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