Tuesday-We had a lot of time to tract today, we went out and it rained today! We had a really good lesson with a man named Ismael Guerrero, after that we were told we have to get home because the rain was so bad and was not safe to drive in, we loved it, felt like little kids running around, we wanted to continue tracting cause its the best to tract in the rain. Our wives will continue to get cuter and cuter as we do so :) We went to Lauras and Memes for dinner and they made Hamburgers.... its weird not to have beans rice and tortillas for once, they were so good!
Wednesday-We had a training today, really good one as well, thank you Greg for the letter. President Durrant is probably one of the coolest and nicest people I have ever met, as we came to the end of the training he started ask if we had any questions and people asked about the talent show coming up and I raised my hand and said "so.. how would I go about challenging my Mission President to a dunk contest for the talent show" All the missionaries went "OHHHHHHH" and president just stared me down and started streching like we were going to go right there, so funny! He then went to say there is no way he could beat me, LIES! One missionary yelled out "didn't you dunk on Jordan once though" he said "that's a lie" and then his wife gets up and says, "no he did! there is a newspaper article on it I have!" hahaha so Elder Aaron Jackson might have a dunk contest with someone, who has dunked over the greatest player in history! pretty cool huh!? President Durrant also touched on how we can not see family members, so sorry I couldn't see you Uncle Allen. We then went on exchanges, I brought our zone leader Elder Struk back to Lufkin, he talked about how I would very soon be in leadership!
He took me out to dinner at "la unica" one of the best restaurants ever! and we headed to a lesson with Isabel, a friend of a RM member in our branch who we have been trying to visit, in the training they talked about prayer and how we must say very simple prayers, so I said the opening prayer and after Isabels eyes just filled with tears and said "Su oracion fue muy bonita" The spirit was so strong and we had a great lesson with her! Very good day, so happy after today!
Thursday-I planned today, all by myself. It was super weird, it was good to finally get out of the house and go tracting, we ran into an old couple who had been to Salt Lake City to do family history stuff and they were from the Church of Christ and the old guy tried to bash with us, we left in peace and went next door and were talking with Mario and The old guy came back with a paper with a few scriptures on it, trying to bash with him, we simply proved him wrong and walked away,
lovingly :) We tracted into ANOTHER person that works with the RM in our branch, that's the third one! haha I joked that we will baptize the whole staff of olive garden. Josh thank you so much for the letter! We worked super hard tonight, trying to get into someones house, it was really good, came home and dropped dead, its a good feeling when you feel like your actually doing something.
Friday-We exchanged back, it was a good exchange but can only handle so much of Elder Struk, we found 6 new investigators though, Me and elder Drake got back together and dropped off our stuff and left for lunch, Elder Chantry is one of the coolest missionaries I have ever met, he took us all out AGAIN! he always offers to buy for me and us, so nice, so we went to Empire Chinese buffet? I think that's what it is called, for mine and elder Drakes 6th birthday (mission wise) So good, we then went and had 2 lessons and one I could not believe..... we cured cancer again!!! The last one Elder Drake gave the blessing, and the girls cancer was gone, this one I gave the blessing about 3 weeks ago or so and they left for Houston to have tests done so that's why we had to come back 3 weeks later and found out, completely gone, I gave the blessing to her... so both me and elder drake have healed cancer, her name is Juana Sanchez, she had it for 5 years and its gone, you see miracles out here, I know the church is true! Without a doubt in my heart, its amazing, yet even miracles like this, people are still blind. I'm glad I can see what Christ has done for me, and how he helps me, I'm 6 months out and I could be dropped off in the middle of Mexico and get around, that's how much the lord has blessed me with the language. I love my mission. We headed to the church for the pizza party that the branch was having and after we burned our ties, its a tradition, 6 months you burn a tie, 12 a shirt, 18 pants, and 24 a suit, forget the suit part! But I'll do the rest? I got some good pictures and a video :) we visited Cassie (15 year old we ran into a few weeks ago) and almost had a lesson, it was so weird, we went to shake hands with her grandma and she totally did like a gangster, homie g... handshake. We bursted out laughing when we left! When we went back to the Apartment to grab our ties, The english elders had spider webbed our entire apartment! it was annoying! but have to love them!
Saturday-We picked up dinner way early in the day after a few appointments and went to our investigator, with a date, and had an awesome lesson with him before going home to eat what we got, He is so ready for baptism, I'm so excited, I want to meet my goal so bad for baptisms, We went back to the appt and ate with English elders and waited for transfer calls, Elder Chantry kept calling our phone to try and make us jump, and when elder drake was in the bathroom he changed their name to "President Durrant" and then when he came back out he called again and Elder Drake freaked out and answered it only to find it was the english elders phone! But luckily we did not receive any calls, Elder Chantry broke my desk or should I say he went underneath and grabbed my legs and started pulling me under and ended up breaking it!!! No calls, I'm staying in Lufkin another transfer, spending thanksgiving, Christmas, and new years here!
Sunday-Alfonzo came to church today and I was so tired, Sundays are the hardest for me, so dead from the week. We went to dinner right after and then started inviting everyone to Noche de Hogar (family home evening) we do it as a branch because its so small, it was really fun, we did a scripture chase game and then had cake and food after, not a whole lot more happened, so glad I'm staying here though, don't have to pack and I love it here, so excited! I love this work and I will continue to work hard and better myself in this wonderful work, I love the blessings I receive, really there is no better thing in the world, I haven't experienced what its like to drive a lambo, or to play in the NBA but I can guarantee that there is nothing better, thank you followers, I love you all.
Elder Aaron Jackson
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