Thanksgiving!!!

Wes was bored, so he arranged all his change by year!
What a way to use your time!

so this week was actually pretty good! we ran out of miles this week so we had to get rides from members all over the place! like on monday we went riding with a member all over to see people but they kept canceling. but we did end up having a really good lesson with a less active family! Bro F. was super impressed about the cups and knives analogy! then on tuesday it was super awesome! we went out to oakridge to eat with our new ward mission leader! then we visited an active member and helped her set up her christmas tree and then she fed us too! (2 in a row!) and then we went to visit a. our golden investigator! and she was cooking and so she invited us in to eat tambien! but elder jacobsen couldnt fit any more inside his body. they were nice about it (because if a hispanic offers you food, you dont deny it or else they get offended) and they said that they would never force anybody to eat...but as i was eating the little food that i could fit in they kept on INSISTING that elder jacobsen would eat something. haha so in the end they did end up forcing elder jacobsen to eat! so we had 3 dinners within 3 hours! and they were totally unexpected! haha

well we ended up having a super successful day that tuesday and the highlight of it all was a new family that we are now teaching! their names are J, M. J., and J! they are a sweet family from mexico with the cutest darn kids ever! like J. fell down and started crying then he looked at my face and started busting out laughing out of no where! and then every time i looked at him he would start laughing! is something wrong with my face??? haha the gospel becomes so much more real when we teach families! 

then on thursday! we had a thanksgiving video downloaded and so we used that as our approach for every contact! it was sweet and we saw tons of miracles! we got 2 new investigators A., and J.! they are both sweet! then we went and taught M.! she was actually a lot more solid than we had thought! she has a slight concern about being baptized again cuz she doesnt want to play with god, but she told us she had a dream before she met the missionaries about what she described pretty definitively as the inside of one of the temples and the entire floor was covered with books of mormon! how cool is that! so she is really interested about coming to church! she just has to get work off!

then we had dinner with the F.
family! it was great! there was spanish rice! tomales! potato salad! Flan! oh and DELICIOUS TURKEY!!!! spanish people know how to cook! nuff said!

then later that night we had a less active member lesson where we were able to teach really powerfully about repentance! we were able to give him the hope to give up smoking once and for all! in the new testament it talks a lot about the savior healing all manner of enfermities. but not all of them were a literal blessing of health. people had emotional problems and his teaching literally was healing. we have been trying to teach in a way that will heal the scars made by life experiences! it has been awesome!

we had another experience like that yesterday where the difference in the persons attitude from the beginning of the lesson compared to the end really was amazing!

i love the gospel, the holidays, the true meaning of christmas, and you guys!

Love Elder Jones