I don't like no picture weeks!!!

So this week was a boring week.

Monday- Stayed in the house and cleaned today, because it was really dirty, took a nap and bought some stuff for the week. Then we Went over to the house of Marina, Omar, and Evelyn Llanos and taught them The Law of Chastity, Word of Wisdom, and Sabbath day, then we committed them to living it.

Tuesday- Today we had our meeting in the morning then headed over to lunch. After that, because we did not have any appointments until 5 we just contacted until then. After we went over to the house of Daniel Merchan. We taught him for an hour and a half, but he did not want anything, would not commit to reading the Book of Mormon because he did not want to say he would do something that he knows he would never do. After that we did some more contacting until 800 when we had correlation with our ward mission leader.

Wednesday- today we thought that we were going to go on an interchange, so at 300 we went over to the house of Nohelia so we could talk to her and Elizabeth, but Elizabeth was not there, so we talked to her for a little bit and shared a spiritual thought with her and left. then we contacted from 400 to 600 and went over to the house so elder Christensen could pick up his stuff for the night in the house of our district leader. We met him at the church at 700 so he could do a baptismal interview for Vanessa and me and his comp. went over to the house of marina and Omar, but Omar was not there so we could not enter and we just verified some of the commandments with marina and then went back to the church. They had already finished the interview with Vanessa. she is good for baptism she just does not want to be baptized right now. Then elder Leninger received a call from the zl's that they do not want the interchange to happen until tomorrow.

Thursday- We did the interchange first thing in the morning today. Me and Leninger did some contacting, then went to Pablos house for lunch and then headed of to our appointments. First we went to the house of Gloria Astudillo and talked to her and her two sons for a little bit. she is still unsure about a baptism, but we set up an appointment with her for Saturday at 400 and we will see what happens. We then went over to the house of Daniel, but he was not there so we walked to the other side of our sector to talk to Geraldina. We talked to her for a while and taught enduring to the end and then walked to the church for our appointment with Vanessa tonight. We talked to her about baptism, trying to find our what was in her way. she says she is still unsure of baptism, but is patient for her answer, so we will keep teaching and find out where it leads.

Friday- Got my comp back, then went to go to an appointment with a reference who was not there and then we went back to the house so we could plan for the week. Then went to lunch and contacted until 600 then elder Christensen wanted to talk to Geraldina so we went over there for an hour and then headed to the apartment of Carlos to talk to him and his family. he is a little bit upset because his 3 children are leaving to Canada for 5 years. We did the best we could to help and i hope it did.

Saturday- had a morning meeting then went to lunch and to Pablos house to see if he could come with us today, but he could not. Then we went over to the house of Gloria, but she was not there so we told her kids that we would come back at 600, then went and contacted until 600 and went back to the house of Gloria and talked about how Christ is the rock of our salvation. We are going to shoot for baptism for the 13th of July, we will see if she accepts on Tuesday when we go back. Then we headed over to the house of Marina and Omar, but Omar was not there. So, we did a plan for this next week with them of what we are going to teach and when their interviews will be, so they can be better prepared for baptism. Then we told her to read it over with Omar and see if everything works with both of there schedules and we could talk about it in church on Sunday.

Sunday-we had marina, Omar and Vanessa in the church today as well as two other people who left before we were able to get their information. Vanessa only was able to stay for sacrament, but marina and Omar stayed the entire time. after we went to lunch with the Lawton family and then went back to the church so we could go with our ward mission leader to the house of some less active members. after that Giovanny took us to the house of Pablo so we could do a family home evening and dinner, but Pablo and his family had to go after dinner to the church, so we just contacted our way home for the night.

Our mission boundaries have not changed much, the first area I was in is now in the new mission, we lost about 5 of the 14 zones. You asked about Galapagos...yes they are still in my mission. I have not heard anything about the new mission president yet. Your letters are great and I love reading them, I am feeling great, I love you lots, I will not get discouraged.

Look forward to next week.

Your boy

Jesse