It's raining here, is it raining there?

Thanks so much for the news from home. It's always a pleasure to hear about all the wackiness that goes on. Everything seems like it's going really fast, and it's hard to like focus on things sometimes when you're just falling into a routine. 

It is raining in Mexico, but it has always been raining in Mexico. Pretty much literally every day, it rains at ~6:00 in the evening, for about two hours. It's frankly bizarre.

One thing that I forgot to mention last week: We had to move again, bringing our total up to 4 times moving, counting moving in. We were the last people in our "normal" house, so we assume they just wanted to consolidate us. It was alright, though, because the residents of our new house are pretty cool, they include our Zone leaders and some other cool guys from our zone.

About the guy-sleeping-on-the-roof (answering our question): It wasn't normal, he was a missionary, I believe it was a district bonding thing, but I'm not sure.

Peter and his district - the "intermediates"

The only send-off tradition I can think of is that we'll probably sing "God be with you till we meet again." We do not all leave at the same time as a district, not even on the same day. I believe we have only one other person leaving the same day as I will be, and I do believe we're flying to Dallas together.

For me, this week was frankly pretty routine. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary or notable. We continued to practice teaching our teachers, which is always like interesting and a learning experience. We did not mark our one-month day with anything but the realization that I only have to be out for 22 and a half more months, which doesn't seem like too long when I think about it.

Oh, one interesting thing: the computer-aided language program was not working today, so we instead went to this one district that one of our teachers also teaches, and helped them with their spanish (they're "beginners", wheras we are "intermediates"). That district had two guys in it who are going to Denver North as well, so I got to know them, and they seem like they're really cool guys, so that's a plus.

Another interesting thing (at least relatively): On Sunday, we watched a recorded devotional from Elder Scott, which was super cool--it was about prayers, and it was really powerful, but also a nice change from the Elder Holland devotionals that we watch more often--those two have very different teaching styles.

The final interesting thing: we went to the temple again today, and it just gets easier and easier to understand. I'm definitely realizing how important it is to go to the temple a lot--I've been learning new things or thinking about things in different ways every time I go there.

Thanks so much for the news and the love,
Peter