Peter Bryan's Mission Blog: Look for something called a "Boli"

Hey!

Thanks for the news, it sounds like it's been a pretty relaxing week, which is pretty swell.

To answer the question about the world cup, basically everyone we talk to has been keeping up with it a little, at least. We were all a little depressed that Mexico lost. People still like came to church, but I did notice that most people showed up a little later than usual. The game started a few hours before church, so that might have had something to do with it.

And I'm thinking that the 4th of July is going to be pretty boring for us. The ward will have a party, and we'll try to be there for at least a bit of it. Aside from that, we've been asked to be in our apartments after 6:00 that day, so should be a pretty boring night.

Basically the biggest thing that's been happening lately is that President and Sister Toombs went home on Saturday. That was basically the weirdest thing ever. Like in the history of the world. It's always bizarre when missionaries go home, but President Toombs was always kind of a constant in the like sea of change, and now he isn't here. We'll be meeting President Mendenhall on Wednesday, and I'm sure he's amazing too, but for now it's still kind of freaky.

Aside from that little bit of craziness, this week has been pretty great. We got to do like a lot of service--on Tuesday we helped a family to move, and also helped a family to basically remodel their house, tearing up carpet and stuff. Both of them gave us these awesome popsicle things that are basically the Mexican version of the Otter Pop, if you ever find the time to go to a Mexican place, look for something called a "Boli", they're basically the best.

We also did some teaching, which is always great. We are still keeping on teaching the guy we've been working with, and he is just awesome. He's been keeping the Word of Wisdom, still wants to be baptized, and it's just great. As it stands, he'll be baptized on July 19th, which is 2 days before transfers. Super exciting!

We also taught that one lady who came to church a couple of weeks back. She's pretty great--the wonderful thing about her is how open she is with us. She told us exactly what would be holding her back from joining the church (she doesn't want to stop worshiping the Virgin of Guadalupe), but that she really does want to be able to resolve that concern and find out what God wants for her.

Other interesting things that happened, we had our last time to say goodbye to President and Sister Toombs on Tuesday--they came to our ward building and took pictures with everyone individually (and that was a lot of missionaries, like half of the mission was there), so that was really nice.

And then I went on exchanges on Saturday with our new district leader, who was actually in my district back when I was in the Greenwood Village ward. He's pretty cool, so that was a pretty fun day.

One other interesting thing that's new, and I'm wondering if the missionaries in your ward are doing: we no longer are passing around a dinner calendar--we ourselves are just going around, asking people to feed us. We're focusing on families we would like to visit, and it seems to be going pretty well so far. This is the first week we've tried it, and we have dinners lined up already for 6/7 days, which is pretty rad.

Well, I think that's all. Here's some pictures, too, though: