February 29, 2016

Hey everybody! Elder Gates and I are over here still getting wrecked with food. For some forsaken reason our ward thought we weren't getting fed and organized a meal calendar, so now our ridge is chock full of leftovers and meals that were just given to us. We do our best to make sure nothing goes to waste, but you know, sometimes circumstances arise. Speaking of food, Sergio, our investigator, has been giving us a lot of fruit at the appointments we have with him and so with the fruit we have stashed up in the van we are feeding the beggars. They get food and we don't feel like heartless wretches, it's a win win! Well, we driving by a spot where we had given a guy some fruit and there, sitting on the concrete wall, was the apple and 2 oranges we had given this guy ... That irritated me a little, but we'll keep on giving out fruit.
We had a couple of appointments with Sergio this week and were very happy to find out that he'll be quitting his job and moving on to construction in another week and a half so his Sunday's will be free! We won't be able to get us quite as much fruit, because he's leaving the supermarket, but we'll take the trade off. He's doing really awesome and plans on getting baptized in March once he can come to church consistently. His roommate was pretty stoked about the activity night too! He said he's gonna be coming back next week and he even told my companion during the activity, "I'm not a Mormon, but I'm gonna be!" Haha! Just got to get him to switch work too now. Things have been going really good though! We're keeping really busy and seeing a lot of good people, it's just a matter of getting them to church.
Aside from them, we were going around some certain apartment buildings looking for some people to teach. We met some good people to teach, and especially these two guys from Honduras that happened to be getting into the elevator at the same time as us. We were going to the same floor and once we got out of the elevator we just talked to them about life and stuff for a good 10 minutes. The whole time I was just thinking how many things had to go right and had to happen in a certain order and at a certain time for us to be able to meet them. Stoked to get to teach them some more. Things are warming up over here and lots of good things are happening throughout the entire mission.
Thanks for the prayers and the love! I'm doing great and hope you guys are too, take it easy! Love ya!
Elder Jordan

Mabissa, she is awesome!

Elder Gates