Thursday, February 5, 2009

Ground hog day

Spokane Washington Temple

Mom,
You gotta love, the dia de la marmota. My companion looked at me blankly when I explained what ground hogs day is.
This coming week we will have two baptisms of two Cubans. Good people those Cubans. Jose Carlos Aguila, and Omar Cue. Omar was basically a JW, the only thing that held him back was his ex wife wouldn't let him be initiated through some sort of baptismal ritual. So he had a lot of JW knowledge. JW's doctrine is messed up, but they do have a lot of truth so we were able to work through that and he was humble enough to follow Moroni's commission, and now he's good to go. You gotta hand it to the JW's, they create dedicated people, and Omar is going to be amazing. He wants to come team teaching with us even though he's not a member yet, he'll make an excellent missionary. And he's so smart he'll make an excellent teacher.
Jose Carlos is 21 and he's only been in the US for a few months, but after seeing one relative and one friend baptized he felt the Spirit and was converted to golden.
We found two other goldenish investigators this week which we will be baptizing, if all goes well, the 28th of February.
keep the faith. It's all about faith, and hope... and of course Charity... and diligence.. and obedience... and like a million other things, but just keep the faith anyway.
-Elder Jacobson
Moroni 7:48

Dad,
Did you guys watch the super bowl? My companion pretty much told me I'm a horrible sinner for having watched it in the past. I didn't believe him.
Spokane is a beautiful City, though downtown is pretty small, it's cleaner than clean. I hope I can stay here into the summer time so that I can go to one of the many parks which they have here.
Glad you're staying busy at work. Don't stress about it, it no time you'll be laid off and be without work like everyone in Spokane. (I'm kidding, you're not going to be laid off, sorry if I frightened you. If that was rude feel free to rebuke me.) What I meant to say was in no time you'll retire with a miraculous acquisition of full benefits, so don't worry about it. Well I'm about out of time. Thanks for everything Dad.
-Elder Jacobson
Alma 34: 31-35

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