Finally In the Field!

*As you can see, Elder Jacklin is in the field now and about gave his mother a heart attack when she just happened to click on her emails as he sent these first two. A quick response email was sent back to him with a very brief letter about the week. The third email is his letter for the week. Thank goodness it is Christmas this week and we will get to talk to him since it's been a comedy of errors in finding out when he was leaving the CTM and getting into the field:) 

 

Email #1

Hey hopefully you get this really fast. My P-Day is on Monday now and I am officially in the field. Sorry that they didn´t say that I was leaving on Monday instead of Tuesday.

Email #2
I want to hear from you this week!

Email #3
It is finally here. Today I left the CTM at 3:30 in the morning. I´m sorry that I didn´t get this information to you sooner. I hope that you are still happy with me even though I didn´t get to call you at the Airport. My P-Day is on Monday now because I am in the field! I am in the Bayeux João Pessoa area. I got my Trainer today as well. His name is Elder Goodwin. I´m happy that he is from the United States, because he speaks so fast, it´s hard to understand him sometimes. He´s been out in the field for nine months. He´s from Saratoga Springs as well.

It was a very sad but happy day today. My district was finally moving out into the field. We had a hard time saying goodbye to each other though. It was the people going to João Pessoa and Natal that left first, so we had to say goodbye to Elders Harris, Larson, and Carrillo first. When we got to the Airport, Natal and João Pessoa had to Split off. That´s when we had to say goodbye to Elder Swinton. We then (Me, Elder Stratton, Daniel, Geisler, Day, and Liquin), had to take a 2 hour flight to João Pessoa. (By the way those seats on that plane were made for tall people). When we got there we were greeted by the Mission President and his Wife, with his AP´s. We had a good talk with them and then we took a picture together. João Pessoa is such a Beautiful place. It just goes on forever, there are also no Mountains or Hills in my mission, it´s just all flat. When we left the Airport, we went to a Local Chapel. This is where District 45B finally departed. We all got called to seperate areas. We didn´t want it to end, but we knew that we wouldn´t be a district forever. We all took one last picture together. and said our goodbyes. Elder Geisler and I were the last to leave. We both gave each other one last hug goodbye then I went with Elder Goodwin and he went with his companion. (Man, I hope I get to see at least one of them again on my mission).

Elder Goodwin and I didn´t have a key to our Apartment or our phone. Because the other Companionship that lived there before us took them with them. So we had to go to the Presidents Office building and wait until they could track down the 2 elders and retrieve the key and phone. We were there for like 3 hours, and just barely got to the Apartment 2 hours ago. We also had to go to some game shop to do our emails, which is where I am right now. So yes, I am in the field. I am very excited to start working for the Lord tomorrow. Apparently our mission is the highest ranked mission for getting baptisms and keeping those converts in the Church. Apparently last month we had 190 and the month before that 295. In the past five months our mission has converted over 1000 people in João Pessoa. I can´t wait to get out and start doing that myself. I really want to bring these wonderful people to Christ.

I love and miss you all. Can´t wait to tell you more!

Elder Jacklin

 

Email #4

Hey I need you to make an account for me in Skype and send the Skype number to me. I don´t know when I´m going to Skype you but I´ll try to let you know. Tchau Tchau!

 

Email #5

And yes I´ve been in João Pessoa for 11 hours. So yeah.

 

*Elder Jacklin's mom is hoping that he can soon get acclimated and start sending one email with all the information she asks for at once:)*