It really is pretty amazing...

Hey!

Thanks for the email, the advice, and the report on the week! It sounds like a very rainy week, hopefully it was a little fun too :). It's actually been really nice here, which is strange, but I think that's gonna change pretty soon. It dropped like 30 degrees from yesterday to today... so that's fun.

So far, training's been a pretty great experience. Although sometimes I feel like maybe my companion's a little bit too enthusiastic, I get ahold of myself and try to remember that it's a great thing, not something to try to stifle or anything like that.

And then the power outage sounds like fun. Weird, I don't think I've ever actually been in a power outage here in Denver. I think I've woken up in the mornings a couple of times to see the clock blinking like there had been one, but not actually been awake for one. Weird.

So this was a pretty good week! We were able to teach a lot of pretty cool people--lots of less-active members here, if you remember from last time I was here in this exact same area 8 weeks ago (that's still weirding me out.), and some pretty great investigators too. Here's some highlights!

1) That lady that I told you guys about last week, who we "picked back up" from being a former investigator last week. So pretty funny story. So we had an appointment with her on Thursday, and we showed up, and her less-active husband said she wasn't there! He'd just come from work, and she wasn't there, and he didn't know where she was. So that was pretty disappointing, but we shared a short message with him and then went out and talked to a different investigator (who we found out had started reading the Book of Mormon without us even asking her to, that was pretty cool.) So at about 9:00 p.m. on the way home, we get a call from the lady we had the appointment with. She told us that she was there all along at home, she was just asleep with her kid, and didn't realized we were there! Her husband hadn't had time to find her when we showed up :). So we set up an appointment for the next day, and she was there for that and she was great, and she and her husband came to church on Sunday, which was great!

2) We had a pretty crazy experience on Wednesday. About a half-hour before an appointment, when we were coming back from a service project, our Elders' Quorum President called us and asked if we could come by and give a blessing at a hospital. So the hospital was like 5 minutes away, so we accepted. When we got there, at about 3:30, they told us that the guy we were gonna give a blessing to was in some tests and would be out in about 10 minutes. So then at about 5:00 we left the hospital, after having waited a long time, given the blessing, translated for the hospital staff, and a lot of craziness. It was weird experience, but it was good. And we were able to reschedule the appointment that we totally missed :).

3) We had a lesson with a less-active who's been trying to return to activity for a few months, and we taught her about service, especially in the church. She's a really like charity-minded person (she's getting ready to set up her own nonprofit), so we thought that'd be great. So at the end we invited her to talk to the bishop about getting a calling, and she got so excited! She didn't even know that was a possibility, and the idea of serving in the church made her really excited. I think sometimes we take it for granted that the church has callings, but when we really think about it, it really is pretty amazing that Heavenly Father allows us kind of really imperfect people to essentially run his church. Pretty cool.

 

Anyways, it's been a great week. I hope everything's going great with you. I love you a lot! 2 months until we get to Skype :)!

Oh, and thanks so much for the package. I really appreciated it. We've got the window clings up on the car, and the spiderman is already assembled. Thanks so much.

Love,

Peter