Things have been cool, literally and figuratively

Well, it sounds like a pretty dang eventful week! You guys have got me feeling pretty jealous about the board games. That is one thing hat I realized was a kind of a big part of our family-like tradition, and so it's annoying that there's not really much opportunity to do any of that stuff here. But it's okay I guess.

The weather has been pretty dang chilly. It is a dry cold, I guess you would say, and I've got pretty good cold weather gear thanks to you guys, but when it's like 2 degrees outside, it's still really cold. It's a little disturbing when it's like 20 degrees and when you go outside you're like "oh, it's not so bad today!". So anyways it's cold. And I think we probably got your missing snow over here in Denver. It's kind of really cold and snowy here. So I'm having fun experiencing driving in the snow for the first time ever! This week should be better though, supposedly!

W/r/t transfers, it's not like a guarantee that we'll be staying together, but it's a pretty sure thing. There are a lot of reasons why a trainer might be separated from his trainee, but I'm feeling like we'll probably be staying together. We'll find out on Saturday!

Anyways, for us this week was pretty dang busy! We had kind of a lot going on. We had zone conference on Thursday, which was pretty cool. The theme was "change", so it definitely left me a lot to think about. Obviously there's a lot I can change before I'm perfect, so I guess it helped me think about that more, and to set some more specific goals for just you know how to be better. So that was cool. 

On a kind of sad note, we always have car inspections at zone conference, and well to make a long story short we won the award for worst car! We didn't even get a prize! Just shame! I guess next time I should probably take the Halloween window clings off the windows before inspections...

Good thing about this week, we were able to teach a lot more investigators than we have in the past while. We actually doubled the number of investigator lessons we had from last week. And it was pretty cool! I'll share a pretty cool highlight right here: So we went looking for a person who'd been taught by the missionaries about two years ago, to see if he would be interested in learning again (especially because our records didn't have any reason why he had stopped investigating the church.) So when we knocked on his door, his sister answered, and explained to us a kind of crazy situation. So a while after this man had stopped investigating, he was in some horrible accident or something, and had gotten really hurt and suffered some really severe brain damage. He's still alive and stuff, but he can barely talk and is not super coherent. And because he's here illegally, he can't really get the best care. So we weren't really able to teach this guy, but his sister told us that she felt like our visit was from God! She's taking care of him, and it's been really hard for her, and she needed something to help, and she felt like God sent us there. We gave her a Book of Mormon, and she said she'd definitely read it! So that was pretty freaking awesome. The only thing is that she's gonna move to Mexico in like two weeks. So we're gonna give the Mexican missionaries a great referral!

Another pretty cool thing! We had two less-active families come to church for the first time in a long while yesterday, even with the cold and snow and stuff! It was really cool to be able to see the difference, especially talking to one of them after church. He said that he felt so much different, that he felt the way that he felt back when he was active. So that was just super awesome.

I'm sorry for the pretty short email! The thing is that we're gonna go play a dungeons-and-dragons style game based on star wars, and we kind of have to hurry or else there will literally be no time to play. As it is probably half of the three hours we have scheduled will probably be setup and character creation, you know how it is :). Kind of funny, we have an investigator (part of a part-member family) who's super into Star Wars, so we took some suggestions from him re: what our characters should be. So that's pretty fun!

Anyways, things have been cool, literally and figuratively. I love you all! Sorry to break up the streak of photos, but I forgot my camera today :(.

Loads of love,Peter!