I know that's true, 100%.

Hey Everyone!

Well it sounds like it's been a really busy week. I guess that's good? It's been a pretty busy week for us too, which is great. It's always good to be busy (well, not always, but at least here on a mission, it's a good thing.). As one of the less-active members from Monte Vista would always say, if you aren't busy, that's when you start getting in trouble.

You know, seasons actually don't affect the work as much as you might think. It's really been basically the same throughout all the seasons, as far as I can tell. I guess the only thing that I might say is different is that when it's below zero outside it's quite a bit harder to get up the motivation to go knock doors :).

Sorry, I don't have any pictures of me and my companion to give! Sorry! But I'll see what I can do for next Monday (by which time one of us might be gone, transfers!) This transfer has just blazed by, it's insane. You can definitely tell that he's from England from his accent. I wouldn't say it's hard to understand or anything, but it's distinctive. He has only ever lived in England, yes, although I think he's visited here once or twice before. There aren't really any prairie dogs here, although I would say we're still in the suburbs. But it's a lot less like rural here than up in Thornton. Like in Thornton there were actually some farms about like 20 minutes away from our house. But here it's mostly just a bunch of houses.

So for the week report thingy:

It was a really good week this week, actually. We taught a lot of people, we had dinner with members every day (I had pupusas for the first time ever, that was cool), people are actually progressing, and things are just pretty cool.

Probably the top highlights of the week:

-So there's this one family where the Dad is a less-active member, and the wife isn't a member. We've been trying to teach them, but they've been dropping appointments and just generally not seeming super promising. But this week they kept two appointments we had with them (these were apparently the first two appointments they'd ever kept while my companion had been there, and he's been here for 4 months), both of them came to church, she read from the Book of Mormon, and maybe best of all, they invited us over for dinner next week :)! The wife, who isn't a member, really seems to want to learn more. And it's also been really cool to see her husband be really encouraging and supportive, he's been a real help in our lessons.

-So and then this one happened just last night. So two transfers ago, my companion and his companion at the time were teaching this one family (It's a pretty bizarre family situation, I'm probably not going to go into it). But then the daughter (not really, we'll just say that), who was the one who was the most interested, and who'd read from the Book of Mormon and felt like it was true, went on a three month vacation to Mexico to see her (real) parents, who are hardcore Catholics. So she got back like a week ago, and we finally got to teach her last night. I guess while she was there, she had some good experiences with the Catholic church, and is now like super confused because she's had spiritual experiences with both churches! So what does she do now? Well, during the whole lesson we really just talked about the holy ghost, and how God is really the only one who can tell us what is true. So we're going by today to drop off a copy of the Book of Mormon (she lost hers), and she's going to read it and figure things out, and it's going to be great. 

Throughout the whole lesson I kind of really just wanted to talk about how okay here are somethings that the Catholic church believes, do you believe that (like the whole till death do you part thing, or the whole changing the 10 commandments thing), but I knew that that really wouldn't help anything at all. We can talk about doctrine forever, but until people find out for themselves, it won't help. So that was a pretty great experience, anyways.

Lots of other cool stuff in the week. We got to go to the temple, which was great as always, we were able to take our ward mission leader out with us for like all of sunday, which was pretty awesome. Our WML is super cool. He got back from a mission in Utah about a year ago, and he's just so willing to help with anything.

I feel like I need to write something spiritual, because I really haven't like specifically done that in a while. Anyhow, I've been reading in Moses lately, and I was just thinking about a really cool doctrine in Chapter 1, v. 35. God's works are infinite, and we definitely can't imagine how many thing's he's created. But he knows everything, everyone, he's created perfectly. I know that's true, 100%.

I love you all, and I hope everything's going well. I'm asking everyone this, so hopefully someone tells me: how much time do you guys have until school starts again? Here it's been going on for like 3 weeks already, depending on the district.

 

Love,

Peter