Elder Jacob Elgaaen in Jacksonville, Florida: September 17,2018 Good Lessons!

This last week was a good week. We were pretty busy with meetings, tradeoffs, and lessons but still had a spirit filled week. Probably the highlight of my week was all the lessons we were able to teach. A lot of times, we set lessons and people will cancel and we end up finding people the whole day which isn't the best! This week almost every lesson went through and we spent most of our week teaching. We were able to give a blessing on Monday last week and it was super spirit filled. We were able to teach a lesson to Jimmy and his family who we havent been able to set up a good time since we got here and we have another lesson with them tonight. We were able to go out with a few members and they were able to fellowship some of our people and invite them to church. It all in all was an amazing week!

One crazy thing that happened is I went to the dentist to get my filling replaced. The dental office is part of a Dollar General building which was weird. We went in and I filled out paper work and they gave me a tour of the place. When they took me back to my room, they gave me a tour of the place which was weird and there really wasn't much there to see. I sit in my chair and the dental assistant is Hispanic and doesn't speak a lick of English. She took x-rays of my teeth with a super ancient machine and she prepped my mouth for the filling. When she was doing this, she was having me hold her machines and tools as she went back and forth between each side of me. She didn't know too much of what she was doing or at least it seemed that way. After she finished prepping me, I sat with my mouth open for around 45 minutes before the dentist came in and did the filling. She left the sucking hose hanging out of my mouth and I was able to snag a picture while they were gone. It was a crazy experience but at least I got my tooth fixed! Haha

This week I was reading in Ether and there was a scripture that really stuck out to me...

Ether 12:

27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

We are given weakness so we can become strong. As we are humble, we are able to grow from our weakness. Christ knows us perfectly and as we turn to him, we can grow from our shortcomings. Hope you all have an amazing week! I love you tons and are so greatful for my mission!

Pictures:

1. We ate at bigwood and I got a steak! It was awesome!!!

2. A super sketch vending machine that has rappers and empty things as the display.

3. Grilling with the boys

4. At the sketchy dentist