March of Miracles 3

Father of mine,
It is the March of Miracles. We had a baptism saturday and good things are happening in Spokane. The font should be full through April if you ask me.
Don't even bother to drain it. Why not just start a line?
So I wish to relate to you a funny story. Monday we had a car accident. Oh no! don't worry, I'm pain free, a member was driving his car. We went to turn right into the parking lot but for some reason some negligent blonde was trying to pass us on the right (keep in mind this is a one lane road) we were only going like 10 and her like 20 so it wasn't bad at all. However, Elder Davila complained of a tingling pain in his neck.
We went and taught a lesson, and at 10 o clock the member and Davila decided they wanted to go to the hospital to make sure he wasn't paralyzed. (I decided to not point out the obvious fact that indeed he wasn't paralyzed, after all he had been walking and moving just fine just minutes before.) So we went to the emergency room at about 10pm. Keep in mind he had some neck tingling, I thought the emergency room was for people who had been shot, stabbed, mauled by a bear, or who were going into labor. Apparently I was mistaken, a neck tingling warrented ER status.
At 11pm we were still sitting there in the waiting room. 12am, same story.
1am still nothing. 2am, finally we are called in to get checked out. At 2:10 the doctor determined there was nothing wrong with him, just a sore, tingly neck. So he prescribed him ibueprofen right? Wrong, the doctor wanted more money I think so he gave him Loratab even though he had just finished saying that he would be perfectly fine in two days.
At 2:30 we left after my loopy companion tried to teach the nurse the gospel in unorganized sentences. We drove back home as Davila began preaching to us. He cried as he bore testimony, and every time he said the word strong he flexed and said, "see look."
At 3:30 we arrived home. Davila began crying when he realized he didn't keep tract of how many people we invited to hear the word that day. at 3: 45 I had to help him down the stairs so he wouldn't die. Then he refused to go to sleep, insisting that he wanted to work instead. He became upset when I said no to that idea. At four o clock he fell asleep after a few minutes of some random dry-heaving. At 6:30 I woke up and resumed the missionary life. The day has been entitled, "The Longest Day of the Mission."
Pretty funny story huh? Talk about miracles, I wasn't even tired the next evening after going 39 hours on only 2 1/2 hours of sleep. I suffered more fatigue due to day light savings the week earlier than I did from this.
Thanks dad, Love you
-Elder Jacobson

Mom,
I'll forgive you on the package thing. Don't worry about it. You know what I really hated at first but I love it now. Nightly planning. I think I'm going to continue doing that when I get home in a couple years. Then I won't ever be bored and I'll know what I got to do and I'll be able to get things done and I won't waste time. It will be especially helpful when I'm in school as well.
New mission president comes at the end of June and I'm pretty excited for him. His wife speaks spanish! HOrray, now we won't be neglected and treated like english missionaries because they really don't know what it's like. The Clarks do the best they can, they are great people, but I"m excited for a change. Gonna miss President Clark though, he's an exceptional mission president
Andres was baptized on Saturday! Good news: he wants to serve a mission. He's 22.
Good News: he's got family and friends who are coming along to baptism nicely.
Well mom, love you. stay strong.
-Elder Jacobson III
psalm 51: 7-12

March of Miracles 2

Mom,
Sorry to say you are up to date on our most current baptisms. Until this saturday with Andres Lugo-Castillo, as long as everything goes to plan.
You should expect some good results this March of Miracles, just keep the faith. Satan knows it's a Month of Miracles so he's going to try and thwart it, and the Lord wants to know the calibur of our faith so he will allow us to be tried. Just keep the faith, and don't lower the standards.
Thank you for the information on the dentistry. I'll probably forget it all until 2 years from now but that's ok. Still don't know what I want to do, but I'll figure it out.
Transfers are in two weeks and I'm just hoping that I can stay here in Spokane, this place rocks. As I described it, currently Spokane is on simmer, and it will shortly be put on to boil. Andres has three people living with him, but two were going to move back to Seattle. However, they want to stay now, and they also really like the Church, and the lady is fascinated by baptisms for the dead, so they could be baptized very very shortly. Just gotta keep the faith. Thanks for everything Mom, I love you. Keep the faith.
-Elder Jacobson
Ether 12.6

Dad,
March has been miraculous but it is not without it's trials. Day light savings apparently murdered all of our investigators as our anticipated 10 people didn't show up, merely one showed up. It was extremely disappointing.
However, we should be seeing some good things coming up here by the end of the month and into april.
We can go to the temple every other transfer, and I've only been once, except when we got miraculous permission to go and to confirmations in the temple on Saturday with the members, mostly recent converts, of our branch.
It was really cool doing them in spanish too.
It's snowing really bad and we almost got in an accident. Extremely close, good thing the sidewalk was there otherwise that fool who pulled out in front of me AND swung wide into my lane would have had a crushed bumper.
Thanks for the prayers and support. Love you. Go Jazz.
-Elder Jacobson
Helaman 5.12

