He taught us a lot about how to teach

First off, thanks for the pictures! I would totally reciprocate (I honestly was planning on it) but I accidentally left the camera at home. I'm sorry!

Cool that you've been able to work with the sister missionaries! Let me tell you, lessons taught in members' houses are the best. So I'm sure the sisters were appreciative. Have you noticed a trend in how long missionaries generally stay in the ward? I'm just curious if it's similar to how it is in our mission.

It's been a pretty interesting week! We've been teaching some cool people--There's this one guy (who we're going to have to hand off to the YSA pretty soon :/ ) who's doing really well. He was going to come to church on Sunday, but then something came up. He's like 20, and he's had a really hard life, and is like living with friends, but he's really interested in learning, and we're really excited for him.

On Monday, we actually had a lesson with him at a member's house, which was really neat.

There's been some craziness in the zone which we've had to deal with, which has been interesting. There's an elder who broke his hand at a P-day activity, and it's a pretty bad break, so he has to have surgery on it. While he's waiting for surgery, though, the mission nurse has told him that he has to stay inside basically all the time. So he and his companion are going a little bit crazy. So we've gone on a couple of exchanges with them to let them get out and do some work.

We had pretty awesome meeting on Thursday with all the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders, plus a few random other missionaries. The Director of Proselyting from the Missionary Department came down and talked to us about a lot of things. One of the coolest thing was that he taught us a lot about having shorter, simpler lessons. He said people can't stand a complicated, 1-hour lesson more than once a week, and that that's a reason why a lot of people don't progress. So he taught us a lot about how to teach using pictures and the pamphlets to teach simply and quickly, which will hopefully help us to have more productive, more frequent lessons. Pretty neat.

One neat thing: This week we have a temple trip! It's been a while, because the temple has been closed for the last two months. I know we're spoiled, but it's pretty nice to be able to go back after a while.

Love,

Peter