TUESDAY - We had district meeting in the morning, I planned to just interview everyone see how they were doing and what I could do as their District Leader to help them, Elder Rodriguez was first and I just love this guy more and more each day, such an awesome example to me and others. We were late getting to the church cause of his flat tire, but it was a really good meeting, we had to have it in the chapel because they were cleaning the church, I ended by talking about how much I loved the district and then sharing the cd that Josh gave me, they all really liked it, I told them of the people pulling for me and what they have done to support me and reminded them that there are many doing the same for them, and to work hard! It was really good, we had to leave right after to an appointment with Jose Guzman, but Elder Rodriguezes tire was flat, again! So we walked to Jose's and set a date with him, so the long walk was worth it! We then headed back to the apartment to find a ride to Wal Mart to get a new tire, Brother Lujan came and got us and we went and dropped us off at the church after to fix it and head out, by then it was five and so we headed back to the apartment to be picked up by Hno Cano for dinner, Had some really good Mexican food and I shared the scripture and we headed to Davids and he was not there so we headed home cause I had to prepare a bunch of stuff for tomorrows Specialized Spanish Training, I had to prepare an hour training! so we came back and did that, and I had to prepare a 6 minute training, memorize a scripture in Spanish about the word "Luz" (light) and yeah lot of stuff with little time.
WEDNESDAY - Tim came in the morning to pick us up for the training in the morning, we got there a little early, had a few minutes to say hi to everyone like Elder Lee and all the elders in my district, then we started. Had an awesome training, all in Spanish too, It was really nice cause I understood about 97 percent of it. We also got notice we can no longer do Gokarts haha, woops. We broke for lunch and I walked in the kitchen and saw the mail and got some letters and then saw an obnoxiously long big box, I shook my head because for some reason I knew it was mine, looked sure enough from BFOS!! Before opening it with all my buddies around I stopped and said "I guarantee it's something very random!" Sure enough... I pull out a flamingo!!!!!! Everyone loved it, best package ever, exactly what I needed Bfos, thanks a ton! ;) I loved the picture though, and the skittles of course! The Texas shirt too, but I have doubles now hahaha, but its all good. We then got back into the training and we broke into 4 groups, I had to train one of the groups for an hour with Elder Wood, it was really good. We then ended our training by singing a hymn, Elder Solis was tearing up, he is an incredible Elder, baptized a storm and now he is leaving... Great example, crazy stuff happened with him though that I cannot include here but I'll tell you the story when I get back if you ask ;) probably one of the craziest stories ever! We returned to our apartment and were headed out to the Terrazas family when the mailman tracked us down to give me another package! From Cailey! That is 6 packages this transfer :) thank you so much everyone, loved the rubber duck by the way! not every day you get a flamingo and a rubber duck on you mission :) Thanks Cailey! We went and had the lesson and set dates with all 4 of them, on a roll here and its only Wednesday, we rode as fast as we could back to the apartment to be picked up by the Prices to go to the Carmonas, picked up the other elders and went. Had a great visit and we all think they will be coming back, they need to! he is the Elders Quorum president for crying out loud, and they are just an awesome family. We ended late cause we were just laughing and enjoying each others company, so we didn't have correlation.
THURSDAY - We headed to Family Dollar in the morning to get some stuff for the apartment and for Jose Guzmans reading, then we headed over there to have a lesson, we watched The Restoration movie and had him circle the fruits of the spirit that he felt in Galatians, really good lesson, then he talked about how sad he is cause he can't get a job cause of his bad eyesight, so we gave him a blessing, I love holding the Priesthood. We came back and planned as quickly as we could but at the same time very well, then we went to work, we started knocking and ran into this CRAZY black girl that could not have a prophet and so we testified and it was just incredible, I love being a part of the true church because no matter what they say, no matter what they try and prove, we can counter, we can destroy it, we can answer it. Even only using just the Bible! I love it. We ran into a less active member and are going to have a Family Home Evening with her and her family on Monday, we came back to the apartment for dinner, Fernando dropped off some cake from Gaby's birthday which I forgot to add, we went there this morning too with a card. Hno Castro came and got us to take us out, we had a small lesson with Marecela on her porch and then headed to Dallas 5 Norths apartment for exchanges.
