June 29, 2011

Well, I love my area! The area is really big and we dont have a car but Elder Bowers and I are still killing the area (in a good way) last week we picked up 13 new investiagtors and everyone was shocked. We put 2 more people on date for July and things are looking up. In the past 2 weeks we have picked up 21 new spanish inv and 3 english. Sorry if it seems like I am bragging, I am just excited. The only bad part about this area is the blisters on the bottom of my feet. We had a great experience the other day tracting. All our appts sunday night fell through so we decided to tract out this street. At about 9pm right as we were finishing up we knocked a door and a man stepped out and then his wife followed. We talked for awhile and then the lady said "Can you come in and say a pray for my son who is in the hospital with cancer?'' Turns out they have been to church several times and are very interested in being taught. We also found some kids in a park playing baseball so we joined in and told them we would play if they would listen to a lesson. Afterwards we taught the kids and the mom. The mom then told us of how she is strugglin with diabetes and is dying from cancer. We introduced them to the english elders and they are all now being taught.

   I love working with elder Bowers because we work crazy hard but we have fun doing it, we are litterally always laughing and joking around (appropriately). Elder Bowers was a wrestler before the mission and so he is kicking me into shape, we start off every morning now doing a million pushups and dand I am sore all over. Oh man so we just had to move to a new house and well yea in the begininng it was gross. It smelled like pee and was crazy dusty and dirty and so the first day we were up until like 1am cleaning. The other day I got out of the shower and saw a huge dust bunny under the toilet. I looked closer and realized it had claws, it was no dust bunny, it was a dead bird. By the looks of it the bird had been there for several months. This could have contributed to the smell. My backpack also broke this week and so I had to by a new one so that is why I have spent so much money this month mom. It is a really nice backpack, kind of expensive but it comes with a lifetime warrunty (sp). we have also had to by a ton of things for the house since we didnt have cleaning supplies or even lightbulbs. Anyway I love this area and I am having sooo much fun. I hope everyone is doing great back home. The power we have as missionaries is amazing, but we cannot use it if we are not doing our part. We have the authority but how much power we have as missionaries is all up to us. Work hard be good and love you all, like always.

 Elder Jolly