Goodbye MTC, here I come Austin!!!

Last run with Jonny and Elder Skocroft! I have no idea if I spelled his 
last name right so let me know Jonny


 Olá everyone! Last week at the MTC and it was awesome!! I leave to go to Austin Texas tomorrow at 3 am and its crazy to think in less than 24 hours I will be a full time missionary! I am so excited to get fully enveloped in the work and somehow at the same time a little sad to leave the MTC. I have never grown so much in feeling and teaching with the spirit as I have here! Last week was also FSL week for us which means we were only allowed to speak portugeuse the whole week and it was hard but I got so much better at speaking and even felt the spirit a lot when teaching in portugeuse. In my last class on Saturday with Irmão Shipp he asked to think about where we would be if we weren't serving a mission right now. I thought about it and realized that I would most likely not be growing spiritually the way I am now. Even though I could not wait to leave the MTC a lot of times, I am so grateful for every experience I had here. Maybe the most important thing I learned here was how much christ and heavenly father love me. It reminds me of one of my favorite scriptures Joshua 1:9 which says to "the lord thy god is with thee withersoever thou goest!" I know god was with me here at the MTC, I felt his love, and i know he will be with me in Austin, and hopefully someday in Mozambique. 


This email will be a little shorter cuz i have a lot of stuff I have to get done today before leaving. But here are some fun quick highlights! 

-I got to go running with Jonny two more times. We both leave tomorrow and we ran together today for the last time and it was awesome! 
-so they give us bagels every morning with breakfast but there is no toaster in our apartments, so this week I found some guys toasting their bagels with the iron! I just thought that was super funny 
- mom and dad came to wave at me from the window and it was really nice to see them! 
- Me and my companion found some other guys going to mozambique and we talked to them a lot this past week. We got a picture together and hopefully see each other again in Mozambique someday! 

Hope you all are doing well and I love you all! I let y'all know how Austin is next week! 

 - Elder Peters 

Me and all the other Mozambique missionaries!! At least the ones I know of. 



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