TUESDAY - 19 Months in the mission! Crazy, feels like the months
are days now. We barely made it through the day today, I had stomach
pains and my companion... still was very ill. But we worked! We had
dinner with the Salomon family with the North elders and had some good
food. Elder Jorgensen ruined my salad! Anyway, we went and taught
Milagros after, taught the Restoration and she didn't grasp any of it, I
don't think. Very beautifully taught, just... she didn't get it.
WEDNESDAY - Today was our awesome meeting, Christmas specialized
training! We were in the chapel for the first half and just heard from
everyone, different favorite past times and Christmas traditions. We
heard a few talents in there as well, elder Rodriguez sang and played
the piano. He is a bag full of talents that's for sure. We listened to
some more and then we broke for lunch. After lunch we stayed in the gym
for other talents. President asked elder drake "do you have a talent?"
he said "no, but I have a companion that challenged you to a dunk
contest last year and you didn't do it" Everyone was yelling and stomping
their feet as I tied my shoes in my pros clothes. He said "I cant dunk
with this guy, maybe we can see Elder Jackson dunk and later I'll show
you on video one of my dunks?" So I, without stretching or warming up,
two handed easy. (hope your reading Adam ;)) then I was trying to get an
oop but elder Drake coudn't time it right. After I went up and did the
chipmunk voice, president got that on video and many others haha, it was
a lot of fun. We then went back into the chapel and a senior couple
(Goldings) well, sister Golding had left her purse there and asked if we
would, like in the conference talk by President Monson about all the
youth praying that the tv would work? if we would do the same. So we did
and went and looked, Elder Dominguez found it in a room in the church.
After he got up to share his tradition or testimony and talked about how
his parents just got a divorce and he was praying lately to just know
if God really does answer prayers and that the purse was an answer to
his prayer. Then as he finished with tears in his eyes... I hid because I
knew he would pick me. Sure enough, he picks me. I shared how I got my
wisdom teeth ripped right before Christmas and how I was bummed because
the breakfast is my favorite part, when really its being with the
family. I love yall more than anything. What a great meeting it was. We
got back and had KFC at hna Escotos house and visited Raul Pacheco and
Jesus after. No luck.
THURSDAY - planning...yay! We had a lesson with Milagros with Hno
Cruz and taught he Restoration again and still she didn't get it! That
was all that happened today. My companion is STILL sick!
FRIDAY - Happy end of the world!!! We were supposed to help hno Cruz paint but he wasn't there, and he failed to let us know before we
all showed up in service clothes ready to paint... so we rode down to
the coronas and just went to their back and started cleaning. I love
service! It gives you such a good feeling. We went to grab dinner
from the Maganas and headed to the park to eat, we figured we would make
our last dinner together romantic hahahaha, and we ended up talking
about marriage the whole time!! Scary! :O We finished dinner
and went and taught Milagros again and talked about the correct way to
pray, it was really good but she still is praying all crazy and
incorrect, but better. Poco a poco as we say in the hispanic world. Ok
night.
SATURDAY - Well... we didn't plan anything today because we
thought the world would end... no jk haha. We had an awesome day today.
We woke up super early to go to a 5k run with the most of the mission.
It was a lot of fun, elder Henze and I finished at the same time and we
did way good, at least I feel we did. 3 miles just out of the blue, I'm
just naturally born that way I guess, cause I felt great after, and I
sprinted the last lap full speed, all the way around the track. We then
all went to Presidents house for "cereal fest" We ate breakfast and
President read his favorite Christmas story to us. It was awesome, he
told me before I left to say hi to the family. He is so tall! He was
using my shoulder as a rest after the run haha, I love President and
Sister Durrant. We got back, showered and went right to work. Everyone
was sore but I felt great! No idea why?! We visited a referral that
wasn't there but knocked on the neighbors door and found a new lady, set
up an return appointment. We ate dinner with the Ayalas at 4 and headed
to do an interview in Oak Cliff. Elder Rodriguez was talking about
marriage with me too.... aj;ksdjfkajskd;jfklajskjf why does everyone
bomb the old missionaries with questions like that! Anyway we got done
and came back and had a quick lesson with Raul Pacheco.
SUNDAY - Finally an opportunity to serve as leaders. The East
elders were on the verge of getting standards of excellence but needed
30 more contacts. So before church we went in their area and started
contacting. We got in with this one guy who was looking at bad stuff on
the computer, blasting Eminiem and playing God of War and talked for a
bit, then we left and I turn to the wall and they have a picture of one
of our temples and one of our pics of Jesus Christ... it was really
weird. We got 21 before church so we needed 9 after. After church we all
ate there and ate ribs... they were so good! We then went to finish the
contacts. We dropped them off (north) and visited the Villatoros, but
they weren't there, so we went and talked to hno Ortiz (LA) huge colts
fan, and RM. It was a good talk. We finished by doing numbers.
Love,
Elder Jackson
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