Monday, March 28, 2016

Mar 28 at 12:17 PM

HAHAHA I LOVE THAT !!! sam is such a thug hahahah what a woman !!! love her XP hey tell uncle duggy not to sell his CB 650 cause im thinkin i wanna try and buy it off him ;P im glad everyone doing good and dang i miss the fam even the bad parts i miss it all it honestly sucks living with another dude.... I MISS THE OPPOSITE SEX!!!!!! 

so this week was pretty good we got into our house and had 3 baptisms!!!! and went to a Catholic Easter celebration church thing.....

we have OFFICIALLY MOVED OUT OF THE GARAGE !!!!!!!! we are now 2 elders in a 3 bedroom 1 bathroom with a fat living room and kitchen! its amazing but idk its almost too big ya know theirs just to much space its weird. OH and i swear the house is haunted !!!! the place is freakin spooky!!!! i swear theirs a spirit there you can honestly like feel it in the house so fingers crossed its just a confused spirit looking for peace nothing sinister ;P 

AND we had 3 baptisms yesterday!!!! franko, wakeen, and cheela their a family that have been investigators for YEARS and nobody's asked them if they wanted to be baptized ! thats one of the worst parts of the mission! is when i talk to missionary and they just dont get it! the WHOLE PURPOSE for us being on missions is TO BAPTIZE!!!! it kills me when we go talk to old investigators and ask them why their not baptized and they tell us that the missionary said they couldn't because of whatever reason!!!! seriously as we were walking to the rio for the baptism franko started smoking !!! hahahahah and we still thru him in the water !!! EVERYONE needs baptism yes its a better situation if the investigator is living the church standards before BUT their are about a million example is the book of Mormon and bible where people were stupid after baptism and didn't change until after they had received the holy ghost!!! i mean peter WAS A FREAKIN APOSTLE who walked with Jesus and he didn't understand jak crap until Jesus died and he received the holy ghost ! its just funny to me that TONS of elders are just DIPS who think our job is to reactivate everyone !!! sorry for that little rant but it kills me haha but oh gosh the baptism was killer it was in this little rio which was a lil hard because the water was only 3 feet deep..... so i had to baptism franko 3 times poor guy just could not figure out how to get his whole body under the water haha but what an experience their are just the humblest lil family. i cant wait to see how the gospel is going to change these kids lives :) 

so Easter night my comp and i got invited to celebrate Easter in a catholic church so we went and it was SUPER SUPER weird  !!!! lets just say i could never be a catholic it was just straight apostasy! haha half way thru my comp fell asleep it was like a 2 hr sacrament meeting were the bishop just read from a book WHICH by the way was not scripture, did a mass holy water blessing, and a mass blessing on whatever you held up. literally people held up their phones, car keys, babys it was really weird and awkweird so i held up our house keys hahah its was super funny my comp almost started belly laughing! but honestly i love teaching Catholics!!! just cause its toooooo funny most of them just follow blindly they dont know where their religion comes from or why they do the things they do. its really funny to watch their faces when we ask about the whole commandment that says not to pray to anyone but god then ask where the prayers to angles are in the bible..... you can literally just watch their brains break hahahaha 

gosh i love the mission its to fun and dang this church is so true!! everything just makes sense and its just a beautiful thing to know. i miss you all sooooo freakin much and im so grateful to have all of you guys in my life! please mom stay happy and positive and dont worry about anything cause guess what i think your an AMAZING MOTHER and i know for a fact without you i wouldn't be here :) 

i love you guys 

Josh 

 Poor Josher...not even knee deep.  Actually I feel really bad for the guy!!!

 It looks like hes drownding the poor fellow!!!

 Please know that I gave Josher some serious email VERBAL for being so darn judgemental about the Easter Celebration and other Elders...  I hope he read it!!!!  He must have because after that email I didnt hear from him again that day.  Oh well right?  

Monday March 21, 2016

Today at 1:50 PM

so this week was honestly a blast! gave my first blessing, had way to much fun with our landlords, and well church..... hahah 

so the first blessing in Spanish was well an experience that i will never forget hahahah IT WAS SO BAD!!!! it was for a lil girl who saw us give her mom a blessing cause she was sick the last time we visited them and she just wanted to have one. but no biggy we just did it like its not gonna hurt to get a blessing right? well we were wrong because during the blessing she literally face planted of her chair cause she was like jumping up and down in the chair! it was tooooo funny she ate it hard!!!!!!! hahahahahahaha ALSO my spanish was just TERRIBLE throughout like to the point were the blessing just made no sense hahah but no biggy a blessings a blessing right?¿ :) 

so our landlords are like our family away from home for the past 3 days we have had dinner with them and talked and laughed and PREACHED like crazy!!! their so cool seriously amazing people! today they took us to the damn and lake then we made empanadas and played cards. their to much fun and seriously funny!! its super funny rocky( our argentine father) is super into talking about our past girlfriends and stuff like that so i showed him a few pic of some old girlfriends and he FREAKED out hahahah he was like WE ARE MOVING TO THE USA so his son can meet a beautiful girl hahahahaha such a goof ball!!!!! 

