MARTES - I was so tired today but finally feeling a little better from last weeks plague, we didn't do a lot today because we were still feeling dizzy and sick but we had dinner with Juan and Rosa and then after visited the Torres family and did the Popsicle stick lesson. I love all the lessons that we teach with them, I'm writing them all down so I can use them in family home evening or home teaching when I get back, we then slept at the English Elders because the show down of show downs is tomorrow!
MIERCOLES - Our alarm didn't go off. So we were a bit late to the training but we got there and everyone was playing ball, everyone (of course) wanted me to dunk it and the first one I got was during Tornado, I got the ball and threw it down and almost got the elder out. I was feeling good. President Durrant was running a 5k at this point but when he got back he came up to me and said "Where is my Christmas dunk Elder Jackson" I then had my companion throw one off the back board and I threw it down like nothing. Afterwards I went up on the left side and reversed it on the right side. I was flying and president Durrant didn't say a word. Just came up and gave me a double high five. The training was awesome, we went to a place called Sam's and then came back and President Durrant read a poem and passed out some announcements, we watched a movie, 17 miracles really good! We got back about 8 o clock just tired. It was a lot of fun though.
JUEVES - We got up and we drove all the way to Groveton for our appointment and she wasn't there, it was a hit because its a 45 minute drive so it wasted a lot of time. We headed back and stopped by Jose Ana and Mayras and visited a few other people before heading to the church to get dinner, we did some crazy trick shots in the gym during our lunch hour which I got on video haha. We were talking about how excited we were to call home.
VIERNES - We went to Wingstop and of course they had NBA stuff on, we visited some people and not a whole lot happened but we then went to dinner and visited Alfonso afterwards then we went to Wal Mart to get something really fast and it was nuts! so packed we got out of there so fast! We went to visit Synthia Zamora and she invited us to come over for dinner tomorrow and then we went to the English Elders apartment and asked if they wanted to stay the night at our place and they refused so I stole Elder Tolmans bed and we took off haha Fun night.
SABADO - Christmas Eve, I called my dad and spoke Spanish and just called to clarify timing for Christmas and such and my mom was there too, miss them a ton. Also Elder Chantry landed on my elbow last night so my elbow was sore all day! We tried to tract but everyone is gone or cooking, we had ultimate Frisbee but I didn't go me and Elder Tolman stayed and they brought us breakfast. We had hot cocoa with candy cane kisses and that is the best thing EVER!!!!! We went over to Jose Ana and Mayras again and gave them their presents. We then found out Tolman did not get his Christmas package.. sucks so bad so we went and bought him some candy and stuff to cheer him up, we visited Jose and Mariela and they already had all their presents opened!!!! We went to Synthias for dinner and they just gave it to us to go so we shared a scripture and left, I got more comments on my Spanish which made me happy but I still have so much to learn. We headed home and hopped in our new PJs :)
DOMINGO - MERRY CHRISTMAS we only had one hour of sacrament and we were so antsy to get out and head to the Bueses because we were Skyping there, we went and Skyped there, it was amazing to see my family I'm sure they enjoyed seeing me too, good to see my Grandpa and Grandma as well I miss them all a ton. We went to dinner and came back about 5 and I napped I was so burned out from all the excitement and I woke up and called home and talked to the amigos, man it was so good to hear from yall!!! Thanks for coming over to my house, I love and miss you all a ton, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and thanks for following my blog for this long, love
Elder Jackson
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