Horrah for Missions! Basically Elder Morelos and his last companion went through the phone book and organized every spanish name into a usuable "potential investigators"
paper. Now all we do is type in addresses, go to the house, and work to have them change their lives for their eternal betterment. But they all live so far away that it's impossible to memorize all the streets in this town. I have the main streets down but all the residential areas. Wow, I get lost.
So we had a baptism on Saturday. Morelos had been working with him before I got here and he was baptized finally. His name is Pedro, but we call him Pedrito. He is an amazing guy. He was a political prisoner in Cuba but has been here for two months. he had a bad accident and had to get his hip bolted. He showed us a picture. They have a big metal arm on his leg now. He wasn't able to walk for quite a while, let alone bend to be baptized. But once he decided to be baptized his recovery greatly hastend, miraculously, and he was baptized. Good man. Can't understand Cuban though. Read the following sentence and try to make sense of it and you will understand the difficulty of understanding cubans: yetay i wheno churt an toot uh sacamen.... Which translates to: yesterday I went to church and took the sacrament. Tough stuff considering I'm still learning regular spanish.
So how's everything going with you? Still living life to the fullest? I hope you find time to enjoy yourself between work, church, and finding people for the missionaries to teach (by inviting people to your home for dinner and telling them the missionaries are coming too). "when all is said and done the most important thing is to share the gospel." -Joseph Smith.
paper. Now all we do is type in addresses, go to the house, and work to have them change their lives for their eternal betterment. But they all live so far away that it's impossible to memorize all the streets in this town. I have the main streets down but all the residential areas. Wow, I get lost.
So we had a baptism on Saturday. Morelos had been working with him before I got here and he was baptized finally. His name is Pedro, but we call him Pedrito. He is an amazing guy. He was a political prisoner in Cuba but has been here for two months. he had a bad accident and had to get his hip bolted. He showed us a picture. They have a big metal arm on his leg now. He wasn't able to walk for quite a while, let alone bend to be baptized. But once he decided to be baptized his recovery greatly hastend, miraculously, and he was baptized. Good man. Can't understand Cuban though. Read the following sentence and try to make sense of it and you will understand the difficulty of understanding cubans: yetay i wheno churt an toot uh sacamen.... Which translates to: yesterday I went to church and took the sacrament. Tough stuff considering I'm still learning regular spanish.
So how's everything going with you? Still living life to the fullest? I hope you find time to enjoy yourself between work, church, and finding people for the missionaries to teach (by inviting people to your home for dinner and telling them the missionaries are coming too). "when all is said and done the most important thing is to share the gospel." -Joseph Smith.
You spend a lot of time perfecting the saints, but neglect not the duties of proclaiming the Gospel to those currently out of it's reach. Speaking of which whatever happened to that Spanish pass along card that I sent you. I've been waiting to here of a baptism. I trust you gave it to someone...
Well I'm just about out of things to say, perhaps I'll give you and dad another generalized letter. I assume you both read each others anyway (you should be because it's pretty much intended that way) but it's good to generalize sometimes. One day I'll author another epistle like I did to Aaron but I'm just not feeling it right now. Thanks for all that you do. Remember, don't work hard, work smart. Or work hard and smart, that's the key.
-Elder Jacobson
D and C 42:14.
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