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