Jacob - October 15, 2015

Hey mom, this week was pretty tough and learning Spanish is hard, but i think the next few weeks will go by better. I think the first week is always the hardest, but it has been good. im glad im here. This week has pretty much a lot of learning spanish, eating, teaching lessons (in spanish) and just hanging out I guess. My first investigator was Luis and it was a really hard first lesson because we didnt know what he was saying or let a lone what to say back.. But these last two lessons have been really good. tonight we teach him our last lesson, but i think itll be good. we committed him to baptism last lesson so this lesson were going to explain the law of chastity, a little about the temple and then lastly some of the plan of salvation. He lives with his girlfriend so we will have to marry him for him to be baptized, but oh well. Um the food has been good, ive kinda sucked it up and ate whatever theyre serving. some things are better than others, but at least there is cereal for breakfast and dinner. also ive ate a lot of watermelon, kantalope, and that green melon. we went to the temple today which was pretty sweet, ill try and send you some pictures next week. but being here, the days are long, but the weeks are fast. Its kind of interesting, but so far so good. anyways feel free to ask anything about here cause idk what to say. Love you.


my companion is Elder Williams and he is from Idaho. We get a long pretty well and we had a good talk last night about how we grew up and what it was like. he plays football so its nice to ask him a little about that, but so far we have got a long just fine. He is also going to the same mission as me so i hope we get the chance to be companions again someday. We have heard a ton of rumors about the first investigators.. weve heard theyre teachers in training, that they are legit investigators or that they are just members. but im taking the lessons serious no matter what because even though my spanish sucks and he is a member.. me and my companion can still teach him or strengthen his testimony with our lessons. i have played a little cage soccer, which is soccer in a fenced basketball court. its pretty fun and is really fast paced. i also have played basketball, ping pong, foos ball, lifting and other excercise stuff like olypticals and they also have tennis courts so there is plenty to do here. im not quite sure if i could say my testimony in spanish.. itd be really simple like yo se dios es mi padre celestial, simple stuff like that.