Elder Aaron Lee Jackson: District Leader!

MONDAY - We went shopping really early, like at 7 am, then we came back did laundry and headed to the church for emailing, I love hearing from the fam, Hope K10 got my card, although you probably will have to translate it ;) haha. It was only us at the church today, that's it. We emailed, played basketball and wrote letters. Really just nice and relaxing day. We got back and Tim asked if there was anything he could do for us, so we went and got pie shakes again! SO GOOD! We got them and then headed to the Prices, as we waited for Tim in Bro Prices car, he took pictures with the app he has on his iPhone where it makes you all fat. AWESOME! We got to the Price's and explained the new member lessons with Gaby and Fernando, then we just talked and had ice cream, it was really nice. Bro Price was trying to get his HUGE dogs to play with my laser pointer I brought but they were just sitting there, made me miss Zoey. I loved it though, the Price's are awesome!

TUESDAY - We had a wonderful District meeting and they finally had it at our church, so it was nice not to have to bug members for a ride, we had an appointment right after so we went straight to it, with Daniel and Maria Delgado, had a pretty good lesson but again they went off into their tangents and didn't let us teach, we came back and had lunch I was so hungry and as we were about to leave again, we heard gun shots and called and asked if we should stay in or wait haha, it was right by the elementary school too! We went the other direction and went tracking and found an awesome 19 year old guy named Allan and then Hno Castro called us telling us he was at our aprtmnt waiting to pick us up for dinner and he was like 30 minutes early!!! ugghhh some times the members don't get it, we went had dinner and as we shared the scripture I was pretty offended by his mom, she was talking about how Mexicans have so much more faith then Americans... when we got back we went and visited the Maldanados and had a lesson with him, she is still hurt from the accident. When we got back to the aprtmnt we made up another game, bounce the basketball into the garbage can by my desk without knocking it over, it was pretty entertaining, Elder Rodriguez and I know how to have fun! But still work hard!

 

WEDNESDAY - Today we had an appointment at 9 that canceled but once again as we were leaving we heard not gun shots but the tornado alarm!!!!! hahaha found out later it was just a test, but it was really cloudy so you never know. We came back to the aprtmnt after a few visits to pick up pizza for dinner and it was about 4 and we decided to just take our dinner then, we were so tired so we ended up falling asleep, woke up and went out. We went out to Loris to do the new member lessons with the Prices, really good lesson and then had Coordination meeting right after, was a really short one, came back and finished our day.

 

THURSDAY - We had studies and had inspection on our aprtmnt today, we passed! he also told us we will be getting 2 more elders in this area, in our ward, next transfer! CRAZY! we had a few appointments, Allan canceled and so did Luis so we went in that area anyway and then came back to start planning, no knowing if we were leaving or not. We went to dinner at sister Blockers, we had an Indian plate, called spinach glop, REALLY good. I ate a ton. We hurried back to be picked up by Hermano Mata, we went and visited Sister Taylor and read out of 1 Nephi 8, about Lehi's Dream. Then we got done and went outside to find.. Hermano Matas truck got towed! So we had to wait there on the corner and call our next appointment and ask him to come get us, he did and we ended the night due to shortness of time. 

 

FRIDAY - We got up and gave each other a hair cut finally! looking sharp :) had studies and had an appointment at 9 again and was a bust.. again. Came back finished studies and at 1 met Sister Price at Normas. She was there but didn't answer!!! We were mad cause we had a really good lesson with her. We went straight to tracking for about 3 or 4 hours and didn't have any luck... But going to have days like that, so we had dinner at 5 by ourselves and then went and visited with Deidra Grant and her boyfriend and talked a little bit about the Restoration and she is so interested, a little strange but interested. It was really cold when we got back out so we headed back home, not a whole lot today.

 

SATURDAY - Pizza again for lunch today... I'm so sick of it haha, but we got our own large Pizza Hut pizza. We went and had a lesson with Tim because we thought for sure one of us would be transfered, but nothing during the whole lesson, we read a lot about the Atonement today, really good lesson. We got back and were about to leave and I got a flat.... Back to the problems! As soon as I got it fixed dinner was being dropped off so we ate and headed to the only lesson we had planned for the night with Deidra again, we taught the entire Restoration and they loved it, she has a problem with smoking and so we gave her a blessing to help her stop, it was really powerful, still no calls for transfers. We didnt expect that, after what president said to us! But we got back and called around and found out nothing changed in the district except 2 elders added to Casa Linda west and 2 more in D10, our area, and I was called as District Leader!

SUNDAY - Had church today and a meeting before but were a bit late to it, had 2 investigators in church today, Alex and Tim, Alex asked if we could meet during the 2nd hour, he had questions. We taught the Plan of Salvation and I just love how perfect the plan is, everything he asked was answered with both the bible and the Book of Mormon and through the plan. He loved it, he will be baptized soon, we had dinner with the Bishop and waited 2 hours at the church for him to get done and ate at 6, really good food and we were telling stories of sports and our missions and I love their family. Before leaving his wife asked of the blessings we have seen so far on our mission. We both talked about our amazing families and the blessings they have received as well as us, she was baling after and they are just awesome, we headed back and as we looked closely out the window we saw flakes of snow, my first snow I have seen out here! not even enough to hit the ground! We stayed in and prepared stuff for the new D10 elders that will be on the other side, then Elder Drake called me from out east and wanted to know what was going on, so I talked to them for a while, good day, good week, like always when in the service of others :) love you all.

Elder Aaron Jackson