Running the risk of sounding trunky

Well, it sounds like it's been a pretty interesting week for you. It's been really interesting for us as well. Like really interesting. Details will follow :).

With the whole "youth really don't know what missionaries do," it's totally true. I mean, to be completely honest, I had no idea what the missionaries did at home. Literally the only things you'd learn is the crazy stories in the church magazines or stories people tell you about from their mission. I don't necessarily think it's a huge problem (you figure it out pretty fast), but the best remedy to that would be having the youth go out with the missionaries, which we as missionaries like a lot, by the way.

So! This week! We had some interesting adventures, that's for sure. The beginning of the week was pretty boring, honestly. Meetings, tracting, meh. Things started to pick up on Friday, when just before going to dinner, we met this African dude who's apparently a pastor in Cameroon. He wanted to pray for us, so he grabbed our hands and like shout-prayed. We went back to teach him on Saturday and he just talked at us for like 40 minutes. Then we shared a 30-second Restoration and his son who was sitting there understood all of it, so that was awesome. 

Also on Friday we went out with a member to some really flaky appointments, but they actually both went through, which was very exciting. On Saturday, though, was when the most excitement came in. We were on exchanges, and at about 4:30, I got a call from another set of elders who were also on exchanges, saying they wanted to chat. So they came over after dinner, and we chatted. I guess they'd caught their companions breaking some mission rules, and were seriously concerned about what to do. So we talked it out for about an hour, and they decided they were going to call president. So they did, and then president called us. We're still not exactly sure what's going to happen, but it's no bueno. It's kind of funny--sometimes I feel really bad about myself because I'm not always the most focused, or I don't do all 30 minutes of exercise in the morning. And then I hear about other missionaries and I don't feel so bad about myself :).

And then on Sunday we ate some hot sauce that was incredibly painful to eat. It was seriously bad. Apparently it was 4 million SHU which I guess is how they measure hotness, and the hottest chile in the world is like 1.5 million SHU.

So it was just a crazy week. We have zone conference this week, which should be cool. Other than that, nothing too crazy planned. So, yeah.

I'm glad it was a good week! Sounds like the Utah trip was enjoyed by all. Running the risk of sounding trunky, I am definitely looking forward to seeing the extended family this summer.

Things are going well here. I've definitely been fortunate for the past few transfers, in having really solid companions. I'm really liking this area, but I'd also like to go back to Spanish before the end of my mission. We'll see what happens in a couple of weeks.

Love,Peter

P.s. The picture is of a baptism I went to on Sunday. It was an 8-year-old son of a less-active family I worked a lot with in my previous area.