Hola, my mission president gave us 6 hours of P day today because we spent most of our p day yesterday in the mission office so I get to write you about my first night. Well After the library we went and visited a new convert family and just talked with them for a bit. We then hit up Walmart for our weekly grocery shopping and all that fun stuff. People kept saying hi even though I didnt know them, they just saw our name tags and would say hi. After that we went back to the house and ate dinner, I had a whole pizza, not a good idea and you will find out why in a minute. After that we went to our 8 oclock appointment but the lady was not home, so we went out visiting members with the ward mission leader. We helped one lady unload her car and she gave us mexican bread and we talked with her for a little bit about how her life is going. Whenever my companion intruduces me to someone the first question they always ask is "Does he speak spanish". Elder Hernandez always responds with a "yes" before I can tell them that I do not really speak much spanish. We are going back over to the lady whose car we helped unload tonight to share a message with her and do some service. After that we went over to one of our investigators house. They have 4 kids between ages of 8 and 14 and they are all baptized but the parents are not baptized because the father is still working on divorce papers with his previous wife. After those finish they both are going to be baptized. Now I will explain why the pizza was a bad idea. When we got to their house we sat down and started talking, well I was mainly listening trying to understand. The convo went back and forth and back and forth and I only understood a lil and then all of a sudden they were all looking at me. I had no idea what they had asked. Apparently the mom was asking how I do with spicy food. The next thing i knew I had a huge plate of food in front of me and I was still full from the pizza, but I ate it anyway because if there is one thing you dont do that is reject their food when they offer you some. They made me put hot salsa on it and they giggled when I figured out it was hott!!! After that I shared a message with them on Ether 12:27 about weaknesses and I explained (in spanish) how my weakness right now is spanish and hot spicy food but as we humble ourselves and put our full trust in the Lord he will strengthen us and we can accomplish any righteous thing, even speaking spanish and eating spicy food. They laughed. Elder Hernandez then bore his testimony and we left. When we got back to the house we planned for the next day and got ready for bed. When I got into bed Elder Hernandez handed me a giant baseball bat and said "here take this in case there are theives" apprently it is a sketchy part of town. LOL but its all good and I slept alright and on a very full stomach. This morning I had District Meeting and we did all our studying. Elder Hernandez helped me with my language study. We are in the Riverton 9th ward in West Jordan, but the Lindemans live pretty close to here. Jordan Landing shopping mall is where we do our grocery shopping. Our mission, although one of the smaller ones in the world area wise, has an enormous amount of missionaries and stakes. We have 200 missionaries and 109 stakes. English missionaries cover a few stakes while us spanish elders cover just wards. Ours is just a branch right now but we are going to get it up to ward status before my mission is over. I went through the area book this morning and there are a lot of investigators that look very promising. Our white board has about 20 names of investigators and referals right now, so it is hopefully going to get busy soon. Anyway, I am loving it out here and I love the food, Elder Hernandez made me some good mexican food for lunch with jalepenos. Stay strong and love you all.
Elder Jolly
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