Week 34 in Mexico for Sister Jones

So this week was another great week. It is crazy that it is Thanksgiving this week. It was funny because all week all the members were telling me that there were storms and lots of snow in Chicago. Makes things seem a lot warmer here. Winter is kind of weird here because we are at such a high altitude.  In the afternoon it is deathly hot but then at night it is pretty cold.

This week was super good we had three whole families at church on Sunday. One of the families is getting baptized next week so I will have lots to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.  Another family is super cute because it is the wife, husband and their cute little baby. The wife’s name is Yantze.  She loves when we visit.  She likes to hear about the message but also looooves to teach us Spanish.  It is so funny. The other family who came was one of the ladies who lost her husband this year. I was sooooo happy because the topic in gospel principals was the plan of salvation! She absolutely loved it.

We went over afterward to see how they liked church and they all loved it. They have a girl who is 16, a boy who is 15 and then a little boy who is 6.  All the kids loved it so much. They have visited lots of churches but never wanted to go back to any of them.  However, the little boy loved primary and the two teenagers loved young women and young men. I love that our ward has a really strong youth program.  It really helps so much when there are new kids there. There are about 32 young women and about 37 young men. I think it will help a lot that her kids loved it so much. After church my companion invited the family to baptism (it was her first time) and they said yes!!!! It was super funny because she asked and the 15-year-old boy.  He said yes in a second which really surprised the mom.  He usually doesn’t want anything to do with church.

This week was super hard and we were working a lot. I pretty much passed out in bed every night.  However, when you have people at church it is the best feeling I have ever had in my whole life.

Also it was super crazy because a girl just showed up to church by herself.  A member called us out of second hour and told us we needed to talk to someone. The girl had passed by the church in her car and just really felt like she needed to pull over.  We started talking to her and realized pretty fast she didn’t know Spanish.  She was super confused talking to the members who had spotted her in the hall.  She was on her way out when we started talking to her. It turns out that she is from Bulgaria but knows English!!! She is here to teach English to some people here in Mexico. Good thing we are two American missionaries!!!!! So we started talking to her and are going to visit her this week. I hope I know how to teach the gospel in English hahahah!!!  We will see how that turns out.

Anyway there are tons of things to be thankful for and even though it doesn’t seem like Thanksgiving I am sure it will be super great! I hope you have a great week and tell everyone how much I love them!!! Have a great week!!!!!

Love Hermana Jones