Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Elder Tyler Maxwell Jones week 26

Hello,

Glad you guys have been having some good times.  I'm happy everything ended up well with Courtney's wedding.  Thank you so much for all of the pictures.  It's nice to see everyone.  Dan looks really spiffy in a suit.  Looks like you all had a good time.

It's been a good week for me.  Our branch mission leader is back from vacation. So it's been awesome having him back to help with some of the coordination. 

We had New Year's this week. Since New Year's Eve isn't a great time to proselyte we had to go back a little early. We were allowed to stay up until 11:00 but I was tired so I ended up just going to bed at 10:00 anyway. Someone gave us a bottle of Martinelli's sparkling cider for Christmas so we just drank that before we went to bed.

We got back in contact with Silvia this week. She was one of our former progressing investigators. We lost contact with her over the holidays. We had a nice lesson with her and have another appointment with her soon. We're trying to get a member of the branch to come help fellowship. We've got one sister in the branch that lives really close to her that we're hoping on but we've got another member as a backup if she can't come. So I'm hoping that'll all turn out.

We're allowed to go to the temple twice a year. We go to the Oakland temple which is about an hour outside of our mission. I just finished planning, getting permission and confirming a temple trip for tomorrow. So we're pretty excited for that. We'll be going with some members to a 10:00 am session so we'll be able to get back before lunch. So we won't end up losing too much time for it. 

It's been a fun week though. We've talked to some interesting people. Some lady ran up to talk to us. We talked for a while and we realized that she seems to have something like schizophrenia. She ended up following us for a long time and we just talked to her until we got back to our bikes and just told her we had to go and biked off.

A member gave us a hot sauce called "100% pain". I put it all over my food, but Elder Bishop wasn't as convinced. It was hot, but it was all right.

Anyway I hope you have a great week. 

Love,
Elder Jones

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