TUESDAY - We headed down to the district meeting in Grand Prairie
and it was a great meeting, lot of fun stuff and I learned a lot. After
we exchanged and Elder Belnap and I went back up to Irving and picked
up the North Elders who were also on exchange so Elder Dominguez and
Henze and us went to Subway to eat real quick and then we dropped them
off and headed to work. We did some tracting and found a way cool guy
who let us right in and we got to know him. Obidio is his name and he is
from Guatemala. He had a few kids pass away so we talked about the Plan
of Salvation a little and then had to leave. We had dinner with the
Barraza family and had some really good tacos. We visited a few other
people and didn't have any luck before heading to the Villatoros. I love
them so much! The hermano Villatoro talks about Faith every time we go
over there, he is such a cool guy. We taught out of Alma 32 and talked
about the importance of reading because that is what they are not doing
right now. They are so ready except they have not read in the Book of
Mormon. We set another baptismal date with them and ended our night.
WEDNESDAY - We studied a bit before heading down to Grand Prairie
to exchange back. As we headed home we stopped by the post office to
send a package (Elder Virrueta) and I had to buy some stamps and get a
box. We came back and ate some lunch and went knocking in the same
ghetto apartments and got a return appointment with one lady but that
was about it. Everyone is getting ready for tomorrow! We ended up seeing
Obidio again and just went inside and had a lesson with him and his
roommate. We taught the Restoration and his friend was trying to bash
with us but he was saying things that didn't even have anything to do
with what we were talking about! It was pretty pointless. We finished
and invited them both to pray. That's what I love about this church is
its all on the table for everyone to get an answer from God. We had some
tostadas with the other elders at the Galvans and taught a lesson to
Janette. We invited her to be baptized but she didn't accept but that's
alright. With time. That was about it for the night. Thanksgiving
tomorrow!
THURSDAY - HAPPY THANKSGIVING! What a day, we thought we would
plan tomorrow because a lot of people will be home today. So we started
visiting people and had no luck HA. It really stinks because so many
families are home but they don't want to let us in! We headed to dinner
with the Coronas and it was awesome, we all shared what we were grateful
for and I just love the spirit it brings. I want to cry every time!!
Then we began to feast! This was about 4. We had smoked turkey, potatoes
and gravy, deviled eggs, banana and pumpkin pie you name it! It was
delicious!! Then we headed to the Ayalas and... did it again, huge
feast! then.... to the Mancias with the Villatoros! 3 HUGE feasts where
they were yelling at us "Coman mas elderes!" EAT MORE! I felt like
Pillsbury dough boy after... so stuffed. Could not even stand up
straight. What a thanksgiving! :) I'm happy. Hope all of you had a good
one as well!
FRIDAY - Black Friday! People going nuts over here and
everywhere! We go from being grateful to who can spend the most money
and spoil our kids the most. Who can get that TV that's half price even
if it means killing people to do so. Crazy how it changes haha. I woke
up with the worst stomach pains so I slept through studies. We then got
invited for pancakes at a members house and we were there in a
heartbeat! It was really good. We just took the other elders back to our
apartment to do planning. We got it done and headed to dinner with the
Abarca family and guess what we had? LEFTOVER TURKEY!! 
We
choked it down and then headed to the church to see a baptism, and to
see sister Corona open her call. It was so intense, I forgot how
exciting it is to get your call. Anaheim California! After we ate
again.... I'm about to die at this point but I do it anyway, "Why do you
keep eating?!" Elder Jorgensen said to me and I replied "Because its a
good journal entry" I had ribs and potatoes and a little bit of turkey
and surprisingly it helped my stomach. 5 dinners is too much but the 6th
helps you :) We headed home and went to bed.
SATURDAY - We headed to the meeting we had in the morning at the
Ayalas home and had breakfast and all that good stuff. We were there for
a while but then headed back. We headed back to those apartments to
knock a bit and didn't have any luck, people just weren't interested. We
then had a lesson with Santiago in the park, beautiful weather!! We got
a call from the other elders to take them to wal mart to get a new tube
for the bike. By then it was dinner time!!!! Time is just going to
fast.... We went to dinner and it was with the Erazo family and she
talked our ear off forever. We finally got out of there and had a lesson
with Tony before ending our night.
SUNDAY - Good Sabbath day. We had 3 investigators at church. We
ate dinner at the church and it wasn't very good. Then we had some
really good success! We taught Raul Pacheco and he hasn't smoked at all
since we fasted with him. MIRACLE. We then taught Janette a quick lesson
then had a lesson on tithing with the Villatoros. We headed to numbers
and Hno Ortiz after asking one question about Halo just starts showing
me his art book and his new xbox and all this stuff. It didn't really
make me lose focus because I know its going to be the same thing when I
get back. We got numbers done on time. Sorry for the lameness of the
blog this week. In fact this transfer has been really bland. I promise
this last week I'll have a miracle for yall. Love,
Elder Aaron Jackson
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