The gospel is pretty darn amazing

Well, this is kinda weird. This is the second-to-last time I'm going to send you email like this. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! It's really weird let me tell you. But I promise I'm not getting trunky. At least, not too much. We're still working, and I'm still trying to do the whole self-evaluation thing to see how I can do better as a missionary.

So! This week in terms of being here in Colorado was pretty freaking interesting, that's for sure. On Wednesday, like I told you, we had an all-mission meeting. Yes, those are pretty rare; we've only had three other ones during my mission. So it was a pretty cool experience. Mostly it was just to tell us to shape up and work hard. It was interesting - after the meeting, President gave us a half-hour to just reflect on how we can be better and how we can be better missionaries. It was nice to have some time to reflect.

Cool experiences: We were tracting in a neighborhood, when we tracted into this young man. We were just starting to talk when he mentioned that he has some cousins who are members. I didn't think too much of it, until he told us where they lived, and I realized I knew his cousins! They're members of another Spanish Ward where I've served, and actually live in the Area my companion just left! It was pretty cool, as soon as we started talking about the cousins, this guy let us right in, and we were able to teach him about the Restoration. We have a return appointment with him tomorrow, which should be sweet! He seems pretty interested.

Other cool stuff, We started officially teaching this 9-year-old unbaptized child of a less-active we randomly tracted into, we randomly tracted into another less-active, and we had a less-active come to church and stay for all three hours! (Usually she only comes for the 3rd hour, weird, right?) Oh and also we had a less-active's Mom give us cake on Saturday! Pretty sweet.

And then something happened that was not so sweet too. I'll tell you if you promise not to freak out: We got in a car crash on Friday night--we were driving and this kid missed a stop sign and hit us. We're all fine, but it was a pretty crazy experience. We're totally healthy - my only injury was a bruise on my shoulder from where the seat belt was. My companion's fine. He thought he might have a concussion, so we took him to the ER, but he's fine. So that was an interesting night! Crazy stuff. I was like, come on, I only have two weeks left :). I'll send you a picture of our car after the crash, it was kinda crazy.  And yeah, the documenting was fun. Especially because it was a church car, so we had to do even more work filling out the church's required report. Fun!

Oh, and then on Saturday I got a call from one of the members telling me that they were supposed to give a talk on Sunday, but wouldn't be able to, so they wondered if I could give a talk instead. So I prepared a 15-minute talk on missionary work in about 30 minutes and gave that on Sunday. Fun stuff!

Aside from that, things were pretty normal. Working hard, seeing awesome miracles. The gospel is pretty darn amazing, how it can change people, but only if they let it change them. That's something that I've been seeing lately, is just the sadness I feel when people know something is good, they just decide not to do it. I know that if they would just try it, it'd be awesome, but they aren't willing to give it that first step.

I love you all so much, and I'll see you in a few weeks!

Love,

Peter