Jacob - June 19, 2017

Hey everybody, so this past week was pretty good. My comp and I went
to town with following up and just working hard. Unfortunately no one
came to church.. but we've met a lot of new people that we are excited
about. One of them is the family Portio, they are from El Salvador
that live in the same complex as a member. So we went to visit the
member and we saw this family on their balcony and stroke up a
conversation with them and they ended up letting us in so we shared a
small message with them and when we asked for a return appointment
they said sure and that they would make us papusas (my favorite Latino
meal) so we came back the next day and had a dinner lesson with them.
It was super cool and we are excited about them, they have a lot of
beliefs that are already in line with what the gospel teaches. Also
this week we had zone Conference which was super good. We learned
about our missionary purpose, the role of the Holy Ghost in conversion
and also teaching repentance and baptizing converts. It was really I
souring and I learned a bunch. The mission at the moment is at a hard
point with as far as baptisms have been going and so we've been
encouraged to increase our faith and I've been noticing a difference
since the conference. Lots more motivation and dedication. Not that
I've been bad at those things, I'm always excited to work. But
hopefully we'll find more success as our faith grows. Also another
highlight was an exchange we had with the zone Leaders. It went really
well, I was with elder cooper, he's from Texas. But we taught a bunch
and just worked hard. It was a good day. There was some other families
we've met, but nothing super crazy to write about. Actually there is
someone we met a while back that she was taught by the missionaries
about 6 years ago and we went to look up the records in AreaBook, but
the record we found had a wrong address, but we think it's her. She
went to church when she was being and so we hope to help her start the
lessons. Um, that's about it. Today on P-day we saw a bunch of horses,
it was something different, but a good time. One of the sisters in our
district loves horses and so she was telling us all about them. I've
got a bunch of pics to send home so y'all get to see what I've been up
to.