Well this week was another great week! another week full of teaching and preaching the gospel!
Tuesday we got in contact with this small family we've been trying to contact for a while now! The guys name is Jose, he's originally from the Dominican Republic, but moved to Brooklyn when he was 5. So he speaks more English than Spanish. We just talked about the Yankees for a while then actually had a lesson when the rest of his family got home! It's really nice to have something in common with investigators so you can actually just talk to them. That's the way it is with Dominga and her family now, it's just like going to grandmas house, we go and she feeds us and we get to just talk and end up sharing a message!
Wednesday was a funny day hahaha, we didn't get to teach a lot, but we did have one set appointment that actually happened! We were at this lady's house and she has this kid named lester, and he ate something that made his tongue blue so he kept coming up to our faces and showing us and it was pissing me off, and finally she gets up with an el libro de Mormon in hand and grabs him and just starts beating him with it hahaha, it was actually pretty funny.
Thursday we had interviews with President Wilson, just for him to see how we are doing and everything. Then we had weekly planning, the most boring 3 hours of the week by far. Then we went over to a members house from the English ward and she fed me a big ol roast and potatoes, corn, beans, rolls, you name it! it was get down good! I loved it! That happened until 8 then we tried seeing a few people and nothing happened there.
Friday. Friday was really slow and we had the interview for John's baptism, and that's about all that happened.
Saturday! Saturday we had Another Baptism! The baptism was great because it made another day of just straight trying to contact and find, and coming up empty, to seeing our efforts pay off. It was a great baptism! He's super solid, and after baptism they really are a different person and John's going to be a great disciple of Christ!
Sunday I had the opportunity to give John the holy ghost in sacrament! I was so nervous because it was in front of the whole branch and it was in Spanish, it was pretty awesome experience though!
Well that was my week here in Virginia for my 14th week.
Hope everyone has a great week!
And thanks to all my family for writing me those notes!!
con amor, Elder Jacobson
boy, so that was nice!! And it was soooo good!
us and John before the baptism
"paluche" the dog Dominga bought to try to give us!! Hahaha it was awesome!
(the Domingas kept the dog:-)
cops at our neighbors because we got to hear them fight for 2hours and finally someone called the cops
me blowing out my candles
everyone always tell me I look like from the
city? And the members that fed us said I look like a good old countryboy, so that was nice!! And it was soooo good!
I found a bakery in Harrisonburg that would deliver cinnamon rolls and chocolate milk for Ry's birthday! I asked the guy if he would send me a picture and he told me his camera was broke, but he would try. I told him I would take what I could get. Apparently that's true because I still looked at this picture a dozen times that day! Haha!
I feel lucky to be able to send Ryan things. I know he'd be fine without packages and other items that I sometimes mail, but it's more for me. I missed him so much on his birthday. The picture of him blowing out the candles on a cake made my week! I want to personally find everyone who has shown him kindness and thank them (I think that's a 'mom' thing) :-)
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