Wow! What a week. This was an awesome week and a really awesome day as well. We just got back from a Zone Activity up at the mission home. I am so happy to report on a successful Cinco de Mayo... On Seis de Mayo.. :)
It was awesome.
Complete with rootbeer floats, hamburgers, hot dogs, s'mores, and a piñata!
So this is how we break a piñata here...a lot like playing softball with a big paper mache ball filled with candy!!
What makes this email session a little bit more intriguing is that I am actually using an iPhone 6 right now to do my emails. I miss typing on this keyboard!
We are running out of time today and we only have one available computer so E. Uata is using it. So.. I get to use the iPhone=Great day :)
Complete with rootbeer floats, hamburgers, hot dogs, s'mores, and a piñata!
So this is how we break a piñata here...a lot like playing softball with a big paper mache ball filled with candy!!
What makes this email session a little bit more intriguing is that I am actually using an iPhone 6 right now to do my emails. I miss typing on this keyboard!
We are running out of time today and we only have one available computer so E. Uata is using it. So.. I get to use the iPhone=Great day :)
We had MLC yesterday here at the temple complex which was a great success! It was fun to see everyone, but it was a little bit weird to notice that a lot of the leaders in the mission are for the most part younger than me in the mission now. Crazy!
We talked a lot about the divinity of the Book of Mormon and our commission as missionaries. I shared a little on that subject a few weeks ago I think, when I copied in the "Missionary Commission" by Elder Bruce R. McConkie.. I love it. More about that next week, because I am so running out of time!!
Earlier today we taught a brand new investigator named Jer and she is so awesome!! She is a perfect example of someone looking for the truth in a life of so much confusion. She is a referral from a return missionary.
Oh! I think I shared about how we met them last Wednesday! Remember when we got the call when we were emailing and then came here to the temple grounds to talk with them? Yea, we gave them a temple tour the next day and they LOVED it.
I am so grateful and happy to be a missionary. I love it. I love being able to see these miracles in other people's lives.
In other news, we had Stake Conference this last weekend and it was literally scheduled at the same exact time as the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight... 10am. I was SO HAPPY to see how many people came to church. I think the attendance at conference was like 974 or something like that!! So awesome! (By the way... Did anyone happen to record that fight at home? I know Pacquiao lost, but hey it would be nice...)
Okay well, I need to start wrapping things up right about now..
I'm sorry this was a little bit shorter than usual.
I am so grateful for all of you! Thank you for all you do for me. Just know that I am absolutely loving life right now. Missions are hard. Really hard. But we can do hard things. I have a testimony that hard things really do refine us. They make us better. They make us into more what Heavenly Father sees us to be. I love you and have a great week!!
I am so grateful for all of you! Thank you for all you do for me. Just know that I am absolutely loving life right now. Missions are hard. Really hard. But we can do hard things. I have a testimony that hard things really do refine us. They make us better. They make us into more what Heavenly Father sees us to be. I love you and have a great week!!
Love,
Elder Jacobs
