Tuesday-District meeting, we show up and everyone is playing basketball and Elder Goodrich the elder i went on exchanges with a few weeks ago, i asked for the ball and dunked it in my church clothes haha, still got it. Then we headed out to track and my contacting was really good today, felt smooth and was speaking well. Went to have dinner with the Bishops family again, amazing! as always. Then we had choco flan! one of my new favorite desserts, my companion has been talking about it the whole time i have been with him and i finally got to try it, really happy about that, so so good! As we headed back home, my companion got a flat, I was really happy about that! Not me this time! so we just tracked the apartments again, our appointment with Vrigira fell through, but we rescheduled.
Wednesday-We got up did our studies and walked to wal mart which was about a 45 minute walk and we had a lady ask us why we dress in white shirts, not how we dress but the colors we dress in, so wierd and it ended up getting ugly because we talked about our prophet and she said we follow man not god and she said she follows the bible and we told her that it was written by prophets and we just answered every question with love and she got mad and left. Almost got kicked out of wal mart, cause of course like everyone, they thought we were selling something! had a lesson with cesar and he is an awesome guy, his sister is a member and has been trying to get him to join for 40 years, but i think that we will be able to help him, i hope. Had a lesson with Vrigira and we were freaking out cause she is our best investigator and she lives so far and we need someone to come with us cause we arent allowed to teach unless another man is there, so we brought a recent convert of about 2 months and his wife who was baptized august 20 of this year and neither of them speak Spanish, but it worked our, she is so solid and ready to go! We bolted out of there and met with Hermana Serna from our ward and we had a lesson with Jesus and Anel, Anel was really sick so she was getting medicine, so it was just Jesus, they are slipping, not keeping their commitments but we are working with them, in time. Im SO tired, but its a good tired and today marks 3 months complete! can you believe it! 1/8 of the way done, it is insane how time flies.
Friday-No appointments today, thats a first, so we tracked All day. But i had a minor asthma attack! Where did that come from, obviously someone doesn't want me here, with the root canal and all that, crazy! Last two days have been really tough, probably the 2 toughest days of my mission, of my life! mentally. My companion was really getting on my nerves! I was so frustrated with him and how things were going, ready for a new companion at this point, the whole ride home i was just so built up with anger and hatred, trying to fight it off.
Saturday-I feel a lot better today, i needed the rest. As we went out to tract, a stupid train going 2 miles an hour with 80 carts cut us off from where we wanted to go, so we had to take a detour and it was hot and hard, my legs are getting a work out of their life! Headed to our dinner and it someones bday in the ward so everyone was there almost, they had the Texas version of "97.1" on so i heard some songs i haven't heard in forever, reminded me of jr jazz, some songs i would listen to before games, my companion did a dedication on the house, first time i have seen that. But then we headed back out to work, had some girls shouting at us "I love Mormons!!!!" Haha who doesn't? at the end of the night, after contacting everyone in Spanish i felt a load better than the last few nights, back on track.
Sunday-Church, love church, i was all focused today, trying to understand everything that was said, everything!! And i got about 75% i would say, cant wait to learn to speak it better, in time, with patience, patience is something very important and something i need, so its going to be really good for me! we had dinner after with a young couple both RMs the Thompsons, and the husband was white and his wife was Hispanic and they both spoke English and Spanish, i taught them a lesson, Spanish was much better. I took my time and gained confidence as a went. Then we went out tracking not a lot of time cause my companion forgot the lock so we had to go back, so we hit the apartments again, found a Jehovah witness watching the cowboys getting killed who let us in and we answered every doubt, attack, and question he had. With power, it was awesome! I felt so good going home on that, he invited us back and i feel its cause he couldn't prove us wrong, in reality no one can, and there are so many stereotypes out there, people here from their other nonmember friends about our church and they believe it, its like why do you believe someone who doesn't even go! i don't get it, and then we, the people who actually go to the church, try and tell them and they refuse to believe, all we do is invite. We don't force or try and take other peoples beliefs. We invite. If they take the invitation with real intent then they will receive the truth. I know that.
Monday-This morning we went to the store before heading to email, my companion jumped a bush after locking up our bikes and ripped up his hand on a tree, i got over the bush pretty easy, of course. There's my blog for this week, another one coming very soon, time just never stops right? Crazy. Love you all, thanks for taking the time to read.
Elder Aaron Jackson
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