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Allison Morocco week 1

It’s been a pretty awesome so far. We made it here without any problems. Morocco is super interesting and the weather has been really good. My host family is really nice. It’s a Mom and her 16 year old daughter Aya. They both have really good English but they mostly speak French at home and the TV is always in French. There is a festival going on in Rabat called Mawazine where lots of famous musicians come and play on 7 different stages in the city. Last night me and Aya went to one of the concerts for a group called Texas. Neither of us had heard of the group before but Aya said it might be good to go on a night that wouldn’t be as crowded. The singer was a lady with a really thick English accent who screamed a lot. We didn’t stay very long but it was fun to spend time with my host sister. My roommate’s name is Sarah and she’s really nice. It’s extra helpful because she is learning French and can help translate. I really like my language class. There are about 8 of us in each room and we learned some Moroccan dialect for the first two days and today was our first day of Modern Standard Arabic. We got to go to the American embassy a few days ago and we met the other NSLIY group that’s in a different part of Rabat. It was interesting to hear about some of the different jobs people have working at the embassy. The food here is REALLY good. We have tagine every day for lunch except Friday. Friday is the day Moroccans cook couscous before they go to mosque. We also get out of school a little early on Friday. Moroccan couscous is the best! It has lots of pumpkin and potatoes and carrots. Hope you guys are having lots of fun! 

Alberto baptism

Elder Tyler Jones week 96

We were really happy to see Alberto be baptized this week! It was super sweet. His family was there to support him and they gave really awesome talks about how they were happy to have another family member join them in the church. The family has been members for a while now and Alberto and his wife were before pretty opposed to the church. So whenever Alberto would come to visit, the family wouldn’t be able to come to church. 

 

But we had dinner with their family a bit ago and started teaching him about what we believe and the gospel and he changed his mind and wants to go to the temple. Right as we were going into the baptismal font he asked if he could say a short prayer with me. It was really sweet he talked about how grateful he is to have found the gospel and asked that he be guided by the spirit as he moves back to El Salvador tomorrow.

So it’s been awesome!

Companions

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!