Jacob's Mission

This week was pretty crazy! We went on splits with the ZLs and had some pretty productive conversations and got a lot done! President Mattsson came to Iceland and we had zone conference too! The ZLs gave a training about responsibility and accountability based off Elder Lynn G. Robbins BYU speech. We had an awesome lesson with Carlos and met him with Jared, one of the members of the 2nd branch. He's one of the best teachers I've ever met. It was insane.

Good Afternoon everyone! I hope you're doing well. This week I'd say was fairly productive. We're fully moved into our new apartment! It's really close to the church, which is really nice because we go to the church a lot (surprise) but now it's about 45 minutes away from the places with high foot traffic for street contacting. In terms of numbers things didn't look too hot this week, but we're getting things going. The holidays were a little rough to be honest. They're the darkest weeks of the entire year, and people are a whole lot more occupied than usual. Some of the bus stations were dead as people went on holiday. When Elder Morales and I moved into this area, there was two friends. One of which hadn't been taught in 4 months while the other hadn't been taught in 2. There were a few potentials though, we've been working with them and trying to help them progress and I think soon we'll start seeing that. One's name is Diego. His ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody! These past 2 weeks have been chaotic for sure! Elder Morales and I have started working together and I'm trying to train him well! We're also in process of moving to 3 new missionary apartments so we've been working on that as well. Elder Morales and I should be in our new apartment by the end of the week! This week we messaged a man named Angel, whom I had met at Hlemmur a month or so ago! We were able to schedule a lesson for Saturday which had gone really well! The other Elders had gotten his number and I actually didn't place his face to the number because this was the first time he'd had a formal lesson. I assumed I had not met him. So he came and I remembered that we had actually met! A member showed up to the church and we were able to invite him into the lesson! It went really well! We plan to meet him again tomorrow! Yesterday we went to the Allen's, an amazing missionary couple's house to celebrate new ...

This week was absolutely crazy. First, 3 missionaries were supposed to come to Iceland on friday or saturday, but despite having their visas, The missionary department decided to send them to their reassignments. bruh. President Mattsson wasn't having it. He email President Marcus B. Nash of the Mission department and explained what was going on. On that same email he CC'd Elder Quinton L. Cook. RIP whoever made the decision to send them to their reassignments. Anyways, they came early sunday morning! After we picked them up from the airport we went the Allen's house where we had breakfast and Elder Gunderson interviewed the new Elders. Elders Morales, Morel, and Mijares. After that he called president and decided who should train who! I'm training Elder Morales! He's a beast. I think we'll get along well. I also have to learn Spanish for real now... On Satuday Anointed was baptized! It was crazy for sure. 15 minutes before we were schedueled to start, half of ...

Good afternoon to all of you! This week was prettttttttty good, not gonna lie. This Saturday there were 3 baptisms! 1 was our friend Jan Fan. She was a referral from a member named Magnús who was baptized in January of last year! Magnús was able to perform the baptism as well! It's amazing to see his growth over the year, from his own baptism all the way to baptising his friend that he introduced to the gospel! Jan's awesome as well! I've got high hopes for her continued progression! The other 2 were a mother and son that I had the privilege of teaching a few times in the Spanish branch named Katherine and Angel. They're pretty great! (I had to translate in their baptismal interviews too lol). It's pretty remarkable to have 3 convert baptisms in one chapel and on the same day, especially here in Iceland! We got transfer news. It was the scheme that we submitted to President Mattsson a month or so ago. I'll be training one of the new guys (undecided yet which), a...

Yuppp. No email last week, I tried writing it like 3 times and it kept deleting. The Sunday before yesterday Elder Mattson, Pelissie, and I went to Akureyri. We were starting the first part of the coming transfer by swapping Elder Pelissie and Pollock, but we also were helping the Elders in Akureyri move apartments. Let me just say, their bathroom was disgusting. I spent 1.5 hours cleaning it and it was still not good. Their whole apartment was gross. But the new one is pretty nice! I went on splits with Elder Hill and Elder Fischbeck. They're both great Elders! Elder Fischbeck and I got to talk about ideas for finding because Akureyri's such a small area. He's just finishing up training and is doing great! With Elder Hill we talked more about being consecrated and living a missionary lifestyle, not just doing a missionary job. He's an excellent missionary! On Thursday we drove down to Reykjavík again! Elder Carr and I got back together and started planning Daríel's...

Ooooh yes I may have made the deal of the century. President Mattsson is the goat. Let me tell you there's no better mission president in the world. Not even close. He's top tier. He came for zone conference and to do some branch business. The deal that I made though, oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh baby. I asked if we could swap name tags and he said YES B). He said he'd prepare and come with an extra one in February when he comes back. Let's goooooooooo. It'll be my prized possession. Our Friend Jan is still on track to be baptized this Saturday. We've been working with some Chinese Elders to teach her. It's kind of epic though. Magnús, a member that got baptized in January, is gonna perform the baptism! He's the one who referred her to us! We had an amazing lesson with our friend Anointed. She attended church the following day and said that she loved it! On Thursday we had a zone p-day where we went to tour some glacial caves. That was pretty cool. We also ma...