Jacob - January 14, 2016

Hey mom, sorry it took a while for me to write back. Our P-day is today since it was our temple trip. But that was a lot of fun. The Newport temple is very pretty and has a cool design. I'll try and send some pictures to ya. But this past week and a half has been pretty good. We had a zone meeting last week on Wednesday which was super good. It was focused on planning and goal setting and the ZL's shared with us their goals for the zone. But after that the zone has done super good. In total the zone has gotten like 20 something baptismal dates set for investigators and almost everyone has an investigator on date. Elder Galleguillos and I don't.. It kind of sucks and is kind of hard, but we have some people super close. Hopefully we'll be able to extend a date for them to work towards soon. But it was super cool on Sunday night. So idk if I told you yet, I think I have, but there is an area 70 that lives in our ward. But we went to dinner at his house and he was sharing some of his missionary stories along with his missionary photo album since it was super long ago. It was super cool, but we shared with him what we were going through and man it was super powerful what he said. It was really simple, but it just kind of went to my core. Anyways idk if I'll share too much about that since it was kind of special, but tonight if everything goes we'll were going to be tracking with him tonight. I'm super excited about that. I'm probably going to learn a ton. Um anyways I think those were mainly the highlights. Oh wait, I also went on a exchange with the ZL Elder Thornton. That was a lot of fun and I learned a lot from him. That night when we were knocking I took the lead in asking whether someone we were looking for was there. But I was able to communicate pretty well and idk it just was awesome to see how I was able to talk with someone without the need for help. So my Spanish is improving and recently I found that reading from the lesson pamphlets in Spanish has been an effective study idea. So I'll probably do that for all 3 main ones. And one last thing, I learned how to juggle. I'll send a video this coming Monday when I master it more, but I think that's mostly it till Monday. I love you mom and ill talk to ya later. Have an awesome week and one last thing, if you could send some family photos I would appreciate that. That way I can show people a little about you guys. Take care.