You know how much the gospel will bless them

Sounds like a pretty boring week--I guess we all need one of those every once in a while. We can't be going a million miles an hour all the time. Tom described the week as "eating Trader Joe's tamales and watching Band of Brothers." Sounds like a pretty good week for me.

Things are going well in Denver. The weather's been completely nuts--about half the week it was blazing hot, and the other half it was overcast and rainy. I kinda enjoyed that :).

In terms of the work, it was a really good week here, too. This area is just so cool! We have been working hard, and there are just so many Spanish-speaking people here that it's hard not to work! I think this week we taught more lessons than I ever have in one week on my mission (24). So, there are a lot of really neat people. For example, last Monday, we tracted into this lady who told us that she'd met missionaries before, a long time ago, and that she'd actually been to our church and met our Bishop! She said she'd lost contact with the missionaries, but that she wanted to learn more! So we set up a return appointment with her for the very next day, and taught her the first lesson! We're going back tomorrow, and we're really excited.

Or, for another example, yesterday at like 8:30 at night, we tried visiting this less-active. She didn't have time to meet with us, so we were kind of stuck. In that area, there were very few people in the area book, and most of the people that missionaries had talked to before had said they weren't interested. So we tried the one person in that apartment complex that hadn't said they weren't interested. (I know this isn't really making sense, sorry), but anyways we tried this guy, who we really didn't know anything about, at 8:30 at night, and he let us right in and we were able to teach the first lesson and leave him with a copy of the Book of Mormon! Super cool.

 

The only problem is getting people to progress. It's hard sometimes to respect other people's agency when you know how much the gospel will bless them, but some of the people we're teaching are just not going anywhere very fast, so we may need to stop teaching them, sadly.

We have a mission-wide meeting on Wednesday of this week, which will be cool. President sent out an email today telling us all, essentially, to get stoked. So it should be good. It's weird, though, thinking that this will probably be the last time I see some of those people.

 

I try not to think about how much time I have left too often, but it is really weird. Right now I'm just trying to force myself to do the very best I can, to "leave it all on the field," as they say. Being a missionary is great.

Love,

Peter