TUESDAY - Studies and then nothing but a bunch of appointments that busted, Daniel and Maria, Allan, Antonia Gomez! So we just started tracking and found some cool people, a black girl who is really interested, Nadeisha. We then headed to the apartment of Elder Falk and Larson to help them get settled in, they live in the ghetto of our area, driving down there we had some people spit on us, almost throw rocks at us, and as we passed the middle school the kids all laughed and yelled at us, its great being a missionary :) We got them and headed back to our apartment and were picked up for dinner by Brother Price and had a great dinner at their house, Tim then came and took them to wal mart and we went out for like 30 minutes then Bro Mata called and said he had a new bike for Elder Rod. so he was way happy about that, its a really nice bike.
WEDNESDAY - District meeting, my first one, all in Spanish, it was a good one, but still have a lot to learn on how to train others, I got some mail, thanks for the letters from Shawn and the valentines card from Kelsey! Antonia canceled again, as we tracked this dog got like all the way up on the fence (i have pictures) haha it was crazy. We headed to Gaby and Fernandos and they gave us some weird juice and we drank and I felt so weird the whole time, we found out at the end it was like... pineapple juice that had been left out and was kind of like alcohol or something haha I felt so weird! We visited Blanca and she wasn't there but her husband was there and so we talked to him and had a lesson, finally some success. We had dinner at our apartment again and we went back and locked elder Larsons bike outside with a for sale sign on it hahaha cause he left it over, as a joke, it was awesome! He was so confused. We went to the church after so that the other elders could meet everyone and it was the night of the valentines dance so of course I got my share of the music I haven't heard forever! like the place was about to blow ow ow ow, with fireworks and dynamite! It was good though, everyone is excited to have them here in the ward.
THURSDAY - Sylvia canceled and so we came back and planned/ were throwing crackers up in the air and doing different things to try and catch them in our mouths haha, the other elders came over later to go to dinner with us, it was a long bike ride, we got there and bro Rodriguez took us to a pizza buffet with ESPN and so I saw some highlights, its so weird to see the NBA season. We got done and he dropped us off at our appointment... which busted! and then on top of that I had to go to the bathroom so bad! so we knocked on Antonias door to see if I could use their bathroom haha Elder Rodriguez got a kick out of my complaining about how I could not ride over bumps on the bike. We then visited the less active family, (Valeros) and just talked with them.
FRIDAY - Another day of canceled appointments! 2 right in the morning, to start our day, we biked over 23 miles today with very little success, bust, bust, bust, BUST! We tracked for a few hours and got like 3 lessons but not any solid families like Gaby and Fernando... We contacted a referral and were chased by a pit-bull in all this hahaha, Dinner with Sister Rodriguez, papusas :) SO good. So everything canceled on us today, and we biked everywhere, we came home and died.
SATURDAY - Elder Rodriguez's back was killing him so he rested during studies and I cleaned a little and Read out of el Libro de Mormon, it was raining pretty hard but we still went out, and we tracked and met some interesting people, one black lady who liked us so much she wanted a hug when we left :0 I was so wet and cold because I just have my sweater haha but it was alright, we went to Ladias house and taught the plan of salvation, we had dinner and then had a lesson with Gaby and Fernando with the prices before correlation meeting, which went really late. REALLY WET DAY!
SUNDAY - Good church meeting, we did the egg lesson with Alex today but didn't have any eggs so he thought we were weird when we texted him asking him to bring a boiled egg to church hahaha, good sacrament, talks on charity and friendship and prophets. Lesson with Alex was really good! Still no date but with time, he will be there. We then got food left over from the dance and also a 25 dollar gift card for Chili's, we got picked up after and went to the aprtment just burned out!!! ate and napped a little and then headed out, we had one un-solid appointment that canceled then we headed to the Valero family and talked about the atonement and patriarchal blessings and they are getting closer to coming to church but we were there for way to long! We got home late and I was scrambling to get numbers from all the elders for my report to the zone leaders, luckily I got it all done. :) Crazy week, with a lot of patience to be learned seeing how we worked hard but not a whole lot of success, but it will come :)
Elder Aaron Jackson
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