Hey! I have been having a pretty great week, and it definitely is very strange to think that I've been gone for 5 months. It really doesn't seem like it was that long ago that I got on that plane to Mexico City. It seems like things tend to go a lot quicker out here, away from basically all other influences. Kind of strange, I guess.
Also, I've come to realize that the prediction made oh so long ago that you all would still be going to pack meetings when I was in college will never come to pass. So sad.
Okay, to answer your questions: The temple was super great. It's always super great to go there, but it was made especially awesome by the fact that it'd been like 3 months since I'd been there, and because (this was pretty cool), I saw the new temple video! I thought it was really great, and I'm glad I don't have to wait another three months before I get to go the temple again.
We just had interviews this week with our mission president. It was pretty great to get to just talk to him for 15 minutes or so.
This week was pretty great. We got in contact with a couple of the people that we found while we were doing all of that tracting--one of them actually almost dropped us, but we were able to help her resolve a lot of the concerns that had cropped up, so that was cool.
We also got to visit another guy who we'd found. He's had quite a bit of contact with the church--he had a Mormon roommate in college, and is actually dating at the moment a less-active member. He seems really open, so we're encouraged by that.
We were also able to go to a baptism that was really special--it was of an eight-year-old, but the kid's Dad had just been baptized about six months ago. We'd been working a lot with him (the Dad), because he'd been struggling a little, but with the motivation of his child's baptism, he was basically able to rededicate himself (I think he probably would have done it without us), and was actually able to baptize his kid, which was super duper cool.
We also got to visit another guy who we'd found. He's had quite a bit of contact with the church--he had a Mormon roommate in college, and is actually dating at the moment a less-active member. He seems really open, so we're encouraged by that.
We were also able to go to a baptism that was really special--it was of an eight-year-old, but the kid's Dad had just been baptized about six months ago. We'd been working a lot with him (the Dad), because he'd been struggling a little, but with the motivation of his child's baptism, he was basically able to rededicate himself (I think he probably would have done it without us), and was actually able to baptize his kid, which was super duper cool.
Another kind of interesting thing: In the past like three days, we've had two members, both of whom are fairly recent converts, tell us that they're struggling with drinking coffee. It'd never really crossed my mind that after baptism, that would continue to be an issue, but it completely makes sense, I guess. When something like that's been a part of your life forever, I imagine that it would be fairly easy to give it up for enough time to be baptized, but significantly harder to keep it out of your life. I don't really know, though. Just thought it was interesting.
Transfers are in two weeks--February 3. Coming up soon! Don't really know what's going to happen. A lot of people are predicting that I'll be finally going Spanish, but I have no idea. We'll see!
Transfers are in two weeks--February 3. Coming up soon! Don't really know what's going to happen. A lot of people are predicting that I'll be finally going Spanish, but I have no idea. We'll see!
Love,
Peter
Okay, here are some pictures:
1) the first of those paper toy things you sent for Christmas--I finally got a glue stick!
2) The Denver Temple, yay
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