Tuesday-Sad day at first, i had to say good bye to Hno Munoz, he gave me a hug and thanked me so much for teaching him, it was hard not to cry. Then i got on the van to go out east, i sat next to an Elder Tolman, found out he is the English elder in my area and is from Sandy as well. As we finally reached Lindale, i got my car, and it was weird driving again, it was about another 2 hours to Lufkin, going 70 the whole way, i have been banished. Met Elder Drake, seemed good so far and we headed back to unpack, found out some very rare news... HES A RAMS FAN!!!!!! :) Not very often does that happen. I thought they were all gone. We do a lot of awesome activities out here, im excited, ultimate Frisbee, basketball, volleyball, free golf, lots of stuff, i couldn't believe where i was, its like a jungle out here, like im camping in the woods.
Wednesday-Had Bball in the morning for exercise, felt good to get back into the shoes and fire up some pretty sinkers, afterwards we went and helped a member, Juan, move tires and unload them, it was great, after that we headed to hemphill... even further!! There we had District meeting and it was in this little building, that was a church! but it was the size of a house! Crazy, Afterwards we went to the all famous Hemphill BBQ and ate free, amazing food! had a huge potato! HUGE! apparently its tradition, it was good. Afterwards we went and took pictures by the "welcome to Texas" sign... yeah i could see Louisiana from where i was, that's how far out i am, closer to Houston then i am to Dallas! It was good and the ride back seemed twice as long. Adolfo was then waiting for us and all he wanted to do was bash, he is a recent convert and i have no idea how. Then we taught 3 recent converts, Jose, Ana, and Mayra. All huge pokemon freaks! I also tried for the first time, the famous Texas Blue Bell Ice cream... AMAZING!
Thursday-Went back and helped unload and load MORE tires today, early in the morning, came back and had our planning session and after went and knocked... trailers? that's right, I'm knocking in trailer parks now! There was about 65 stray dogs running around during all this, Elder Drake is a really good companion and has a great testimony, this is going to be a good transfer. We then went and taught Adolfo, all he wanted to do was bash again. It was bad. We then got a Call from Juan telling us to come to the Medical center for some reason and we went there and passed out cards and did missionary work with the younger boys to the people that were in the hospital, good day of work. Having fun out here in east Texas!
Friday-Went knocking and the first guy let us in and we taught the first lesson, and right after set a baptismal date, it was incredible, but unfortunately he is English... so we had to give him to the English Elder's. After getting done there we headed to our top investigators for a lesson and taught the plan of salvation, good lesson, way good. My Spanish gets better every day. We then had Dinner with the President of the stake and with Juan and Meme and his husband and well lets just say there are about 20 people in the ward im in, or branch and they are all pretty much family, so we eat with pretty much all of them every night. After we went to a quick lesson with 2 kids, Jose and Mariela, in the middle of the lesson a huge mirror just fell and shattered, scared us all. We quickly drove over to the ward to play some volleyball, i did alright, it was a lot of fun though!
Saturday-We were SUPPOSED to have ultimate Frisbee this morning but it canceled, i was so ready to go crazy, we went back and started studies and during companionship we did the Dan Jones role play, were we both stand on our chairs and have to teach a principal in one minute and we switch off, it was awesome!! As we parked on Paul Ave. the first girl we saw was some black 19 year old who today was her birthday, and she gave me her number and asked me to call her later.... it was weird. But i dont blame here ;) cant resist. We talked to a ton of hispanics and got some good lessons, we have now set 9 appointments for Wednesday, we are really excited for that. Juans little baby turned one today so we went up to the zoo, thats right, there is a zoo in our area and we had the party up there, so many people came and we helped out a ton with the food and stuff. It was a lot of fun, it was by a big pond/lake thing with a ton of gator signs, didnt see any but still crazy and im still trying to figure out just where i am.
Sunday-First Sunday here, it was a good one, i was really really tired but i made it through. Dinner was great and then we went knocking in even more of a sketchy neighborhood, "keep out" "danger" "private property" signs on every fence, we knocked them all! one even said "you will be shot!" unfortunately they were not home :( It was a great day of knocking and we did some check ups before heading home, its been a crazy first week, im teaching more than 70 percent of a lot of the lessons, im a senior companion, its nuts. but im loving it, my new address is 3205 Old Union Rd. apt#1023
Please Write, you can still write to the Montfort address just dont send any more to the Pandora drive one please, thank you all for following and have a wonderful week, im safe, im having fun, and learning more than you would ever expect.
Love,
Elder Aaron Jackson
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