Elder Jake Simpson: ok, now 3 months

I realized that I was a little hasty last week in saying 3 months. Now its 3 months.

so I don't know if thanksgiving is this week or the last, but they don't celebrate it here. In fact, when I tried to explain it to someone they didn't understand why we stuffed ourselves and watch football to give thanks. shes got a point.

To answer questions. last week I went into the office, so when I was there I plugged in my pendrive to the computer to download the 1000 songs they have. I am just using my comps speakers.

I didn't have a conversation with Elder Rigby, so I have not told him about how my mother stalked him. Yes I talked to Elder mcswain about the bangerters! I was like, yeah they are in my ward! me and emily are friends! He was like, isn't she like 13? Haha funny stuff.

so mom, about that time our for women thing, how in the world did you get grandma to hold up that fake mustache???? hahahahahahahahahaha sooooooo funny!!!

so I tried my home debit card this week, and it worked. I withdrew about 25 bucks. so lemme know if someone is coming down to arrest me for fraud or anything.

so we have been having problems with getting our clothes back from the people who wash them. let's just say I have been wearing the same pair of socks for 4 days now. Yeah. haha

There is a word here that they use to mean child, creatura. literal translation means creature. so like, the creatures are playing outside. super funny.

lauren, thank you for the letters! I got a bunch more this week! Including the Rm application which made me and many other people laugh very hard.

so mom, I am sorry, I don't wear my seatbelt here. That's only because there is never anything to clip it into. None work. I apologize.

Ok, so there was a wedding and baptism of the other missionaries in our ward this week! super cool! Only like 35 people were there, it was in the church gym, and the only decorations were some boquets and a heart made out of balloons. It was really more of a formality, seeing as they already have kids who are adults. The wedding favors included hotdogs, and sprite. Elegance at its finest.

so I had a cool experience this week. I was sitting in a lesson teaching the Restoration, and whenever we teach this lesson satan always sends a distraction, a crying baby, anything. This time it was in the form of a barking dog. for half of the lesson this dog was barking and making noise. finally I thought to myself to do something, and I knew that it was good, so I had the faith, probably not fully, to do it. I turned and said to the dog, in English, Be still. That's all I said. and you know what? That dog did not bark nor make one noise for the rest of the lesson. Incredible. I am just grateful to my Father in Heaven for showing me that I do have the power and authority to act in the name of christ, and I grew such a greater respect for this divine calling I am on. Truly, even though no one saw, this was a miracle for me.

Happy anniversary on the 30th mom and dad! Whatre you at, 25?

Here is a lot like West Bountiful. Everyone is related somehow. super funny.

so I had a good trade this week. I traded this guy named jose my watch that he really wanted for his classic, 50 dollar Olimpia jersey. Then I went and bought a cool white watch for 5 bucks. Haha good trade right? Its a super cool jersey, I took a pic, I will send it later.

I had a lesson in English! This guy is a less active member and he teaches English and studies it. His english is probably as good as my spanish. But he wanted to speak in English! so we talked about the tree of life, and it was fun to be the lead companion for once, and to be able to say what I want to say! It was super weird at first, I kept wanting to go into spanish!! funny.

so in spanish there are words that they just use in English, and some are random.

chance (pronounced wrong, but still English)

look (as in my look is a white shirt and tie)

break, as in lets take a break for a while

fetch, among members this is popular because of north american missionaries

okay. everyone says ok.

so on the buses, the collectivos, there are people that try to sell you stuff. candy, food, magazines, beer (which they call leche, or milk), jewlery, coloring books, you name it. some even pass out the candy, then you have to wait til they return so you can give them it back, because if you eat it, you pay for it. Haha it should be illegal. But hey, its funny.

Well I love you all, thanks for all the support you all give me! I pray for your safety and happiness.

Remember how powerful the Book of mormon is. If this book is true, our whole church is true. If this book is true, everything we say and do is true. This is fundemental to everything we teach. Without a testimony of the Book of mormon we just cannot gain a testimony of anything else. It's important.

Yall are great, hope you enjoyed the show, until next time...

Elder jake