Well, the first week of school down. Carson drove every day. He's not too bad of a driver. Kourtney rode with a couple of days. Friday he had to be to school at 630am so she didn't go with that day. I think so far he likes his classes and teachers. He said one of the teachers is a little different. But I don't remember which one.
It's nice to have somewhat of a routine again. School, practice, homework, bed. 😊. Ym on wed. They went shooting with the miamaids. I guess only 2 of the girls showed. But they had fun.
Thursday they played at mountain crest. They played well and won. I don't remember the score. Carson played almost the entire game. Chance had some really good plays and Sean played quarterback for most of the 4th quarter. So that was good. The freshmen were the only team to get a win against them.
Friday Carson had a back to school party at the school. Then we headed for the cabin. Saturday we waited for Taylor and Kayla to get there and went out on the lake. It was a perfect day for wakeboarding. Carson and Taylor road the tube for a bit. We had lunch and then Carson was on the wakeboard. He gets up every time but is still working on actually riding it. Like I said the water was awesome and he was doing great and then the boat decided to not run 😳. We were clear over on the east side of the lake where we always go, and the boat just bogged out. No power. So we got Carson in the boat and headed back to the marina. We were just praying we would make it back. It backfired a few times and almost died. It's acting like it's not getting any gas. But it was full. We went maybe 5mph the whole way back. As we were getting to the wakeless area we were passing the coastguard boat and I thought. Ok if it dies here we will be ok😊. It didn't. We got it in and back on the trailer and then I could breathe again. It was a little bit scary thinking about it dying clear across the lake where there really weren't any other boats to speak of. Even simple prayers Are answered. I could feel the answer come that everything would be ok. (I didn't know if that meant getting back to the marina and the boat on the trailer or not, but I knew we were going to be fine).
It was still a good day. We went back to the cabin and on our way up Snowberry there was a lady and a little boy that were walking. Their 4-wheeler had broke down. We stopped and picked them up. Since we had the boat we took them up to the cabin with us and Taylor gave them a ride back to their place down by the golf course in his jeep. While we got the boat backed down the driveway. They Taylor, Kayla and Carson went to the chevron to get the propane tank for the grill filled and get some drinks. We played games and relaxed and had dinner when grandma and grandpa got there after their shift at the temple.
After dinner we all went downstairs and watched a couple episodes of Scorpion.
Sunday we slept in and had brunch about 11. And just relaxed. Watched a Harry Potter movie or 2 and read. Had dinner and came home around 7.
Carson has football practice this morning at 8, so he and dad went to pick up Sean. It's kind of crappy that they ruin the last holiday of the summer with football☹.
We don't have anything planned for the day but maybe dad and I will finish the stairs for the deck. I guess we'll see. Jolene And Kevin invited Carson to go to the flow rider with them. So he has something to do today at least.
We were planning to go out in the boat but that ship sailed. On to plan ?
So how was your week? Anything fun happen? Anything bad? It's amazing how fast the days seem to go by. Do we need to do anything with your stuff for school? I'm guessing that you need to get most of your stuff in order by December like you had to before. Let us know what we need to get rolling for you. Scholarship, housing etc. it's all coming fast even though it seems far away still.
Well, I hope you have a great week!
Love you
Mom
This week was pretty chill. We had a great time. But the truth is we were traveling a ton.... I don't like traveling... It SUCKS!!!!!!!! Hahaha we had to travel so much because we were practicing in a choir. We practiced and traveled more because we had a multi zone with Elder Ochoa. The Area President. Wow those guys are so powerful... I cant believe how powerful they speak. The thing is that they don't even speak and make doctrine or the ways that we should do stuff complicated it is all so simple but as humans we mess everything up. He told us we don't have to teach the lessons point for point we just have to teach repentance. And we only should teach the people that want to repent. Anyways so we found 2 super amazing investigators this week. One is Lionel he has 3 church attendances and he hasn't ever been to a church in his life. He is a boyfriend of a member so he has been going and he is really awesome he wants to learn and know so much. The other is Jose. He read the Restoration pamphlet 4 times and had questions and he wants to come to church to know more. He asked God what church he should join and a couple days later we showed up. So he Is super positive. Also I am staying in my area but getting a new comp. My comp is going to go open a new area and train. So that is pretty cool. Love the heck out of him. Going to miss him but its all good. Well that was my week. Love you!
Mom: I didn't realize it was transfers already. That's a bummer you are getting a new companion again. You must be hard to get along with 😉. Did you get your package? I'll send your backpack and keyboard tomorrow since the post office isn't open today.
Jackson: Yes I got my package sounds good I'll be waiting for it
Voice Recording:
Well, Another week down, Another month down too. We're in the month of September now. Wow, a lot of time has been going by really fast when you think about it.
So, this week was a busy week, like a little bit different kind of busy. Cuz to be honest, we did not have that many lessons, we did not do much in the field of missionary work.
But, this week, Monday was just a normal P-day. Then we had Tuesday, which in the morning we had to go to a choir practice because Elder Ochoa, the president of the area, the Seventy, was going to come to our zone and have like a multi zone here and all that jazz. So Wednesday we had to that too in the morning, we had to so to San Miguel to practice in the choir and everything. and then Thurs rolls around and they said to be there at 7am to practice and we were like wow, that's way early because we were supposed to be there at 8am to practice, that's what they said. So we get there at 7:30am and we're like we aren't going to practice and the other Elder is going to be pissed, the Zone leader, because he's the one who plays the piano and everything. We started practicing at 7:45am and 8 rolls around and 830 rolls around and they're like we're going to have everyone come out here and Elder Ochoa, Pres. Duran and his wife are going to sit down here and take a picture of all your zone. So you guys gotta line up and do everything like that. So we got lined up and we stood there for like 15 min. it was like 845 almost 9am. You know how it is, you can't just stand there and sit there and not talk to people so we started going to talk to other people and they're like hey, hey, you guys gotta get back in line and stuff like that. We're like What? Are you kidding me?
