Elder Tyler Jones week 82

That’s crazy that church for you was cancelled. It’s hard to remember that you guys are in winter right now. It’s been in the 60’s and 70’s all week.

We had a good week, Herbert came to church again and it seemed like he likes it. This is his third time coming to church and he’s planning on being baptized the 24th of February. We’re pretty excited for that. Hopefully everything goes through with that.

We have had a lot of less active men come back.  Jordan’s dad, Marvin, has been pretty consistent in coming to church since Jordan’s baptism.  So that’s been pretty awesome.  We had 16 men in elders quorum this Sunday. 

The branch is hoping to turn into a ward at some point.  So we’ve been talking a lot about that. It still needs a bit of growing but it seems like it’s on its way. They’re definitely the biggest branch I’ve been in. We talked to the stake president and mission president this week about what would need to happen for them to be a ward but they weren’t quite sure.  They want to do a big missionary blitz like they did in my last area around Christmas time. I’m not sure how effective it was but we’ll be doing it anyway.

We had a valentines party on Saturday, where they made a lot of lasagna. We ended up having so much lasagna that after church on Sunday we all got together to eat lasagna again. Herbert came to the valentines party as well so he had a good time.

Today we went and played rugby for a few hours with our zone. That was a lot of fun. I also tried making gulab jamun. It turned out tasting like wet funnel cake. The problem is I don’t really like funnel cake. But the other elders like it so they’ve been going at it.
 

Have a great week!