Jacob - May 1, 2017

Hey everyone, this week went well. To be honest it was just a lot of
finding and teaching, but it went well. We have a good teaching pool
and we are excited about the people we have. I had the opportunity to
go on exchange this Tuesday with elder beyhmer, we were in his area
and had a good amount of success. We had a really cool miracle where
we went to visit a member at about 4:15 and we had dinner at 5:00. The
member we were visiting decided to give us food even though we told
her we had a dinner soon. So we ate there because you can't say no to
Hispanics and the food was really good. We then went to dinner to find
out that the family wasn't there so our dinner pretty much cancelled.
But fortunately we were able to eat a little bit and were fine for the
rest of the night. Pretty cool, small way to see the hand of God. This
Wednesday we had a zone meeting on chapter 10 of PMG (how to improve
teaching skills). That was really good and using scriptures was
emphasized a lot, which is also cool because later in the week we saw
a less active with the coolest scripture marking organization I've
ever seen. I'll share with you a pic, it's hard to explain so
hopefully this picture helps. Thursday, Friday & Saturday were just
working days, I can't recall what to mention about them, Sunday though
was super sweet! We went to our ward for 5th Sunday, I guess that's
not out of ordinary, I can't remember if Ely did this, but every 5th
Sunday is missionary Sunday, so we had talks about missionary work and
also the doctrine of Christ. It was super cool. After sacrament we
went to another ward so my comp. could do a confirmation there. Turns
out though there was a visiting seventy, elder weatherford t. Clayton,
he spoke in this last session of general conference. So he was there,
elder Acosta was there (an area seventy), our mission President,
president Taggart and his wife was there and also the Spanish stake
presidency and many high council members. Pretty crazy, my comp was
nervous to do the confirmation in front of them all, but did great.
But we got to hear from elder Clayton and during it he had translators
for his talk, but when he gave his testimony he had the them him go
sit down. He said his testimony In English, but it was so powerful, so
firm and with lots of conviction, idk how someone can't not be a
member after hearing it. Super cool experience. Anyways that's pretty
much my week this week. Love you all! Take care!