October 13, 2014.. 73 days til Christmas!

​ super busy week this week guys! On Tuesday, we had zone conference when we meet with the mission president and learn to be better missionaries :) well, we watched the Movie "Meet the Mormons" super good! :) i loved it. very touching :) also, during that meeting, we talked about the importance of obedience and he said "Are you the missionary your mum thinks you are???" and the room went silent. haha :) super funny but a really good way to put it into perspective :)

On Thursday, we had a zone training meeting with just our zone and the zone leaders. it was super well! we had a testimony meeting and a talk about the importance of testimonies and an elder who is going home in two weeks bore his testimony and it was just so strong. I desire to be like him at the end of my mission :) 

On Friday, I went back to the Drs and they took my cast off. THEY ACTUALLY USE A SAW!! people told me that they do but i didn't think that they really did. i was really in shock when she pulled out the saw. ahaha. so they re-xrayed it and it's still broken so i'm now in a pink cast for the month of october :) yay! :)

On Saturday, the Mabreys (one of my first families) took us to lunch! it was sooo good :) i loved seeing them :) it's nice that they're so close. i haven't seen them in 6 months now. but it was a good ol' reunion :)

That's about all that happened, it felt really busy :)

Love you :)

October 6, 2014

Wow. so there was an emergency transfer in the district. I don't know at all what happened. but Elder Kobbah and I moved appartments and we are now in a three pack. Elder Williams is my new comp. He's from Michigan. He's 24 years old. He's super funny. ALWAYS singing. haha :) even at door contacts. :) 

General Conference was this last weekend. It was sooo good! much needed. really lifted me up. I had so many different favourite talks. but I think the ones that REALLY stand out are Elder M Russell Ballard and Richard G Scott. :) Those two are always a personal favourite for me. Elder Ballard reminds me of Pappa, my grandpa on my mums side. and his messages are always really good :) ​

Nothing really happened besides these two thing this last week. Oh! but President Uchtdorf gave me a shoutout during the priesthood session! hahha he was talking about how we should "worry about our own salvation before we worry about others too much, like whether or not Brother Johnson was asleep in the back pew." ahahah thought that was funny :) but I love you all :) have a great week :)

September 29, 2014

Alright everyone. to start off, I went on exchanges with Elder Allen and we went to Grovetown cause it's in his area and I got to see the Kaspers. my first family I worked with. what a blessing. I got to take pictures and all that stuff. so much fun :)​

but I came home after the exchange and elder Kobbah told me great news. that Dixie wanted to get baptized this week!! so we made a couple of phone calls and got it settled that she would get baptized this weekend!

on Friday, I went to the drs FINALLY and got another xray. they said I broke my wrist so I got my blue cast on :) it sucks. it's my first time. it feels weird but I have to wear it for 4-6 weeks. so we'll be walking everywhere. :/ 

Saturday, we had Dixie's baptism! Her parents came which was really good cause they were super ANTI and didn't like the church at all but now they have answers, they're okay with it :) Dixie only had to get dunked twice so that's good :)

Sunday, I was honoured to confirm her. it's always a scary thing. but I loved it. her parents couldn't come up for that, but it's okay. Sunday night, we went to Wanda's house and she fed us pig ears and pig feet. Man. Never again. I tried to eat it but I only got half of it down before she noticed I Was struggling so she took my plate and ate the rest. hahaha. really gross. but that's really about it for the week. :) I love you all so jmuch. keep it touch.!

love, Jacob :)

September 22, 2014

so my face and scars are starting to heal up. my nose is still busted. and my hands and wrist are still pretty bad. i go back to the drs this next week. hopefully get a cast. :)

rained so much this last week. we got so soaked. my scriptures got pretty wet and now there's a bit of water damage on them :/ that's sad. 

i've been dropping weight like crazy. i came into this area t 225 pounds and now when i last weighed myself i am 202!! crazy guys. sweating and biking and walking like there's no tomorrow :)

This girl named Dixie. we met her at the Clietts reception.

she said a curse word and Sister Cliett said "this is Dixie" and Dixie said "i'm Dixie and i don't care." we walked away like... "alright..? haha!" well, she told Sister Cliett that she wanted to get baptized. so we started to teach her ad she accepted a baptismal date :) well Saturday night she got Anti-d by her mum and she didn't wanna get baptized but she came to church with us on Sunday. we get to Stake conference and after like 15 minutes into Stake Conference i told her "think of a question and i promise that it will be answered!!" and she said "it already has. and i'm totally becoming a Mormon. i'm excited." :)) so she's on date to be baptized on October 18th. and Elder Kobbah is going to baptize and she wants me to confirm her :)

It's going to be a good month. that's all for now. i love you all so much :) keep in touch :)

Love, Jacob :)

September 13, 2014

so i'm not going to put everything that hapened this week cause it hurts to type. this is why:
 hahaha. i was biking downhill and playing air guitar and singing to myself and i look back and there's a car so i scoot over just a bit, and my front tire starts hitting the sidewalk and i lean forward to grab my handlebars and it threw off my balance ad i landed on my face on the sidewalk and rolled into the grass. my glasses broke open the skin on my nose and my face was covered in blood and i ad bad roadrash and my wrist hurt really bad. this all happened on the sidewalk of the hospital. ahaha well about 5 cars stopped to help me and we get going to our appoitment with Wanda, we get there and she fixes up my face cause it was covered in blood and al my cuts. my wrist started to swell so she took us to the hospital and i got an xray and they said it's a fracture. so they put a splint on it and told me to come back next week.:) my glasses are really really scratched up now. :( so that sucks.

