Week 18 Hermana Jones

I liked all the photos that you guys sent. They are so funny. I am a little jealous of all the things you guys do, but then I remember that I am here in Mexico so I think we are even :) 

This week was really good-- I am a little nervous for this week because I have to give a talk in church on missionary work and then we have a ward missionary activity this week and I have to do it myself because I have a new companion and the elders are going to be gone because our district leader is getting a new companion straight from the MTC:)

I am here in El Oro for another cambio!!! I was so happy when I found out that I would be here again. I also got a new companion and this cambio is going to be a true test of my Spanish because she is my first American companion.  I can't just look to my companion now when I don't know how to say something. I am super excited though because she is super nice. She is from Utah and her parents are Tongan so she is super tall. I will send you guys a picture. 

I am super tired because we stayed up super late (till 2 in the morning) packing up all of Hermana Rojas' things and then we had to leave here at 5 in the morning. Oh, also I got your package this week:) I was so happy. Especially because all the food that you sent they don't have here in Mexico! Well they have Nutella, but I am too poor to buy it hahaha. The Elders wanted the candy super bad. One of the Elders offered to carry the box up the mountain for me when he read on the label that says how much the contents cost when it said candy :) I gave them some though because I am such a nice person. There is only one food that I miss from the United States and it is chocolate. Even if you buy a crunch bar here it tastes different, also Doritos, Oreos, all those things taste really different here. It is very interesting that things from the same company taste different in different countries. Anyway my new companion says that she loves you when she saw all the food that I have in the apartment :)

This week I finished reading Jesus the Christ and I cant even explain how many things I learned from that book. I love when it talks about all the parables in the Bible because it talks about them in a way that I never thought about. Also this week I learned something very important. I believe that sometimes Heavenly Father talks to us specifically through the scriptures. I was reading in Mosiah and it is talking about all the things we need to do in this life, repentance, faith, etc. I was reading and in my mind I was yea I know, yep I know, Yea I know all these things and then I read in Mosiah 4:10 and I don't remember exactly what it says because I don't have my scriptures with me, but it basically says that when you believe all these things go and do them. After I read that verse I felt like I needed to repent! There is a reason that the scriptures say the same things and the prophets and apostles are always saying the same things. It's because we don't know! If we truly understood all the things that they were teaching we would be sure to do them. So that was a little lesson to me this week.

I hope that everything is going great there in Chicago and I hope everything goes well with me and my new companion here in Mexico. Oh it also made me laugh when Hal talked about how in Peru everyone talks so fast. That was how I felt my first day in the mission. I could not understand a word of what people were saying.  When I was at the MTC I was confident when I was leaving, so proud of all the Spanish I had learned :) hahah Hal's messages give me Deja vu

Love Hermana Jones

One of the pictures is of La Jordana, a pueblo in our area.