It really does seem like you're having tons of opportunities to hear music. That's good! I haven't had any really in the last year and a half, so you know, feel lucky :).
Brother Nees! He's a cool guy. I'm glad he made it out to the concerts, it seems like he's always very supportive of the youth, which is cool.
Good luck with the home teaching thing. Don't give up on the guy. As a "regular member", you definitely have a perspective and opportunity that the full-time missionaries don't.
Things here are going great. Something kinda weird is that for the next week I'm in a trio with another elder whose companion is a little down for the count after breaking his hand. The other trio's doing well--they all get along pretty great so there's no problem there. And the guy with the broken hand has actually healed up pretty quickly after having surgery last week, so they've been able to work.
My companions are from Arlington, TX and from Virginia.
WELL! It's been quite the week! There has definitely been some craziness going on, but it's been good.
Big things that have happened:
1. Well so if you remember how there was that companionship that was having to stay in because one of them had broken his hand, well along with President Mendenhall we made a plan, so he went with the other set of missionaries in his ward, and his companion came with us! So now I have another companion. He actually also goes home at the end of this week. So that's gonna be really interesting. It's great though, these two elders are really hardworking and aren't getting trunky at all. And it's really fun being in a trio. And it definitely makes it easier getting into sisters' houses, which is a plus. We actually were tracting this week and we just knocked into this lady who was single, but really interested, and willing to let us in, and because there's three of us, we could go on in and teach her. That was really cool.
2. We had stake conference! That was pretty great. We have a really cool stake president, and he set it up really well. The temple president and matron came and gave talks, which was really cool. I really liked the stake president's talk, though. He talked about our personal life plans, and how we all have this perfect plan for how our life's going to go. Sadly, though, most of the time life doesn't actually go according to plan. So, we have to have enough faith in God to trust that his plan is better than our plan. Case in point: definitely wasn't planning on getting a second companion this transfer, but it turns out to be a great blessing. So that was a great talk.
3. We had Zone Meeting, which is like a 3-hour-long training meeting with the whole zone. It was really cool--my first zone meeting as a zone leader, and it was neat. We gave a joint training on planning for lessons during companionship study, and it went really well. As always, there were some people who were a little cynical about things, but all in all, people received it very well, and it was great.
Aside from the major events, we're doing a lot of work! Lots of finding, because we don't really have too many investigators right now, but that's okay. We were able to get in touch with a less-active member we've kind of fallen away from, and she was really grateful to see us and to have us teach her.
Love,
Peter
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