"March of Miracles"

Mom,
It made me trunky to move to Mexico when I saw you're picture. You should go to Cuba next, you'll like them too.
I'm glad you enjoyed the trip. We'll go down there one day too.
Everything here with us is going good. I hope you had a nice trip. I can't even remember where you went. Maybe I'm a bad listener or something. Or bad reader. It's true though I'm not as good grammatically when I write in English any more, you should see how many times I have to hit the back space.

So on the 14 we will be having a baptism of Andres from Yucatan Mexico. He's a great guy and he even gave me a yucateco shirt, authentic. It's awesome and I look more guapo than guapo in it.

So I decided that March would be named "March of Miracles." Well the miracles began a little bit too early as on Wednesday we received a call from a man from Cuba who was baptized 7 years ago, but hadn't been to church in a year, he wants us to talk to his brother about the Church. When we told this guy, Mario, about the Spanish branch he decided that he wanted to get involved in the church again, he told me, "Elder Jacobson, I will see you Sunday at the Church, and I will bring my brother so you can meet him." It was pretty awesome. His brother has only been in America for 2 months but Mario has been here for like 10 years. It was awesome, we didn't do anything and were suddenly given a golden investigator. Mario even signed up to feed us on the calender.
Miracle number two (again, before March began): I silently prayed for a miracle because I was getting discouraged about our investigators, and not five minutes later a mysterious phone call came from a lady explaining to us that she had given a Book of Mormon to a family one year early. Alas, the parents had not read it, but the 13 old boy read it cover to cover, and he wants to be baptized. Too bad that was just coincidence, that couldn't have been a miracle. We get mysterious phone calls like that all the time.... yeah right, give me a break. So pretty much we are going to try to get the whole family, and this 13 year old kid is going to play a big role. It's good to have God on our side to give us miracles otherwise we'd pretty much be stinkin it up over here.
-Elder Jacobson
Alma 26:22

Dad,
I agree about the going down there again, but not on a cruise. Too expensive, too American, but still fun. It would be superior to go through Mexico, or to Cuba, or to South America or something. How sweet would that be? I believe we're in accord that it would be sweeter than sweet.
Yes we have a baptism the 14 of March, see mom's email for more details.
It's been pretty rainy here which is good because I like the rain, beats the snow at least. Even though I like snow more just not as a missionary. I'm getting pretty pumped for Spring, and for The March of Miracles. This month is going to be packed with them. Hurrah for Israel! I hope that I stay in Spokane for like 6 more months. How could I leave this place. Plus it makes us feel cool to think that we are the only Spanish missionaries out side of the Columbia Basin, which means that Warden is the closest place with other Spanish Missionaries, which means that's how big our area is.
I'm glad you put in the point about how if you trust the Lord to help you then he will. I actually had the same thought the other day. We're on the Lord's errand (not just missionaries but members of the church in general, no matter the calling), so we shouldn't just hope for miracles, we should expect them. Has the day of miracles ceased? if it has it's because you're faith has ceased. As Elder Holland puts it, "if you have to call down angels to do it, THEN CALL THEM DOWN!" I wish I had caught that vision before, and I hope that I never lose it.
A member opened my eyes the other day as we retaught the doctrine of "return and report." In my mind it was broken down as a bishop has 50 hours of work to do every week, and the more hours that other people spend, it takes that much away from the bishops load. Basically, if the bishop could, he would visit every family, but he can't, so he relies on home teachers. If he could, he would collect fast offerings, but he can't, so he relies on the deacons. If he could he would make his schedule as effective as possible, but he can't so he relies on his Secretary.
Another example, if the mission president could he would preach the gospel to the entire mission, but he can't, so he relies on the missionaries. If these people don't return and report then things could get done more than once or not at all. It's like a giant pyramid going back to the Lord, or like we are in a vineyard. Thus it doesn't matter where you are assigned to labor, but that you do you're best because you are working in place of the Lord. Whether you're the prophet or a home teacher it doesn't matter, because we're in the same vineyard with the same goal. we must each do our part to have success.
For some reason I had never realized that before. Thus, I thank you for always saying, "when you're done, return and report," when you were making us do chores or something. Although I found that rather obnoxious and I figured you said it to keep us in bondage of escaping the labor, I thank you for teaching me that eternal truth.
Love you Dad.
-Elder Jacobson
Helaman 5:19