oh gosh church is just not a spiritual experience here hahaha so theirs this kid named diago and well diagos the spawn of Satan....... last sunday we were in the middle of priesthood meeting and their was a lul in the conversation and diago yells GREAT IS IT TIME TO GO!? and when his dad said no he yelled SH** !!! HAHAHA so no biggy we just keep going with the class and throughout he is running around yelling, punching everyone, pulling other peoples hair the whole nine yards then he yells at his dad HEY IM HUNGRY GO GET ME FOOD! and when his dad said no he called him well the direct translation is a son of a sh**!! IN THE MIDDLE OF FREAKING CHURCH!!!!! like come on HIT THE KID!!!! and this crap happens EVERY SUNDAY!!! gosh its gonna be weird when i get back to the states and theirs a chapel with no dogs running around and kid screaming profanity hahahahha Gotta love argentina ;P

oh and fun fact we have 5 people with dates for baptism this week with 4 more who are ready we just dont have enough cloths for them.!!!!! now isnt that just an amazing problem!!! gosh i love being a missionary!!!!!!!

and geez is dad ok!!! thats really bad !!! and im sorry you guys are all sorts of busted up but BUCK UP CHAMP!!!! and dang that whole mess up with the color BLOWS !!!! but im so glad that hoot kicked some mayor A spring break that kids such a monster!!!!!! 

i love you all so freakin much and miss you guys like crazy!!!!! i wish i could be their with you guys working on the roof!!! but toughen up ok and be patient with each other !!! at least you have a house seriously people see pics of were we live and they cant believe that people live in places like that !!!! BE GRATEFUL!!! READ UR SCRIPTURES!! and please just love each other ok :) 

love, Elder Jackson

 Josh & His Zone Leader

 P-day Hiking with Comp and friends

 He calls her his Mama in Argentina

 His Argentine mama y papa and his comp

 ADORABLE!!!  the Girls, not Josh

No words to describe this one...

 America Socks!!!

 Josh and his comp

Hes Hanging in there!!!!

Monday March, 14, 2016

 Josh kicked in the door because they locked the keys in their apartment!

 Argentine Cathedral in Cordoba 

Mar 14 at 2:35 PM

wow crap i am SOOOO SORRY!!!! did i do something wrong???!! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? why do i owe 400$ to the gov im not even living in the US!!!! and yes i did take out money thank you! that money saved us! and yea they already told me that i had to go do some papers in Cordoba bummer but no biggy. 

so this week was pretty fun! we worked hard, played even harder, and some how our body's are still functioning! (gracia a dios)

WORK: so last week my compi and i really didn't have the chance to work in our area cause we were all over the place so this week we decided to just go off and that's what we did! as of right now we have 2 for sure baptisms and 6 that are ready and just need to talk with us. Dang people are frustrating! they tell us all day that they cant meet with us they have things to do and i finally just snapped and was like really you dont have 20 minutes to talk about your salvation cause as it is right now if you die tomorrow you are not saved! as soon as i said it i looked at my comp looked back to our investigator expecting a lil verbal and she just said your right come in!.... it made me think do you think that jesus was ever sorta rudely blunt to people? i think he was :P so TONS of work but its all good cause im so excited to get into the water!!!

STORY: so usually we have like 12- 20 people in the church every sunday mas o menos un perro but this sunday was just such a blessing.... my comp and i started the morning real late and even more tired so we hurried up got dressed because we had a family who wanted us to basically wake them up for church(anything to reactivate those menos activos) so no big deal only problem is that they live like 3 miles from our house... so we start runnin. we get to their house and literally woke this family up for church i mean NOBODY was ready!! it was honestly really funny these little girls come out with their hair all over the place, drool on their face, and dressed in their pjs. so we are trying to get this family ready and then we get a call from a VISITING STAKE PRESIDENT asking us where we are!! we had totally forgotten that we were the assistants to the bishop and we were the only ones who could start the meeting......... so we grab the 2 girls who are still like asleep and start hallin it to church. we show up 20 minutes late to see around 40 people in our little church... my comp and i just looked at each other and started to tear up. all our work had paid off every seat that we had in that small little house with a plack was being used. it didn't matter that we were late and sweaty and smelly or that their were 2 big ol dogs running around the church the whole time. it was beautiful and spiritual and just to funny haha :)

