Elder Jones coming at you live from Gardnerville, Nevada.
This week has been pretty great! My comp and I are really starting to get into the Christmas spirit, and by that I mean we went and got a Christmas tree from some guy on the side of the road on Thursday. Picture included. Elder Guzman for scale (don't judge-Mexicans are short).
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| Elder Guzman posing with our new tree. |
Don't worry it won't be bare. We found a tennis ball in our closet that I promptly cut open to be our star and we just got some lights to chuck on there as well. Elder Guzman and I got some presents to put under there also. Probably all just socks.
This week has been going really well. We were planning on getting dinner from a cool pizza place in South Lake Tahoe with some young members, but instead got a call that a past investigator really wanted to have a lesson that night. I was like ugh, but pizza, man, but I knew that if I forewent a lesson just for some bomb za' I would go straight to the Telestial kingdom so we went to the lesson of course. And it was totally worth it! She told us she really wanted to be baptized, which sounds amazing. She has been investigating the church for 5 years and has told that to missionaries a ton of times and backed out, BUT this time she said she has nothing holding her back and she is really ready to commit, so we will see. I committed her (yay) to be baptized on a date in January and I believe this is the first time she's actually committed to a date, so fingers crossed she sticks with it.
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| Our view from Gardnerville. |
We went tracting a ton this week which was fun but also freezing cold. We have a car but our area is very spread out, so we use our allotted miles up very quickly. Entonces, we used our bikes a lot. The area that we were tracting in also happens to be extremely hilly, which was good and bad, but mostly bad (character building). Because on the uphills your legs are en fuego, and on the downhill you have 40 mph winds hitting you riding 20 mph when it's 20 degrees out. But its ok, I got numb pretty quick and was able to enjoy it after that.
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| Enjoying the cold weather as we travel our area tracting. |
Wednesday we had our Zone Christmas party which was sweet. Got to meet a bunch of missionaries and see some of my pals from the MTC. Also there was lots of food that we didn't have to pay for so that was nice.
Saturday we had South Lake Tahoe's ward Christmas party, which was another place where there was lots of food that we didn't have to pay for! Also, two exchange students (workers?) from Peru moved into the ward and we got to talk to them there, which was cool. I taught them all the Mexican slang I have been learning, like "Que transita por tus venitas" (what's up?) and Buena esa calamardo" (good job, octopus). It was a lot of fun and I got most of what they said. They even tried to call me a white guy (theres like 15 different ways to say it) but I caught them on it a few of the times!
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| Photo from our Zone Christmas party. |
Overall, it has been a pretty good time this week. I am super excited for Christmas, and apparently we are eating Christmas Eve dinner in a casino with some members. Perks of serving in South Lake Tahoe.
Hope you all have a Feliz Navidad, adios.
Elder Jones
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