Apparently there will be skits involved...

Hey, so I'm obviously sorry I wasn't able to email yesterday at the usual time. Transfers were that day, and things were a little bit crazy. To just give you the update that I'm sure you're dying to hear (where I am, who I'm with), I have a new companion who's from San Antonio, Texas; he has been out on his mission for 16 months, and is Spanish speaking. We should be able to at least practice the espanyol with each other. I was actually moved, which was a little bit surprising, but is I'm sure what Heavenly Father had planned for me. I'm now in another English-speaking ward, which is kind of towards the south of the mission, and closer to Denver proper than I was. Yesterday we were able to meet with the ward mission leader, and he seems really awesome. I'm really looking forward to serving in this ward.

We are close to the temple. We have the opportunity to go once a month, on the third Wednesday of the month (although we won't be going tomorrow, due to the whole Christmas devotional thing.) It'll be nice not having to get up at 4:00 in the morning to get there, though (we only go to the early-morning sessions, so that's a party.)

There are five missionaries in the ward, us two, and a trio of sisters. My companion has been here for one transfer and things are looking up! We had a really amazing lesson with one of their investigators last night, and he seems super receptive. So things are going good.

I'm sure I'll be going to Spanish eventually. We had interviews with President Toombs a while ago, and I asked him about that. He said that usually, Spanish Missionaries will serve two or three transfers in English areas, so I'm assuming that after I serve here for a transfer or two, I'll be finally going Spanish. We'll see, though. I'll go where you want me to go, right?

The weather is a little bit crazy--honestly it's too warm :), but I guess I probably shouldn't complain too much. 

We will be having a Christmas thing tomorrow. I'm not exactly sure what it'll entail (although apparently there will be skits involved, because the zone is practicing one today at 2:00), but it'll be from like 9:00 to 2:00, so that should be good. I'll probably get to see some of the people that I haven't seen in a while, as well as some people I just left, so that should be awesome.

Hooray for the Christmas Tree! It's always exciting to have that up, and I'm sure you guys will have fun decorating that. In my past area, we were able to help a couple of members decorate their trees, so we did get the chance to do that, even though we aren't (well, I guess I'm not) able to be home for Christmas.

Okay, weekly report time:

It was a weird week. There was a lot of stuff we had to get done to get my companion ready to go home--he had to pack, he had his exit interview on Saturday, and we also had to say good-bye to a lot of people, so that made it a little bit difficult to get the like normal "missionary work" done. It was alright, though. 

One cool thing, though, did end up happening with regard to "the work". So, the members we were living with have a grandson living with them, who hasn't attended church much. We've gotten to know him pretty well over the past many weeks, and he seems to like us quite a bit. So, we had a family home evening with them on Monday night, and he participated and everything. Then, he actually ended up coming to church this Sunday, which was super awesome. He's a great guy, and I hope that the new missionaries who come keep working with him.

Saturday (when we found out information about transfers), was pretty weird. I was really surprised to be transferred, and honestly a little bit scared. However, since getting here, I know that everything's gonna be awesome. I'm going to work hard, do the right thing, and it'll be good.

(On his way home to Hillsboro, Peter's companion stopped by our place to hand-deliver news.) I'm glad he was able to make it over to you guys. It was actually his idea to do that, so you can thank him, I guess. I hope that was cool. He's a good guy, so I'm glad he stopped by.

OH! Another important thing! It turns out that we will be able to Skype with you guys on Christmas! I'm not exactly sure what changed, but I guess it was approved. So, you'll have to tell me how I can get ahold of you guys. If you can set up the whole Skype thing, that'd be pretty awesome.

Okay, I think that's all. I love you guys.

Peter