This week went super quick!
Monday: they cleaned all day long because they were going to have interviews with the President. (told us that last week)

Tuesday: Had there district meeting and got his PACKAGE!!! It was perfect timing for Jaydan since it was the week of conference. He loved his new slippers, cereal and treats. It was just nice to get some "love" from home. Jaydan ran into some Elders from Brazil but they didn't know Elder Arrant. Jaydan would have loved running into someone he knew...but it didn't happen.

Wednesday: They had interviews with the President and Jaydan was the last out of the four in his house. By the time it was his turn the President was in a hurry and this is how Jaydan's interview went: Hey Elder how is your ward? Jaydan: "Oh, it's good the members are way strong and helpful....at that point he is stopped so the President could tell him a story. Then the President asks: how Rivera is and before Jaydan could respond or even open his mouth he was told another story. The last question was: Do you have anything you would want to talk about? Just as Jaydan's mouth opened the President said: "okay...I gotta go." So really Jaydan didn't have an interview at all. Jaydan was hoping to get some advice concerning his comp and what he could do to make things better. He was cheated!

Thursday: They had a service project and Jaydan felt like it was pretty worthless. The moved little pieces of wood (Jaydan's comp just played while they were suppose to be cleaning). They took some bikes to the bike shop. When they got back to the house the lady that they were helping needed to leave for work and so that project was over. Jaydan was frustrated with his comp and I think he might have even let him know.

Friday: Jaydan and his comp had planning day which Jaydan hates. His comp goes so slow and gets distracted with other things and so it takes a lot longer than it should. Jaydan was use to his last comp planning in the morning and then working in the afternoon and night. Now they only have the night to work and Jaydan thinks it stinks. They had inventory where they talk about what they need to work on and what they can do better. Also any problems that they might have with each other. When Jaydan's comp asked if there was anything he does that bothers Jaydan....Jaydan instantly answered "yes". His comps eyes got big like he was so surprised. Jaydan told him he despised him touching him all the time, and patting his head, and poking him. He let him know that he couldn't stand it and didn't want it to continue. (Jaydan said he would leave his hypocriticalness for next week to see how much Jaydan lets it's bug him)

The Conferences were awesome! Jaydan did stay awake through it all and was happy to let his brothers all know that! (EAT IT BROS!!!!YA) Now there are only three left during his mission. He even thought that the conferences went by like "lightening" and wishes that it hadn't come by so quickly.

There is a little 4 year old "lady" who is one of the cutest little girls ever. She just talks and talks and talks since her mom is never there when the missionaries stop by. One time the door was locked and she just talked through it saying that her mom just escapes the house and leaves her there. She always escapes this little girl and her little sister all day.....all day she escapes. Jaydan thought it was funny and cute.

After they had talked to another lady, when they were going to leave, another cute little girl was saying "beso beso" which means kiss. They do the "kiss thing" there. They told her that they couldn't and she started crying. On the 2nd visit she asked to shake their hands then and on the 3rd visit she started doing the "beso" (kiss) thing. She really wanted a kiss but the Elders told her no. She started crying when they left since she really liked Jaydan because he would play with her. She told her mom that she wanted to go with Jaydan and almost jumped off their wall down to him which was 10-11 feet. Jaydan promised that they would come back. It really touched Jaydan's heart. (he loves little kids like his parents do)

Jaydan really does not like being touched or hugged or kissed by any guy. On Sunday night there was an Elder that hugged him tight and even kissed his shoulder. Jaydan about flipped out and really wanted to hit the kid. He was the Zone leader in his other area too and bugged him then as well. ("time to drop the cane on my comp for being on the computer for more than an hour....j/k)

Mucho amor de
Thee Elder Ropelato