Jacko's Mission Letters

last sunday we went to church normal, at 8:30 in the morning, expecting sacrament meeting to start as usual at 9.. but we went upstairs to start the meeting, bishop gets up to the pulpit and is like "i really love christmas, so we're gonna have a christmas activity".. so they made hot chocolate and had bread and had a "christmas activity" to replace the first hour of church.. then for the second hour we had sacrament meeting.. we however diD completely skip second hour classes, and no one knew ig (especially not us) so everyone who had second hour clases planned was kinda annoyed.. annnd idk it was just kinda a mess, cuz the other elders had 4 friends come for the first time, and that was the first impression of the church that they got.. that we just show up at 9 and listen to christmas music and have bread and hot chocolate, and we just sit around talking.. and there's nothing bad about that stuff, but it shouldn't be during church.. i...

i am soooooo sorry.. i have made a great and terrible mistake that i was severely unaware of.. for an entirety of approximately 18 of my emails.. i have used an incorrect format of a roman numeral.. this is terrible.. incredibly embarrassing.. inedible embarrassing.. so it turns out that once you get to 41, instead of XXXXI as i so previously thought, it's actually XLI.. and then 42 is XLII and so on.. same with the 90s.. 91 is not LXXXXI instead it is XCI.. 92 is XCII and so on.. buttt doesn't matter, cuz i didn't realize till i was already on C.. which i had to look up, cuz i thOught it was C, but wasn't sure.. and that's how i stumbled upon the information that i had done it incorrectly like 18 times.. also on tuesday night at like 11:30 (i was sleeping) elder berry walks into our room and tells us that he just got off the phone with pres and that someone nearby us got malaria (i still don't really know what malaria is,...

on monday we went to the church and played signs with the district.. it was super fun, but some of the sisters took a while to understand the game, which made it a little more fun, cuz we definitely messed around a little too much.. but it was fun.. we juggled a soccer ball around a little too, cuz we have a couple latino elders who aren't dominicans.. (dominicans don't really play soccer, mostly just baseball and basketball).. we had district council and did one where we all shared our testimonies and stuff, which was cool, i've done that quite a lot of times in district council now, and it's always pretty good.. we also read our mission call letters, which was crazy timing, cuz i got a text later that day that pol (my brother) had received his mission call.. sooo we did a call that night, and he's going to argentina!! wohoooo!! super cool.. other than that, we put 2 of our friends on baptismal date this week, so we're going to b...

it was a good week, we did a lot of cool stuff.. probably.. i don't really remember.. i'm not drinking a ton of kola-real and coke anymore, cuz i was tired of dying.. but it was a good week anyways, have a great week, love you guys! john 11:23-27 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. I AM THE RESURRECTION -Jesus Christ

coca-cola and kola-real.. the only things that are holding my life together at this point.. every day i'm sooo tired.. like i could just sleep the whole day.. but i don't, instead i just slug around trying to keep my eyes open.. and then once i'm on the verge of passing out from being so tired, i drink some kola-real.. and the first gulps are like a giant gust of wind that blows away the fog from my mind.. and then a couple hours (or a couple minutes) later i'm dying again.. buttt i've entered the last transfer.. it still feels so far away, but we're moving there.. sooo for now my blood runs thick with kola-real and coca-cola.. and i can for real feel it killing me, so i'm trying to wing off of it, but at the same time, there are days that i feel the grip of death tightening it's hold upon me, and then i drink some black fizzy sustenance, and it fights away the fog.. my trainer elder goldfarb (who also died in this house in my first tr...

helloooooo i'm here still.. so we had a baptism last night.. it was luisa.. we found her in the first week of the transfer in my comps second day or something.. and we invited her to church.. and she came that first sunday.. and we invited her to get baptized.. it took a little longer cuz she was a little slow to understand, but she's now come to church 5 times, and she's the newest member of the manoguayabo ward.. she's a bit older, like 60ish, but she's super cool.. when we showed up at her house tho to take her to the baptism (cuz we have to do it at another chapel cuz there's no font at ours).. and she told us she would need to wait until december, because she didn't feel prepared enough to be baptized.. so i was like.. "uhhhh whAt? why?" and she was like "well i have sugar (diabetes) and high blood pressure, and i don't think i'm ready to be baptized because of that.. and i was like "uhhh baptism doesn...