October 22, 2012

Hi mom, thanks for the virtual hugs. I have a hard time letting people in or looking hurt you know that. I just don't want to be a special case missionary that has all these problems ha ha. I'm doing fine though now. It is a little hard to not care about some stuff. That is what everybody is telling me, "You don't have to worry about it while on your mission, don't think about it, don't think about Jess." It really isn't like a switch in my brain that I can just click and everything just goes away ha ha. I am doing a lot better though you don't need to worry about me.

I did get the package. Thank you so much for it.

 

The work here is going really really well. We have five investigators committed to baptism in the month of November. Mili is a single mom and is super strong. She wants to be baptized. The Rodriguez family (a family of four) also are super strong. In our last lesson the dad was just bawling because he felt the spirit so strong. It was really cool, it was our first lesson with them also so that was really neat. Hopefully we will be able to pull five baptisms next month. That would be so neat. Especially because the Ward hasn't had a single baptism this year. The members are super nice. I gave a talk yesterday in church and a lot of people complimented me on it. I used it to help me gain member trust and get people excited for missionary work. I hope that it worked.

We haven't gotten back to the hoarder lady's house yet. I hope we never do ha ha. We are really trying to get our investigators to church though. It is a huge tough thing to do here. Everybody is just so busy. We have the Halloween party coming up this Saturday though so hopefully people will come to that.

Money wise I'm sorry. Just got super depressed and we got whitewashed so like the apartment didn't have anything that we needed because the other Elder's took everything from it so I had to buy like pots and pans and stuff like that at the beginning of the month. I will do better though.

I love you guys a lot, Thanks for everything.