Ramirez - Perez family

Elder Tyler Jones week 88

We had a good week. Our area is ginormous. It covers Santa Clara up to Mountainview around Los Altos. It’s all densely populated as well.
That’s been really cool.

A lot of people here are family members to people in my past areas
which is pretty cool. It’s kind of like already knowing the ward.

So it’s been great here, excited for Easter, general conference and
April fools day.

Have a great week!

 

Elder Tyler Jones week 87

That’s super awesome to hear about Allie going to Morocco. That’ll be so fun. That’s pretty cool to hear about Chuck and Amy moving into ft Wayne. 

We had a pretty good week this week.

We had a lot of rain this week. I found a rain jacket in the closet here though so I was able to keep pretty dry. It’s good to have he rain. It doesn’t rain a whole lot here so whenever we get rain it’s good for the area. Not too many people want to open the door in the rain though which is a bit harder.

We got to meet with Gerardo this week. He’s doing well. He’s preparing to be baptized on May 17th! So that’s super awesome. They went to Lake Tahoe later thins week to enjoy the snow out there. It sounds like they had a lot of fun. They also went to church out there which is pretty cool.

This week I found out that I’m getting transferred to Los Altos. It’s pretty close to Menlo Park, one of my old areas. It’s where a lot of tech company campuses are, like Google. So that should be cool. There’s a Spanish branch there I’ll be working with.

So I’ve been doing a lot of packing and saying goodbye. It’s been a good area here.

Well, I hope you guys have another great week!

Elder Tyler Jones week 86

We had another good week.

Herbert hasn’t answered the door or his phone at all. So that’s a bit disappointing. Not really sure what happened. We asked one of the people fellowshipping him to reach out and see what happened.

We talked to gerrardo, he’s doing really well. He has a meeting tommorow to try to get divorced to his wife in Mexico. He’s trying to get married to his girlfriend here in the United States so he can be baptized. He’s already had 3 kids with her and they’ve been living together for a long time. They don’t have contact with his wife in Mexico so they’re working that all out tommorow. Hopefully all goes well with that.

I fixed up one of the bikes in the area so we’ve been able to go out biking more which has been a lot of fun.

We had some rain this week and apparently we’re supposed to have a lot more next week. So that’ll be an exciting adventure.

We climbed mission peak today. That was a lot of fun. We started the hike at around 7 and got done around 11. It was a pretty steep hike but the views were pretty cool. From the top you could see the entire bay. From San José up to Oakland and San Francisco. So that was a lot of fun.  Going down was a lot more fun than going up.

I hope you guys have another great week!

Elder Tyler Jones week 85

Sounds like you guys have been keeping pretty busy. That’s interesting to hear about the March madness for the youth.

We had a movie night this week, that was pretty cool. They watched Coco on a projector, they were deciding on what movie they wanted to watch and one member said he had coco. We got the disc from him and it looked pretty clearly pirated: thin case with paper printed out cover and then a generic Walmart cd inside. We probably suspected that since it hadn’t come out on dvd when he offered it to us. But it worked out fine. Everyone had a good time. We went to set up and left. But our branch mission leader said a lot showed up.

We had a cool experience this week.

I was driving while it was pouring down rain. Their was a constant pitter patter on the roof when all of a sudden we started to hear repeated clacking sounds. I looked out and saw hail accumulating on the rooftops. It began to look like snow. We pulled over and went out into the hail storm. There was hail accumulating everywhere. I quickly ran to the nearest pile and packed it all into a small ball and threw it at my companion. He did likewise. People were coming out of their apartments to see the hail. We used the opportunity to talk to a few people out in the hail. They weren’t interested but at least we tried. Quickly the hail cleared up and it all began to melt.

And that was how I had a snowball fight in California. 
We think Herbert is avoiding us. He hasn’t come to church for 2 weeks
now and is cancelling all of his appointments. So that’s been kind of
disappointing, not really sure what happened.

It doesn’t look like much, but it’s a lot for California.

We also found 3 chickens in the target parking lot today.

Have a great week!

Elder Tyler Jones week 84

We had another great week. Herbert wasn’t able to come to church this week because he was working but we did get to meet with him this week. He still feels a bit nervous right now. But he does still want to be baptized. He lives with a bunch of friends that have a hard time living the gospel and so he feels like it would be hard to live the standards while living with his friends.

There was a wedding in the branch. A lady that was baptized a little over a year ago got baptized to a man whose a Jehovah's witness. So that’s interesting. Apparently he’s not active in his faith though.

Their family came with them to church this Sunday. It’s been rather cold this week. Cold for California, that is. It’s been in like the 30’s and 40’s. It’s been a bit harder to catch people outside and get them to open the door. But it’s still been good.

 

The classes you sent for BYU-I sound like good to me. Not really sure what to expect but that sounds awesome to me.

I heard that black panther was a really good movie. So that’s cool that you guys got to see it. A lot of members have gone to see it and they say it’s really good.

We’ve been having a good time. We’re at the church playing sports right now.

I hope you have another good week!