Merry Christmas movie house!!

 

どうもジョーンズ長老です！

Wow what a week! I hope you guys had a good Christmas :)

We had some great lessons this week, and quite possibly the worst lesson I've ever taught haha! I guess that happens when you go in with a plan, then end up having to teach about the word of wisdom and law of chastity... but y'know, we got it done! Our friends are all doing really well, 5 of them came to church, including an old guy who's married to a member that hasn't really shown much interest!

We had a really neat experience with a guy Elder Richardson and his last companion taught too! He had accepted a baptismal invitation, then ghosted them. But we reached back out and he asked to meet with us! We did and he wants to be baptized on the 22nd. Let's goo!

Christmas was a great time, we just visited some members and delivered cookies to some other missionaries. 

Transfer news night was crazy! We were so excited for all the news haha. Elder Richardson is heading down to Odessa! So he'll still be super close.

Heres a super poem I got from a missionary a while back :)

"By grace ye are saved, the preacher said

Believe and be saved and rise from the dead

By grace ye are saved from sin and from hell

Believe and be saved and all will be well.

The preacher returned to his new spacious home

With his brand new Mercedes and everything chrome.

He went to his study, his thoughts running deep

Dozed for a minute and died in his sleep.

He sat with Saint Peter and said with a grin

'I believe in the Savior, so please let me in'

Saint Peter said with a sigh

'The devils working hard and the tolls running high

To believe in the savior, you must do what he says

For faith without works is nothing but dead

Satan knows Jesus and believes in him too,

So what's the difference between Satan and you?'"

またね！

Playing Pacman on Christmas Eve

Puzzle time!

Sunrise

Tortoise boi

Santa's coming to town!

 

Hola!

(That's right I'm changing it up haha)

This week was pretty good! We had to send off an Elder that's going to Mozambique, so that was kinda sad, he's so sick! In the words of his companion he is "among the noble and great ones"

We had some great lessons this week too! Unfortunately the two kids can't get baptized yet due to some stuff with the adoption, but eventually they will! The member that owns Crumbl here gave us a bomb referral and she is praying about baptism right now! She's flying through the Book of Mormon, and she's been coming to church!

Hmm... what else happened this week?

Oh! We had a Christmas program for church, which was... interesting. 

I also got a sweet shirt from some service! What a blessing haha

Well anyway, hope you all have a very merry Christmas! Watch the Christ Child if you haven't already ;)

Oh also, thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!

メリークリスマス！！

Zone donuts!

Swing set

Tacobell nativity?

Cake from a member!

Redneck jousting??

"Mummy my tummy hurts"

 

Sick glasses Iwaasa 長老 gave me

どうもジョーンズ長老です！

This week was pretty darn wild. Things started off normal, but pretty quickly went off the rails haha.

We had a lot of good member lessons, and got some solid referrals that we're looking forward to working with, but we'll see how it goes!

On Thursday we had zone conference, which was super fun! We got to go down to Odessa again hehe.

Now... the problem... so they served enchiladas at zone conference right? I ate some of course, and then went on exchanges out to a small town called Big Spring.

I got food poisoning.

It was the worst haha. I was up all night and wasn't able to eat anything real for a day and a half! It was so wild, I stayed with another Elder that got sick and we slept while my companion did the Lord's work haha. But I'm back to tip-top shape!

"Born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth." (Hark the Herald Angels sing)

愛しているよ

Some throwback pictures I found

Dodgeball that ripped really bad...

C'mooonnn, where's the snow??

On exchanges

メリークリスマス皆さん！

This week was super busy, and next week is already lined up to probably be the most hectic week of my mission. Lots and lots to do...

I can't really remember anything too wild going on this week honestly. We started Light the World which has been really fun! Christmas time rules, I can't believe it's already December though! We got invited to a couple other wards' Christmas parties which were both really fun. One was the Spanish ward so I faked my way through some conversations haha. 

OH! I started to learn how to play the ukelele, so that's cool

Anyway, I hope you all had a good first week of December! Remember to do Light the World! Oh hey, maybe read your patriarchal blessing this week, I dunno, I'm sure it'll help ya somehow!

またね！

Elders we live next to enjoying the sun

Spanish Christmas party

More Christmas party