Dear Mom,

Elder Christofferson was amazing! The first time I've ever met an Apostle! He was so cool to listen to. He wanted to shake hands with all the missionaries too. He asked us our names and where we were from. He said that he lived in Lindon for a while!! I don't know when or where though. One really interesting thing is that when he was serving his mission in Argentina, for most of his mission his mission president was President Richard G. Scott. He says that it's really interesting to work with his former mission president in the same quorum. Cool fact! Not only did we get to listen to him speak to us on Saturday, but he spoke at a special stake conference to the Caldwell Stake and Paterson District on Sunday. The Union City ward belongs to the Caldwell Stake so we got to go! It was just like General Conference, but in person with a lot less people. At the end of his talk in the Stake Conference, he gave a break to the translators and bore his testimony in Spanish! He still speaks Spanish very, very well. All in all, it was a wonderful weekend. I wish I could spend more time around Apostles.

I'm staying in Union City. I have been called to serve as a District Leader. Again! I did not see that coming at all. I'm a little nervous because this district is a little bigger than the other district I was in. It's time for extra stress again.

We've found two new investigators recently. They are Jen and Jelanny. They are 18 and 16 years old, respectively. They're really cool. Jen is the girlfriend of a less-active guy named Joshua. He's about 20 years old. Joshua's mom is a active member and is really cool. We visit her once a week in her dog wash shop. So Jen has been to church a couple times with Margarita (the active member). Jen says she likes it a lot! We talked to her about why she likes our church more than her church. She says that she doesn't have to pay for classes here and everyone is so much more social. She told us that at her church they're are only a few "regulars'' and every week there are new faces. She keeps coming to our church. Just a few weeks ago, we saw Jen and Margarita at church and Margarita told us that Jen's sister (Jelanny) is coming after church because she wants a Priesthood blessing. No, Jelanny is not a member and she has never been to our church before. Apparently Jen told her sister that we can give blessings. We talked to Jelanny when she showed up and she said that whenever she gets angry, she gets depressed and then she feels some dark outside presence that tells her to do bad things to her body. Scary... So we gave her a Priesthood blessing and told her to feel better. We met with her last Friday and taught her and Jen about the Plan of Salvation. We followed up with Jelanny about how she has felt. She said that a day after the blessing she felt a LOT better and full of energy. She hasn't felt anything strange since the blessing. Now we've started to teach them both. Both of them went to the Stake Conference with Elder Christofferson and loved it. We gave Jen a baptismal date for the end of this month. She could do it! We'll see how she feels about it when it gets closer. That's a testimony builder!


For that Bolivian sauce you don't need anything special. It's just a tomato, two small Jalapeno peppers, and some salt. Super basic. Very good! Maybe just one jalapeno pepper for the little girls. Let me know how you like it!

The charger... It might be easier for me to buy a new charger. It would have to be the cable, because the wall charger adapter thingy works just fine. I looked for camera batteries at Wal-Mart last week, but they don't sell camera batteries there. I'll be able to find a new cable for sure though. I guess I'll try that. I hope it's not a waste of money...

I'm actually glad I'm being fed too much rather than not enough. Whenever I'm trying to stuff food down at a members' house, I just think about how many other missionaries probably didn't get fed very much.

I don't know about college yet. I kind of don't want to deal with it on my mission. I just want to focus on the work and once I come home, then I can deal with annoying things like applying for school. However, I'm pretty sure that President Jeppson talks to everyone about stuff like that. I think that it's around this time in the mission that President Jeppson talks to the missionaries about thing like that. That's when he talks to them about schooling, going home a few weeks early to make it in time for school, or extending the mission, and things like that. I don't know right now. I guess the next time I go in for interviews I'll bring that up with him. I have been thinking about what I'll do once I get home. I was thinking about just trying to find a job and then maybe move into school for a small summer semester to get into the schooling mindset and then to hit it full on during the fall. I'm sure President Jeppson will give me plenty of feedback on that soon.

That's awesome for William! Where in California is that? Way cool for Kelsie!

By the way, I told Alan Castro to add me on Facebook.


Q of the W:

1.  Have you made that banana bread yet?

Not yet. I've kept it out. I really want to make it.

2.  Do you know what you will be doing for Easter yet?

Not a clue.. Probably like four dinners...

3.  What are some of your favorite Easter Candy?  I don't want to send you candy that is gross to you...

I like little candy bars, like Twix and Snickers. I don't really like random little chocolates. I don't like those classic easter egg chocolates either. I do like candies like sweetarts and those little super sugery candies like that. I don't like little suckers like dumdums that much either. (Side note: On the east coast, they are known as lollipops. 'Suckers' is an insult and they look at me weird when I say it, to those who speak English.) Starbursts are good. I don't know what else... I can't really think of anything else.


Love you mom! Talk to you soon! Like in two months it's mother's day!

-Justin