First snow

Thank you so much for the news from home and all. It's great to hear from all of everyone.

Well, this week was a pretty good week, but there were some challenges too. I think I'm going to really enjoy working here, but there are a few things that I just need to get used to first. Because my companion and I are both new to the area (something that's not very normal), we've been spending most of our time just trying to familiarize ourselves with the area and meet the people that we need to meet. Our ward mission leader is pretty great, as are our Bishop and Relief Society president. Again, because we're really new to the area, we haven't had a ton of chances to teach people, we've mostly just been working on setting up appointments to teach next week, so this coming week should be a lot more lesson-full. 

With the bike thing, It's alright. We share the ward with sisters, so we've split the area so that we don't have to bike incredibly far, only pretty far. Right now we're only covering the development of Lochbuie and the part of Brighton that's inside our ward boundaries. 

In other bike news, so far I think I've gotten something like three flat tires, from these bizarre thorn things that I'm slowly learning how to avoid. Everything's alright with the bike, we've been filling it with this stuff called slime, which fills the holes that the thorns make, so that's not a real problem. Just kind of funny, I guess.

My companion is also from Portland (Forest Grove, to be specific), which is kind of awesome. He's been out for awhile (In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll be his last companion.), so he knows a lot of stuff, which is great.

We've been having dinner at member's houses every day this week, which is great and stuff.

 

We had the first snow of the winter last week, which was a little ominous. It melted pretty quickly and stuff, but It was kind of scary. Everything's fine, though.

General Conference was really great. We watched conference at the ward building. I really enjoyed it, and I felt like I probably appreciated it more than I've ever appreciated General Conference in my life. In particular, I really liked President Uchtdorf's talk, and this one by a Seventy who's name I think is Richard Maynes.

I'm pretty sure mail should go to the mission office. We're moving around kind of a lot right now (it's kind of a long story, but by the end of this transfer I think I'll have lived in three different members' homes), so probably it'd be best to send stuff to the office. 

Thanks for all the news and love.

Love, Peter