He showed up at like 930am, Elder Ochoa and President and then we went and sang Have I done any good in the world today? In Spanish there's a hymn, the 7th hymn, you can sing it to the tune of 6. We did kind of a mix between Israel, Israel god is calling and the other hymn, it was pretty cool. Elder Ochoa talked to us and taught us that what we need to do is find more people and set more baptismal dates. He said we need to be more direct with the people, we can't be messing around with them. We just gotta ask them if they want to repent, because that's what we're here to do. We are here to ask them if they want to repent and receive a remission of their sins. I really liked that, it was really powerful to listen to them. The wives of Pres. Ochoa and Pres. Duran those 2, it was really great. That was Thurs. Then Fri rolled around, we moved 300 bricks. But these bricks, the bricks in the US are small, these bricks are like 1/2 a cinder block is what a brick here is. We moved 300 of them. A lady wanted us to help her out so we were like ya cool. and we did it. It was pretty cool to learn how they do it, and we learned it and we did it. But what happened was too, he threw one and he was like, these bricks aren't like bricks in the states. They break really easy, and one was already broken, but he didn't see it and he threw it and I went to catch it and a piece fell off and smashed my nuts. Like I was on the ground for 10 minutes. Almost crying it hurt so bad.
Then Saturday we had to go into Ilopongo, we had to go into the Centro because my Companion is going to train, it's pretty cool. It's pretty funny because he's going to go open and area, I'm staying here. But that's how it is, so we had to go there. We went there with Elder Hughes and everybody like that with the people who are already training. It was fun, it was good, it wasn't bad. Yesterday my companion was saying good bye to a lot of people because he's out of here. Today we'll see if I'm leaving too.
Mom: I didn't realize it was transfers already. That's a bummer you are getting a new companion again. You must be hard to get along with 😉. Did you get your package? I'll send your backpack and keyboard tomorrow since the post office isn't open today.
Jackson: Yes I got my package sounds good I'll be waiting for it
Voice Recording:
Well, Another week down, Another month down too. We're in the month of September now. Wow, a lot of time has been going by really fast when you think about it.
So, this week was a busy week, like a little bit different kind of busy. Cuz to be honest, we did not have that many lessons, we did not do much in the field of missionary work.
But, this week, Monday was just a normal P-day. Then we had Tuesday, which in the morning we had to go to a choir practice because Elder Ochoa, the president of the area, the Seventy, was going to come to our zone and have like a multi zone here and all that jazz. So Wednesday we had to that too in the morning, we had to so to San Miguel to practice in the choir and everything. and then Thurs rolls around and they said to be there at 7am to practice and we were like wow, that's way early because we were supposed to be there at 8am to practice, that's what they said. So we get there at 7:30am and we're like we aren't going to practice and the other Elder is going to be pissed, the Zone leader, because he's the one who plays the piano and everything. We started practicing at 7:45am and 8 rolls around and 830 rolls around and they're like we're going to have everyone come out here and Elder Ochoa, Pres. Duran and his wife are going to sit down here and take a picture of all your zone. So you guys gotta line up and do everything like that. So we got lined up and we stood there for like 15 min. it was like 845 almost 9am. You know how it is, you can't just stand there and sit there and not talk to people so we started going to talk to other people and they're like hey, hey, you guys gotta get back in line and stuff like that. We're like What? Are you kidding me?
He showed up at like 930am, Elder Ochoa and President and then we went and sang Have I done any good in the world today? In Spanish there's a hymn, the 7th hymn, you can sing it to the tune of 6. We did kind of a mix between Israel, Israel god is calling and the other hymn, it was pretty cool. Elder Ochoa talked to us and taught us that what we need to do is find more people and set more baptismal dates. He said we need to be more direct with the people, we can't be messing around with them. We just gotta ask them if they want to repent, because that's what we're here to do. We are here to ask them if they want to repent and receive a remission of their sins. I really liked that, it was really powerful to listen to them. The wives of Pres. Ochoa and Pres. Duran those 2, it was really great. That was Thurs. Then Fri rolled around, we moved 300 bricks. But these bricks, the bricks in the US are small, these bricks are like 1/2 a cinder block is what a brick here is. We moved 300 of them. A lady wanted us to help her out so we were like ya cool. and we did it. It was pretty cool to learn how they do it, and we learned it and we did it. But what happened was too, he threw one and he was like, these bricks aren't like bricks in the states. They break really easy, and one was already broken, but he didn't see it and he threw it and I went to catch it and a piece fell off and smashed my nuts. Like I was on the ground for 10 minutes. Almost crying it hurt so bad.
Then Saturday we had to go into Ilopongo, we had to go into the Centro because my Companion is going to train, it's pretty cool. It's pretty funny because he's going to go open and area, I'm staying here. But that's how it is, so we had to go there. We went there with Elder Hughes and everybody like that with the people who are already training. It was fun, it was good, it wasn't bad. Yesterday my companion was saying good bye to a lot of people because he's out of here. Today we'll see if I'm leaving too.
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