Happy Spring Break!

Hey!

Sounds like a good week! I'm glad everything's been going well (especially with March Madness :). With that, like the Olympics, we don't get too much news here in the Spanish Ward, although I don't know if that'd be different in an English Ward. Probably. Go Stanford, I guess!). Also, it's pretty cool about the Eagle project at the Co-op.

Another just random thing I was thinking about re: spelling and stuff, that was brought up by reading in my spanish-english dictionary the section about English pronunciation, is that the letter "e" has a really bizarre role in some words. For example, the word "Father". How would you pronounce that word differently if it was spelled "Fathr"? The "e" in "Father" really doesn't have a sound. The only difference I can think of is that if you ommitted the "e", I don't think my mind would "sound" the "th" (I guess the difference is between the "th" in "the" and "threat", if you get what I'm saying"). "E" is weird, man.

Wow, sorry, that was a super long tangent. Anyways, my week went pretty well. We got to go to the Temple, which was super cool, as always. Afterward, we went to the Deseret Book that's really close, and I got a scripture case, finally! Hopefully my scriptures won't fall apart now :). 

On Saturday, we had breakfast at the Stake President's house, which was a lot of fun--it's like a tradition thing, that we do the first saturday of each transfer. So anyway we had french toast, which I think that was the first time I'd had it in like all my mission, so that was pretty awesome. 

Sunday was probably the best day of the week. Aside from getting to go to church, we actually had someone come to church! He isn't technically an investigator yet, as we haven't taught him, but he was a referral from some other missionaries. We'd been trying to contact him for a while, without luck. We tried calling him on I think Friday, and he picked up, and asked for where the church was, and then he came to church! Yay! So that was really awesome. We really hope we can teach him some more and help him come into the church. 

Also on Sunday, one of our appointments cancelled, so we went looking for another investigator, who we hadn't been able to contact that week. He was home, we taught him, and he seems really great! He really has a desire to follow Christ, and we were actually able to set him with a baptismal date! That was great. So, this week was pretty good, and we're looking forward to an even better week next week. Really looking forward to General Conference, too, in a couple of weeks.

I'm glad Ward Conference went well; we had ward conference last week, and that was pretty great, too. Lots of translations with the Stake people talking, but it was good anyways. I got to see a bunch of people who I remembered from a past ward, including the High Councilor who's responsible for our ward (and actually also speaks spanish pretty well), so that was pretty cool.

Things are going pretty well with Spanish. Sometimes I mess up, or realize midway through a sentence that I don't actually know how to say what I'm trying to in Spanish, but things work out. I think I have had a couple of experiences dreaming in spanish, which is a little weird, and actually, according to my companion, I've been talking in my sleep in spanish a little bit, which is bizarre, because as far as I know, I haven't really had a problem with sleep-talking before. Must have something to do with my brain going crazy.

It's great that my brothers enjoyed the missionary crafted bookmarks. Here's the wonderful secret of laminating as a missionary: packing tape :) The only problem with the packing tape is that it loses the effect when the thing you're "laminating" is larger that the packing tape. But it works, ish.

Have a great week!

Love,

Peter