Still in Newark! February 8, 2016

Man people, I'm really just loving it up over here. I'm super grateful to be back in Newark. On Tuesday night a younger guy, Ronald, who's been working on his papers for a while got his call and invited us and a bunch of other members to the chapel to see him open it. We showed up a little late coming from an appointment and when we walked up to the group of members around Ronald they started to realize who I was and it felt like coming home. I wanted to hug every single one of em! Some of them didn't even believe me when I told them I was back for good in the area. It's been a super good week of seeing some old friends too, even though some of them weren't actually in my area last time, we worked pretty close with a lot of them and just going to church was super awesome to see how the ward as changed for the better. Happiness. I just feel super blessed to be in such a busy area! There's a ton of people over here that we can visit and a lot of members are telling us about their friends and family to go visit, so really it's not hard at all to keep ourselves busy. This week was pretty intense lesson wise. We talked to the cousin of a guy who was just baptized, he was raised Christian, but is now atheist, his name is Sergio. When I first came out I honestly never thought that an atheist would be one  of the people that I care for as much as I do right now. We had an awesome lesson just about praying and getting started. He didn't end up praying at the end of the lesson, but it was a really cool experience to just straight up talk to him about it all. 
We haven't seen anything too crazy so far, we have a sweet minivan that we roll in, so I think that'll keep the crazies away a little just because we're not outside 100% of the time. It the newest vehicle I've ever driven in my life though! Except for motorcycles and stuff. It had less than 500 miles on that puppy! Pulls like a champ too. I love that thing. All is well over here, stoked to be over here. Hope you guys are doing just fine. Love yas Take it easy!
Elder Jordan