When you feel like you're making a difference in someone's life...

Hey!

So Thanksgiving's probably going to be pretty low-key this year, it isn't a really big thing in the Hispanic culture, so not too different. We will be having Thanksgiving dinner with a white family in our ward, so that should be fun! As in they go to our ward because they really like Spanish but they are both white. They used to live in Portland! They're pretty cool. And then our ward mission leader is gonna have us over for a Mexican Thanksgiving too, with this really good Mexican soup called posole, it's really good. So it should be a good day.

So this week was pretty good for us! We've had a lot of pretty neat experiences. A woman we're teaching is getting closer and closer to baptism, so that's really cool. We taught her about the word of wisdom yesterday, and as soon as we mentioned coffee, she just immediately was like "ooh, I guess we can't drink coffee anymore!" So anyways that was cool.

This week we also started teaching someone really cool. She's living with some members, and has come to church a few times. She's from the Dominican Republic, and was taught by missionaries there, but she's basically completely forgotten everything except the first vision. BUT she tells us that she completely knows the church is true and wants to be baptized! So that was really neat.

One more cool thing. We've been teaching this 15-year old girl this transfer, who was less active. She started to go to church basically the first week of this transfer, and it seems like she's been liking it. But she basically knows nothing about the gospel, so we've been teaching her a lot of the like really simple stuff. But anyways, we had dinner at her house yesterday (Her mom's a super active member), and she told us about a missionary experience she had! She was apparently talking to her brother's girlfriend, who's going through a really hard time, and she basically just bore her testimony to her! She told her about how much happier she felt going to church, and learning more about the gospel. So that was really cool to hear. It's those times when you really feel like you're making a difference in someone's life. Really neat.

So with our companionship nothing happened with transfers! Yay! But all of the other companionships in the district changed, so that's fun. Also, I'm now the district leader in the ward, so that'll be a fun new challenge thing I guess.  Things are really just going great. My companion's awesome, we're working hard, and it's pretty cool. Love,Peter