MARTES - I felt really good this morning, awake and ready to work. It is finally getting a little cold outside but only every once and a while. We went to combined district meeting and got a list of the announcements for the month and we are allowed to watch the bowl game and whats even worse?.. if I was in the city and not clear out east I WOULD BE GOING TO THE BOWL GAME!!! All the missionaries in the city will be going to it. Also president asked us to come to the specialized training talent show on the 21st in basketball clothes which means I will probably be showcasing the dunk that
day! Really excited for that, I hope President dusts off his sneakers and plays as well. I got 4 letters including my patriarchal blessing! I read it several times, the part about my future wife makes me smile every time! Thank you Maisha, Brendon and Jackie as well for your letters. We went to Ocean buffet afterwards and it was so good, but I decided to try something crazy, ate octapus... weird tasting but not to bad. We had Dinner at Juans and Rosas that night and then headed to a few appointments that we had, With Alfonso and with the Torres family as well.
MIERCOLES - We left the mission again today and went to Groveton and taught Hna Perez the plan of salvation, very good lesson and we also gave her a blessing, I love this girl a ton and really care for her, she is such a nice lady. We went on our dinner hour after Elder Chantry got back to a place called "Goodwill" basically a D.I. and looked around, I ran into some Spanish ladies and they didnt expect me to just start talking to them, gotta love it when some random white kid starts speaking spanish
to you, so grateful for my ability to speak the language. We just went to visit Hna Ruiz and ended up eating there, their little dog was jumping all over me and I was hiding her in my sweatshirt, made me really miss Zoey. We played some yakapuk with the English Elders and I got a cramp in my foot that made me just run around and they were all on the floor dying laughing, me and cramps I swear.
JUEVES - Not a very busy day, we had studies and went out to eat again, of course I stuck with the Ramen noodles, We had planning session and I worked a little on Adam's and Amber's Christmas presents and then we headed to the church to start to help setting up for the Christmas party and practice.
VIERNES - We did studies together because we were going on exchanges, I went with Elder Chantry and we went and visited Alfonso and looks like the baptism is off, I was so heart broken to hear that, he was so close. Gotta take the good with the bad I guess. We will have to continue to work hard and try and help him best we can. He is having problems with his wife, the gospel blesses families is all I can think of, second principle of the first lessons, that it really helps families, my family is as close as any family can get and I know its because of the gospel my parents don't EVER fight. We visited a less active of the English ward, old guy named Don, coolest guy ever, but he was butt naked when we showed up!!!!! Nothing like seeing an 80 year old naked man on your mission. We played some yakapuk and changed back and did some visits before heading to church to get dinner and finish setting up for Saturday, we headed out early to go to our lesson with Ismael Guerrero and we were really bold with him, really good lesson. We visited the Torres family after as well, the English elders asked us to sleep at their apartment for Frisbee in the morning and we said no they should come to ours but they refused, so we went over there and stole all their bedding and took off to our apartment! So awesome!
SABADO - Frisbee was good, I got hit in the face with the Frisbee and my lip was swollen and bleeding but it was good exercise and a lot of fun. We visited a ton of people to invite them to the party tonight and then tracted a little bit and found a new investigator, then we headed to the party, it was an amazing party! I did a great job on Narrating and there were a ton of people there and the best tamales and tortillas you could ever eat in your life! We also did 2 pinatas and everyone participated, me and elder Chantry made elder Tolman get out there and swing at it and I got it all on video, hilarious! I got some awesome pictures of us and of the branch, a lot of people showed up and it was so much fun!
DOMINGO - I blessed the sacrament today again and we both gave talks today as well, we both took well over the amount of time we were asked but it was really good, I feel that my language has come a long way since day one. We had dinner at presidentes afterwards and then tried to visit a few people but my companion has been really really sick lately and we headed home early and I worked more on Amber and Adam's presents and planned. The English elders came and gave him a blessing and we hit the sack. Wonderful week, 2 weeks from calling home, I'm guessing it will be after dinner we will be calling so probably 7 or maybe 6 but I will for sure know by next week. Thanks followers!
Love
Elder Aaron Jackson
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