Thanks for everything you sent: news, pictures (the stoplight looks great, the sweatshirt also :D), and the emails from cousins. I always really enjoy hearing about how things are all going, and it sounds like they're going pretty great.
This week was a kind of long week, but it had a lot of good things happen. I guess it just kind of seemed like things were going a little slower than they had been. We had a great start to the week--we met with the less-active lady and it seems like she's doing pretty well. Then, I think around like Thursday, it just started to seem like things just sort of slowed down. We did a lot of good things, like service, so I don't know, that's just kind of how it felt.
Halloween was pretty great--We played Apples to Apples and Ticket to Ride (which I won, btw. It was great.).
At district meeting, in addition to having candy sharing, we also all dressed up in costumes and took pictures--I'll attach the not-so-great one that I took.
The baptism was awesome. It started out a little weird, because a different ward had apparently scheduled to have their baptism at the same time as ours, but we worked it out. Everything went smoothly, and it was great. I felt the spirit really strongly, and things just seemed great.
Awesome thing: the boy who got baptized Saturday bore his testimony in fast & testimony meeting yesterday. It was great.
Questions answered:
- With Daylight Savings, we did get an extra hour of sleep. It was great, although I did still end up getting up at 5:30 (which felt like 6:30). Stupid circadian rhythms or whatever.
- The family we had dinner with the day before Halloween gave us some candy, and we did have a little candy-sharing thing at district meeting. I would bet that Matthew got more, though :).
- As far as I can tell, there isn't a visitor's center at the Denver Colorado Temple, or anywhere in the mission. I assume we could take investigators to the actual Temple Grounds for a like tour, but I think that'd require like extensive permission-getting.
- At the Food Bank, we're doing a variety of things. We're painting, scraping crap off the walls so they can be painted, etc. On Friday, we ripped up a carpet, which was very difficult--it'd been there for like years, and the people who installed it used a ton of glue. So yeah, that gave me a blister, which was annoying. All is good though.
- The standards of excellence are like goals that our mission president sets for the key indicators, which, if you don't know what those are either, are the things that we're supposed to be focusing on: baptisms, lessons with a member present, referrals, new investigators, lessons with less-active members or recent converts.
Things are going pretty swell. I hope things go well at home. Good luck with everything that's going on.
I love you and miss you,
Peter
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