Monday, March 27, 2017
Elder Tyler Jones Week 38
I hope you guys are enjoying your spring break. That's crazy that Allison is going to have her driver's license soon. That sounds like you'll have a lot of fun teaching Chinese babies English.
It's been pretty good week. I haven't been as sick anymore. So that's been going well. Whenever we had gone to visit people if I seemed to be sniffly then they would try to give us their entire medicine cabinet.
We talked to David. He's the one that called us and wants to get baptized. He wants to get baptized still. The only problem is he has to overcome a word of wisdom problem but he seems to be enthusiastic about trying so hopefully all goes well with that. We're going to go visit him again tomorrow. He's the husband of a member. So she's pretty excited about that.
There's another guy we're teaching named MatÃas. We keep trying to teach him and he's come to church. The problem is that he's pretty much only interested in coming to church to find a wife. So we're not sure where things will go with that.
We met a guy named Ricardo we met in the street this week. He was baptized in El Salvador then moved here. He hadn't been to church yet so he had never had his records in our ward. He came to church this week though. He walked a long way to get to church. We offered to find a ride for him but he didn't want one. So we ended up finding one for him to get home though.
I got a call from the sisters in my last area and Kristie is still going to be baptized. So I was excited about that. She's going to be baptized on the 15th of April. So I'll probably be able to go back and see that happen.
We have a member of our ward that owns a catering business. He feeds us every Tuesday and he makes the best food ever. I'd actually been hearing about his food since my first transfer in the mission. He's pretty famous among all the missionaries. I'll attach some pictures of what we had the last time we had dinner with him.
It's been a good week. I hope you guys have a great week!
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Elder Tyler Jones Week 37
It's been a pretty good week. Elder Freeman is pretty awesome. He's doing really well so far. It's been a good week for us. A lot of our investigators are coming along really well. The hardest thing for us is getting them to come to church. Almost any Latino will listen to us, it's just they often times won't keep commitments which is a little frustrating.
A guy in a taxi waved us down to talk to us. We had a lesson with him and his family this week. He has a wife and a young son. He wife was baptized a few years ago back in El Salvador. He had taken the lessons with the missionaries with the elders in El Salvador but had never gotten baptized. So now he's interested in learning again. The wife isn't on our records since she has been less active since moving from El Salvador but now they're both interested in coming back to church. They're a really awesome family.
There are a ton of Tongans in Eastern Palo Alto. a lot of Tongans are already members of the church but they're all really really nice. We had lunch with a Tongan member today. People like to say that Latinos will feed you a lot but it's not even close to how the Tongan members are. They love to make the missionaries eat. A Tongan serving elder in my mission apparently gained 90 pounds on his mission. They're all super nice and funny though. They're a lot of fun to be around.
I've been feeling kind of sick lately which isn't too fun. It's going all right though. We're not biking around anymore so it's not too bad to keep going.
There's a really funny older couple that was baptized about a year ago and is preparing to be sealed soon. They're the Clementes. They're just the best. Sister Clemente is the nicest lady ever and brother Clemente is the funniest guy I've ever met. They're both in probably their sixties. So we go visit them every once in a while. They went to San Francisco this past weekend and got us both ties.
It's been a great week. I hope all goes well with you guys!
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Elder Tyler Jones week 36
It's been an awesome week. My new area is pretty awesome. There's a lot of cool stuff here. It's a really interesting area. There are a lot more Latinos in this area than my last area so it's a lot easier to find people to teach.
The ward is pretty awesome. They're pretty good amount of missionary work. The members are really anxious to do missionary work and they have a lot of people for us to teach. So that's really awesome. A lady apparently is trying to set up a time for us to teach her friends. She also wants me to teach their children to play the piano as well. So that should be a lot of fun.
A couple days ago a guy gave us a call and told us he thinks he has a testimony and that he wants to get baptized. The elders had been working with him a long time ago. But he just gave us a call a couple days ago out of the blue. So that was a nice surprise.
My companion is Elder Freeman, he's pretty awesome. He's really good at playing the violin. His Spanish is coming along well and he's doing awesome.
858 Coleman Ave, apt G Menlo Park California 94025
That's my new mailing address.
It's a really nice area to be in. T here's a lot of cool things to see, a lot of Latino stores and whatnot. The only problem is the traffic is the worst I've ever seen.
I'm happy, it's an awesome area and I did a pull up today.
Hope you have a great week!
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Elder Tyler Jones week 35
I'm sorry you guys have been so sick. I hope you get feeling better. I'm glad Courtney and Hal are happy. Sounds like you guys had a good family sick day.
It's been a pretty good week. We were looking a lot for investigators in the Campbell ward. That's been going pretty well. Latinos are usually nicer to us, though. They were able to find a few more people to teach though. So that's good.
I translate in church some weeks. Sometimes they have high councilors, members of the stake presidency, or random other English speaking people that show up to the San Tomas branch sacrament meeting so I translate what's going on into a little head set and they have headphones to listen in. At first it was really really hard. I realized that in Spanish I wasn't really connecting the Spanish word to the English word. I just connected the Spanish word to what it meant. So I could speak in Spanish and English but mixing them was kind of difficult. So I'd often hear something and know what it meant, it would just take me too long to remember the word in English. But it's gotten a lot easier just through practice.
Transfers are tomorrow. I'm getting transferred to the Menlo Park stake in the Valparaiso 2nd ward and I'm going to be training again. It's a pretty big Spanish ward apparently. I've heard a lot of good things about it. It should be good. One of my good friends, elder Vaiia, a Tongan elder serving here in the Saratoga zone is getting transferred to the Menlo Park stake as well. So I'm pretty excited for that. I've heard a lot of good things about the area. Apparently The Menlo Park area has some of the richest people in the country living there. There are still some ghettos all around it though.
I was really sad to hear I'm leaving San Tomas though. It didn't feel real until tonight when I visited the Hernandez family for the last time. Leaving an area kind of stinks. The San Tomas branch is super awesome, it's like a little family. I almost cried leaving the Hernandez families house tonight. But it'll be alright. I tried to get photos with some people. I wasn't expecting to leave so it was kind of short notice.
Anyway, I'm all packed up and ready to go. It should be fun. I love you guys, I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Elder Jones
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
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