It's hard, but I can do it!

Sorry, another kind of short email, also please apologize to everyone for me not emailing them these past two weeks. To start off, it's been a kind of crazy week, plus I've been working on these dang forms. But they're coming to a close, finally.

For us this week, it's been pretty great. Still struggling to find the right way to use our time as wisely as possible, what with all the driving and such, but it's getting better. And we've had some really cool success with some of the people we're teaching. There's this part-member family we're working with, where the members (the parents) haven't come to church in years, but they came this Sunday! And it seems like they really liked it. We're having dinner with them tonight, and we're going to invite the kids to be baptized, it's going to be awesome. One of the coolest things is that even though they hadn't attended church in almost 10 years, one of the members of our ward remembered them from when they were coming, and talked to them a lot. Really sweet experience.

Also, on Thursday, we met a really awesome family. They are probably one of the friendliest families I've met on my mission. We just street contacted them, and they were so friendly in letting us in to hear our message and listening with an open heart. We came back just a few days later, and after the lesson, they gave us a bunch of food. We'd just eaten lunch, so it was a little bit hard to eat it all, but it was awesome. The craziest part is, the husband is blind! But he's a really funny guy, and it's been a really neat experience teaching them so far.

We had interviews with President Mendenhall on Wednesday, which was great. It's kind of weird, that was my last "official" interview with him. One thing he talked about was how because I'm getting towards the end of my mission, I need to make sure that the various things I've learned before are applied in my work now. This should be the culmination of the previous 21 months of my mission, not just a time to kick back and relax. So that was something that really struck me, along with something our district leader said on Thursday at district meeting. So I'm striving to savor every moment that remains of my mission, and not take it for granted. It's not something I'll be able to redo.

Still working on the being critical and making fun of people :). It's hard, but I can do it!

I love you so much, thank you for all the support you've been giving me. And again, sorry for the shorter email today.

Love,

Peter