Extreme alert!

Hey everyone who might read this!

Okay yeah it is pretty insane that it's June already. 2014 is going by way too fast. I'm scared :). 

It sounds like school is wrapping up well, although it's kind of insane that people are graduating and stuff. I guess I feel like people shouldn't be allowed to continue to progress through time while I'm gone. It's not fair! :).

To answer questions:

First and most importantly, I don't think I said no candy, just not an excessive amount, although I could be wrong, and I don't feel like checking. Basically the reason for this is that I have noticed that I am gaining weight here in this Spanish ward, because they feed us tons and I am no longer biking everywhere. So well I guess send as much candy as you want.

Allergies have been starting to hit, and they are just as unpleasant as in Oregon. I've been taking zyrtec, which hopefully is abating the symptoms and everything, but we'll see.

And yeah, we have headphones at the library. Even though they're banned by the missionary handbook, I've decided that they've been implicitly approved because I see leaders wearing them all the time.

So I don't know that I remember being able to hit low notes well after shouting and killing my voice, but I do know it's generally easier to sing lower after/while I'm sick. Dunno why, maybe the internet has the answers.

And I guess I wouldn't say I have a favorite part of a lesson to teach. They're all great! Maybe I'll think about that more this week, and then get back to you later. Actually I have an answer right now. Atonement. It's just really the most important thing we can bear testimony of, and it really is just great.

And we don't really plan who's going to share what, which is probably something we can improve on.

So anyways, this week was pretty good for us. The investigator we've been focusing the most on is still coming to church (This was his third sunday in a row here, which is really exciting), and he's actually started reading from the Book of Mormon, which is something he's struggled with in the past because he's a bit of a slow reader. The only issue is that his work still makes it so he can't come to Sacrament Meeting, and he can't really change his work schedule because everyone at his work has to come in at the same time, and his coworkers like where it's at right now, I guess. We'll see what we can do--we taught about the sacrament, and it seems like he understands why it's important, so we'll try to make sure he can attend some Sacrament Meeting.

His brother (the less-active guy) is also progressing really well--he's a really fast learner, and it seems like he really has a desire to come back to full activity in the church. It was kind of funny--he stayed for Sacrament Meeting, and it was Fast and Testimony Meeting. When we asked him how he liked it, he said that it was nice, although "there were a lot of kids". Which is totally true, this time probably >75% of the testimonies came from primary-age kids. I always take out my little pocket notebook to keep track of funny things kids say during testimony meeting, here's a little sample:

- I know that God is true

- I know that Jesus Christ made the scriptures

- One kid just stood up there and said a prayer.

But it was great and all. I've definitely gotten a stronger testimony of fasting here on my mission.

That's basically the coolest stuff that's happened this week. We're still doing service at that quilting place, and at the thrift store. It's going to be a pretty crazy week this week--we're having a mission-wide conference Wednesday morning, which'll be the last time President Toombs will speak to us as a group, kind of crazy. 

We're painting a member's house on Thursday, which'll probably take quite a while, and then on Saturday we find out who's going where, because transfers are a week from today! Things are going fast, it's kind of crazy.

I hope everything's good with you guys. I love you a ton!

Love,

Peter

Also, sorry for not sending many photos, but here's one: it was a pretty interesting text to get--I didn't see it until like an hour later, so we didn't really follow the instructions.