Last week in the MTC

(I told him that our boating tube was destroyed and that we would not be getting a new one)

Dad,
Don't even try to psych me out, never works; Too mentally solid for the psych out. That tube is the bomb, don't get rid of it, hang it up in my room or something. And don't get a new one til i come home because i don't want it ruined before i get back, know what i mean, vern?

We manned the phones here a ton, i had some strange experiences on them. We talk to people from all over the country, and when we do spanish calls people from mexico and puerto rico. I talked to this lady from Indiana, she was really nice, right up until i started talking about Joseph Smith. She quoted her preacher pretty well though, about not being able to see the face of God without dying, etc. Said some really uneducated things. Started yelling at me, blah blah blah, i tried to be nice and i didn't bash with her or anything because as Josh and probably you can testify nothing good comes from that.. she might have said that i was on a path to hell but i can't remember.

Talked to another lady five minutes after that from the Bronx. She was actually legitimately nice. She was sincerely interested and when i read to her 2 Nep 25:26 and bore my testimony she replied, "I apsolutely believe that." She was way sincere, nice, and humble, so after talking more with her for a few minutes she said she wanted the book of Mormon and the MIssionaries. I hope that works out.

Ten minutes later i talked to someone who dialed the wrong number to me, from like Carolina or something. She thought she had dialed direct TV. Then she started complaining to me about how no body would have any patience with her, and she was behind on her bills because she had had three surgeries in the past year. I asked her some questions and got her talking to me a bit when the conversation turned to how Christ can help her in her life (she also has a son who is 50 mentally challenged and blind and she struggles to help him because she can't even help herself with her hip surgery) she sincerely believes in Christ and I also talked to her a littel about the church and encouraged her to go to Mormon.org, and she said she would. I hope she does. I told her how the gospel could help her even more in her life. She said, "sorry I dialed the wrong number - well, i'm not sorry I talked to you but i'm sorry that I wasted your time." It was cool that she dialed the wrong number, almost like providence.

There are more, but the day i described to you was the most intense. My fellow missionary talked to this lady for over an hour. She was screaming at him because the missionaries came and talked to her, and that made her mad, until he bore simple testimony then she was really interested in talking with him. she really opened up, but even after an hour of talking, when challenged to listen to those missionareies - because that's what she needed - she thought about it, and still said no. How sad, but maybe later on in life she will be just a bit more humble- enough to hear them.
-Elder Jacobson
1 Peter 2:17-20
Acts 5:41