Elder Tyler Maxwell Jones Week 9

Sounds like you guys are keeping busy. That's unfortunate that the van broke down. I assume that dad went fishing in the pond behind grandma and grandpas house. Sounds like cross country is wearing lil Danel out.

This week was pretty great.

We had gotten a referral from the English Missionaries that there was a less active member who had a wife that only spoke Spanish so he wanted Spanish Elders to come teach him and his wife. Their names were Arturo and Victoria. We had a couple really great lessons with them this week about the restoration and the Book of Mormon. They even came to church yesterday. They both really loved it. So I'm really excited for them.

Herick decided that he didn't want to get baptized right now and that he'll call us when he wants to start having lessons again. We've been trying to get in contact with him again after that but we haven't been able to.

We're teaching a man named Mannuel as well. We had actually found him while he was just sitting in his truck. We started teaching him and then earlier this week we stopped by his house and we started talking to him. He had drunken a lot that day and he was crying about how he's going to be kicked out of the room he's renting and that he wants to stop drinking. We talked to him a little bit but came back later this week. We talked to him again. He didn't get kicked out but he still really wants to stop drinking. He's having a hard time with it.

We had exchanges this week. I was in the English program for a day with Elder Long while an English Elder was in the Spanish program for a day with my companion. It was a lot of fun. Elder Long is great and we had a good time. We did a bit of contacting. English speaking people aren't as nice as Latinos. We had a good time though. We talked to some people and had a few lessons that wen't pretty well. We had dinner with the Bishop of English ward that night and he had the exact same mannerisms as Uncle Pat which was fun to see.

I got to play Piano again in sacrament meeting which is always fun. Didn't have to talk this week. There was a man that lives in the church building that was raiding the kitchen fridge. The Bishop asked us to go talk to him and keep an eye on him during church. So that was an interesting experience. 

Anyway, It's been an awesome week, hope you guys have a great week as well.

Love,

Elder Jones