Jul 11 at 1:57 PM

so this week was honestly super long but i got to go to the temple, we had a spicy elder experience, and had a crazy miricle!!! 

so the temple was beautiful. no other way to say it but at the same time i still have this love hate relationship with it and i honestly think its because i truly DONT understand alot of it. SO im studying my butt off to figure out the crazyness of the temple. but you know it was really amazing i went thru the seccion (in spanish btw WEIRD!!!) got into the celestial room and everything just stoped. i sorta just felt like i had entered into a new world with a new mind and body. so i sit down pray and i started to open the book of mormon, DyC, PoGP, + the antiguo and new testiment. and every time i opened the chapter up and read it it was just what i needed to hear! its crazy how god works !!! he seriously droped some HARD CANE on me tho!! it was sorta funny my comp and i walked outta the temple like fech well we got some stuff to do haha. but over all the temple was AMAZING !!! its so dang beautiful i dont even have words to explain it !!! #TEMPLOCÒRDOBA

soooooooo my comp and i had a super funny expirience this past week for those who dont know my comps not a bad lookin dude hes got the face of JB. and well the argentines think i look like rickey martin so were two famos looking elders who are in the Las Vegas of argentina DURING SPRING BREAK!!!!! soooo the majority of our investigators are cute girls from 17-30. but we were at McDonalds sitting down waiting on an investigator and when the lady came to give us our food she droped a note on the table to and said it was from the girls in the back.... we take a look and it says HERMOSOS <3 that means like a step above beautiful hahahah. + they gave us FREE FRYS!!!!! BEST DAY EVER!!! but right after that EVERY female employee was out in the lobby doing something to check us out. so as missionarys we called them all over and started giving out jesus cards out with our number on them hahahaha those girls wanted to dye IT WAS SO DARN FUNNY!!!!!! i guess we are spicy elders hahaha 

so we were in the villa of our area visiting some new members and when we were their it all seened super forced it seemed like they really didnt want us there. so get ready to leave and i go up to the dad and say hey do u need any service i worked a lil construction before my mission i think i could be a lil help. he looks at me smiles and goes i dont need help but they do pointing to gabriel and his wife (not baptised son in law) gabriel looks at me and goes yeah im trying to build a house for my fam and it would be nice to have some help so we set it up for the next morning. the problem was that he lives in the biggest villa in the area its literally the size of flagstaff and he didnt give us his address and he doesnt have a phone. so like goobers going on faith we hopped on a bus and whent out into the heart of the villa we get their and were COMPLETELY LOST!!! so we said a prayer asking for help to find the house fliped a coin and started to walk. a block after that i had a feeling i needed to ask a group of gangsters if they knew where he lived. THEY TURNED OUT TO BE HIS COUSINS and they got us exactly to his house. we get there and his entire familys there like 10 people and start working we were there ALL DAY!!! we ate lunch and dinner with them, hung out with them AND taught them all!!!! we got like 15 new investigators that day cause while we were talking religion all of their neibors came over to listen so next week were planning on haveing like 8 people in the church !!!!! its INSAINE TO SEE HOW WHEN GOD WANTS SOMETHING DONE HE GETS IT DONE !!!!! such a testimoney builder cant even explain it 2 yankees in the most dangerous part of carlos paz (where the police dont enter) TOTALLY LOST but because of the guidence of got we had the oportunity to get to now 4 more amazing, humble crazy fun familys who are ready for the gosple.

love you guys hope everyones good!!!!! 

Jackson

P.S. HEY MASON YOUR GONNA LOVE THE MAC!!!!! #MEJORMISSIONENTODOELMUNDO!!!!!!

things to buy

a converter for your chargers.

1 SUIT you dont need 2 (waist of space) 

SOX GOOD SOX AND A LOT OF UNDIES TOO!!!! trust you blow them out quic and their wicked expencive here!!!!! 

see ya soon kid. study up. dont worry about spanish focus on the doctrine ok 

July 11, 2016 PICTURES

We dug the foundation laid the basic frame and concreted it all in

hahah hermosos

 ? Is it normal for the foundation of a home to be made out of Garbage???

