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Elder Tyler Jones week 95

It was awesome getting to talk to you guys yesterday!

We’ve had a good week! Lots of good things happening. We had another giant, all of San Jose, party this week. That was a lot of fun and we’re even starting to teach someone that came to the party. Her name is Luna and she has a son that’s 20. She has had a baptismal date in the past but dropped it. So we’re excited for that.

Other than that our other investigators are doing well, the Hernandez family is doing awesome they’ve come 4 weeks now.

Elder Tyler Jones week 94

We had a pretty cool week,

I got my new companion elder Larsen, he sort of looks like a smaller version of me according to the members, so they’ve taken to saying that he’s my little brother. He’s pretty cool he’s got red hair and glasses and he’s about 5’6. They’ve been getting a good laugh out of that. He’s been out almost 6 months now and he’s awesome!

The Hernandez family came back to church this week! It seemed like they really liked it this week. We had a lesson on the Holy Ghost in gospel principles and they were participating more than most of the members with really insightful comments. So that was super cool. They’re an awesome family. It was also testimony meeting and the Henríquez family, which was baptized about 7 months ago gave their testimony on why they decided to join the church so it was super duper awesome! We’re really excited for them.

There was a big cinco de Mayo party for all of the San José wards this week. It was hosted by the las Colinas ward. That’s the ward that I stared my mission in. So it was kind of surreal going back there. I got to see all of the people from the ward again. One crazy thing was the Flores family has a baby. I remember seeing the baby when he was super little. Now he’s up running around talking and everything. It was so crazy being back there.

So it’s been awesome! We’re super excited.

Hope you have a great week!

Elder Tyler Jones week 93

It was a pretty awesome week!

The Hernandez family came back to church. And they were being really well fellowshipped and everything. They were participating in classes and it was all super cool. Gospel principles was on Adam and Eve and they really liked it. They were asking questions and sharing insights and everything. So that’s been really cool. We’re going to be meeting with them this week. 

Kind of a cool experience this week. We were at a member's house this week and we met the member's father in law. He’s visiting from El Salvador. We started talking to him for a little bit and he actually became really interested. We came back the next day and talked to him for about 2 hours. He’s been to church a couple times in the past but after talking to him he decided that he needs to come to church and he needs to be baptized. The problem is he works sundays while here in America. He said “tomorrow I’m asking my boss if I can have Sundays off”. Turns out his boss said no. But he’s going back to El Salvador in like 2 weeks and he knows he won’t have to work Sundays there. And even better he lives right across the street from an LDS church. So he’s planning on going and getting baptized in El Salvador. We’re gonna get him in contact with the missionaries down there.

Today was pretty cool. There’s a mini golf place near our apartment that is owned by a member. They let the missionaries go for free whenever they want. So this morning we went and did minigolf for a while. That was a lot of fun. 

We also found out that my companion is getting transferred. He’s going to Las Colinas, the ward I started my mission in. I’m getting a new companion named elder Larsen. I don’t know him too much but he’s short, has red hair and hasn’t been out very long at all. So I’m excited for that.

This apartment I’m in is really nice and it has a gym so it’s pretty nice.

One thing that’s kind of crazy to think about is that the California San José Mission is the most expensive mission in the world. Also, right now I’m in the most expensive apartment in the mission. We're really close to the googleplex, we have Samsung down the road. All of
the giant tech companies are all around us. It’s also a pretty nice apartment so the church is paying more than 3,000$ a month for this apartment. That’s super crazy.

But things are going well for me here. I really like the ward and I’m really enjoying the area.

 

Have a great week!

Elder Tyler Jones week 92

Sounds like things are going pretty great.  Thanks for getting me an iPhone!  That’s really nice of you.  They’re asking me if I want to keep my iPad for like 80$. I’m thinking I shouldn’t.  I don’t really know what I would do with it if I’ve got a phone and then get a laptop for school.  I’d just upload all my notes and photos onto a usb that I can bring home.

We’ve had a pretty good week!

The Hernandez family ended up not being able to come to church this week. They were planning on coming to church but then the mom and daughter got sick so they didn’t make it. We’re going to be meeting with them and hno. irhaeta this coming week. We were talking to the young women president and we’re goin to see if we can get the daughter to girls camp this year. 

The Moreno family came to church this week. They’ve been inactive for quite a long time and it was their first week back. They ended up being a bit late and only made it for a portion of sacrament meeting but they got to meet some members of the ward and have some good relationships. So that’s awesome. 

I FaceTimed into a lesson with a lesson with an investigator in my last area. That went pretty well. We were actually at the end of splits so we called in with hno. Jimenez, a member in our ward. He did really awesome and we were able to get her to commit to coming to church this week. So that was pretty awesome.

Sounds like you guys have been having a good time.  That’d be really awesome to go out to scout camp with the young men. 

It’s kind of crazy to think you guys are getting snow. It’s been feeling like summer here. In the 70’s all week. So that’s been really nice.

Excited to talk to you guys in a few weeks!

Elder Tyler Jones week 91

Glad to hear things are going well.

We’ve had another great week!  This is an awesome place to be working.

We’ve been helping a family come back to church. They haven’t gone in about twenty years and they’re coming back. They have a young son that they’d like to be baptized as well. So we’re helping him be baptized as well. We’re really excited for them.

We also had a family come to church this week. It’s the Hernandez family. They’re a really awesome family with 4 kids. It seemed like they really enjoyed church and were really well fellowshipped. It was ward conference so it was a bit of a weird meeting but it allowed us to explain the priesthood better to them. So that was really awesome. We’re going to be meeting with them this week.

We watched Coco today. I liked it. I thought it was a really good movie. We went to watch it with our high councilor over missionary work.

 

 I got my flight itinerary this week. Looks like I’m going to be flying into Fort Wayne at 9:00pm June 13th.

It was an awesome week!

 

Elder Tyler Jones week 90

We had a good week!

Julia got baptized! We got her all ready to be baptized this week and we had her baptismal service right after church on Sunday. It was really awesome since so many people were able to attend. They seem really happy though. She went to primary again today and In a couple months she's going to start going to young womens. We were talking to the Young womens president about seeing if she could go to Girls camp but she just barely misses the cut off. But either way they've been making lots of friends in the ward and they're really happy to be here. They want us to start working on Julia's brother now. He's a little bit older and living with his girlfriend but they want us to try to get him coming as well. So we'll do what we can.

Had a fun experience on a bike this week. So, in this area I'm just using another elder's bike to get around but the problem is that his bikes front portion with the handlebars and the wheel aren't really attached to the frame to well so its a little shaky sometimes. We were riding home from an appointment we had and there was a guy on the side of the street. So, I decided to stop and talk to him. But as I put on the brake and began to slow down the entire front just gave out and it flipped me over the front of the handlebars. I didn't really get hurt too bad at all but it was a really good conversation starter with the guy on the side of the street.

Other than that we've been visiting a lot of our less active members. It's been pretty good. We've been trying to introduce more and more people to family history and people are generally really interested.

They've got me signed up for "My Plan" now. That's a program they have returning missionaries do to prepare them to return from a mission. It hasn't really become real to me yet that I'll be going home soon. 

But anyway, things are going pretty great. I'm really enjoying this ward.

I hope you have a great week!