I know, it's a miracle.

Hey!

First of all to answer the first question, yes I very much liked sleeping in guilt-free! It was awesome. Although the problem was our phone didn't change time until like 8:00 in the morning, so it woke us up at 5:30, and it took me like 10 minutes to figure out that I could actually go back to sleep.

With Halloween, it actually didn't change much, and we were still able to do a lot of work. It's really nice having a companion who really wants to work, and hasn't been like jaded by the routine of missionary work yet, because it gives me a lot more energy, and motivates me to keep working hard. So yeah it was a good week. The only less-productive time was actual Halloween day, when we were asked to be in our homes at 6:00. We didn't actually get home until like 6:45, but we made an effort. So we watched a church movie and reminisced about Fairview for a bit. Apparently my companion has actually been to the Fairview house! I guess when he was younger he was pretty close with Mason, and Mason took him over to the house. Pretty insane! It really is a ridiculously tiny world.

To answer your question, we did not see hardly anything for dia de los muertos. The only thing we saw was a picture of a less-active at a costume party with her face painted like one of those decorated Mexican skulls. Apart from that, nada. Kind of disappointing, but I guess that's what happens when you serve here in the states.

To just give a rundown of the week, things have been going pretty well. We had a pretty great lesson with the lady that I've been like focusing on the last two weeks, and she was at church yesterday, which was great, because we had some great testimonies, and the impromptu gospel principles lesson given by our bishopric's second counselor was about gaining a testimony! So that was awesome! She participated quite a bit in the lesson and it was just really cool. She even came without her member husband, who was sick! So that was super legit.

District - last transfer

A bit of less exciting news, though. If you remember that girl who we were teaching who has been coming to church for a while but doesn't speak Spanish? So her mom had given her permission to be baptized, and she had set a date to be baptized, but then this week we got a text from her saying that she doesn't feel ready yet. This was after she was acting really excited, and had set things up so that she could get baptized, and everything. That was really hard. I think maybe she just kind of freaked out a bit when it felt like it was actually going to happen. So we basically just bore her our testimonies that we knew that baptism was important, and that she didn't have to be perfect to be baptized. We'll see what happens with that. But I do know that when she does get baptized, her testimony will probably be even stronger for having gone through some of this uncertainty and stuff. So that's the bright side, I guess.

We went up to the food bank on Wednesday and did some pretty cool service there--we basically run around their big warehouse and collect large quantities of food for different organizations that are going to distribute them, so that was a lot of fun.

So all in all, it was a pretty good week, although, you know, there's upsides and downsides to everything.

With family member where we lived last transfer

Spiritual thought of the week: "God is not a God of superheroes, nor of people without weaknesses, for such beings do not exist" --Gerald Causse, 2nd Counselor Presiding Bishopric. (http://speeches.byu.edu/index.php?act=viewitem&id=2157) Isn't it great that the Lord uses us weak people to do stuff? I mean, he's kind of God, He could just do anything He wants to happen. But that's not really the game plan, because He wants us to grow. You all should watch or listen to that talk, by the way, it's awesome.

Also, here are some pictures! I know, it's a miracle.

Love,

Peter