TUESDAY - We got up and did our exercise and all that good stuff
and had some wonderful studies and then we went to district meeting.
Elder Richardson did a wonderful job again and had us all laughing. We
went to Panda afterwards and a member paid for us there. I love members!
We had a very successful day today as well. We taught 6 lessons. We
started off our day with a visit to a less active, bro prince, and his
non-member daughter was there so we shared a scripture and talked about
conference with them. Then we went down to Kilgore and visited a less
active member, Sister Willson, we shared a scripture with her and then
headed to a Spanish family that we had tracted our a while back and
had a short lesson with them and so we were just on fire! 2 new
investigators and 3 lessons already. We then taught English classes with
the the Garcias and that counts as another lesson because we talked
about the Gospel and we read in the Book of Mormon. We ran back to
Longview to have dinner and a lesson with a part-member family, the
eastwoods before heading over to meet with the Stake President and talk
with President Durrant and all them about the Stake. I love this area
and the members down here! They are so cool! The mission is great! We
love being busy just running from place to place. We then were driving
around and we decided to stop and pray and it was really cool. So we prayed
and after Elder Chappell asked me who we should visit and I said "Well
the Aleman family came to mind" (which didnt make sense because we had
just visited them a day ago) But we trusted the Spirit and went with it.
We went over there and it turns out one of their neighbors had their
house burn down and lost a child in the fire and was wanting us to come
pray with them... I testify that God answers prayers. Listen to the
still small voice! We had a lesson with the Rieds to cap off a 6 lesson
day before heading home super tired and happy we did it.
WEDNESDAY - Another amazing day! We got up and did our studies
and then we went right to work. We headed down to Kilgore and did some
knocking and found a new family of 3 and also a guy named Roberto so 2
lessons already. We then went and visited Josh and watched the talk by
Jeffrey R Hollands talk again and it was powerful. Again. We met with
Andy at our next appointment with a girl we found last week, Shiela. We
had a really good lesson with her too and she said she was coming to
church. We had dinner back at the apartment and then headed to do some
contacting at the Monterrey before heading to do our visits with the
English ward. Andy and I had an awesome lesson with Sister Cline and she
looks as if she is well on her way back to church! Brother Sellers and
Elder Chappell went and had a lesson with sister Pittman. Another 6
lesson day! We are on fire!
THURSDAY - This is where it gets tough. We havent planned in 2
weeks due to driving up to Oklahoma last Thursday, and the Thursday
before having meetings all day. So... we have gotten out of it 2 weeks
and we dont like it anyway but after 2 weeks of not doing it. It was
hard! We wanted to get out! We have standards to reach, people to teach,
and the Gospel to preach! We ate dinner after so we could just go out
the rest of the night. We did some contacting, not a whole lot. Then we
went to the church to have our lesson with good old Brent! Love the guy
haha, he is very very strange but a good guy. We finally got him to
agree somewhat to a date. We had a lesson with Marleny after and just
went over the baptismal service and showed her the font and read some
out of Mosiah 18. It was great! We had a lesson with Charles after and
talked about conference and his baptism. We went over the Sabbath day as
well. We have some awesome investigators! We already almost have
standards.
FRIDAY - We needed to contact so we went straight to the
Michoacana and started talking to people and then at 1 down to Kilgore.
Today was hard. We didnt have as many lessons as we wanted. We did teach
the new family we found and that was about it in Kilgore. Tracting
didnt work very well. We were super tired but kept working. We have to
get the standards. We tracted into some baptist lady who lived in Utah
for 8 years and she was super sweet but never accepted the Gospel. We
went to dinner at 4 with the Albas and it was good. After we went to
start our exchanges with the other elders. I stayed with Elder Byington
and Elder Richardson came to my area. I asked "So what do we got next
Elder Byington?" he replied "Dinner" UGH... I had to scarf down another
dinner. I was full after. We visited a few people and then we went to
the church so that I could help elder Chappell with English classes. It
went well. La familia Flores was there. Love hno Flores! We finished
that and went back. We hit the sack at 10:30, Elder Byington and I
talked for a bit before tiredness took over me.
SATURDAY - These are the Saturdays you dream of as a missionary!
You pretty much have standards, you have a baptism, elder Byington locks
the keys in the other elders car and it takes us 6 hours (our whole
day) to drive around looking for lock smiths and calling the mission
office to finally get it fixed RIGHT before your baptism... those are
the days... UGH! It was nuts! We did get to our baptism on time though.
We got some pictures of little Marleny, Elder Chappell and I next to a
wonderful picture of Jesus Christ. What an amazing service. 30 minutes
long and something you will never forget! She finally got baptized.
Elder Chappell sat there afterwards just watching her sit amongst the
wonderful members and happy as could be. We were just so full of joy.
She finally did it. After 2 years of investigating. We were the
missionaries privleged enough to be here when she finally took the step,
we were the ones lucky enough to be used as instruments in the hands of
the Lord to teach her what she needed to hear at the right time. I love
this work. We brought someone unto Christ and to the path that leads to
Eternal Life. We are so tired haha, we went back and prayed and thanked
till our knees were sore. We also begged for 3 investgators in church
Sunday for it would give us standards as well.
SUNDAY - What an amazing day it was today! Spanish branch was
great, Marleny was confirmed by Elder Chappell and then we both spoke
about the age change and also our preparation to serve a mission. We
didnt have any investigators though! So we are banking on English
today... We got there and paced back and forth waiting for 3 to show up.
Brent shows up ok ok... 2 more! Another one comes and the meeting
starts and we are one short... OH NO! But at the last moment Rylie walks
in. We did it! I smiled the whole meeting not only for that but also
because it was the primary program today and I loved it! Seeing all the
kids getting up there and how awesome they really are. We had wonderful
classes and a short missionary meeting after before heading to the Muses
to break our fast. We had some good beans and corn bread. We then did
some major contacting to reach our weekly goal of 140. We got 162 and
headed to do numbers. What a week! I came back and layed on the floor
repeating to my companion with a huge smile on my face. WE DID IT!
Elder Aaron Jackson
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