If you can't stand temperatures below 20, I would recommend never living in Colorado.

Hey!

This week was pretty great, we've been doing a lot of good work, and it seems like these past few weeks have really just flown by.

So the biggest crazy thing this week was that we found quite a few new investigators, like 10, all of who were families that we'd run into earlier, and were following up with this week.

With one of the families, we had one of the craziest lessons I've been in. This was the family that came to church last week, who we met when we were looking for a less-active member. So, we had a really good plan for this family--we were really excited for them. We had another family in the ward all set up to come with us. So, that night, we went with the members to the investigators' house, and proceeded to teach a 2.5 hour lesson, all about the restoration. So, it turns out that the Dad had studied with a different church for a long time, like 4 years, and although he didn't join their church, it left a lot of leftover concerns, and a little bit of distrust for organized religion. 

We also met a couple of other families, including one kind of bizarre situation: Both the Mom and Dad were raised by Grandparents who were members, and apparently grew up thinking that they were church members, but weren't baptized for whatever reason. Their kids, though, are baptized, and their daughters are semi-active members of the local English ward. The parents go to church a couple times a year, and they have a Book of Mormon, but they don't know when the last time they read it was. Hopefully we'll be able to help them realize the blessings of being a member of the church for reals.

It sounds like the concert was pretty great, I wish I could have been there! Trinity Cathedral is so awesome. If you liked "Aurora," I would recommend (although probably you've already heard it) "On the Transmigration of Souls" by John Adams (The guys who wrote Nixon in China, not the founding father :)). It's his tribute to the 9/11 victims, and it's pretty dang awesome.

On Saturday, I went on exchanges with a missionary who was actually in the Mexico City MTC with me, although not in my district.

I feel like one big thing I'll be bringing back from my mission is a real appreciation for the fact that in Oregon, it rarely if ever gets below 30 :). If you can't stand temperatures below 20, I would recommend never living in Colorado.

Anyways, it was a pretty great week. I got the valentines' day package on saturday, and amazingly, the toblerone is still here. I'm trying to pace myself :).

Thank you all  for everything. I love you all!

Peter

Here are some pictures, too:

My companion & I at the Temple.

I'm confused why they had to ship all those "components" of the foam basketball to Mexico to be made.

March paper monster, pretty cool.