Easter time

 

Dalton's bautismo

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Well happy Easter everyone! I hope it was a good one

We had a crazy week. Elder Holgreen and I are doing just fantastic! This has been the best transfer ever haha. We have a good ol' time together and have seen so much success.

Oh this week, I got to help set up an Easter egg hunt for another ward, and man it was fun. A bunch o' little kids were hounding hounding haha. It was the best of times

The highlight of this week was probably a lesson we had last night with a member and his nonmember wife. They're from Kenya! He knows Eliud Kipchoge (found out its pronounced Keep-chogay, sorry Elder T-Hud) anyway, we talked to him for a bit, then prayed with him and invited him to knock on his wife's bedroom door to see if she was ready for a message, and she came out!! We had the most spirit filled lesson and she was so grateful. The spirit is such a cool thing! 

Love yall!

またね！

Little doggone

Me mothering Elder Holgreen because he was dying

Dropping off my grandson at the airport :'(

Me getting pawned by some kids

Sicko mode all the time

 

Stir-fried ramen from Sapporo

どうもジョーンズ長老です！

Well I'm glad to inform you all that I've been sick all week still hahaha. I got strep throat now. So we're just rolling with the punches, and it didn't slow us down one bit. I'm getting the antibiotics for it today... hopefully!

We had tons of stuff going on this week. We had a basketball game between our Zone and the Odessa Zone, and we came out victorious!

We also had Zone conference, which went super well, there was some much needed instruction given. I'm excited for the rest of this transfer! 

After Zone conference I went on exchanges with another Elder that was originally assigned to Japan, but he's been permanently assigned here now :(

It was a good ol' time though! We went to a Ramen bar called "Sapporo", and it was hecka tasty

And to cap off this wild week, our friend Dalton got baptized!

He was probably the fastest progressing person I've ever met. He assumed he would learn about the church and quickly decide it was all garbage, but within a week of reading the Book of Mormon and learning from us, he decided it was all true! And then he overcame so much and got baptized 2 or 3 weeks later. He's gonna be a great member for sure! He's already planning how he's gonna teach his anti mom haha

Anyway, that was our week! Lots of craziness going on, but hopefully things will calm down here soon!

またね！

A turtle we found

Genera Conference and food poisoning don't go together

 

Judyann was up in Midland for a day!

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I hope all of you had just the best week ever! And I really hope you enjoyed general conference

We had a pretty good one down here for sure. Just lots of good stuff going on. We got back in contact with a couple we were teaching before and they gave us some sick chains necklaces haha

General conference was hecka good, but I had food poisoning for the first day, so I wasn't able to pay too much attention. I can't believe how much I've gotten sick here, golly! 

I can't really think of anything too too crazy that happened this week, but it was definitely a fun one!

またね！

Some cool stilts I got to try

Service with the chickens

The font wouldn't unplug, so I had to get back in...

The best of weeks

 

Ava!

Jasper!

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This was a crazy good week! We were super busy, but it was so worth all the hustle and bustle.

Transfers went great and I'm the luckiest duck to have Elder Holgreen. He's so hilarious hahaha. I don't think I've laughed this much ever

We had stuff to do all week, but it was all pretty normal missionary stuffs.

We had a meeting in Lubbock on Saturday and Elder Kyle S. McKay of the 70 was there. It was the coolest thing ever. That man is incredible. And he served in Kobe Japan! Anyway he shared some awesome stuff and we got to eat lunch with him. Right after the meeting we had Jasper and Ava's baptism. It was the coolest little ordinance.

Those two kids are the coolest ever, and their dad is on his way to baptism! If I could have a daughter like Ava I for sure would haha, she's hilarious.

One thing Elder McKay shared is that he asked President Nelson what he would write to all the saints of the world, and President Nelson responded with "I don't think I could do much better than D&C 45" so study that!

Anyway it was the best of weeks

Post run pic

La Iglesia

Engagement party?

 ヤッホ~皆さん！

This was a super good week! So much craziness happened haha, I honestly don't know where to start

So I'm staying another transfer here in Midland, but my companion is leaving to go train up a new missionary. He's pretty excited, he was getting tired of some of the stuff we do here haha. My new companion is Elder Holgreen, and he seems super sick! Can't wait to meet him tomorrow

Our ward rocks, we are some lucky ducks to get to be here! They do so much for the people we teach.

We met this guy a couple weeks ago, and he is probably the fastest progressing person I've ever met. He came to church in a suit, had read all of 1 Nephi that week, then we met this week and he decided he wants to be baptized on the 9th of April. It was crazy. He's YSA age, so we took him there, but hopefully he didn't enjoy it, that way he stays with us ;)

The two kids that are getting baptized this weekend are doing really good too! They're sweet, we went to a fake engagement party their step-dad was throwing for his son, and it was a good ol time. He's progressing really well too. Never expected it, but he's dropping coffee cold turkey, so LET'S GOOOO!!!

Also side note, I'm working on my visa stuff for Japan! I had a small hiccup because I lost my vaccine card, but we got it figured out!

The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real in case you forgot :) I've been studying it a lot, because it's not often that you hear a strong testimony that isn't about The Atonement. 

愛している！またね

New phone, who dis?

 

The Zone

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Well hello there everyone! I hope you had a good week :)

I got a loaner phone from the mission this week because my phone stopped working with the SIM card, so that was a rip, but now I've got a nice one battery life hehe

It was a really good week here though. We had a couple good exchanges, which was fun! We did a little more service and I found a new little trick. When you're cleaning out a nasty yard that the people don't care about, put all the metal you find in your truck and take it to the scrap yard! We made 91 bucks from it this week... but we gave it to the member we were helping out haha

We met some pretty cool people this week That came to church too! We also almost had to give talks  

Other than that, nothing too crazy this week

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またね

My companion getting a fresh cut

Some cool taxidermy animals

Service on service on service

 

Craft with the bois

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This week was pretty crazy. We did tons of service so I'm all burnt up today haha. We helped out gardening at a super coop nature museum here, taught a young women's activity, helped clean a super nasty member's yard, helped a couple missionaries move, helped clean a garage for 6 hours, helped vaccinate animals, then helped a member move. It was so much work haha

We also found out that a part member family we've been working with has two kids that aren't baptized, but they couldn't be more excited to! So they're on for the 26th :)

Nothing else super exciting happened, but there's lots of good stuff coming ;) 

I hope you're all looking forward to general conference next month! It will be so uplifting

またね

Sumo guy I found at service

My quest once I get to Japan