Hey Guys,
That's still so crazy that Courtney's getting married. Sorry Dan and Allison had to run out in the rain. It never rains here in San Jose. I'm glad you're enjoying your new job.
So this was an awesome week. Exchanges are tomorrow. Fortunately Neither I, nor my trainer have to go anywhere. Just a couple people in our zone are leaving. We went crazy with missionary work this week. Our Bishop gave us a list of less active members to go visit and we visited them this week. We got a bunch of really solid investigators from it. We went to go teach them and they would end up wanting us to teach their non member family members. On top of that, this week we got a few really awesome referrals from the members in the ward.
We had also talked to an interesting man this week just while we were out contacting. We had started talking to him and he had some interesting ideas about how Jesus had already come and that everyone left on earth is garbage and that we're all doomed. So that was a fun experience.
We had stake conference this week which was awesome. They had us go to all the sessions of stake conference. They had my companion do the translating into Spanish which was interesting to see. None of our investigators came. We had gotten a message about half way through stake conference, we got a message from one referral that he was on his way. He had been trying to walk to stake conference. We couldn't get him a ride. We went to meet up with him to talk with him. He had ended up walking about 6 miles to try to get there. He seemed super positive when we went to talk to him and he seems like he is genuinely interested. He's been homeless for about 3 months now. We're probably going to be trying to connect him to employment resources. The employment resources center is in our ward building which is nice.
Something I don't think I've mentioned yet is that the amount of diversity just among Latinos in San Jose is crazy. We're teaching all sorts of people from pretty much everywhere in Latin America. All the members are from all over the place as well. One sister in our ward is from El Salvador and she taught us how to make Papusas. Papusas are super good. They're basically this special batter that you flatten out into a circle, put whatever you want inside, ball up the contents inside the batter and then flatten it out again and cook it. It's super good.
Anyway, this has been an awesome week, hope you guys are having a good time in Indiana. I'm doing well here in San Jose
Love you guys,
-Elder Jones
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