He finally got his visa!

Hey!

So well I'll just cut right to the chase with the whole transfers thing: I am back in the area that I just left six weeks ago and my companion is from Utah, who just got to Colorado yesterday. He finally got his visa! Ha, just kidding, I'm training. I'm only freaking out a little bit. Ha, just kidding, I'm kind of freaking out a lot, but it'll be okay. 

The ward I left was basically demolished by transfers--out of the 8 missionaries there, only 3 of them are still in there. 3 of them finished their missions and went home (including my companion), and I and a sister missionary went to the ward I left. So basically what happened was that me and my former companion (the guy from England) switched places. Kind of really weird, but that's okay.

It sounds like a pretty awesome week! Lots of family and lots of fun, I guess. Also I'm thinking you may have to upgrade to an actual camera, those pictures were kind of blurry :).

So anyways it was a kind of insane week! On Monday, we had to go to the DMV so that my companion could get his drivers' license renewed, and ended up waiting for like an hour before they called his number, then told him 15 seconds later his proof of address didn't work. So yeah, the DMV sucks, even as a missionary. 

On Wednesday, we got to teach this really awesome part-member family, where the Mom is a nonmember, and the Dad is less-active. They are super cool, but there's something missing. We taught them a little bit about revelation, and also showed them President Uchtdorf's talk about receiving revelation! It was pretty great.

Thursday, we watched Meet the Mormons! That was pretty awesome (partly because we got to watch a movie, I'll just be honest), I really enjoyed it. It wasn't like exactly what I was expecting, but it was really cool to see a lot of different perspectives on what it means to be a Mormon. And of course, the clip from the Simpsons at the very beginning had us all laughing a lot. And our mission president got us popcorn, so yeah.

Friday was pretty crazy--my companion and another missionary from the Ward who was also going home had to go up to the Mission home for their departing interviews, so me and his companion stayed together down here. Friday's our weekly planning day, so it wasn't too crazy, but it made it a lot more real that my companion was going home. And then Friday night, one of the Assistants called me to ask if I'd be willing to train! I was kind of expecting it (there were 9 Spanish missionaries coming in that transfer), but it was still kind of freaky.

Saturday I probably ate like a full cow's worth of meat, it was insane. So much Carne Asada, you wouldn't believe it. And then I got told I was going back to the other ward, which is pretty dang bizarre.

And then Sunday my companion and the other elder left for the mission home and didn't come back! I was with his companion for the rest of the night, and it was really weird.

And then yesterday was probably the weirdest day of all. It was super crazy. The other Elder and I were freaking out the whole day. It was insane. Then we went up to the mission office, picked up our new companions, and went back. We did have a really awesome dinner that night, though. So that was good.

Well, I'm still freaking out a little, but I'm sure I'll be fine. Hope everything keeps going great on the home front. I love you a lot!

Peter