but good news is is that im staying in augusta for another transfer! :) i'm excited.  this last week, we helped the Cliett family with their reception. it really took most of the week. but it was fun. i got to wear a nice bowtie  :) i looked good ;) hahaha.

 the ward talent show was Saturday night. Elder Kobbah did a break dance and the other Elders in the ward sang the National Anthem. i sat and watched. hahaha. i couldn't think of a talent i have to put on a stage y'know?

but that's all for now really :)

i love you all :)

Jacob <3

September 8/2014

"Pretty eventful week,, Compared to last,, haha!"

​It was a fun week :)) oh my goodness!!  So the beggining of the week was a drag. No one to really teach and just walking around teaching on the street.  But on Thursday is when things started to pick up. All day it was boring with nothing to do. Pretty depressing actually. but!!! Branden and Brittany Patchett fed us! They were in my ward in Vegas and their in the Augusta ward now. So it was great to talk to them. She made some really good Katsu chicken or whatever. but it was pretty fantastic :) Bro Patchett shared some experiences from his mission that were just histarical. :)

 

After dinner, we were aimlessly walking around again and we were walking up the hill towards Walmart and Elder Kobbah says "Where are we even going??" "Dude, I don't even know. I'm just walking" We end up walking into the Walmart Parking lot, and this lady has a flat tire. She looked so distressed. No one would help her. (She was a worker and on her break). We go up and ask if we could help and she said "I wanted to ask but you both are so handsome..." "no we insist! We have plenty of white shirts! haha" so we helped her for the nest 45 minutes to change her tire cause the jack she had was itty-bitty. but she asked "Do you guys walk around all day?" "Yes ma'am!!" "Why....?!" "Cause we're missionaries from our Church.. The Church of Jesus Chri-" "I know that.. but... WHY?" "really? to just share the light of Christ with others." She just stood there in amazement. It was really interesting. but after we fixed her tire and all that stuff she gave us the nicest compliment I have ever gotten. "you two men are the nicest people i've met. I can truly see Christs reflection eminating from you two. Thank you." and she started Crying when she said it. Just so touching!! she wanted nothing to do with the church, but it was a needed experience :)

 

on friday, i bought some yogurt. Man. yogurt is so good. Vanilla. 2 pounds for 2 dollars. what a steal. well, I kind of got addicted to it last week and I bought some on Friday and ate it all. It made me realy sick. I was sick all weekend. It was a bummer. It actually made me mad cause I hate being sick. but we still went out and did work. also on friday, a lady from Waynesboro moved into Augusta. the Elders in Waynesboro told us about her and they took us to go meet her. Her name is Wanda. She's Puerto Rican and she's a flipping hoot. She jsut says what's on her mind. She does want to get baptized but she smokes. so we'll fix that :) She's super funny though.

 

oh man,on Saturday we went to go help Wanda move into her new house, but by the time we got there it was already done. So we sat and conversed and and got to know eachother. it was realy fun. we ate at the Fry's house. and she made the BEST Chicken!! wow!! there was a piece for everyone and then there was one piece left at the end. It was so good that we actually started to argue at eachother and threaten eachother with our steak knives for it! it was pretty crazy. we ended up splitting it up and dividing it out. but it was just ahhh-mazing. ALSO!!! i had my first taste of an actual watermelon!! Wow. pretty crazy. we walked in there and there was a bowl of watermelon and I knew Elder Kobbah was gonna call me out on it cause he found out this last week I've never had watermelon. so they all forced me to try some. It wasn't that bad actually. OH! And I also tried a prickly pear! like off of the Jungle Book. Kind of weird. Tasted like a Banana and tomatoe combined. I didn't like it. And the seeds are sharp so you can't chew on it. it was kind of sketchy to eat. so I only ate half.

 

I think that this is about it for the week. but it was better :)
I love you all :)

September 2, 2014

​Pretty good week overall :))

 

My bike was broken for most of the week so we walked a lot and i got a nasty blister. BETWEEN my toes. How doest that happen? but Elder Morris, a senior missionary, fixed my bike for me so now it's works like a charm :))

 

all of our investigators have gone missing. Stop returning calls and everything. so we're starting fresh. again. so we did a lot of street contacting this week. nothing exciting :/

 

OH!! GUYS!! I ATE MY FIRST PEANUT!! we were at dinner, and for dessert she brings out ice cream and peanuts and i'm all "Guys, this is my first peanut" and she screams "YOU'VE NEVER EATEN A PEANUT?!" "I have now" hahaha :) i said... "wow, it tastes just like peanut butter!" I know Peanut Butter is made of peanuts but i wasn't expecting it to taste exactly like it.. :)

 

ahaha. yesterday for P-day, we played volleyball and dodgeball (with the volleyball) and it was a blast! Jumping around everywhere an all that.

 

alas, I forgot my planner again so i'm going off my memory, which we all know isn't that good. so that's all for now :) but i love you all dearly and hope to hear from you soon :)

 

Love always, Jacob :)