MONDAY - We studied, emailed and got to the church ready to play some ball. We played for almost the whole day and then went back ready to go out and work. We visited the Ortiz family and they weren't there so we walked down the street and knocked a few doors that looked Hispanic. We talked to a few people and then headed up to the north part of our area and visited the Montelongo family. The family was not all there but we shared a quick scripture with the mom and talked about conference and then headed back home for the night. SUPER HOT!!! Humidity is kicking in.
TUESDAY - Last night we laid in our beds sweating and this
morning we woke up as ice cubes. The weather dramatically dropped big
time. We had a zone meeting that we went to and I had already heard
everything in Zone leader council and so it was nothing new for me.
Afterwards we ate a pizza together before heading to service with Domi
bear. We came back and were picked up by hno Flores and went to have
some good pupusas for dinner and then returned back to head over to
Jasons for a lesson. He is such a good guy and has lots of great
questions and is really interested in the learning more about the true
and restored Gospel. Why cant we find more people with an open heart
like him? It was dark immediately so we headed back trying a referral the
sisters sent us that was fake. Not cool!
WEDNESDAY - We decided to skip out on service today to try and
get more lessons and it was pouring rain all day long! We had a dinner
appointment at 6 with an investigator and she canceled and so we headed
to Jasons again and watched the Restoration and invited him to be
baptized for the 18th of May... my two year mark! I will not be here.
Weird setting up stuff for when I'm not here! The Spirit was powerful and
makes me just love the work more and more each time we teach this
Gospel. We had another lesson with Lucy and she wanted to come to our
English classes and get her son involved in Seminary and so we talked
about that a little bit and headed back home.
THURSDAY - My planning days are almost over, crazy crazy crazy!
We had dinner with the Fuentes family and then took Rudy out with us for
a few appointments like the Ortiz and then the Lopez family where we
just talked and shared scriptures. Then we went back got our bikes and
rode all the way up to the church to teach the English classes. We first
watched the youth play basketball and it was so funny! They were all
just yelling at each other and doing crazy stuff haha. English class was
with only one person so we just asked her to say any word and we will
tell her the English word. Its amazing how much Spanish we know, at the
same time how much we dont know ha!
FRIDAY - Today we went and did service. We had pancakes in the
morning and then we headed over to the thrift store where we just went
through junk all day and sorted it all out. We headed back and got
changed and showered and went to the Gomez family where their son just
got his call, to Brazil! So exciting to see that. I'm excited to see
where my brothers serve. We then went to Golden Corral and Hna Gomez
took pics of us eating cotton candy and sent them to all our families.
She wanted my moms number but I dont even know it cause I have been out
too long! I gave her my dads and everyones moms replied except mine!!!
(clearing throat!!!) :( We had fun untill people started freaking out
around us because I kept going back for more cotton candy and ate like 4
full things of it haha. It was a fun night. We got back and I almost
threw up but I made it through the night.
SATURDAY - HAPPY BDAY APRIL CAKES AND THE BEAST!!! We got up and
planned a bit before heading to our coordination meeting which was ok.
Then we tried a few people before dinner and headed to dinner with the
Morales family. Then we visited the Canales and the Galvan. The south
part of our area is super sketchy!!! Some random white guys came up on a
roller blades and a bike and were taking pictures of us on their phone.
Completely high. They were just like "So.... whats the Lord revealing
to yall these days" My companion just says... "that we should pray
always" they just agree and then start taking pictures of people walking
by and leave singing "I can feel it coming in the air tonight!!" I
turned to Trov Daddy and said... lets get out of here! We got back and
fixed his bike and started our fast.
SUNDAY - Fast and testimony meeting. The whole Gomez family got
up and talked about Alex and him getting his mission call. Such an
awesome family!!! Church was good, Jason was there and so that made our
day. We then went to the other elders apartment and had dinner dropped
off to us and then walked back and I got numbers to end the week. Our
apartment is getting worse. Our AC is broken so we slept at the others
aptmnt cause it was like 95 degrees and our fridge broke. So we went over
there to sleep with AC. Thanks for following! :)
Love,
Elder Jackson
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