August 25, 2014
Hey guys!
This week seems like it went by so fast! We got out to see
more people and it felt great. In other
exciting news we found out that tomorrow Elder F. is coming up to Gridley to
sign a lease on a house for us to live in with two other elders, so that will
be awesome. I'm excited to get a place with a dishwasherJ
Nothing
particularly interesting happened this week. Just this usual stuff. V. is doing
well. One of our branch members, Brother P., knows her husband pretty well and
is planning on talking to him about letting her be baptized, which would be really
cool. So remember her in your prayers.
I don't remember
if I told you guys, but I'm serving around Elder T. again. He's Elder H’s new
companion. This is cool, because I get to see him again, but at the same time
it's not cool because we have a lot of green missionaries here who don't speak
Spanish very well, and we need these native speakers to help them out. Hopefully pres is able to get some of them
training before too long. We got ahold of the list of new greenies coming in
and there's two from Utah, one from Nevada, and a guy named H from NYC. So not
a lot of hope for more native speakers there. Unless Hiroki is
Peruvian-Japanese (which is a thing by the way).
To be honest mom,
any package you sent would probably be safer at the other elders apartment than
here. Besides we're probably going to be moving in the next week or so.
You should send me food! And some scripture marking pencils.
That's all I can think of at the moment. And some more of that threader floss
stuff. Haha the year's supply I brought with me is gone now. (I seriously had
enough for my whole first year in the mission).
I just got your
email about the earthquakes. We felt a little bit here at around 3 am. It woke
me up, and I felt kind of dizzy for a few seconds. Nothing like what you see in
the movies with furniture crashing everywhere and the walls shaking. It was
kind of just weird. I didn't know what had happened until the next day when
everyone was talking about it. I would have hoped for some giant fissures in
the ground or a raging fire or two, but I guess not. Pretty lame if you ask me.
I'm glad to hear everyone is doing well. Tell
Jess I said "hi" and to eat all the candy she can get her hands on,
because sore throats are no laughing matter. Have fun in school Kate and Sam.
Give your teachers some grey hairs!
Love,
Jake
