The bigger email! :-)

Dear Everyone!

Okay, so here's the bigger email!

So it's super awesome to be back in this ward. There are a lot of members here that are super cool. As I was sitting in Sacrament Meeting yesterday, I just had this feeling of love come--there are so many awesome people here. And yeah, it's bringing back a lot of memories, but my new area's pretty awesome too, so there's not really temptation to go work in Aurora :), especially because we can go anywhere in the ward for dinner appointments, so we'll be able to see a lot of the members I miss anyways.

I saw a recent convert at church yesterday, and she's still super active, which is awesome!

Yeah, your experience with the sisters seems pretty similar to the daily life of a missionary. So much fun!

So this week was pretty crazy. Downtown is awesome, but there are some challenges--if we want to go anywhere else in the ward for dinner, we have to drive for like a half hour because of all the traffic. It's also interesting because we're "sweeping"--we're both new in the area, and the last missionaries to be here were sisters. So it's interesting getting to know all the investigators and members that loved the sisters so much. There may be a few investigators that we'll have to drop because they aren't so much interested in the gospel as they are in the sister missionaries.

But there's some really cool things going on. We were able to meet a part-member family who seem really cool. He is the nonmember, but he says he believes in the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith, he just works every Sunday, so it's hard for him to come to church. We were also able to meet a few of the less-actives in our area, who seem pretty great. One pretty interesting thing about the area is that there are only 4 active members in the entire area. But it's such a densely populated area that we can work hard anyway without a ton of member support.

We're doing service at this really cool place called Metro Caring, which is a small food bank. The people there are really nice and appreciate our help, which always feels good.

We're living in a pretty sketchy apartment building off of one of the sketchier streets in Colorado. I don't know the address, sorry :(. The apartment smells pretty strongly of weed :D.

Thanks for the updates! Have a great week!

Love,

Peter