I am so tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is funny though, you are only tired when you do not have something to do. I fall a sleep in like 2 seconds every night. I am enjoyin life here, the food is actually amazing, its always just a new flavor. THE BREAD IS THE BEST, oh ma gosh I could eat bread all day. The people here are hillarious, weve only had one guy threaten us, but most of them say keep walking after you say hi to them. But if you ask them how or what they are doing, then you get like an epistle about life. Many of the people are hard hearted, but we have 2 or 3 good investigators who will probs get baptized. It is a lot of walkin, my legs tell me that I abused them everyday. While finding the other day, we met a man from Jordan who spoke sweet sweet amazingly wonderful english. He talked with us for like thirty minutes. He says his inner soul wants to believe in Christ and God, but that he feels like there is something missing, I told him about the Book of Mormon, because that is obviously what is missing! We are going to get him one in arabic on saturday, he seemed really interested and sincere in looking for the truth. The food here is not that bad, after service on Friday, the member made us these awesome sandwiches that tasted amazing(because bread). Also they have these things here called Kontiki, they are like Chocolate covered oreos and they are the best thing ever, you bight a whole in both sides, and then use it as a straw to drink whatever, and the you eat the whole thing, and it is super soft and creamy, it is the best thing ever, and they only have them here. One of the Children here told me I look like a Ukrainian so that was awesome!(I hadnt spoken to him yet so that changed as soon as I said hello). My trainers name is Elder Bunker, and he is a swell dude from colorado. He is a good cook and I am learning a lot. Nothing here has made me sick yet, and Ive eaten everything except a pickle(It was optional). Tea is popular here and members always make it for you, you can drink it if it was not made with tea leaves, so we mostly get like mint tea. Its actually not bad if you put enough sugar in it.
So spiritual experience:
The other day while doing service, I was really struggling with my testimony of how God could love all his children when there could be so many terrible things here. After service the member, who was an old gramma prayed over the food. Her prayer really helped me and the line that got me was "Lord, we thank the for every minut of every day, of every year" Then I realized how foolish I was, we always have something to be thankful for. She was so sincere and people like here will really build my faith. Strangest thing Ive done: THere is an old member named Sasha who cannot shave himself because he is lame. He also built my faith because of the kind of person he is. He live in an apartment with 2 other speech impared people, one of them is a woman and when I told her my name in sign language she wanted to know how I learned it, I explained that my brother couldnt speak while he was a young boy and that we used sign to communicate with him. She was extatic when I pulled out my picture book and it took forever to explain my family to her. She loved it, I think Ill bring the big book next time for her to look at, she was so sweet and kind and sincere, even though it was really hard to understand what was going on. The people here are really strong, and I love the members. I will let you know next week how everything goes. I love you all, thanks for everything!
Elder Jaxon Hunter JorgensenThank you for my personal letter!!! I loved it! I really needed it emotionally for some reason.How are you doing??? I seriously can't wait to hear from you! Sister Sullivan texted when you arrived so that was really nice, and at the end of the day she sent out an email with pictures of you and your new comp. He looks awesome! Tell me all about him, and this new transition. How long has he been out? Is he training you well? Are you doing the language lessons?? Do you get along? Do you like him? Where is he from? What is his mom's name? I want to hear everything!
In the group email tell about some of the spiritual moments or lessons you have had as well.
I bore my testimony today about how much I love being a missionary mom and all the blessings we have received because of it.What is your apartment like? Living conditions, food, what is your daily routine? Is it hard? or are you loving it? or both?? What is your area like? Is it really poor, or pretty normal? Do you guys have anybody to teach? Are you in a ward or a branch? How many people.You have been out for 3 fast Sundays now!!!! so awesome.Will you be able to email around the same time each monday? Where are you guys emailing from?How is the language going? Are you doing better than expected, or does it seem like a different language than what you learned in the MTC? I posted your little Russian blip on Facebook and everyone is really impressed with your skills:)I love you so much! We all miss you too! I am very proud of you, thank you for serving a mission!Love MOM
It is okay that I dont like Halloween because here they do not really care about it. We will probably email around this time on mondays. My comp is elder Bunker, and we get along pretty well. We live alone and so it is just us everyday. Sometimes we see other people. He has been here seven months and speaks very well. Russian is very hard to understand here, especially sense many people will speak in ukranian. I am not sick yet, the food here is great, the people are funny. Most of the time you will say hi, they will say keep walking I dont want to talk, and then you ask them how they are and you get an epistle out of them, I think they love it when people care about them. I sent the package to logan. Kerri Bunker is his moms name. I like him, he is exactly the kind of comp I need. We wake up on time, we eat,and then we work, my legs feel like they are going to fall off because we find so much.
Elder Bunker is a great cook, and I am learning alot from him, Mom you would not like it here but it really is not that bad. Also, not everyone is drunk like we thought, maybe 5 percent of the time, and only at night.
I love you so much.Hey bud. I put an alert on my phone so it would wake me up. It's about 1:30. Cam has an appt tomorrow super early for a dr. So I can't stay up real long. But I love you and miss you.Are you ok? Are you happy?Remember to always finish with I love you.
I am happy and I do love you too!-Jax
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