Elder Tyler Jones week 78

It’s been a pretty good week for us.

There’s a less active family that came back to church this week. They have a son that is planning on being baptized the 27th of January as well, so that’s pretty exciting. They came to church and it seems like they really enjoyed it. The dads name is Marvin and he was pretty excited about his son's baptism. So it seems pretty solid for the 27th. They’re an awesome family.

Emily and Hamilton have been doing pretty well. We talked to them again and taught them a little more and they said they would come to church Saturday. They didn’t end up coming though. So that was a little disappointing. We’ll be meeting with them soon to see why they didn’t come.

The Newark branch is pretty awesome. I’ve really enjoyed serving in branches. It’s a little bit larger than the Hollister branch. It’s like a big family. They’re awesome. President Gonzales is pretty intent on making the branch a ward. So he’s super awesome and missionary minded. A lot of the members are super busy here and don’t have time to go out with us so it’s usually either president Gonzales or our branch mission leader.

But it’s been a good week. We played rugby with our zone today which was a lot of fun. Got some groceries from a Chinese market in the area today. One of the elders in our apartment got Balut from the Chinese market. He’s also from Indiana and has never had it before. It should be interesting to see him try it. We got some lychee popsicles as well which were super good.I got some sort of grass jelly drink. That was pretty interesting and pretty good. 

I’ve been having a great time.