TUESDAY - We had district meeting today, really good! I enjoyed it a ton but again we were stuck after trying to find a ride back and ate lunch and then finally got Brother Blocker to come get us, saved! Got back and started to work hard, met some good people, then we had another AWESOME lesson with the Mendez family and the kids all loved it! We had dinner with the 2nd counselor in the bishopric, really good food and had an awesome time with them, really cool family! It was dark and cold so we headed back to the aptmnt for the night but had an overall good day!
WEDNESDAY - We did not have a dinner signed on our calender today but we did have a lunch with the Lujan family and they took us out to "Tops Buffet" Chinese place, really good we stuffed ourselves because we had a WHOLE day of knocking on doors ahead of us, we did have one aptmnt at 1 with Tim Morris, it was our lesson where we said we were no longer going to be teaching him as often as we were, but only every 2 weeks or so, because we need to gather Israel! It was such a powerful experience with the spirit working through us, incredible. After we started knocking, met some pretty strange people, like a guy named Delan who was just so strange... and a guy who I wanna say was high when we taught him, named Abraham. Lot of strange people but a good day, we went back to take our 1 hour dinner and we were so beat that we took a quick nap and then Brother Mata came and got us and took us to visit Sister Taylor, we watched the lamb of God with her and then went and visited a referral, as soon as we got to the house they pulled up, perfect timing! Familia Maldanado, we had a lesson with them for about 20 minutes or so, great family! Then we went home and hit the sack early, its so great to go to bed tired knowing you helped someone today, or more than one person!
THURSDAY - We had 2 lessons today that were a combined time of almost 6 hours crazy day!! we did not plan today, because we wanted to work instead, we went to visit the Flores family, and pulled up on our bikes to see only Fernandos car was there, strange.. we knocked and he answered and let us in, no sign of Gabby or the kids! They got in a fight, and it was pretty bad, so she left to live with her sister, we were there for 3 hours and he told us everything and told us about his past problems and how he prays to the Santa Muerte... not a good thing, that thing is evil and spiritually destructive! So we helped him the best we could, he has such great faith, he is willing to give everything up to be a part of the true church, we showed him temples and he said what everyone says "se mira como un castillo" it looks like a castle! He loved it and I love talking about them and about families being sealed for time and all eternity in these amazing structures and we taught more stuff and 3 and a half hours later we finally got out and were on our way, had dinner with the Lynm family and they are just awesome, we had hamburgers and bluebell ice cream.... best ice cream in the world! makes Texas that much better, cause its only here. I would come live here just for it, think of your favorite ice cream and I bet the worst flavor of blue bell is 121518x better :) We then went to our lesson with the Ortega family and it was a 2 hour bash pretty much, Elder Rodriguez came out of it happy, I didn't feel the spirit at all, all I could think of is Laman and Lemuel, all the times they heard the voice of the Lord and Angels and all the evidence of his divinity and they still murmured and still hardened their hearts! That's the Family Ortega, if Jesus Christ came down himself and said "Join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!" They still would doubt! My stomach was hurting from eating to much ice cream or something like that :) Crazy day!
FRIDAY - We had studies then tracting where we found a 6 foot 7 black girl, a crazy girl that wanted to hold our hands, a guy who thought we were border patrol and tried to hide just some crazy people, lot of fun! Had dinner with Sister Rodriguez and I took another Tortilla, Elder Rodriguez got a kick out of it :) We came back to plan and checked mail, Thank you Todd for your letter!!! it made my day dude! Love the letters I get, every one of them! Planning was long as usual but we got it done, made a ton of progress records for all of our investigatores.
SATURDAY - As we went to bed last night we got a call at 12 so technically it counts as today, Fernando asked for a blessing so he came over and we talked for a bit, I couldn't understand everything he said cause I was so tired and my brain can only take so much Spanish before I become exhausted haha, but we gave him a blessing and talked a little, it was intense! Got up and went to Thomasa Diaz at 10, cancel :( she was pulling away as we got up, So we went to Sister Rodriguezes house to get Papusas :D so good, came back had lunch and finished our studies then went at 2 to our appointment with Maria Martinez and she canceled! But then we went to the family Vargus and Jose was sleeping so we went to Velindas house and had an awesome lesson with her, she is 20 or so and has a real interest in what we teach, left a book of mormon and went back to the Varguses and taught their family, they had their bibles out ready to go at it and we just proved everything we taught. Only using the bible! Because we can! It was intense and we just testified at the end, they just were silent, not sure if they are going to read or pray but we will see :) Abraham was not home when we went back so then we went tracting a little bit and found another family, Maria Martinez haha another Maria Martinez, then we went to Fernandos, he gave us everything, so I had this big statue of the Santa Muerte in my backpack, (Pretty much the Grim Reaper with a scythe and with the world in his hands) just really crazy stuff, we went to the dumpster and I broke the thing and walked away thankful to have the priesthood of God!!!! Such a Privilege, don't ever take it for granite! Its so special and real. We had dinner with Amanda Lloyd and Matt Morris, such an awesome family, both like really tough, love them, they are so nice but they talk a lot so we didn't get back till almost 10, good night!
SUNDAY - Me and Elder Rodriguez do some crazy stuff haha, We have this little play ball like in the play pins they have at Chuckie Cheese and stuff, and we have tennis rackets, but what we do is how many times we can hit it with the handle haha its pretty fun, so we were doing that while waiting for our ride to church, so fun! By the end of the night we were doing it with my basketball hahaha! Anyway we got to church and a sister came up to us who has us for dinner this next Saturday and said she is taking us to Texas Roadhouse!!!!!!!! SO STOKED!!!! and we had a friend of the bishops daughter come, he is 20 and his name is Alex, so we taught him after Sacrament and he loves everything, Fernando came of course, so solid. We went back to his house after and had a short lesson and got our bikes went back to the aptmnt to eat really quick and get out to work, no luck, the world is so different at night, we had some drunk black people yell at us some.. not very nice names... :) and tell us to go home, so we decided not to tract but to see if we could maybe visit some people, no luck there, then we were about 3 miles from home and Elder Rodriguez made me ride his bike home, ITS A PIECE OF JUNK!!! i barely made it home with out wanting to chuck it in the dump! He laughed as he enjoyed my 25 lb smooth bike, wonderful week we had, almost 30 other lessons!! Thanks for following, love you all a ton :)
Elder Aaron Jackson
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