{1.11.16} El Doral

HAPPY BDAY MAMA! LOVE YOU! 
a windy November day in Rexburg!

Hey everybody! I made it over to Hialeah and I'm back in another country! Its great being fully immersed into the Latin Culture again. The Doral ward is really awesome.. there is so much work to be done. Our area is kinda weird... because half of it is Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens (basically the new Little Cuba) and the other half is Doral.. which is super new and super nice. It's ALL Spanish. Occasionally you run into English Speakers, 9 out of 10 of them are just second generation and still speak fluently in Spanish.

And no one at Walmart Speaks English. It feels so good to be back.

It's also been kinda humbling. I realize my Spanish isn't quite as good as I thought it was. It's hard adjusting to all the different accents. My "gospel vocab" isn't suffering at all, but this will be a great area to really up my conversational Spanish.

I'm district leader and living with a new greenie who is...... Elder Spotts!!! For those who don't remember, Elder Spotts was actually my first companion in the MTC. He had to go home for awhile, but he's back! It was an awesome experience getting to see him again and be back with my brother. I'm really proud of him. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Also, having a greenie in the house, we will be speaking A LOT of Spanish all the time (that's the only way I learned).

We are doing lots of Finding again, but we have a ton of potentials and references to contact this week! Right now, we are working with this Cuban get named Michael. He's not much older than me, and he played college football for Minnesota as a Safety. He made some wrong choices and wrong turns in his life, and so he's currently sitting on 4 months of House Arrest. It's actually a huge blessing in disguise... he was facing 25 to life. He's a really good kid, and he's really grateful for this second chance God has given him. Right now his Monitoring officer is being a bum and won't let him Go to Church (he's given him permission to go plenty of other places) so we will get that taken care of this week. He really wants to be baptized.

Other than that... life is good. Oh, Elder Gomez (my trainer) is my Zone Leader. So that's really fun! I get to talk to him all the time. He should be coming down today so we can go play some ball at the church.

Hope everyone has a great week! new address is below.

Elder Juanes

Elder Jace Johns

5841 W 20th Lane

Hiahleah, FL 33016