So much happened this week and it was so great.
So
Tuesday after my district had left I went with the zone leaders for a
day. I had just slept on their couch. I had to be at reception by 3:00
AM on Wednesday and I was the only one leaving that day. I set my alarm
for 2:30 so I could get their on time but I suppose they didn't trust
people to get their by themselves if they were alone so I woke up at
about 2:00 AM to a 50 or so year old Mexican man yelling "Buenos Dias
Elder!" which was pretty funny. We left at about 3:00 for the airport.
When we got there the man trying to figure out my flight was getting
pretty frustrated because all of the delta flights had had a problem
that messed with everyone's flights so My flight had changed slightly.
But Everything was alright. In the Mexico Airport I met a man from
Guatemala he had 4 kids who were 0, 2, 5, and 8. He wanted to get a
picture with me to send to his kids. He also was helping me some with my
Spanish. I met a man from Jerusalem in Los Angeles and we talked for a
while. On my flight to San Jose the flight attendant talked to me
because he had served a mission in St. Petersburg which was also cool.
I
got to San Jose at about 12:30 and my mission president and his
assistants were there to greet me. I pretty much had just stayed with
them all day. Other people were supposed to come in the same day I came
in but the Delta flight delayed everyone by a day who was coming from
Utah. There was one other Elder that came in at 12:30 at night though.
He was transferring here from Canada after a visa wait: Elder Ourkerk.
So the Assistants and I went to pick him up. The delta issue affected
him as well though and he was in an airport waiting 14 hours for his
last flight. We got back to the airport and at this point I had
apparently been awake for about 25 hours with the time change so Elder
Ourkerk and I got to sleep in until about 7:00 while the Assistants went
to get other missionaries in the morning. We had our introduction and
orientation which was nice.
Friday
we Got out companions. My Trainer is Elder Smith. He's super awesome as
well. We're both new to the area that we're serving in right now so
we've been going try to figure out who everyone is that we're supposed
to be teaching. Apparently there is a lady: Juana who had been baptized
but had not yet been confirmed so we've been trying to get in contact
with her all week. She was never at her house when we went and she had
never answered her phone but we're going to just keep on trying. We got
to teach a lesson with another lady named Rosa who has committed to
being baptized. We did a lot of street contacting this week as well
which has been really great. We apparently don't do any tracting in this
mission, only street contacting. We've gotten to set up a few
appointments with people. One of them was Juan who was just sitting on
his front porch rubbing his belly when we first met him but he agreed to
let us come back and give a message to him and his family which is
good.
We
went and did a bit of yard work for some members, in this process me
and my companion took down the biggest thistle I've ever seen. This
thistle was taller than either of us. It was cool seeing how big they
could get. We also cut up some box springs and threw them out for them.
They were from the English Ward but they were super nice. The husband
was the kind of person that new a little bit about everything so he was
really fun to talk to.
Going
to the Spanish ward was fun. Rosa hadn't come which was disappointing
but I was able to understand some of what was being said and I enjoyed
it. Apparently they're in desperate need of piano players so I'm likely
going to be playing piano in sacrament. We've got a little keyboard in
our apartment that I've been practicing on and it's starting to come
back to me.
Anyway, I'm out of time.
Love you guys,
Elder Jones
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