July 4th 2016

so this week we had a SUPER SWEET BAPTISM!!!!! and well "im looking for spicy elders"

so this last wednsday we had a baptism of a super cute lil 9 year old girl named milena who is well a spiritual giant hah!! the girl is on top of it shes from a menos active family and i remember the first visit we had with her she didnt want anything to do with the church cause she had researched the church online and read some crap. but it was like teaching a 20 year old in a lil girls body. but it was insaine she DID NOT want to get baptised and we told her to read the fogetos and BOM and pray to know if it was true and she did and GOT AN ANWSER THRU A DREAM THAT NIGHT!!! i dont know what up but god loves working thru dreams in sounth america! so we stop by the next day and shes sitting their studying the BOM (she skipped school to study for our leccion) and the first thing she says to us is ok when can i be baptised ?! and her parents had to calm her down she wanted to do it right their and then in their pool!!!!! so we set the date and she was sewriously ticked how far away it was ! then we get to her baptism and she was so excited it was so darn cute after the ordenante she gave me a big huge then ran to her mom to try and hug her AND ATE CRAP SO HARD !!!!!!! so for the rest of the baptism we were just cracking up super hard ! we couldent even sing we just laughing ! and the amazing part is that her baptism has completely reactivated the whole dang fam and the wife hasnt smoked scence the baptism!! its amazing to see how much a baptism can effect a familia. its really quite beautiful :) 

so the spicy woman incident was really really weird. yeasterday we got a ride home from a member and this guy is super just creepy sorta super perv but hey free ride home so were in his car talking and he starts talking about his 24 year old daugter whos menos active and how he wanted her to come back to church so my com and i are like cool well pass by with some members to get to know her a little more. then he says no i think it would be better if just you guys stoped by and talked to her. so then we said ok so like a leccion ? and he goes yea sure something like that ive been looking for some SPICY elders to show to her. and were just sitting in his car like spicy what does that mean¡? and then he procieds to tell us that we are spicy good looking elders and that he basically wanted one of us to date his daugher and at this point im laughin my BUTT off and my comp looked like he just got violated cause apparently the guy was giving him creep looks throught the whole drive. but i thought it was so dang funny !!! this grampa was looking to pimp his daughter to 2 SPICY LOOKING ELDERS hahahahah well thats a new one XP 

well the missions never not exciting hah love you all A TON!!!!! HAPPY 4TH eat a fat hot dog for me and shoot of a few fireworks !!! see yall in a little 

love, Jackson

Jul 4 at 3:42 PM

got called ponch from chips by our bishop, 4th of july with my district,baptism, WALMART!!!!

for whatever reason this picture wont let me turn it to the correct side...so heres Ponch from Chips!

Jun 27 at 11:38 AM

ok so new area, comp+ the paper towel incident and the familia romero

so im in carlos paz right now and its literally the argentine las vegas its dope!!!! but its also HUGE!!!! its an area that needs 8 missionarys and has had 8 missionary's in the past but now its just me and E´ peterson/ justin beiber. seriously this kid is such a goof ball prettyboy i love him to death he reminds me of kolbe!! the kid checks himself out more than a 15 year old girl does to funny we are always having fun in the house! the funniest thing about him is that he has no idea how to cook for himself!! its crazy i have no idea how he has lived this long hes 20 and he didnt know how to make oatmeal or rice....... so needless to say im teasing him constantly haha but ok the paper towel incident. so i HATE the buday its not natural nothing should touch my butthole EVER!!! so i buy toilet paper but when i got to my area i was a lil flustered and i basically ran thru the super market just grabbing stuff that i would need so we get home and i had to drop a fat load so i run into the bathroom with my shopping bags. so im on the pot and it came to pass that i had to wip so i open up the packet of toilet paper and it was PAPER TOWELS!!!!!! i sorta had a BF on the pot and screamed to my comp "I BOUGHT PAPER TOWELS" throwing the paper towels out of the bathroom. so i finish my business and walk out of the bathroom and my comp is on the floor dying laughing!!! sorta had to be their to appriciate the story but to this day we still laugh about it ! haha + we havent showered or cooked in like 4 days cause we ran out of gas hahah gotta love argentina ;P

