Jacob - November 5, 2015

Hey mom I didn't take many Pics this week so I left my camera at the casa. Also did you send a package through the Mexico care package website? Cause I know that's a thing they have here and I think it's something they do through the Costco down here cause tons of missionaries get stuff from them. But I got a Package from Lexie which was full of Mexican Goodies. She sent me this Orange Powder that is similar to a chocolate milk mix, but i'm not sure what it tastes like yet. Um things here at the CCM have been normal. The days are kind of monotonous, but it's all good. I think my favorite days here are Sundays and Tuesdays, and Thursdays of course cause it's P-day. But I like Sundays and Tuesdays because that's when they show devotionals. I really like those here, they usually always have a good message with them. This week for Sunday we watched a clip from Elder Holand and it was very good. He just spoke about how Missionaries need to work 10x harder than he did on his mission and how we need to study and use PMG to our advantage. Also he said how we need to teach People and not Lessons which is something I need to do better at. Yesterday we had a lesson on that same topic of teaching People and I've been doing a bad job of going into the lesson too soon. I don't really get the investigator to that comfortable zone yet, but i'll work on it tonight. Thankfully our investigators are just teachers pretending to be investigators, but my night teacher is hard. He is pretending to have a Catholic background and our second lesson with him was a disaster. I'm not even going to write how bad it was. But fortunately they've been improving and I have a pretty good feeling about tonight. I'm going to put all the focus on him so that way me and my companion can figure out what he really needs. As far as your questions go I think the most important thing here for me is studying. I have this mentality that I need to study as much as possible, Also with the language I've kind of slowed down in the improvement. I really need to just study a bunch of verbs and nouns this week and take my language study a lot more seriously. But i honestly wish I could just read the scriptures all day. I don't have a ton of time to do that, but it's something that I've enjoyed here. Also there will be three missionaries that I know of that are going to my same mission, but there is a bunch going to Cali. I think most of my casa is going which is at least 12 or so in there and probably more from other casa's. Um I think the most helpful thing Lexie told me is through a letter she sent me on the 2nd week which just talked about working hard and consecrating myself in the work which I've been trying to do. It's just hard when my district is too busy goofing off, but oh well. I know I'm being blessed for my efforts. Anyways i think that's it. I love you mom and I hope you have a good time in Vegas.