Glad you guys are having a good time in
Fort Wayne. That’s
exciting that Allison has her Japan Interview, Hope that goes well. Good to
hear Fat Tina’s back. Sounds like Dan’s having a good time with the Pumpkins.
That’s insane that it took four and a half hours to vote. I guess a lot of
people are voting this election.
So I got transferred here on Tuesday.
We’re covering the San Tomas Branch and the Moorpark Ward. So that’s going
well. I’m with Elder Bishop. He’s super awesome. He’s willing to work and
we’re having a good time.
Our area is about ten miles by thirteen
miles. Our apartment is about a Mile and a half outside of our area. So we’re
getting to do a lot of biking. Apparently within the last few Months
missionaries have crashed nine cars in this mission. Which poses some problems
with managing areas.
Anyway it’s good. We get to do a lot of
contacting and it’s easier to talk to people. So apparently the finding
strategy of the missionaries before us was just teach lessons to active members
and ask for referrals. So there were basically no investigators when we were
coming into this area. But Elder Bishop is super willing to work so we’ve been
out contacting less actives, recent converts and their families. We walked
around the Spanish ghettos a lot looking for people to teach. We’ve gotten a
few investigators this past week. But I think we’re going to do better this
week now that we kind of understand the area better.
I think we’re going to have a good week
this next week. Were just going to be focusing a lot on building our teaching
pool.
We got to meet some interesting people
this week from going and seeing Less actives.
We met a man named CJ. CJ is pretty
awesome. He’s already quit drinking we’re just trying to work with him to be
able to quit smoking now. We talked to him a little bit this week. He doesn’t
want to try to ease off of smoking; he said that trying to ease off doesn’t work
for him. So he’s just going to try to quit cold turkey. So we’re hoping that
goes well. He’s also hoards a lot, so his apartment is pretty messy. We helped
clean up a little bit with him.
We do a service in this zone that’s a
lot of fun as well. Once every other week we go and wrestle an investigator. He
has some sort of psychological problem where he doesn’t like people touching
him. So what he does is he takes muscle relaxants and wrestles missionaries.
Every other week he just takes a little bit less and wrestles again. So
hopefully this should help him with that. His name is Mark. He’s about 57 years
old but he can dead lift something like 375 pounds. He’s huge. We don’t do
regular wrestling though. We do something called submission wrestling. In regular
wrestling the goal is to get them on their back for 3 seconds. In submission
wrestling your just trying to get them to tap out. So it’s more about putting
pain on the other person. That was a lot of fun.
I guess being a district leader and a
trainer is good. It seems like there are some missionaries that are really want
and are excited about getting leadership callings and whatnot. I, kind of,
think that’s dumb. It’s sort of just another thing to stress about. Although
I’m glad I’m with Elder Bishop. He’s awesome. I’ve sort of tried just solving
Rubiks cubes when I’m stressed about anything. That’s pretty fun. My fastest
time for solving a Rubiks cube now is 43 seconds.
Anyway, it’s been an exciting week. I
hope you guys have a good week in Indiana
Love,
Elder Jones
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