Thanks so much for all the news from back home. I really appreciate just, you know like, knowing what all is going on. Sounds like the whole Dance Festival thing should be great--I think I'll require pictures.
This week was a good week for me. In addition to just continuing to get used to the whole routine of being a missionary in the field, we had the opportunity to do a lot more teaching this week (In fact, we doubled the number of lessons from last week), which was good.
We got to meet two of our investigators--the one I told you about, and a kid that the sisters who we replaced were working with before we arrived. He's in a kind of interesting situation: his dad is less-active, but really wants his kids to go to church. His older brother (age 12) has already been baptized, has the Aaronic Priesthood and everything. So we'll be meeting with him a couple times this week, and next week, and then he'll hopefully be baptized on November 2nd. It'll be great.
The other lady we met with, who we told you about earlier, is really cool too. She's Protestant right now, but she told us that her beliefs really line up more with the church's doctrines. We taught her the first lesson, about the restoration, and she seemed really receptive. She loves the doctrine and everything, and she knows that she should be baptized, but she's a little worried about the whole joining-the-church-thing, because she feels that she's really entrenched socially in her other church, and doesn't really feel like she can get out of it very easily. But we're going to keep meeting with her, and hopefully she'll realize how important the church part of the church is.
We've also been trying to meet with a lot of less-active members of the church, and that's been going pretty well. In fact, story: we went to this one house, where there's a lady who's been less active since she was like 8 years old. She told us that her son, who's like six, has been asking about religion and things, and that she wanted to have him learn about what we believe, because she had a good experience with the church when she was younger. Apparently she was having her aunt, who's active, try to get some people from the church over to her house, and then we showed up. So that was kind of a miracle, I guess.
In other news, the ward is really great--it's really starting to feel like home. We've had dinner at members' houses almost every night, and they're all really friendly and awesome. Last night, in fact, we had dinner at this one family's house, and they had a friend from out of town staying with them. He was great too, and to make things even better, he made dessert for us. Get this: it was deep-fried Oreos. He took Oreos, dipped them in like bisquik, and then just fried them. They were great.
The ward Halloween party is this Saturday, so we're looking forward to that.
Btw, forgot to tell you, but I wanted to share something: whenever I've been having a like less than optimal time, I've been remembering that timeless quote from Mister Slinger: "Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better.". So I guess I just wanted to thank you for reading those books to me, I guess.
Another btw: The Young Men's president in the ward went to Stanford. It was kind of funny--we were talking to him about something, and someone, I think the ward mission leader, said something about us being "The three tree-huggers: Oregon, Oregon, and Stanford". So uh yeah.
I definitely agree that a sense of humor is vital--I've only had a few odd experiences so far, and I know that they could have like shaken me up if I hadn't been able to just laugh at them.
Everything's going pretty great. Good luck with Relief Society, the leaves, and everything. Thanks for the news and love.
Peter
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