Everything is awesome!

Dear Mom! And everyone else!

It's Christmas time, and it's awesome! Although the thing is basically we haven't been having any Christmassy weather for a while now, and we won't be having any this week apparently, so that's kind of weird. It's supposed to be in the 60s this week. But it's okay, we've been getting into the Christmas spirit anyways, listening to Christmas music, and putting up Christmas decorations (Thanks so much for contributing to that! The "I don't even know what it is sticky nativity thing" was really cool, and we were both duly impressed with the sabuda pop-up.)

It sounds like you've been having a pretty dang busy week. I will always be jealous of people who get to go to the symphony while I can't. Sounds like a pretty neat week. I was surprised that you still don't have a tree, but then I thought about it and it makes sense, it's just that like every single house I've gone to lately has their tree all set up and decorated and everything. I think Hispanics are way more into Christmas than Thanksgiving.

This week was a little bit slower for us--we were doing a lot of tracting, but that's okay. You probably remember that closer to the beginning of my mission we weren't doing too much of that, but lately we have definitely been doing more. But there were some great things about the week too! Some highlights:

This Sunday I got to give a baby blessing! That was suuuuuper weird. There's a family who's been returning to activity for the last few months, and the dad has the Aaronic priesthood, but not the Melchizidek, but they wanted their baby blessed, so they asked me to do it. It was really weird, but really great.

Our investigator is still doing really awesome. She's so cool. We had her baptismal interview on Tuesday, and she passed, and it's just been really great. She is doing awesome, and she is so ready. The experience of teaching her has just been awesome. Her baptism is going to be the same night as our ward Christmas party, like immediately before it, so we're hoping a lot of people come for the baptism and stay for the party. The bishop's announced it the last two Sundays, so that's been really cool. 

I'm sorry, that doesn't seem like a lot, but that's basically the cool things that happened this week. We also were able to get in contact with some cool less-actives that I'd never been able to talk to, so that was pretty neat.

There are definitely some people who I hope to be able to keep in touch with as the years go by. I think one of the best parts of serving a mission is the huge variety of people you get to meet, and I definitely want to be able to keep up those relationships. There's definitely a lot of people I've gotten to know and love here that I probably would never even have talked to in "normal life".

Basically things are going well, my companion's awesome, being a missionary is awesome, and yeah basically that's it!

Again, thanks so much for the package, that was fun. I love you all a lot!

 

Love,

Peter