Happy New Year!

Hey!

Thanks for the email, news, etc. 2014 has had a great start here in Colorado.

I am still in the same place, and it is probably okay to send mail there. Probably starting in about two weeks, it'd be better to send things to the mission office, just in case of transfers and fun stuff like that.

This week has been pretty awesome, with only a couple of hitches. The week before (Christmas), we had planned basically everything about this week, and so we were able to get a lot of good work done. Making set appointments really helps things! What a surprise! 

So, we visited quite a few people. Even with the pretty bad weather, we were able to get a lot of rides from appointment to appointment, and things really just went smoothly.

One crazy thing that happened: so, there's this member in our ward who's from Ethiopia. We had an appointment with him last Friday, and beforehand, he actually called us to see if he could bring a friend (also from Ethiopia). Well, we showed up at his house, expecting his friend to be there with him, and found out that in fact, he (the friend) was waiting for us at his house. So, the member that was coming with us drove us to this guy, and we shared the first lesson with him. Odd things about the lesson: his house was not only out of our area, but out of our zone (going out of the zone is not a good thing to do in general), and we're not really sure how much of the lesson he understood--his English was not super good. However, we're gonna try to keep teaching him (probably we'll have him come to the member in our ward's house or something), and maybe we'll have him translate into his language, which I think is called Amharic.

Aside from that interesting thing, we also spent a little bit of time in the another area. On Christmas Eve, one of the missionaries in the district was fooling around, and fell on the ground and actually cracked his skull. So he has to stay in bed most of the time. We went to help his companion keep working in their area. So that was pretty interesting, and a little bit weird. 

And then, on Sunday, my companion was fairly sick with what looks like the flu, so we had to stay home basically all day :(, although we were able to get to sacrament meeting, which was good.

Things are going really well here, and it seems like we are doing good here. I'm really glad that I'm able to serve in this area, and to serve with my companion. I hope things are going well with you guys. Happy New Years! It's pretty crazy that it's already 2014.

Love,

Peter