Week 2

Elder Jacobson hurt his back this week moving some stuff out of a cellar (I don't know who's cellar- hence my light scolding of wanting more details :-) Prayers for this to heal quickly would be greatly appreciated! He'd also love some bacon, but we're not sure that's prayer worthy haha :-)

Wow conference was soooo awesome! (The MTC is kind of just trying to find highlights of school to write about so I'm sorry my letters are kind of short) my favorite talk was probably Neil Anderson from priesthood session! Mom, Elder Holland made me feel more guilty than I ever have for breaking your heart ever. So I'm sorry!!! 

It really hit me this week why I'm here! and I'm so glad I came out here and get to serve the lord. My testimony has grown more than ever! 
We had the opportunity to give a sister a blessing which was pretty amazing. 

The investigator we had turned out to be fake.. we saw her at the temple and then she's our teacher now haha. 
The other pretty exciting thing that happened is right outside our window we heard a drive by shooting with a machine gun and it was at the bar 50 yards behind our house...pretty crazy here! Let me know what's going on in the real world! I love hearing from you guys! Keep writing!

 Ryan and his roommate Elder Harker from Oregon. 'We're basically the same person'

It was awesome after conference we had a zone review... just a testimony meeting, but I had the strongest feeling I needed to share.. it was like if I didn't speak I wouldn't ever be able to again.. but I shared about my thoughts this week after a long day.. where satan was throwing every sin I have ever done in my face. I said it's one of those things that you know theres only one place that's coming from, so we need to make our weaknesses strengths and I know we can all do this. I had this girl come up sobbing saying thank you for that,. then like 4 others said I really needed to hear that. It was the best feeling

We sure miss our Elder, but are so proud of him! I also reminded him that we packed earplugs. We were thinking along the lines of snoring roommates, not machine gun fire, but whatever the need!