Elder Jaxson Scown

Hellooooo friends and family! I sure hope you all are having a STUPENDOUS week!! I sure did! We actually got a lot of good things accomplished and I cannot wait to tell you about it. AwWwWW First off you are probably wondering how to actually make a grown man almost poop his pants and trust me, I have discovered two ways this week... The first one is quite simple. You need 4 different variables to make this all possible 1. Narrow Alley 2. Darkness 3. Small Fence 4. Big Dog That is right, I was walking down this dark alley at night with my companion and out of nowhere this massive dog just launched himself at me and scared the absolute schniz outta me. I booked it out of there and kinda left my companion for dead. He made it out alive too but man the only thing I was thinking at that moment was "All I gotta do is out run my companion", which was not hard to do at all (subtle roast). The dogs here are absolutely insane, they have that crackhead/possessed by a devil energy for r

Being a privileged white boy from Gilbert, Arizona, I have been sheltered to the way the other 99% of the world lives. With that being said, I have learned many incredible life lessons that will probably never benefit me where I live but if I ever need to escape from the United States to Mexico for some outlandish reason, I know my ´way´ (pun intended).  President and Sister Perkins, Elder Ruiz and I Number 1: DO NOT WAVE AT TAXI´S Again, being a gringo from the United States, I am sad to say that I only recall seeing taxis in the airport and in New York City. Plus I never need a taxi anyways because we have our own cars to drive. So my companion (trying to help me build my confidence in talking to people on the streets) told me to wave to EVERYONE and say the bare minimum "¡Buenos dias! ¿Como está?" to EVERYONE we walk past. So I did just that and everything was going great...and being the lunkhead I am, I waved at a taxi driver. The taxi driver flashed his brights, pulled o

Hello everyone!!! Hope y'all are doing well. Feel free to shoot me an email whenever, I would love hearing from you! This week has been CRAZY! For all of you who don't know yet, I AM IN MEXICO!! It is so nice and refreshing to finally be here. I am serving in the center of Xalapa in the Animas Zone and let me tell you, I love it here. I am learning so much and the people here are incredible and so ready to accept the gospel.  My New Companion Elder Ruiz Tuesday night I said goodbye to my companions, Elder Wilson and Elder Culebro, they are both so amazing and I am going to miss them so much. They are phenomenal missionaries and they both know how to work hard. One of the senior couples picked me up and I spent primetime with the Assistants, Elder Mecham and Elder Jensen. They are way chill and really fun to talk to.  President and Sister Vest! Im gonna miss them Wednesday morning has got to be the craziest day of my entire life haha! I woke up at 3:20am and got ready for the da

Hello my beloved friends and family!! How is everyone doing?? I hope everyone had a phenomenal New Year because we all needed it lol. To be completely honest, I am so glad that 2020 is over and that I can just start fresh with a new year and new goals in mind. This week flew by pretty fast (mainly because it was not a normal week for me). Views So you probably all know from my last email that I flew to Salt Lake last P-day. IT WAS SO FUN! It was a straight 10 and a half hours of flying and I got to talk to some really cool people on the way there and back (I was able to talk to some people on my flight in Spanish as well which was really nice and refreshing). So I landed in Salt Lake at like 10:45am and I was greeted by my amazing aunt, uncle, grandpa, and cousin! AH it was so nice seeing them it was definitely very refreshing and motivating for me. They took me straight to the consulate office and there we ran into 5-6 Elders and Sisters who were ALL going to Xalapa with me! They were