Elder Tyler Maxwell Jones Week 4

I haven´t gotten any snail mail from Dad yet, but I´ll keep looking. I did however get a package this week from Lisa Benjamin. Could you give them a big thank you for me. Sorry it´s so hot in Indiana, The weather is perfect here. Sounds like you guys are having fun. Was Allison able to run the cart down any hills or was it too muddy for that? I still remember the Children´s museum in Indianapolis. I really loved that museum. Glad Courtney and Hal are doing well in college.

I really enjoyed reading Jesus The Christ. I read it pretty much all day last week on my P-day and finished it. So that was super good. I really enjoyed it.  

Spanish is coming a long well. It´s getting easier to speak it more quickly. Our lessons are coming along well, it´s becoming a lot easier to be able to say what I want to say in Spanish. However, whenever native speakers talk together I still have almost no clue what they´re saying. So I´m going to just keep working on that. We´re getting better at speaking Spanish together all the time. So that´s helped a lot with fluidity.

It rained pretty hard this week, so the person whose umbrella we were using for our christmas tree took it back. So Christmas in July sort of ended this week. The district that shares a house with us has been getting pretty sick this week. Most of them are in bed right now. So I´ll just be trying to keep my distance for a bit.

We don´t have much to do today, Elder Creager wants to sleep for a bit so I´ll probably just read scriptures. 

We got another batch of missionaries yesterday which is always fun.

Elder Pippert and I every night give each other some problem to solve just for the fun of it. last night we determined that Elder Creager, based on the assumption that he averaged 2 glasses of orange juice per meal had drunken 5 and 1/21 gallons of orange juice while he has been here. So yeah, Elder Creager really likes orange juice. 

I´m finding ways to cut out more time for reading the scriptures. There are a fair number of breaks in the day but they´re usually short but if I read during those times It adds up to a lot.

During gym time I generally play volleyball or ping pong. There´s also a group of Latinos that play basketball together every day at the gym. They´re all in there 20´s and 30´s except this one guy that´s fairly short and seemingly in his 50´s and he seems to be the best one playing. So that´s always fun to watch. 

A lot of the same has been happening. But it´s good, glad to be here and I´m learning a lot. 

Anyway, I´ve been having a great time.

Love you guys,

Elder Jones

 

 Anyway, Some scriptures I liked this week, in case you´re interested:

Matthew 6:32-34

John 16:33

1 Nephi 10:22

Mark 10: 17-22

and I´m out of time. I hope those are right,  My scriptures are on my desk, I just have my notes with me.

 One side of my view on my way to class.

 

Here´s my view on my way to class every morning. Looks even cooler in the early morning or at night with the fog and city lights.

Letter to little bother, Dan.

Hi DaNL, Glád yóú´ré hávíñg fúñ in Iñdiaña. That´s a lot of seconds. Ill make sure to try to get a picture of myself with thumbs up this week. Hope you guys had fun at the museum, I love that museum, I still remember going there when I was younger as well. Hope you have an awesome summer.

Love,

Elder Jone