the member who was with us all had to show identification. I don't know why but he asked for it and we gave it to him. All 4 cops went to the back of the car and were talking to themselves for a little while then they asked The driver to come and open the trunk so that they could see what was in it. They actually just started asking him a lot of questions about who were the two boys he was driving and whether or not we were from some type of cult. After that another one came and started talking to the girl in the passenger seat and asking her lots of questions like where we live and what we had been doing. he had no idea that we speak Bulgarian, so I just started answering all his questions and I think it scared them that we knew everything that they had said, so they let us go without any more problems. It was very interesting.
     Another time we had 6 cops come talk to us while we were contacting on the main street and they told us we had to leave, nothing big but I thought it was funny that 6 cops come to stop 2 20 year old guys from talking to people.
     In other news it looks like we won't be having any baptisms this week. The family still needs to get married. It is possible, but not too likely. Keep them in your prayers please!
     Thats all I have to say... I love you mom!
Love,
Elder Petersen