ok the familia romero is the first family that i met here and they are really amazing. they just moved here from mendoza with their family so theyve been apart of the ward for about a month and their sorta wall flowers they sorta go un notised. but it was really crazy my first day we got a message from them saying that they had a feeling that we needed to stop by their house to teach their 9 year old girl who isnt baptised. we get their and this little girl is a fool!! we walk in and starting about baptism and she starts pulling out bible scriptures and how she cant be baptised cause she was already baptised. so we teach her the 1st leccion with super detail and she got it all!! SUPER SMART!! then right after that the mom looks at me and goes " hey i dont know why im telling you this but i have a smoking problem and i want to quit can you help me ?" i looked at her like heck yeah so the next day we came back and taught the next leccion to the daughter then we taught the quit smoking leccion to the mom and it was just super powerful. this poor woman was a hot mess when we as a family destroyed her smokes. it was such a testimony builder to watch this mother be so humble to ask a 19 year old kid to help her quit smoking it made me think alot about the kind of person i am. am i someone who is willing to ask for help when i need it? shes amazing. but after the leccion we were walking away from their house and my comp stoped and said hey we need to go buy fruit and orange juice for her now. (its apart of the quit smoking plan) so i said ok we bought like 10 bucks of fruit for her then went back to the house and ding dong ditched the house. the next day we saw the husband and he told us that when they opened the door to see our little gift and both started crying. they told us that moneys been tight and they were worried they couldent buy the fruits and foods till next week when he gets paid. its amazing to see how god works with us. i know i talk about this in every letter but dang we are all connected in gods plan and im so glad i have the oportunity to be out here seeing it all first hand.

love you guys tons !!!! be good have fun and ill see yall in a lil

Josh

The Last Baptism in Capilla
The pool and how i filled it up...it took 7 hours!

June 24  Last Day in Capilla

June 24 PICTURES

June 24

beber my comp, me moving my gear and 5 of the sisters bags (my comp couldn’t bother to help a brother out) THEIR WAS 12 bags in between 2 sisters !!!!! HOWWWWW jordy PACK LIGHT!!!!

the new apartment (yes mom i still have the pink bunny sheets)

my comp and i watching the copa America ARENTINA USA GAME outside of a sears department store eating McDonald's. didn’t last long the owner got ticked and shut the tvs off hahah

Monday June, 20 2016

Jun 20 at 1:54 PM

ok so killer week we had a baptism and i have finally swiched areas!!!! 

so finally we got miriam juarez in the water !!!! she has been talking with missionarys for the past year and little by little her life has led to baptism. it was seriously amazing last thursday we pased by her house with a goal to not to talk about baptism so we shared juan 3-16,17 and we started talking about the love that god has for all of us. that got her all teary eyed then i started talking about repentance and how we all have the oportunity to start over again and when i brought that up chau she was a piping hot mess. we had makeup running, a snotty nose the whole nine yards and so taking advantage of the situation i asked, miriam do you want to be happy? she looked and me and said, yes. so i said great were planning a baptism tomorrow would you like to be baptised? she looked at me all sorts of confused and then with a fat smile on her face said, yes please!!! IT WAS INSANE!!!! the spirit was just there i then closed the leccion with my testimoney and i had to hold back some fat tears and everything! so we leave her house and my comp and i are walking just like shocked and my comp looks at me and said, dang man if god wants something done he gets it done!!! and its funny because its really true we walked into her house saying their is no way we talk about baptism we talk about it every time we gotta change things up. and that was the exact mesage that she needed to hear !!! CRAZY !!! so the next morning we got up went out and bought a pool (sorry mom and dad thats why i pulled out money i got it reenembursed) and for 6 FREAKIN HOURS MY COMP AND I FILLED THE SUCKER UP WITH GARBAGE CANS!!!!!! it was helarious just wait till you see the pics !!!! such a killer baptism tho its truly amazing to see the change in these peoples lives because of the girf of the holy ghost.

so like i said i have officically MOVED AREAS !!!!! i am sooooo flechin happy !!!! right now im with a killer new comp named elder peterson and well he looks alot like justin beiber which is killer cause now that im startin to have hair again i can get my ricky martin going again and we can use our god givin looks to baptise ;P TOTALLY KIDDING!!!! but seriously really good guy and killer missionary! my new area is called carlos pas and ITS BEAUTIFUL its basically a huge tourist town. theirs a lake, beach, shopping and well its sorta like an argentine vegas. im really loving it here i ate some McDonalds walked around a lil (THE CITY IS HUGE) and got to see some of the sights!! i have seriously lucked out!!! but at the same time it was a little rough leaving capilla. right before i left the family gonzalez all gave me these super sweet notes and drawing, la hermana mortarino made me a HUGE CHICKEN DINNER and i got to give a ton of blessing it was a little unreal. but like i said before its amazing to see people grow and to see their lives change all because of the gospel. i remember my first couple weeks in capilla their were 10 people in the church... i left with 22 in the church assisting to the reunions. this is gods and he has a plan for us. never forget it.

i love you guys so much 

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

and ill see yall in a little 

Elder Jackson