Jacob - March 7, 2016

Hey mom, that's pretty awesome to see that Tayler is back home. Man it's weird, but I'm not too far behind, considering I've got 5 months already. That went by quick. But this week was pretty good for me. My highlight was definitely Sunday, but I'll save that for the end. Another highlight is that I had an exchange with one of the ZL's. I went to his area and had a lot of fun with him. We started the day out right by playing soccer with another set of missionaries. That was a lot of fun because usually missionaries don't live within the same apartment complex. Plus I knew one of them from my first transfer in the field. With Elder Thornton we had a pretty good day of mostly teaching less actives. Those were pretty good lessons and I understood quite a bit of what was shared. But I had a lot of fun with him and just trying my best to become better by following his example. We also spoke a ton of Spanish, that was nice. But also we found some cool people this week, we'll sort of. We taught some cool people. One is Luis and the other is Jose. Luis is pretty cool cause we're 95% certain he has been taught in the past because he has a picture of the San Diego temple in his home, but he is super open to the message. Also Jose is a teenager we found that has a super tough life, but we're trying to show him how much the gospel can bless him. He's pretty cool, but his story really makes me appreciate what I have... Sometimes I wonder why Heavenly Father decided to bless me with all I have when there are tons of people out there that could be in my shoes. Not sure if I'll ever figure that question out, but anyways. Back to this Sunday. Everything went super well. Testimonies were really good and one of the members shared her testimony in English so that one of my investigators could understand, but man it was powerful. And later in gospel principles I finally had a class where I understood everything, also nice. Later after church we taught Ethan about some of the commandments, also went really well and right after that we watched a baptism with him. But the thing that I'm most excited about is that after the baptism he was going around telling people that he's getting baptized next week. He even told my mission president. So my comp and I are super excited and are probably going to super focus on him this week. But man I can't wait! Anyways hopefully that's enough for this week. I love you mom, hope you enjoy the company of Tayler. Se cuida!