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!

The Hernandez Family

Tuni - he's paralyzed from the neck down. We play cards with him sometimes

Elder Wei and Elder Jones

The Burgara family

Brother and Sister Russel - our ward mission leader

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