There's a lot of pretty cool things going on here in Denver.

Dear everyone,

When holidays fall on Pday, we have a normal Pday (so we got really sunburnt yesterday playing baseball :( ), and then also we get two hours to email on Tuesday, whenever it fits into out schedule. So that's what's going on right now. We're at a branch of the Denver Public Library System. There is a huge library like Multnomah County Library, but it's pretty far away from where we live, so we come here instead.

I wouldn't say Denver really reminds me of anywhere I've been before, but I think that's mostly because in the "big cities" I've visited before, it's been mostly to like see the sights, rather than to work. So it's a different perspective. It's pretty awesome here in downtown. One thing that's really interesting: in most areas where I've served in the past, there's like one huge apartment complex that has a ton of Spanish-speakers that we spend a lot of time at, or something similar. Here, it's not like that. The city is very heterogeneous, I guess you could say. So there could be one really rich apartment complex right next to a small little Mexican home, or a small apartment complex that's exclusively Hispanic. It's pretty fun.

 

There's a lot of pretty cool things going on here in Denver. We're kind of starting over--it's been pretty difficult to get back in touch with the investigators the sisters were teaching, but that's okay. We've been finding new people to teach! One lady lives at the very very top of our area, in a really sketchy looking house--we were up there trying a different house of a person who'd met with the missionaries before, but they weren't there, so we did a little bit of tracting. When we saw her house, it looked totally abandoned, and we honestly just wanted to knock it because it was so weird. But she answered the door, and we've been able to teach her, and she's really neat! She has a lot of good questions, and understands everything we're teaching pretty well.

Another family we're teaching were being taught by the sisters, but for some reason the sisters stopped visiting them. When we knocked on their door, the dad answered it holding the Restoration pamphlet! It was pretty awesome, and we were able to teach them yesterday for the first time.

There's tons of crazy street murals here, I'm going to have to take some pics.

The hard thing is driving: today we have dinner with a family on the other side of the ward, and we're going to have to drive for an hour just to get there. Yay.

One thing that I'm trying to work on personally is humility: for a while I've been thinking that I'm pretty dang humble, because I don't think I'm super awesome or cool or anything. But I've realized that the bad habit I have of being really sarcastic and critical of others is kind of a form of pride. So that's something to be worked on, definitely.

Anyways, I'm going to go work on those dang Stanford forms now. Fun!

Love,

Peter