Church!

Thanks for all the news. I'm glad it's been a good week, and I cannot believe James is going to be 15. That's completely insane and not allowed. I guess I kind of have this idea stuck in my head that everything is supposed to stay the same while I'm here on the mission. But I guess that's not really how it works. Craziness.

It's been a pretty crazy week, but a good one. We had a lot of meetings. Like almost one every single day. I'll make a list:

Monday: Not really a meeting, but we had zone-pday, which was really fun. We went sledding! The STLs borrowed some sleds from members of their ward. They were like plastic boat-type things. It was a lot of fun.

Tuesday: We had a conference for district leaders that President wanted all the zone leaders to attend as well, even though we didn't actually do anything.

Wednesday: District meeting, and district leadership council, where we get together with the district leaders and sister training leaders and talk about what we can do for the zone.

Thursday: 2 more district meetings (we go to all the district meetings in the zone)

Friday: Mission Leadership Council, we got together with pPresident, the Assistants, and all the ZLs and STLs in the mission and chatted about the needs of the mission.

Saturday: Nothing, except we took like an hour out of the day to get a bike from a different zone for a missionary in our zone.

Sunday: Church! (I gave a talk at church! It was pretty exciting, it was about how I prepared for my mission/how I wish I would have prepared for my mission. I had 4 main points: Read the scriptures, pay attention at church and seminary, gain a strong testimony, and practice! It was fun.)

So yeah aside from the meetings, we had a pretty good week as well. The meetings are usually really short, like an hour or less so that makes it easier to fit in missionary work. We found some new investigators--one family that moved here from South Sudan about a year ago, pretty cool, and a 20-year-old guy who's had a pretty hard life but who has a lot of faith. This guy has an unusual name, and he's American. It's pronounced "Jaw-spin".

It is odd serving in English, but not as weird as I thought it'd be. It's that gift of tongues!

And we do still get to talk to quite a few Spanish people. There's a lot of street contacting to do and the Spanish concentration is pretty dang high.

One little thing that might be funny: I am so happy about daylight savings time! Even though it's pretty annoying to lose an hour of sleep the first day, it's so nice that it's light outside at 8:00 now. Makes knocking doors a lot more comfortable. 

Life really is good. It's warm outside, my companion's great, and I'm a missionary! It's pretty nice.

I love you all a lot. Thanks so much for everything!

Peter