HEY!
First of all
WOOOOOOOO!! That`s so exciting about
Hayden!!!! So he`ll be speaking Portuguese? We`ll kind of be able to communicate because Portuguese
sounds almost exactly the same as Spanish and when people are talking in Portuguese
I can pretty much understand them. But
yea that`s so exciting about Hayden! Okay so this week was great. For my 3 months on Wednesday Elder Torres and
I made clam ceviche and it was the best. I`m so happy I have a companion from northern
Peru because he knows how to make seafood. I`ll send some pictures.
Also on Saturday we,
the missionaries in our ward, planned an activity and it was so fun. It was called "el avion" and we
separated the back half of the chapel with paper and organized the seats to
look like an airplane. Then for the
activity we pretended that we were all in an airplane going on a trip to
Hawaii. It was really funny because
first Elder Gutierrez would give the airplane instructions in Spanish and later
I would give them in English. Then
once we landed we had a bunch of rooms with a bunch of different activities. There was a room with board games, a room with
a bunch of food and music, a room with a service project, a room with a fortune
teller, and a room where the missionaries were teaching about the gospel and
singing hymns. Each time you enter a room you get a colored card. Then later we returned to the airplane, but
this time the airplane crashed and we all died, and depending on which colored
cards you had you either went to the Celestial kingdom, Terrestrial kingdom, or
Telestial kingdom, each with varying degrees of light in them. I was in charge of the terrestrial kingdom. I
taught them what this activity was about and what it represents and how we have
our agency and we don`t know when our life on earth is going to end. So every minute we have on this earth is an
opportunity to exercise our agency wisely and that we shouldn`t waste our time
with things that have little worth to us. A ton of people showed up and it was really
great because we have so many new investigators now.
Also this week one of
the young men is leaving on his mission to Paraguay. His farewell talk was 30 seconds long. He has a really strong testimony, he goes on
teaching visits with us a lot and he`s going to be a great missionary. Our sacrament meeting is a little bit
different than in the United States because the members of the congregation
don`t give talks. The bishop gives a
talk for the entire time every week. I`m
not criticizing the way our bishop runs the church meetings because I realize
that he has the priesthood keys to lead this ward and he receives revelation
for our ward. I don`t want to be like
the priest that died trying to steady the arch of the covenant because he
thought it was about to fall. This young man’s farewell meeting was last night
and a ton of people from our ward showed up and bore their testimonies. He`s the only active member in his family and
he`s going to bless them with his service.
Yesterday we got 5
new investigators with a baptismal date! They`re all family members of the
Gonzalez family and they`re perfect investigators. Yesterday we taught them about the restoration
and they asked us all the questions that we normally ask our investigators. When we asked them if they would be baptized
if they received an answer that this is the truth they all said no. So we talked a little bit more about how to receive
an answer and why it is so important. Then
Sister Gonzalez and her daughter Tracy that is about to go on a mission both
shared their testimonies and how they know this is true. Then later they all agreed to be baptized
when they receive an answer from God. That`s
really great because we know that their motives for doing this has nothing to
do with us the missionaries. They
actually want to find out for themselves. If they all get baptized with their own
testimonies they will be such a strength to each other during trials and it
will be really unlikely that they`ll go inactive. We`re also teaching another family, Luis and
Dalia, who have a 1 year old daughter, Britani, who never changes the
expression on her face, and we think they have a lot of potential too.
This week was great.
Glad to hear that you guys are all doing so well!
Elder Jones
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