Monday, April 23, 2012

Mom Would Be Proud. . .I Did The Dishes!

MONDAY - We were at the church early, emailed. Awesome email, lots of juicy news from the house, I played some bball for the first time in 2 and a half weeks which was amazing of course but we did not stay at the church for very long. We came back to the apartment, went to family dollar to buy a few things and then came back and read, wrote letters and napped. The Prices came and got us later that night to take us to Gaby and Fernandos to have a Family Home Evening, it was really good.

TUESDAY - We had District meeting today and it was my first day back in action so I was not obviously just back up and running, I was sluggish. We had interviews with Elder Witbeck cause he was not feeling well, everyone has been getting sick. It was good we just talked about my area, help I needed, my companion and then whether we thought we would be transferred or not. We ended the meeting and biked home real fast had lunch and Spanish study and then headed out, went tracked some way bad looking apartments, only talked to a few people, not a lot of Hispanics. So we went and tried to visit a less active in the area, sister Webb but she was not there so we rode all the way back up to the church, in that area and ran into brother Jasso and had water at his house and tried to visit sister Bear, sister Blockers sister and law, way less active. Wasn't there. We came back and waited for dinner, the Lieb family, always an interesting place to go. We had Chinese food and elder Larson didn't eat his veggies and Bro Lieb was like "I'm going to call your mom if you don't eat those!" and he jokingly said "go ahead" thinking nothing of it... Brother Lieb actually called!!!! haha it was funny, on the way back I was sitting in the front seat and the window was down and some dudes gas thing was open and I shut it for him haha. We got back and headed to Barbras and knocked and nothing but then saw her granddaughter next door so we knew she was there so we told her to go get her, we got in and had an awesome lesson, read 3 Nephi 11 and committed her for the 28th, she still does not feel she has her answer, we came back and did what we decided to start, minute video logs every day, like a journal. My first one was much longer haha, but it was fun.
 
WEDNESDAY - 11 MONTHS!!! almost to the biggest mark of all, We did a lot of cleaning today, my back was not feeling the best still a bit on the fence but still not too bad so we refrained from the bike as much as we could, we then got a call from Elder Midgely to go look at some apartments and so we went with Tim to look around, I saw Skyline High School finally! For those of you that don't know its where C.J. Miles played and was drafted straight from that school, so that was really cool, also saw the sickest Lambo Gallardo! But in the midst of finding all this we did not find a good, safe looking apartment. We came back and waited to be picked up by Matt Moss to go to sister Lloyds for dinner and it was good, Sloppy Joes. Its always fun to eat there, we came back and got picked up by the Prices to go to correlation which was really good, talked about the other elders baptism and then proceeded to squeeze 6 of us in one car, cause the Mesquite elders came too and drove to our apartment. Did our video logs, today's was all in Spanish so you probably wont understand :)
 
THURSDAY - Planning day... till 4, we also were having a doughnut crave in the morning so we went up to get some on the corner in the morning, of course there was a fight up there! haha, crazy area, we had the Dowlerns for dinner, old old old couple so of course seeing how its been a full 3 weeks since we were there, if even that they have forgotten all the stories they have already told us... so we heard the same exact stories on the way over and during dinner hahaha, old people... The other elders drove us to see a referral and then took us back to meet up with Brother Mata, he is so awesome helps us out a lot, we went and visited a less active, David. He has 3 kids and his wife who are all not members but its going to take some time and change to get them going, but we are excited... we had Barbra after but she canceled!!!!!! So mad, we went and saw if the referral was there but they weren't so we just headed home. 
 
FRIDAY - We finally got what I have been waiting for! PANCAKES, I bought some mix and they will just not cook right, so Tim took us to IHOP today, it was really nice and we also got a call that they found our new apartment!!! So we went and signed the applications and looked around, much better, clean carpet, Bball court for the mornings. We are so excited! We will be there in the same complex with the other elders too, and the ZL's and Dallas 5 North elders live just down the street, its going to be fun. We came back and started taking stuff down and cleaned out the closet outside, so gross!!!! crap from all the other missionaries and stuff, so bad. We had Brother Kidder for dinner, had hamburgers and we stuffed our faces cause we have no money and no food so we are really tight. Their dog is huge!!! massive, really friendly though. We then headed to Sister Lloyds to pick up a bike for Elder Dominguez from her dad, way nice bike, as he explained about it and they talked "Taken" was playing so that was torture, such a good movie. I also saw for the first time a trailer for "The Avengers" and it looks pretty sick! We then headed to Wal-Mart to get some meds for Elder Larson and some bike stuff for Elder Dominguez and headed home where the other elders wanted to use some of my meds to sleep well haha.
 
SATURDAY - Doughnuts are good. so we got some more. Elder Dominguez was really sick so we didn't get out, I DID THE DISHES!!! our dishwasher broke so we have been piling up since and I finally did them, my mom would be proud :) We had the Kliens for dinner with all 6 of us, we all got cereal and then we headed home, we called Fernando and headed to Wal-Mart to get some milk and a pump for elder Dominguez and came back, then Tim brought us some bread and we got Elder Doms tires pumped up and we rode it around the complex a few times to test it out and then we talked to the security guard who loves us and he was sad to hear that we were moving! 
 
SUNDAY - Awesome day today, pretty normal day of church but really good after, Mesquite had a baptism and so did D10 South, we missed Mesquites cause we had dinner with the Kubosumis, Lasagna, my fave! But we made it to Jose's baptism, so awesome, EVERY missionary from the district AND the ZL's were there, it was really fun. But no one from the ward..... except the prices. We were so angry! We invited everyone, announced it to everyone and still... no support. After was a ton of fun, all went to their apartment to cook fajitas, SO SO SO good, outside all of us, talking sports and stuff it was a lot of fun and then we finished by about 10 and headed home, did our second to last video logs and then hit the sack, not a very productive week but still lots of stuff! Thanks for following, love you all!
Elder Aaron Jackson

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