Elder Jones Week 22

Hey guys! So this was great. I got a few letters from members in the stake and our ward, including President and Sister Suaste! which made me really happy because I can`t wait to talk to them when I get back! Also thanks to everyone else who sends me letters, they really are appreciated and they do help a lot. We had another baptism yesterday! I got to baptize Jackie, she`s 24, and it was really great because she`s been through a lot to get to this point. Her testimony is so strong and I`m so happy for her. Yesterday was such a good day. She came up out of the water crying because she was so happy. She brought a couple of her friends to the baptism and we taught a lesson with them and Jackie afterwards, and they weren`t very interested but Jackie told us that this time when she taught the lesson to her friends she knew without any doubt that it was all true. We`re planning a trip to the temple sometime this month to go with Jackie, Jesùs, and all the other new converts in our ward and we`re working with all of them to get names from their own family. Jesùs has the information ready for his father and he`s really excited to be able to go to the temple for his father. More about Jesùs. He`s progressing so well. He has his calling as ward missionary, and on Sundays he shows up half an hour early for church and asks the bishop what he can do to help. And he`s usually at the door as a greeter or helping clean up the chapel. When he first started investigating we had to be with him the entire time because he was really dependent on us, but now he`s such good friends with everyone in our ward and he`s always somewhere talking with someone. 

So yea it was a good week. we`re having a little bit of trouble finding people that are going to progress. We teach a lot of people, but almost none of them keep with their commitments. We`re going to work harder this week to find people that have been prepared to receive this gospel. Because we`ve been doing a lot of harvesting with the baptisms of Jesùs and Jackie, and bringing the new converts to the temple, but not a lot of planting, which is finding new people. And missionary work needs to be perpetual, not just planting and harvesting and planting and harvesting, but continually planting and continually harvesting. I`m still loving it. I`m learning a lot here and I`m loving the people and the scriptures and the work. I hope you guys have a great week! That`s also really awesome about Dan`s violin concert and Tyler getting his license and Allison being cool. Yea actually if there was something I really do want right now from America is Twizzlers. Black licorice is really good but so is cherry so yea if both is possible that would be amazing thank you. I love you guys and I can`t believe that we`re already so close to Christmas. The weather here is perfect, so it doesn`t feel like November. Every time I tell Elder Torres how perfect the weather is he asks me why I say such weird things, because the people here don`t really talk about the weather because it`s always perfect and it never changes. Hope you guys have a great week! Goodbye!

Elder Jones