first and last pictures are a vacation house, it has four pools, two of those are the other pics, they are on the beach! the tide was high in these pics but when its low it`s a sand beach so pretty nice stuff here!
What`s up family and
friends?! Hope everyone is doing great and as excited for Christmas as I am.
Next Tuesday we will be skyping so Monday I might be emailing you a little more
information like exact time or whatever but I`m not exactly positive because we
get to go to the temple on Christmas Eve! Didn`t know it was open on Christmas
Eve but whatever we`re going haha. But I`m pretty sure it will be sometime
around ten, that`s what I`m shooting for anyways. But anyways I`ll give you the
low down on this week.
First off me and Elder Scurr
are becoming great friends and I don`t remember if I told ya but he is from
Arizona and lives pretty close to Elder LeSueur so there is a good chance of me
visting all these guys here in about 17 months or so haha. But this week me and
him worked really hard to try to find people because this is kinda a tough
area. We are in a branch and I guess the attendance at church is usually in the
sixties but these two Sundays I`ve been here we have had low attendance, 42
yesterday so not good. From everything I`ve found out, it just sounds like the
people are pretty proud and they can`t seem to figure out how to become a ward
family. So our goals are to help the leaders of this branch take responsibility
for things.
We had a good week though
trying to find less actives and getting them to church but everyone just seems
to make excuses or they are kinda hipocritical so that makes it kinda tough and
annoying. Everyone just says primero Dios and Si Dios permite I really don't
like those phrases haha
This week we found a few new
investigators and I have some pics of one family, just wait til you see this
place, it is awesome haha. but we will see how they do. We have one family and
they have been reading and everything and they believe it and stuff which is
great, but they don`t know it to be true. So we are working hard for them to
gain their own testimonies so they can be true converts to this Gospel.
This week we also had our
zone conference, and wow! If Nate is like our zone leaders it would be awesome
to work with him. These two missionaries are so powerful and I actually am
going on divisions with one tomorrow so I`m excited for that. The zone leaders
receive instructions basically from the Mission President every month and then
they teach us and tell us what the plans are to change this mission. I`m
starting to find out more and more that this mission did not used to be good...
I`ll go more into that on Christmas.
But anyways I`m doing great
down here in the new hoootttttt area. But it`s awesome I`m excited to be here.
And the videos and pictures were sweet ha. Just a little reminder you guys can
send pictures in emails and letters too ha I love seeing pictures of everyone
at home so...yep haha. The Christmas party sounded fun for you guys, my bowling
skills I obtained in college are probably gone by now, but I am getting better
at soccer so that`s cool. But hope everyone at home enjoys their last week of
school and work before Christmas Break! Everyone who has finals this week...I feel
bad for ya haha but good luck! And family I will be SEEING you on Christmas!!!
Love,
Elder Jorgensen
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