I got over myself, thank goodness.

Hey!

Wow, this is super weird that it's the second time on my mission that everyone's going back to school. I mean, the last time was like only 2 weeks in, but it's still weird.

Okay don't worry, even if I was kind of really sad to leave the last ward, I'm doing great. I got over myself, thank goodness. My new ward is pretty cool too. There are a lot of really cool people. There hasn't been a ton of work going on here, investigator-wise, but we're going to really try to help pick that up this transfer. But the members and less-actives are really cool! I'm excited to work here.

Thanks for all the news. I'm still disappointed that my brother didn't wait for me to finish his eagle project, but I think I'll get over it. I have actually played pandemic! One of my companions owned it, so we played it a couple of times when we were together. I'm looking forward to seeing the lego movie.

So yeah, things have actually been going pretty great. We've been getting to know the area. We're kind of trying to get to know it together. Long story there, but my companion doesn't know the area too well either. Last transfer he was sick for two weeks, and then had to work two areas when one of the elders in the ward had to go home early for school. So it's been a little crazy, neither of us knows the area very well. But things have been going good. We've been getting to know the members, and the less-actives, and some of the investigators, although there aren't too many of those.

An idea that we've been trying to work with is to help the members learn how to use Preach My Gospel. I've been realizing lately how cool it is! If you know how to use it, it can help you learn how to study, learn how to follow the spirit, learn the basic doctrines of the gospel, learn about the Book of Mormon, learn how to become like Christ, etc etc. So it's pretty great, you all should probably read it too.

I heard Stanford's off to a pretty good start, although I did hear they did not exactly win against USC, which is sad. You'll have to keep me updated with the NCAA! Actually you probably won't have to. The family that we live with has a 13-year-old son who is absolutely obsessed with football, so he should be able to keep me informed. But know that I'm rooting Stanford on from here in Colorado!

So but anyways things are going good. The missionaries in the ward are pretty great and fun to be with, and the members are awesome too. I went on exchanges on Saturday (I think that's the quickest into the transfer I've ever gone on exchanges), and that was cool. I actually taught this one really cool investigator who I'd taught on exchanges also in my previous ward, but who'd moved to this ward, so that was kind of cool.

Love,Peter