Elder Jack Plumb's San Jose, California Spanish Speaking Mission March 10, 2021 - 2023

 Hey everyone!! This last week was great. Went to Stanford campus for pday and checked out steph curry's house in atherton! Unfortunately hes in Denver for playoffs so we didnt get to teach him the word, but will try again when the offseason hits. We had a lot of good work going on this past week and what was really great was our friend Abraham got baptized yesterday! He's been taught for a long time by the missionaries but he finally made the decision. I'm so very grateful for him and his decision to heed the temptations of the adversary. He was telling us he had been so slammed with work this past week than ever and this guy works 24/7. Starts at 6am has a break for about 2 hours in the afternoon and then goes back to work and ends at 2am. And he had specifically gotten this sunday and saturday off for his interview and baptism and his work kept calling him in. He said it was really tough but ended up having to quit one of the jobs to make it for the baptism. I adm...

  Hey Everyone!!  It has been awhile but I got transferred about 3 weeks ago from Watsonville after being their 3 transfers(about 4 months) to Menlo Park/Palo Alto/Redwood City area. It was sad to leave Watsonville and my comp Elder Smith for the 2 transfers together as well as Elder Salazar in the trio for 3 weeks and it was a bit unexpected but I'm involved in the Elders Quorum now up here and the Valparaiso 2nd Ward is awesome! The members are a lot of fun and I've gotten to connect really well with them and as well being in the Elders Quorum has helped a lot with unifying the members with missionary work. It's a bit different as we are working with a lot more inactive and returning members, but it works really great with getting members more active in their ministering assignments as well as helping us fellowship for those that we are teaching that are progressing towards baptism. There are a lot of awesome miracles and stories to share that I have experienced out her...

  What's up everyone! These past couple weeks have been great and spiritually filled. Some awesome highlights from the past couple weeks is that our friends the Herrera Family are getting baptized this Saturday so please pray for them. As well I am now in a trio with my same comp Elder Smith and new Elder whose only 5 weeks out named Elder Salazar, and he is a dawg, also he loves taking photos so a lotta photo dumb this email. Hes so well locked in in the work and is already fluent because his parents are from Honduras so he grew up speaking spanish a lot. The greatest highlight of the week was Exchanges with the Aps where Elder Ashby came with me and Elder Salazar in our area in Watsonville. It was absolutely life changing though and Elder Ashby will be in a red chair or general authority someday, just wait 40 years from now, I'm calling it. Watsonville still is the promised land and I love it here. I've learned so much about aligning my will with Jesus Christ and o...

  Hello everyone. It has been quite a while since I have written but it is going great here in Watsonville, California! I am currently with Elder Smith and he is a great companion and we are witnessing so many miracles each day.  The people are great and I am enjoying it a lot!  In the past 2 months we have been teaching some awesome people and currently have 7 people on date for baptism - Richardo, Martha(mom), Martha(daughter) Melony and Michelle(The Herrara Family) as well as Marine and Fermine.  Fermine has had a drug addiction problem his whole life and has been completely clean now for 3 weeks. The members of our church out here are fellowshipping him so well and he is committed to changing his life.  He is an amazing example!   I love being a zone leader here and our zone is killing it each and every week! We have had some great miraculous experiences in this area.  One of the great miracles I have seen is from the Herrera Family.  Abo...