Tuesday- District meeting, of course the Zone Leaders make me do a lot of stuff, i had to be in the role play we did in front of everyone and there are some people that never get picked to do so. But its good for me, after we went and got lunch with Elder Witbeck and Beatty, i love being with these elders, they are just awesome. We have such an amazing friendship. Elder Witbeck didn't want to talk about the game at all, i didn't have a problem, sports are every year, sure byu got killed but its not like it matters. Neither Byu or Utah are going to get a bowl game, not after losing to an unranked USC team. Their seasons will consist of crap bowl games, no way Utah beats Oregon. There is always next year, but for a mission and serving the one who CREATED football, only 2 years, congrats to Utah though hope they beat some of the big teams that get credit that don't deserve it. But Texas is doing good, people are nuts here! Bigger then the cowboys, After we headed to dinner and ate, i thought i fixed my bike but i didn't, i made it worse. So the bike problems continue. We are both excited for tomorrow, going to teach new people and set dates!
Wednesday-not a whole of excitement in the morning, we had dinner with elder perry and jorgenson because they were on exchanges, elder perry is awesome! After we had 25 minutes to get back home, it was about a 35-40 minute ride as well, but we were flying. Got back met with Hno Lama and headed to our Appointments, both went well and we have a date for the 15 of October. Way excited!
Thursday-Daily planning is always rough, in the Apartment from 6 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, so i took some videos of something awesome i did, FIRST TRY. So those will be sent home shortly and be put up on FaceBook. After we headed to dinner with Hna Maldanado and as we finished we saw a guy trying to push his truck, so of course we went and helped, ends up he was trying to do it since noon, he needed to get it up this huge hill, so im in the driver seat steering, it was a stick as well, been a long time since i have been in a manual. I steered while Elder Lee held a tire in between his other car and the back of the dead car i was steering, while he pushed it with his car up this massive hill, elder lee was running holding this tire, it was crazy. We got an orange soda after, was totally worth it. Then we headed to our lesson with Manuel, first really awkward lesson... We thought he was gay when we first talked to him, which is fine but we go in and he just has questions about, well pretty much every law of chastity question you can think of, but he is single, hasn't had sex, and wants to be married before doing so, so we will probably have a baptismal date with him soon. He is really cool. After we headed to our lesson with the only date we have, he is awesome, we taught him the restoration and he loved it, had questions but we answered, it was great. After we walked out side and the weather was perfect! Times like those i was just so so happy!
Friday-Went tracting in some... well very "sketch" apartments, i told elder lee as we got there "i think they may have filmed a horror film here, if not? ITS PERFECT!" We talked to a girl named Barbra, she was crazy. Simple as that. She started talking about demons and angels she saw and how her husband is possessed and how she needs a prayer. We said a prayer and continued knocking, people are so ruined here i tell you, its sad. I want to help so bad! We talked to a guy named Jose and he was drinking, and we asked if he believed in Jesus and he said not when he drinks... We were confused, he told us he pretty much pretends to not believe when he drinks because he knows drinking is bad. But when he isn't, yeah he believes. We got out of there and headed to the other elders for dinner, we stopped at wal mart and they have Texas Longhorns EVERYTHING! its pretty cool to see different teams in wal mart. They had a bunch of pictures from the finals as well which were cool. But on the way we ran into some homeless guy who started yelling at us "HEY!!!" and he said "Give me a book of Mormon PLEASE! my last one was destroyed in the rain!" So we started talking and he was talking about how people that don't give it a chance are missing out, and how there is no way that Joseph smith could have written it, that it is from god. He pretty much was sharing his testimony with us. It was amazing to hear his reaction when he first read it. He was amazed and confused as to why there are people that reject it. We went and had dinner and got a Book of Mormon in English for him because all the ones we had at that time were in Spanish. And we have an appointment with him, under the Freeway, on Friday. After we headed to another appointment with Maribel and Martin. Its Friday so of course everyone. EVERYONE. They are all drunk. So Martin was drunk and we talked to Maribel about it and she doesn't like it, i asked her what her thoughts about being with your family forever, and talked about my family and how important they are to me. She told us that she was fine with just this life, and that's when she told us she doesn't like how martin drinks. Of course she fed us too... Im so tired of eating so much, but got to be respectful. Im at 160 right now, 5 pounds more than i left. Thats not to bad but still, i dont wanna get fat!
Saturday-Today was nuts, went back to get-murdered appts and the first door we knock we get in, teach a lesson and its great. We leave and see a guy sitting on a tree trunk sad as can be, so of course we go talk to him, he tells us his story about his wife cheating on him and leaving him, taking the kids and leaving him. He is drunk though, so we are thinking maybe thats why she left. But who knows, we talk to him and he knows a lot about the church, he loves the temples. His name is Jose (of course) and we really get on his case about beer and all the sudden another one of his friends walks up, his name is Jojo and he is the same guy that we talked to and elder lee was getting mad cause he was talking about how Mexicans are keeping America alive, that they should get paid more cause they work harder then white people and (even though they don't pay taxes and they just think they can come to our country cause they screwed theirs up) i love Mexicans but is ones like him that make me mad, so he started going on about the same stuff, they both said they wanted to stop drinking. But he starting talking about this stuff again, said that Mexicans are history now, they are the biggest thing that happened to America and all the sudden Jose just goes off on him, telling him to have respect for where he is cause this is America, not Mexico. It was crazy, but soon we really stressed how pointless, stupid, useless, dangerous, disgusting, money-eating, life-ruining and... well just STUPID, beer is. So they both dumped out there bottles and said they would change, just imagine me sitting in the grass with two Mexicans both drinking beer and telling them to change. Crazy what im doing out here. Jose hadn't slept or eaten in a few days so we took him to subway, i tell you, im broke because of how many people we help. Its worth it. We helped another person push his car and headed to our BBQ we had, i didnt eat anything, crazy day though. Went and talked to Brigida, she is awesome and i love her to death, fun day.
Sunday-Had a lesson with Juan in the morning, annoying, the catholic church.. if 98 percent of the people even knew what they believed in, they wouldnt be there! They are so unorganized, read Jesus the Christ, they are so corrupted as a religion, its sad. Its all about pride though, we have true doctrine and they just dont want to admit it. Its sad, cause all we want to do is help these people. After we went and picked up Jose for church, we got there and he looked like crap so he didnt want to come in, we missed the sacrament so that sucked. But we finally got him to get in, first talk starts talking about the word of wisdom! Just what he needed. He left after that cause he felt like crap with no sleep, was begging us to find him a ride, but we couldnt. Church was awesome, we found out the times for next week for conference! Im so so excited for it! im going to feast upon every word they say, how could you not be excited to hear words from the apostles and the prophet, the only ones in the WORLD who have the authority and keys of god. After church we went to dinner with a family who the wife is a return missionary and she was telling us about her expierence with a Jehovah Witness the other day, for those of you who dont already know, JW are our worst enemy, they hate us, but they steal all of our stuff! But yeah she told us how she asking why they change so much stuff, cause its true, we have taught familys can be blessed and can live forever, since the church was restored. They just started. Its crazy out here with them i tell you, they refuse to talk to us, because they know we have the truth. :) I love my mission, i am about 4 and half months out, its gone by super fast but i have learned so much about everything, about who i want to be when i get back, what im so grateful in this life and much more. After dinner we ran into another guy, drunk as a skunk asking us to help him, we will see how that goes. I love all the blog followers, wait to you see the pictures and videos i have, thanks for the letters as well! Please write! i promise i will write back. Love
Elder Aaron Jackson
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