PLAY: so this week i had my first reunion with President alliud ( the pres of the mission) and 3 other zones it was a blast we went down to Cordoba and just played did a lil sight seeing and shopping with my comp and just got spiritually uplifted hardcore by pres and his wife!! it was dope pres is just a spiritual NUKE and his wife is just to funny! she reminds me of valeria ramos she talked about how we dress and how it relates to the gospel for like 30 minutes it was toooooo funny and honestly really interesting! the woman knows the gospel! but it was dope because at the reunion my zone WENT HARD!!!!!! it was to funny pres was teaching and he would ask a question and someone from another zone would answer and he would sorta just say sure not really then someone from my zone would answer and pres would just get all animated and hyped like YES ELDER thats what i like to hear. i dont mean to pat myself on the back but i answered a few questions in perfect spanish shocked the pres and his wife really hard. it was pretty funny i think they both thought that i was sort of a dip in a bad way hahabut it was really cool pres was talking about how to gain the confidence of members and investigators and i said that we also needed to just love the people like Christ  would and with that love everything else would fall into place and pres just stop and said elder your completely right and for the next 2 hrs we just talked about the doctrine of love. their super cool people after the reunion pres and his wife came up to me thanked me for my comment and just got to know me a lil better SUPER COOL!! 

i also had the opportunity to eat my FIRST argentin asada with out landlord his wife and our new argentin grandma it was a freakin BALL!!!! me and my comp accidentally stayed up till 2am eating and talking and laughing it was great !!!! we even had to opportunity to talk a lil bit about what we believe in it was killer im thinking that if we play our cards right we could baptize them!!! fingers crossed !!!! 

i love that dads got the roof project going!! I LOVE THOSE PICTURES !!!! TOOO FUNNY !!!!! they make me smile and laugh looking at all your smiling faces hahahaha BUT freak everyone looks so much different hoots got a full freakin BEARD Sophie looks TALLER than hoot dad looks like hes getting ready for a bodybuilding tournament and MOM!!! Freak first off YOU LOOK GREAT!!!!!!!!!! and second off your smiling whle working with dad?¿! i didnt know that was possible !!!! ;P hahah 

and thats toooooo cool that my crews on that flier !!!!! TELL HOOT that if he wants ill shoot judy an email talking him up again!! 

I love you all so much and miss you guys like crazy! please be safe on that roof trust me it hurts to fall!!! READ YOUR SCRIPTURES, GET GOOD GRADES (huston) AND BE NICE!!!!!! 

LOVE, Elder Jackson

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Mar 2 at 12:32 PM

 

hey mom sorry that this letter is super late we had a bit of a wild start to the week and didn't have time to do emails Monday. so this week we managed to find a new house/garage, i learned some interesting things about what happens when you give 18-21 yr old boys cars in Argentina, and fashion tips from my comp.

so last week we got a call from the pentionero and he told us that our contract for our house was up and we had 1 day to pack the WHOLE DANG HOUSE UP AND FIND A NEW PLACE TO STAY!!! freak it was P day too dang it!! haha so we pack it all up and found well.... a garage to stay in for the next month till we can find something more permanent. its pretty nice its just well a garage with a bathroom. only problem is that it doesn't have ventilation for our gas water heater so that's a little sketchy every time we shower we just get knarly headaches from the gas hahah gotta love Argentina :P but at least now we don't have to worry about our stuff being robbed and we can sleep soundly knowing that we wont be woken at 5:30 to a crazy drunk girl trying to get in hah! 

so when we moved into the new house the elders from the office came up from Cordoba to check it out pay and sign some papers. important part they came up in one of the office cars!!! so after we get all settled my comp and i decided to just catch a ride with the office elders because we had to be in Cordoba the next day anyway so we hop in this 2014 peugeot that's sorta a sportier version of the Honda accords and that's when i finally understood why my parents gave me the truck not one of the hondas..... WE HALLED A TO CORDOBA!!!!!!! its like a 4 HR DRIVE AND WE DID IT IN LIKE 2 hahahahahahah it was TERRIFYING!!! the elder who was driving had only been driving like a MONTH and it didn't help that all the cars here are manual also. the kid was a hot mess he was stalling out, accidentally tuning off the lights, and swerving bad!! it also didn't help that the cars tires were BALD and it was also raining hard!! needless to say i have a firm testimony of the power of prayer cause without gods protection that night the world would be down 4 elders haha 

so i now am a PRO at skinning ties like pro! all those TERRIBLE ties we got from DI everyone wants now because they are soooooo dang cool skinny! i love it we look like such goobers but no biggy gotta do what ya gotta do to stay sane on the mission :) 

i love ya all soooo much remember to keep it together while im gone! be patient and just love each other ok :) READ YOUR SCRIPTURES, GO TO CHURCH WITH A HAPPY HEART(Huston), and again just be patient with each other!!! 

i love you all to death and miss you like crazy! thank you for all your prayers, support and love tambien! 

Te amo, Elder Jackson

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

No letter came from Josher this week.  Im about to die and cry!!!

Actually the Letter did come on Wednesday March, 2 just late in the day...here are the pictures

 He said he sleeps on the table bc his bed is full of MOLD!

 He is cutting up his DI ties and turning them into Skinny ties???  No idea why but the thought of him sewing is cracking me UP!!!

 Said he was posing for the "Sisters" whatever!!!!

 This is his good friend Tommy who had to go back to Bs Aries to finish school with his mama.  He called himself a Lamanite.  LOVE IT!

 Josh's new home...the Garage.  He said they only get sick when they have to shower by the water heater...Oh man!!!