MONDAY - We got up a little earlier so we could have all 3 hours of study done and laundry by 10:30, i prepared my training for tomorrow during studies and then we headed to the library to do email. Another crazy wild email that got me thinking a lot and praying a lot as well. I was very on edge and thats not good when you have a companion that is very different and easily frustrates you. I was fine though, we went and did shopping and we got it done fairly quick and then headed to the house to drop off the food and head to play ball, i was so excited, it had been a crazy week and i needed to get out on that court and just fly! Just go as hard as i could because it relieves stress more than anything else in the world. We were heading there and Elder Davis forgot his phone and he said "Its fine i dont need it" My companion insisted that we got back and my patience thinned, we finally calmed him down. As we arrived there was another person waiting to get in the church and we all filed in but my companion waited outside thinking that we should wait for someone else to come before going in... i lost it and raised my voice at his nonlogical thinking and was very angry. He sat and waited for me, i couldnt play and i was 10 feet from the court! He would not come in, he insisted that we find someone else to wait with him and i said "Fine!" I came in and changed and told him that i would not leave the court as soon as i stepped on it so if no one wanted to come with him? He would have to stay even if it was against his thinking. He talked with Elder Willman for a while as we started, We had a ton of people there, played cut throat with 3 teams of 4. Very first play ball is passed to me at the 3 line, i fire. Splash. We get the ball again at the elbow i get a pass. Splash. We won within minutes as i just released everything, i felt so much better after the first game. More people showed up and we kept playing, Out of 8 or 9 games my team lost once and thats cause i walked in late to join. :) I love bball, its the best and i was just so happy to get out and play. We got back and finished our Pday and headed out to work, first thing we do is move a big screen for some lady, another smile maker SERVICE! I LOVE IT! We then ended up making calls for an hour and planning, i also caught a stupid fly while planning :) Happy Pday!
TUESDAY - AWESOME MEETING! We had a combined district meeting with the whole zone and i gave the first training and finding the right members to come teach with you, then Elder Davis gave one and then the ZL's gave theirs and focused a lot on prayer and how we sometimes say what we like to say a "grocery list" prayer, we find our selves saying and asking for the same things when we should be really speaking with our Father in Heaven. We all split up and went into different rooms and said prayers outloud and it was so spirtually edifying i loved it! We finished the meeting on a high note after testimonies of prayer by me, Elder Simmons and Elder Derrick. Then we headed back with Elder Derrick and Roberts to our apartment to fix my companions bike and do exchanges, we took an hour for lunch and studied the language (well i did) Then headed to a lesson with Elton and his friend Chad, Started in the Restoration and first princple (God is our loving Heavenly Father) his friend Chad goes into how we believe in multiple gods and it ended up being a crazy, borderline bashing lesson, we of course proved everything that we believe (because the Church is true obviously) and he was quiet by the end of the lesson and we left a Book of Mormon with both of them. We came back and realized we left our phone at their place and went back and gave another Book of Mormon away to them for another guy, it was great. Then we headed to dinner with the ZL's and Elder Davis to the Martinez family and had the most amazing Flautas ever!!! Salsa was great! We came back and headed to an investigator that my trainer, Elder Olsen found. Ezmerelda and again it was a border line bash lesson, i was the only one who could understand her, Elder Roberts is an english missionary and the member we brought served a spanish mission 27 years ago so i was talking the most and she has read the BOM 2 times (so she says) and says she feels it is not the word of god, doesnt believe in prophets or tithing, TONS of doubts, but is a really nice person! Very loving! we ended our night like that.
WEDNESDAY - We switched back and went to Subway for lunch oh i made pancakes this morning too :) made my day. As soon as i got back with my companion i felt stressed and just mad and angry and sad because these emotions were like that. I really feel i just am completely different from my companion and he just drives me insane and always will. So i read out of my study journal about past expierences, helped a ton. Looked outside and it was pouring!!! SO RANDOM HERE! We went to the office cause our air filter needed to be replaced, thats something important in june in texas! The ZL's brought dinner over, potatoes and meat SO good, then Brother Porter came and got us and we went out to try and contact some people, no luck though...We got back and still had some time and so we walked to a less active and watched The Restoration movie it was way good!
THURSDAY - We mixed up planning a bit and started more early, had a correlation type meeting with the ZL's for lunch and kept planning, took forever, we didnt get out till 6 or so and then went to Allen with Hno Gomez, the Araiza family bailed on us but we contacted a way good referral, not a whole lot to report on today though.
FRIDAY - We were looking for service all morning and no one had service, you would think in a world like this SOMEONE would need some help, as we left thats what we decided to do is ask for service opportunities. First guy we contacted was from london, heavy accent still and his name? haha... Michael Jordan!!! So funny, Got a letter from timmy boy and then we headed back to have dinner at our place then tracted the rest of the night, talked to 30 plus people, it was wonderful!
SATURDAY - We woke up and went to the church to do service and then got home and biked to Debbies, someone we talked to yesterday and helped with their garage sale, it was way good, moving stuff, setting stuff out. She was trying to get money for college at UT!!! So cool! We were going to go to a kids house, Juan and help mow his lawn but he canceled, we came back and had personal study and then exchanged with the zone leaders, i was with Elder Willman and it was fantastic! Love the kid, we finished studies and then went out to work, tracted and had one lesson and then came back for chicken dinner! Some random cop (nonmember) stopped us and was just way nice, just talking to us and stuff. we visited the Hna Caballero and saw a HUGE Tarantula! HUGE! Then we went tracting and knocked on some guys door, blinds up... 72 inch plasma playing game 7 of the ECF... So hard to focus! haha, NBA.. good stuff. We headed back and changed back.
SUNDAY - Way good sabbath day, headed to church early to do P.E.C and to do our feed back on Exchanges. Church was good, i was starving though! We got done and ate lunch and i was so sleepy after, then we had comp study and headed to dinner which was... BROWN SURPRISE!!! like the same stuff, they call it glop though hahaha, good reminder of home. Wasnt as good as my dads brown surprise though ;) we came back went out for like 20 minutes and came back in and planned and i made calls for numbers, English elders said all the young men in the ward are going to take me down in bball tomorrow. im not buying it ;)
Elder Aaron Jackson
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