Juneau

Ya boi guys,

New Elder Johnson is swag.  They cancelled church last week....  Preparation day was fun; we went bowling.  On Elder Johnson's first day on the mission field, we moved from one two-story apartment to the basement of another.  Here's a few pictures.

We got 9 people from our area to the temple on Saturday, 4 with names!  Woot!

Also, there's gonna be a huge whiteout snowstorm coming today.  Like, they named it and everything!  Our leaders told us to take our 72-hour kits into our cars.  Lol.

Anyway, wish us luck.  We should be having a few baptizzles next mizzle.

Love,

Elder deJesus

By the way...

18 Brill St Basement
Newark, NJ 07104 is the new address. 

 Please send a cake promptly.

Choo-Choo!

Hey guys!

In missionary language, when your companion leaves for home, you killed him.  When a missionary comes into the mission, he is born.  When you train a missionary, he is your son.

I killed Elder Johnson.  He died in childbirth.  My new son took on his mom's name.

All week was meeting after meeting.  We should be going to the temple this weekend.  Hermana Mortensen finally got in touch with Betty!  I hope she goes to the temple with us.

That's all I have time for.

Love,

Elder deJesus

New From FamilySearch.org

Pichurris,

All week this week, we got members excited to go to the temple on 24 January 2015 by showing them FamilySearch.org.  They were able to print out family names to take there!  We currently have 17 people planning to go and we are stoked.

Also, we had a zone conference, after which we ate at a place called Aguila.  I had taco de lengua for the very first time.  After the initial horror watching them cut up the cow tongue, the taco-eating experience was delightful.  We went to Dr. Chicken Shack the day before and played indoor soccer.  The sisters broke the table they were sitting on.

Otherwise, we just continue to find new investigators and receive referrals and doing the Lord's work.  We taught a deaf man in broken Spanish.  We found a group of Deaf people in the library.  Newark Public Library is cool-looking inside.

Ooh!  We also got stranded at Jersey City trying to change our oil, so we ate at Taco Bell.

Love,

Elder deJesus

P.S. Below are pictures of our zone Christmas thing and zone conference.

Hunting

Guy,

 

I guess....  My emails make no sense ):

 

Anyways, bahartha juwambwe kiji-kiji 2015 mandwek.  Happy 2015, the year Marty McFly went to in the future!  Hooray for hoverboards!

 

So this week, we celebrated the new year by dranking holiday drank and going to bed at 10:30:00 pm EST.  It was the bee's knees.

 

Sis. Margaret just got her temple recommend!  And so did a less-active investigator, Bro. Brannon, without help from us!  Things are looking up for Spring Garden Branch!

 

We gave Brother Bishop Brown to the Irvington elders and told him we can't receive revelation for him because we're not his missionaries.  He asked if he could move into our branch boundaries because he likes our branch.  Then he asked for money.  So we declined.

 

Today, we're playing indoor soccer with Max and going to Dr. Chicken Shack.  Then we're going to teach a lesson with Brother President Elder Doctor Thomas, who pretends to be the mission president.  We will teach from only the Bible.  It's part of his "pilot program."  I love that guy.

 

That pretty much summed up our week.

 

By the way, I made up that "bahartha" junk.

 

Love,

Elder deJesus

Hunting

What's a goin, guy?

Here is a list of all our activities this week without pictures:

1. We hunted for apartments.  We found two and killed neither during the hunt.  One is in the middle of our area and is owned by a Filipina and a Dominicana.  They are my favorite peoples.  The other is owned by a Nigerian and provides a fridge.  I also like Nigerians.  Bowo ni!  Oruku ami ni Alagba deJesus.

1. a) We organized the area book.  I can be a professional mapmaker!

2. Our zone had a white elephant Christmas.  But no white elephants showed up....

3. I visited members from Kearny!  Except for the Basanteses....  Betty was in New York and has not been to church since I moved here ):

4. We Skyped home for Christmas.  I got homesick.

5. We received news that Spring Garden Branch will be better now!  The Saunderses (the senior missionary couple) received callings in the branch as the Relief Society President and the Young Men's President, both callings that urgently needed to be filled.

6. I am homesick.

Love,
Elder deJesus

Slideshow of Christmas in NJ Mission

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Happy Christmas, Harry!

I-I'm a what?

So...We spent 7 days inside of a church building for the past 7 days.  I performed 3 solos in the past 7 days.  The first was during the Christmas English mission fireside that I wrote about last week.  The second was like unto it, singing a Christmas medley Elder Ramos and I wrote for the all-mission Christmas party.  Then I sang O Holy Night for Sis. Margaret's baptism yesterday.

Sis. Margaret was baptized yesterday.  She was so happy.  The program went alright.  She bore her testimony of how she had wanted to be a member of the Church since she was in Nigeria so she called the missionaries and waited forever to be baptized.  She finally was, and the Spirit of the Lord was in that room when she said, "I know that this Church is true."

Then there was Brazilian food after the service.  Farofa.  Mm..

It turns out that Bishop Brown founded his church and thus will have a tough time leaving it.  So he won't be baptized anytime soon.

Speaking of Mm, Max and Meylyn are doing fantastically, thanks to Chris and Christie.

We were almost taken out on a Sabbath evening to eat at the fancy Mompou on Ferry Street.  We street-contacted two elderly ladies that said, "Lookee here!  We found ourselves two hot dates!"  I introduced ourselves as 20 years old.  Then they were like, "Is that Mom-poo place any good?"  I said, "No, it's closed."  "Okay.  Let's go to that Spanish bar."  We somehow escaped.  But we got their numbers.  Easy.

It's been an exhausting week.  I'm just glad to--

My word!  It's almost Christmas!!!  6 more months, baby!  #Trunky

Love,

Elder deJesus