Jones, Talmage T

This week was loaded! A lot of cool things happened as it says in the title. My zone (and the mission for that matter) have been preparing for both Elder Holland and the temple for a couple weeks. Not even kidding when I say it--my companion and I have listened to all 59 of Elder Holland's general conference talks!! It really did help us have excitement and vigor for when he spoke to us. I'll get to that fantastic devotional in a bit. We had an exchange with our zone leaders on Thursday, and it went well. It was interesting because they are English speaking. I got to go to their area, and I spoke English all day. It felt a little unusual, which is good. I just know it must have been fun for the zone leader--assigned to my companion--to be doing Spanish for a day.  I had my second bash during the exchange! It got kind of intense. The zone leader I went with is named Elder Char, by the way. He is from Hawaii, and he is part Japanese. He has a lot of humor. So we were walking arou...

To start, I love being a Spanish missionary. I am one of twelve elders in the whole mission who is Spanish speaking, and my companion and I are the only ones in my zone to speak it. Although there are so few of us, there are more opportunities and referrals. The language is coming along, and I'm glad. I am so anxious to be able to understand native Spanish soon. What's crazy is that I have encountered a decent amount of Russian and Ukrainian speaking people, and all we can do is offer a pamphlet. I love the diversity in Kent. The reason for the title is that my companion and I drove a lot this week, and we have a limit of 50 miles per day. For two days last week, we surpassed that limit for missionary purposes, and it taught me that we have to go to certain lengths to accomplish great things; for us, my companion got to interview a sisters' on-date up in Renton (almost 30 minutes north of our area). It went well, and he got baptized yesterday! Communicating with our zone le...