8/8/2016

Whattttttssss uppppp family!

This week has been a good week. I don't have much that's noteworthy or mentionable though. But it's crazy that Sam is home. Hahaha it doesn't seem real but it is. I hope he is getting all settled in and riding some waves on the beach and getting pitted haha. But I hope all is well and that you are enjoying the beach and just having a good old time getting some balboa bars and walking around the island.

So this week we have had some time outside of our area. On Wednesday we were in London for a meeting. And wow, it was long. Well it felt long to travel into London. I think I'm still used to the 15 minute ride on the tube. So it was a bit rough sitting on a train for an hour and a half hahaha. But it's all good. I'll get used to it. We were going to drive in which would have been sweet but elder tonks went over on miles and then decided to get transfered haha. But it's all good. The meeting was brilliant! It was so good to see all the boys back together! Elder Burgess, elder mecham, elder withers! And some more MTC guys. It was a great reunion. But the meeting was lovely and president and sister Stevens are just the best. The meeting focused a ton on proselyting on Facebook and through our iPads! We are one of the piloting missions for iPads in Europe so we are stoked about that! It's going to be sweet because the church has come out with some really great ideas and tools so we are trying to figure it all our and

get the mission going!

On Friday we had zone meeting and we just talked about the new Facebook ideas and online proselyting. We are super super stoked! We have already seen some great things happen just in the last few days. We just need to keep on it! We had a sweet miracle on scruffy though. So this girl we found didn't want to exchange numbers so we just gave her a pass along card with our number on it, a few days past and we didn't get a call, and to be honest, I've never gotten a call back my whole mission from just giving out my number. But on Saturday she called!!! Oh my elder ammermon and I were so pumped!!! It was so wicked! We saw her that day with a recent convert and she came to church Sunday! We are facing some opposition with her dad so it's been a bit tough recently but it's okay. We still have faith. But that was a sweet Moment! We hope we can see her soon.

Other than that the week just kind of flew by! It's weird, it's been a quick last few weeks. Times flying. The country side is beautiful, sometimes we are driving home from a long long block of finding and we drive through the country side and the sun is setting and it's just beautiful. We pull over for just a few minutes and enjoy it, it goes pretty fast, but it's worth it, it lights up the entire horizon and the hills just look beautiful. I saw the Lords Hand in that this week, I also saw the lords hand this week in Sam. I'm grateful for the example he has been the last 2 years. I've been lucky to have a missionary to look up to.

Love you guys!!!! Shred some waves at the beach! Get pitied in the shore break!

Jacob

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