FRIDAY - Had studies, just finished Jacob in English and almost Half way through Alma in Spanish, so making progress. We then got out and tracked, and found nothing but mean people! Lot of slammed doors in the face today. We then had a few hours before dinner to do something so I called Ms. Campbell up and we went all the way down to her ghetto neighborhood to do service, her lawn was so bad! bees everywhere which of course made me frightened like a little girl haha, but we fixed her fence and gate with nothing but one saw, one hammer, and some nails, I had a genius idea, I found the end of a handle of a shovel and a brick with holes in it and wedged it in the holes and made a hammer. HAHA, it worked fantastic though. I looked at the clock and realized we were late for dinner so I called and asked if we could come a bit later, so all 4 of us (other elders came too) went to dinner with Hermana Rodriguez and had fish, it was pretty good. Elder Virrueta gave the spiritual thought. We didn't have any success that night, so we traded back, Elder Virrueta wanted to stay, he wants to be my companion haha, I have that impact on most ;) Elder Rodriguez returned.
SATURDAY - We did all our studies and got a call from Jose canceling, so we went to Sister Savages for lunch, TORTAS my absolute favorite in the world, except I ate 2 HUGE ones, the pieces of chicken were gigantic, it was nice to leave on a full stomach though as apposed to eating Ramen noodles at the apartment haha, we then tracked and had nothing, lot of Hispanics. I take that back we found some "ok" people, afterwards we biked down to be picked up by the other elders apartment to be picked up for dinner by Bro Moss/Lloyd, I found out a little about the NCAA tourney, I cant believe Duke lost, I had them going far! Anyway we went to dinner and they are always like "EAT EAT EAT!!!" and I was dying after because of the tortas I ate like 3 hours previously! We got back and I was not feeling good at all! allergies randomly kicking in, I decided to work out my calves a few days ago and regret it cause now I'm so sore I cant even walk! let alone straighten my leg, to save my life! We visited a few of his friends then taught Noe and Maria and their 18 year old daughter, we did the same thing we have been doing lately, watched The Restoration video and had them circle the fruits of the spirit, it went well. We got back and I asked Elder Rodriguez to give me a blessing and then just died in my bed.
SUNDAY - 10 MONTHS!!! WOW. That's all I will say, we woke up and took some awesome st pattys day pics, even thought it was yesterday haha, we headed to church and Jose and his girlfriend, Krystal, showed up! The Terrazas family did not though... It was really good though, good Sunday, went by super fast! We headed to the Chapmans after, one of my favorite members on my mission haha of course he had to mention I can dunk at least 80 times and trying to figure out how I do it, fantastic dinner, as we sat down the rolls were put next to me and Bro Chapman and he looked at them and back at me and said "You going to do some dunking with those rolls there too" later on asked if my family found Jackson Hole haha, which lead to him saying "I bet whoever did can't dunk" LOL Love this guy, as I was leaving I noticed they had a picture of the Mesa Arizona Temple up and their sealed date "March 11th 1967" Haha I told him how that was my birthday and how I felt much more special knowing it was the same day haha. Love the Chapmans, We came back and went to the couple appointments we had scheduled, got in with just one which was Vasylia and Hector, had a really solid, great first half of the first lesson, her sister was present and was Pentecostal? something like that, so she of course was putting in her 2 cents about everything, which we proceeded to doctrinally destroy it, by the end she was quiet and we testified and the room was filled with the spirit. We ended our day like that, what a fantastic week like always, thanks for all the letters and packages guys! Love all of you a ton and i hope you know that, that is true :)
Elder Aaron Jackson
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