Someone's going to pinch me!

Hey!

Ack! I'm not wearing green! Someone's going to pinch me!. Maybe we'll stop home really quick so I can grab a green tie or something.

To answer your questions: I am.... still here, still serving with the same companion, for the next 6 weeks, at least. So that should be good, we'll be continuing to work with those that we've been teaching so far. It'll be great!

And other than rats, what kind of wildlife is there in Colorado? Um, the things that I've seen the most of have been: groundhogs and rabbits. There are tons of both of them, it's kind of insane. Aside from that, not a ton of out-of-the-ordinary things.

This week was pretty good, and pretty busy as well! Lots of service, which was good, and lots of teaching, which was also pretty awesome. 

On Tuesday, we helped a family (who if I'm understanding the situation correctly is related to a bunch of members of our ward, but goes to the local English Ward) to move, which was pretty great, because it was snowing pretty hard for like the whole time. But it was alright, because afterwards, they gave us some really good food! So that was pretty awesome! 

On Wednesday, we went up to my former area to do service at this place called Kidz Quiltz, which I think I've told you guys about before, and I actually finished the quilt that I was working on, which was exciting. I'll attach a picture so you can appreciate the majesty.  We like to serve there because basically it's the most entertaining service we have, and we have the miles for it, as long as we carpool occasionally with the other set of elders in the ward. We don't have a ton of local options for service, and the one that we do have bores my companion immensely, so we don't go there too often. To make the quilt, I cut out fabric, sewed together the fabric, put the like filling stuff in, sewed it all together, did the little tie thingies, all with a lot of help from others :). I don't know anything about quilting terms like binding, I just know what I did.

Another really cool thing on Wednesday, was that we got to teach a new investigator, who was a referral from a family in the ward, with that family. It's always the best when you can teach people with members that they're already familiar with helping--there's a support system built in, as I think it says in Preach my Gospel. 

On Thursday, we had a zone meeting, which was pretty awesome--we had seven trainings in total, one from each of the district leaders in the zone, from each of the zone leaders, and each of the sister training leaders. So that was a ton of training, which was great.

Sunday was a pretty cool day as well, even though none of our investigators were able to come to church (that seems to be a problem that we have here, is that we aren't able to really help those that we're teaching understand the importance of coming to church). 

On Sunday, though, we were able to teach with a couple of families that I think I mentioned last week. Both of those lessons went pretty well, and we got to know about their situations a little bit more, which was interesting. The first family apparently grew up believing in the Book of Mormon, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet, but doesn't have a testimony that the Church is true. I think we can help them with that :). The other one, we found out, is actually going to a different church, right now. But we're helping them to read the Book of Mormon, so they can find out for themselves that this is the true church.

But yeah, that was my week. Nothing new with transfers, only two out of the eight missionaries in the ward are leaving, so things are largely staying the same. We see the the other Elders every day, because we have dinner with them, and we see the sisters fairly regularly, whether at service, or at district meeting, or at church. 

I hope everything's going well for you guys. I love you lots.

Love,

Peter

Okay this member made us hats, it's supposed to be Mike Wazowski, and it's awesome.