March 30, 2013

First Few Days

Hows it going?!
Life here is crazy! classes everyday all day! But its good im learning a lot and im loving it! It takes some time to settle in here but once you get the hang of things it kinda feels like home. (emphasis on kinda) My bed is fine. The mattress isnt like home but its pretty good. But the SHEETS?! What a joke! i tried to put them on the first day, and its like they gave us sheets for a crib to put on these twin size beds! it was making me so mad! and i cut my knuckles on the brick wawll trying to put it on! so needless to say i never make my bed fully. i have a liable excuse. I have seen a couple people here. i saw elder merrill the first day and but i cant find Elder wager or criman. Like i said we have lessons and classes all day. so on thursday we had this people and purpose lesson. We watched these videos where people would say a little bit about them and then we would have to see how we would teach them based on their needs and goal. it was Crazy! i feel the spirit all the time! before i got here i thought this place would be like a spiritual bomb and just feel it so powerfully until you eventually hot used to it, but its not like that at all. it just a kind of encompassing spirit and you have to let it in to feel it. If that makes sense. But even though the spirit is here, satan is definitely real! i have had so many doubts and attacks. But you cant focus on those you just have to be obiedient and focus on the work.

Mom Thanks for the letter! it made my day! and hannah Thank you so much for your gift! i read a letter before i go to bed and and it means the world! letters are like GOLD here so as many as you guys want to/should send. would be great! we didnt get mail till friday because we needed a district leader to go get it and... we didnt have one yet. Our DL is Elder Christiansen, we room together and hes pretty cool. he got assigned on thursday night after the mail room was closed so we had to wait till friday morning.

Let me tell you about my companion. Hes from calgary canada. hahaha its sooo funny because we just talk about how weird canadians are! most of my district is pretty weird, they're all into art and theater and "writing poems and short stories" haha weird. but my companion is cool! even though hes canadian. hes 20 years old but age doesnt really matter here at all. He has an accent but its pretty subtle. so i notice he puts emphasis on the letter "O" so when he says process it comes out pro-cess. Hes always telling us how east canada is the one with the crazy accents and how they say a-boat (about) but if you listen closely, and i do, he says a-boat! hahahahaha we were to a role play yesterday and we were talking about prayer or the doctrine of christ or something, and he said a-boat and i just laughed out loud!! but it made me lose focus so i had to calm down and look over it. Also he doesn't know about any of the cereals we have here and its just so weird! Anyways even though hes from canada he probably the most popular guy (from home that is.) If letters are gold then my companion is a KING the first day we got our mail he had three letters and three packages! (with a "second notice" on one of them) and all of us were so jealous!

well that about all for now. i have more i could say but i need to get off and let others talk to their families. write me back. love you guys so much

Love Elder Jones

P.S. we're not really aloud to use sarcasm here, and its sooo hard! (i still use it all the time haha).