First of all, Happy Easter! It's a pretty great holiday, and it was pretty great here in Colorado to celebrate, even though it mostly just a regular day. I assume you'll want to know that I did get the package, it actually got here really fast. And the Because of Him video is probably the best video I've seen the church put out so far, that was awesome.
This is probably going to be pretty short, because we don't have a ton of time to do email stuff today, and that also might mean I might not get to email some of my brothers, please please tell them sorry for me. We have to get shopping, because there's an activity that starts at noon that we really want to go to as quickly as possible. But don't worry, I still love you guys!
I'm really glad you guys had a good Easter--it's always nice to take a break from the hubbub (good word right there) of life and just think about family and the gospel a bit.
For us, this week was pretty great as well! There were a couple of families that we hadn't been able to see in a while that we got in touch with, which was awesome. One of those we actually taught last night, and it was pretty great: The sixteen-year-old "acts like a daughter but is actually a sister" started off the night by basically saying that she didn't get Easter, and we kind of just looked at each other and were like "we can help you with that :)." We showed them the Because of Him video (in Spanish it's called "Gracias a El", and I think I like it even more in Spanish--specifically that one part where in English it says "But unlike those who had preceded him...", in spanish it says "Pero hubo una diferencia", which means "But there was a difference", which just is pretty much great).
We also were able to finally teach a new investigator who we found like a month or so ago, who's a friend of a member--it was pretty crazy: We had an appointment with the investigator, but she cancelled it, because she wasn't going to be home at that time. But the next hour, we had an appointment with the member friend, and while we were chatting, the member totally just called the investigator and invited her over, and she came, and we taught and it was awesome.
Some less fun things this week: There's been a sickness going around the missionaries in our ward--I didn't get it, but my companion did, and so we had to stay in Friday night and Saturday Afternoon, which made it hard to get a ton of work done, but we worked it out.
Another kind of funny experience with that: one of the sets of sisters was sick on thursday, and asked us to come and give them a blessing. So we did (although we had to stop at target to get some oil, and then consecrate it--that was the beginning of the chaos), but then we had dinner like immediately afterward, and it was ridiculously far away, so we got there about a half hour late. So that was an adventure!
Things are generally going pretty well here. It's getting to be the end of the transfer--we find out this Saturday who's staying and going. I really hope I stay.
Thank you so much for your email, I always love hearing about what's going on, never ever worry about boring me :). I'm sorry, I don't have a ton of time to email today, but I want you to know I still love you and am enjoying being a missionary.
Thanks for everything, and I hope you have a great week.
Love,
Peter
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