First Letter from Texas

We just got our first "letter" from Elder Jones in the form of an e-mail message. Here are some excerpts:

"President and Sister Lake are AWESOME. ... Then we went to the mission home and we had some briskett sandwiches that were really good and some BLUEBELL ICE CREAM!!! Oh man, that stuff really is the best! I've had it about twice now and i LOVE it."

"Anyway, then we went to a nearby chappel and we were assigned to our new companions. My companion/trainer is Elder Vaz. He has been out for ten months. He is from brazil and can speak portuguese. Since spanish and portuguese are very similar he usually takes care of our spanish contacts. ... He's a really nice, easygoing guy."

"The first day we placed four copies of the Book of Mormon and those four people told us to come back and teach them. When we came back to two homes they weren't at home, we haven't visited the other two yet. When we're tracting people mostly just say, 'thank you but i'm not interested,' or 'thank you but i'm baptist.' But i know that i can't let it get me discouraged. I have to be like moroni and mormon who knew that the people wouldn't accept the gospel but they preached it because God commanded them to. It just seems like the field is not so white down here. It's more like the song, 'Ye elders of israel', 'We'll gather the wheat from the midst of the tares...'"

"Yesterday we went and volunteered at a soup kitchen like the food and care coalition except it was at the Methodist Church. I've already seen a few cockroaches, one or two big ones in our house. I even took a picture of one that my companion stepped on."

Also, Justin's new address is as follows:

Elder Justin Jones
8423 Glencrest
Houston TX, 77061

He is still waiting on his lds.org e-mail account. For the time being, he is using his gmail account (bluesteel86@gmail.com).

Norm