Man your fish fry sounds like a party, sorry I missed all the cotton candy.
28 people baptized, that blows my mind… Ryan Arave seemed like a pretty
good guy to me.
This week was a little bit slow for Elder Richins and I, but Sunday made up
for it. We got to church, and more less actives, and investigators were
there then I have ever had on my mission. The less actives were Mcintosh’s,
Tod Smith, Malaya Guftason, and a guy named Smitty, and the investigators
were Smitty’s Fee-onss-ay (girl friend that he is going to get married
to) and Tod’s wife.
Mcintosh’s we have been visiting for ever, but we did some service for him
the other day, and he said he couldn’t thank us enough, we cleaned off his
roof, and fixed a sprinkler pipe, and he was blown away, he invited us over
for surf fish, and pork chops, and then they were at church the next day.
Malaya has been less active for a while as well. She has been married for
five years, but her husband has been in prison for four of those for
“accidental” breaking her 2yr old son’s femur. We talked to her for around
two hours, and heard her whole life story, and she came to church as well.
Smitty and his girl friend are both handicapped, but they have hearts of
gold. Smitty hasn’t missed a week of church yet, except when he had a
stroke. and his girl friend Jeniffer has Autism, but she is an amazing
singer, almost as good as mom.
Tod and Monica live in a super white trash part of town, but they are
actually really good parents. They don’t let there kids watch any TV and
only some movies, mostly Disney, and they put them to bed with classical
music every night.
Well we got to church on Sunday and all these people showed up, and we have
been trying to get a Gospel principals teacher, but not enough new, or less
active people come to Church to justify it. Well they all came this week,
so Richins and I found an empty room, and taught the lesson. It went great,
it was a little hard to keep people on topic, because some of them wanted
to talk about Muslims, and the Koran and stuff, but no, we kept them on
task.
Well Tod’s wife, and Smitty’s girl friend both want to get baptized, but we
haven’t set a date with either yet, so that is exciting, but our priority
is still Chris and Veronica and there family, I hope I am here long enough
to see these people get baptized, our transferes is the start of the week
after this one, but I think I will stay one more.
I think bri is just about to hit her half way mark isn’t she…?
Blows my mind that Had, and Isaz are just about to get home, Dad, you
should talk Issaz into writing me a letter when he gets home.
Mom, I hope you think of what the Mirror is for, but until then you could
just stand out on the front lawn and blind people driving by, with it.
Love you guys
Jacob’s Weekly Letter 9/20/10
September 20, 2010 by mistletoed
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