I'm writing a bit earlier today to compensate for the late letter last week. Also, someone smashed up our apartment complex mail box so I won't be able to receive Mail here for a while. Apologies for that.
Sounds like things are keeping on there in Indiana. I always loved fall weather. It's getting a bit colder her in San Jose but its remaining relatively invariant. That's crazy that the election is next month. People here aren't too pleased either. Good to hear Courtney and Hal are still going about being goobers. That's exciting to hear about Allison, that would be super cool. I got dan's letter, that was nice.
It's been a good week. It proved more difficult to get people to general conference than to regular church. We didn't end up getting anyone to conference even though we had devoted so much time to trying to get people to it. Nonetheless, I really liked the conference. We were permitted to watch all of the sessions which was great. A lot of really good talks, my favorite was probably Henry B. Eyring's in priesthood session.
We got a good bunch of investigators this week. It seems like the pattern is that if we teach a lot of people, many will fall through but the ones that stay will be decently solid. We're teaching a member's sister. It's usually most convenient for them to have us come over on Mondays for family home evening to teach her which has been good. She's come to church a few time and really liked it. However she wasn't able to make it to general conference. It's coming along well though.
We had exchanges this week. I went with Elder along and Elder Brayton in the English program. We got to do bikes again which was a lot of fun. There's a hill right in the center of their area which is really fun to just glide down. They've got bike lanes all over the place here as well. We had a couple lessons. They went alright, the person we were teachings sister was in the room who was relatively hostile to what we were sharing. So it ended up that we were mostly just trying to abate problems with that. It ended up alright anyway. We don't usually have problems like that in Spanish, Latinos are so nice.
We had interviews this week so we had to drive up to the mission office. Everyone was a bit behind on schedule so we sort of just rushed through the interviews. It was just a sort of nice 3 minute check up. While we were waiting we spent time just talking to our vehicle coordinator about an issue this week.
Earlier this week we had parked our car in a parking lot to walk to a lesson. The lesson went well but when we came back there was a giant dent in our back bumper. There wasn't a note or anything. So we had to spend the entire next morning sitting in the police station filling out a report.
Something kind of fun is that in some neighborhoods whenever we walk through the kids will run out around us, cup their hands together, and blow into their hands trying to imitate bird sounds. That's always fun.
I've learned a good few hymns on the piano now. It's getting easier to learn them now. I really like playing the piano. Last night while my companion and the other zone leader went to go take numbers at the church, I just started playing the piano. Elder Brayton is learning how to sing so I just play the hymns while he enjoys singing along. That's a fun part of the week. Numbers usually take an hour or so.
Oh, as well. Something kind of funny that keeps happening to us. All the members get the biggest kick out of seeing my companion and I eat the hottest peppers they can find. There's a little red one that they commonly use. It basically just stings the second you bite into it. Last night at dinner, the hermano just got the biggest grin and then pulled out a bag full of raw habaneros. So my companion and I each downed a few of those. That was less fun.
Anyway, hope you guys have a good week.
Love,
Elder Jones
Hello Dan Dan the mustache
man. I'm glad to hear of your efforts in mustache growth. That's funny
you were running in the rain. We don't ever get rain here in San Jose.
That's awesome that you get to study some cool things and that you got
into accel math.
That cat has a very good looking mustache. I hope your mustache looks as good as that cats.
Hope you have a good time in school and cross country.
Love,
Elder Jones
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