Half Way Mark for Sister Jones

So this week was suuuuuuuper amazing and I really don’t even know where to begin. I think I will start with two amazing referrals we got from a recent convert. Well it started out that a recent convert showed us a house of a lady who her husband who had died about 7 months ago.  She told us that we should go visit her. The next day we went over to her house. I was praying that she would let us in the door.  If a member doesn’t come with us, we aren’t allowed to use their name and say this Hermana sent us. I was super nervous that she wouldn’t let us in because it is just like contacting people at their house.  Sure enough she let us in her house, which was the first miracle. Second miracle, she started asking us about what we believed.  She wanted to hear what we had to say before we even had the chance to ask if we could share something.  Third miracle, her friend was there and wanted to listen to us too.  It was a super great lesson and we talked about the plan of salvation. She started crying and said that her husband died and really loved the plan of salvation. It was crazy because the friend there also started crying and said that her husband had also died the year before. It was one of my favorite lessons in my whole mission just because you could feel the spirit so strongly that these things are true. It was literally a miracle that she had let us into her house and that her friend had been there right at that moment so that she could also listen to the message that we had to share.

Then we had another miracle. My companion contacted a girl on the street and she said that we could come by her home.  When we came to her house she walked out and acted like she wasn’t going to let us in.  Then all of a sudden she saw the book of Mormon in our hand and asked what it was. She let us in her house and it turns out that all of her husband’s family is members of the church except for her husband. She is interested in learning a little more about what they believe.

Also we found someone this week that has been to church three times and wanted to be baptized.  Somehow she got lost in the switch of missionaries about a year ago.  We found her and she wants to come to church and be baptized. While I was sitting in that lesson I was just shocked. I felt like we had received way to many blessings in one week and I couldn’t wrap my mind around how it was all happening.

Then the best miracle of the week happened. Recently Victor has been having a lot of doubts about getting baptized and he was at the point of saying that he didn’t want us to visit him anymore but then a miracle happened. He started talking to a member of the church who works at the gas station.  This member of the church didn’t know anything about the doubts that victor had but this member talked about the doubts he had had before joining the church.  He did not ask him a single question to know what his doubts were. Victor said that this was the answer to his prayer.  He knew that Heavenly Father was listening to his prayers because he hadn’t told anyone his doubts and yet this member had answered every one of them. I know that when members and missionaries work together there can be sooo much more success in bringing people to Christ.

Then on Sunday it was super funny because my Zone Leader told me that in the stake center there was going to be baptisms because there was a ward that didn’t have water.  So they were all meeting there to do baptisms.  It was an hour before church started and the stake center is about an hour away and it was too late to go get Victor there.  He had already left for church.  I told the zone leader sorry but we couldn’t make it. So then at the end of church the Zone Leader called and said the stake center didn’t have water either.  So they were all coming over to our ward. I was expecting maybe one or two people getting baptized but it turns out that 8 people were getting baptized and 16 missionaries! It was one of the best baptismal services I have ever been to because we just got to see person after person getting baptized and it was just so great to be with so many happy missionaries :) I think it was all planned out by God because what are the chances that the wards of all those missionaries didn’t have water to fill up their baptismal fonts?!

Anyway I know that God lives and he loves each of us. I am so happy that this week was leading up to my halfway mark I am a little sad that the mission is going so fast...maybe I will just extend my mission a month and a half :) In church this week they said something that I really liked. They said when we don’t do something in the church like read our scriptures, prayer, go to church, it isn’t a lack of time; it is a lack of desire. I really thought about that and it is true we always have excuses to say why we aren’t doing something. However, if we aren’t doing something it is because we really don’t want to do it. There is never a good excuse.

Oh also this week we went to the doctor because Hermana Dungan has a sinus infection and I feel bad for my companion.  However, I was super excited to go to the Doctor to test my Spanish.  People  people say that you are pretty fluent in a language if you an go to the doctor and understand what they are saying. And I understood everything111 yaya Spanish!! Hahah! Well anyway I hope you guys have a great week! Love you tons!!!!!

Love,

Hermana Jones

Victor