Hey!
So I have had a pretty great week! And it had been feeling like spring, until yesterday, when it dropped to the twenties and snowed! But aside from that, things are going pretty well, I'd have to say.
As far as I know, my ward isn't planning anything special for Easter, just normal church. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. The only special thing I know of is that all of us missionaries are going to have dinner together (all 8!), whereas usually it's just four of us.
So there is an exercise routine that I guess I have been trying to do, which is out of a book that my companion has called "Bring it" by Tony Horton, the guy who does P90X. It's good, but it's hard for me sometimes to get up the motivation to work out in the morning. I'd say that's probably the thing I'm working the most on changing, obedience to the mission rules-wise.
Yeah, it was interviews. So that was pretty cool, it's always nice to chat with President Toombs. It was kind of weird, that was actually the last round of interviews that President Toombs'll do before he goes home! And he did have some words of wisdom, as always, mostly about getting the real desire to spread the gospel--not just a sense of duty, but of really wanting to go out and do missionary work. When I like get to know people, it's easy to want to share the gospel with them. It's mostly when we're finding new people to teach (e.g. tracting) that it's kind of a struggle to get motivated.
Luckily we don't tract too much, but some. There are a couple of apartment complexes that have a lot of spanish-speakers, and aside from that, sometimes we'll go check out some neighborhoods that have signs of being spanish families.
And I'm so jealous that you guys'll see Elder Aidukaitis. You'd better go, that accent is awesome! :)
For us, this week was pretty good, although lessons-wise, kind of slow again. There were a lot of complications, because one of the other Elders got sick, so we had to be at their house a couple of times, on Wednesday and Sunday, to help work things out, give a blessing, give the sacrament. We had to cancel a couple of appointments because of that sort of thing, and some cancelled as well, which was, as always, a little frustrating. But, again as always, there were some great things that happened this week too!
There was an investigator who was referred from a member, and we taught her once, and then we were trying to get in touch with her for like a month. But then last week (two thursdays ago, I think), when I was on exchanges, We found her husband at home, and set up an appointment, and so we taught them last week, and it was awesome, and they're super receptive, and it was great!
There's also a less-active family who we finally were able to teach, who have a son who hasn't been baptized, and he's 9 years old, so we're going to be teaching him, hopefully!
Aside from that, we had interviews, as I said, which were great, and we had zone meeting, which is like district meeting but twice as long and with all the zone. It's like halfway between district meeting and zone conference (three zones), and it was pretty great. It was a lot focused on the atonement. We were given a couple of talks beforehand to study, "His Grace is Sufficient" by Brad Wilcox (which Dad totally sent me last P-day), and "In the Strength of the Lord" by Elder Bednar, I would definitely recommend those talks to everyone.
So yeah, this week was pretty good!
Oh also you asked me last time about what I meant by feeling like I was in training for a while--mostly just that it took me a while to get back to where I was in english in spanish, and I'm still not there, and probably won't be on my mission. But that's okay! Heavenly Father helps me, and I can do his work!
I love you guys! Have a great week!
Love,
Peter
P.S. oh I forgot to tell this story, even though it was hilarious. Okay, so there's this one family in our ward that lives all the way in Boulder (no, I don't know why they come to this ward), so we can't come to their house for dinner. But they sometimes sign up, and then give us money or give us food at the church. So this week, they gave us a gift card to Chipotle. So we went there, and then while we were there, another Member from an english ward approached us and told us they were going to pay for our food. We couldn't really say no, so now we still have $ to chipotle, so we're probably going to go today, and some other time or whatever.
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