New Mission President

June 30, 2014

Hey Mom and Dad,

 Sorry this is coming late again, we were ice skating this week. Fun stuff. I only "ate it" twice. This week was stake conference and we got to hear some outstanding talks. One of them that I really enjoyed was about temples and how important they are. We're so blessed to live in a place where we have easy access to temples on a regular basis.

Also, at stake conference there was a special missionary segment where they basically told all the members that we need more referrals and that tracting is quote: "a waste of time".  Thank you stake conference! Hopefully we get some more help from the members in the near future.

We also got a truck to use this week which is pretty cool. Our car is in having some body work done for a few days.

We found a new investigator this week. He said he'd read the Book of Mormon in his free time. Hopefully he follows through. We'll go see him again this week. This Sunday is transfer calls. I feel like having a change of scenery but there may still be work to do here for me, so we'll see what happens. Meanwhile, our other investigator has stopped drinking once and for all and says he's committed to coming to church. We had a lesson in the Bishop's house this week and he cooked us honey-glazed Dutch oven ribs for dinner. They were incredible. Our investigator accepted a commitment to be baptized. Hopefully that will happen in the next few weeks here.

I forgot to tell you that we had a goodbye meeting with President Weston by the way. He flies home tomorrow. As of today, President Marston is officially in the mission as mission president.

 Mom, something that really helped me improve my accent was reading aloud in Spanish and trying to imitate the accents I'd heard. That was probably the biggest thing.

That's all the big stuff that happened this week.  

Well, my second year has begun.  It’s gone by so fast!

Anyways, love you guys!

Jake