It was a pretty routine week

Wow, kind of a lot of news! I hope no one's going too crazy with all the preparations. I think I tell you every week that you need to keep me updated, but it's still true!

Quick question: Is the dinner situation with the Sister Missionaries the same as usual, with a like calendar or something, or has that changed? In our mission we changed it a little bit because supposedly there's a rule saying that we aren't allowed to pass around dinner calendars (at least, that's how our leaders understood the rule). Is it the same at home?

Anyway, this was a pretty great week for us. It was kind of a bizarre weather week--It was raining probably like 3/4 of the week, in July. But I liked it, it totally reminded me of Oregon. That was probably the first or second time I've used my rain jacket in like 2 months. It was good.

Even with the crazy weather, it was a pretty routine week. I'm getting to know the area better and better--it's a pretty straightforward system, basically like a grid with crazy stuff in the middle. It's the crazy stuff that's not as easy to get used to. 

We also had interviews this week, which was pretty cool. First time to really talk with President Mendenhall, and he seems pretty great. Different from President Toombs, but still great. It was a really short interview, just basically getting to know you type thing, what kind of  a missionary you are. Kind of stressful, though :), hopefully I made a good first impression on President.

Teaching-wise, we've still been doing a lot of less-active work, which is cool, although it would be maybe even more cool to do more work with people who aren't members of the church. People have just been bailing on us all the time, though. It's kind of crazy. But hey, that's life, at least as a missionary.

One pretty cool thing: We met this active member family who just moved in (we actually helped them move in two weeks ago) and had a little like 20-minute lesson with them on Sunday. They are suuuuper cool. They're from Nevada, and they've been members for just over a year. They're already sealed as a family (which is like pretty amazing, considering they've only been members for like a year), and they're just super legit. There's just so many crazy things about them. Before they were baptized, they'd investigated the church for like 3 or 4 years. And the dad is like severely physically handicapped, where he's in this like motorized wheelchair and can only move his hands and his head. They showed us a picture from the day they got sealed, and there he was, sitting in his wheelchair in front of the temple, all in white. It was super cool. They're awesome.

Some kind of sad news came, though. The couple that was progressing the most, and seemed super legit decided to go ahead and move! What's up with that? They didn't move very far, but now they're in the other Spanish ward down here. So that was kind of sad.

That's basically it, though. Doing a lot of work, and it's great!

I love you all!

Love,

Peter