Mighty Mighty Joneses: Sister Jones Week 32

So a ton of things happened this week. I hope I have time to write it all! So this week we have seen so many miracles. We have had people come up to us in the streets and ask us if we would come visit them. We are now teaching 10 complete families and 4 more part families.

This week our ward did an open house and it was one of the best days of my mission so far. We set up little tents in a park on Saturday. The tent in the middle had all kinds of stuff about the church in it and then every organization had tents around it. There were activities to do in each tent. The relief society was doing a cooking class of how to cook with wheat, soy and vegetables. Then the people got samples of their cooking. The young women were doing a station making bracelets. The primary had a place where the little kids could go to color. The young men were doing bicycle repairs. Then the high priests were doing things on how to clean out viruses in your computer. It was super amazing because there were tons and tons of people at the park. All the young men and young women were running around the park contacting people and telling them to come to the activity. I have never seen the youth so excited about missionary work. It was so funny and really touched my heart.

The best part was that our investigator was the one teaching about how to clean viruses off computers. The high priest knew that he was really good with computers so they asked him to come. I know he will be baptized soon because so many people think he is already a member. They go to church every week, his kids were in the primary program this week, and he was at the open house. At the open house he kept saying, "Hermanas how many referrals do you have?!"

From the open house we had referrals to go visit 32 families. It was crazy because there was a young man who said he wanted to go to church the next day! So his name is Mario. He is 15. He said that he had heard of the church before but was never interested. But at the open house he went to the middle tent and heard about the plan of salvation and wanted to go to church the next day. He is only 15 and has never known his dad and his mom died when he was 7. So he has had a pretty hard life but I CANT EVEN EXPLAIN HOW MUCH HE HAS BEEN PREPARED TO HEAR THE MESSAGE BY THE Lord. He came to church with us. It was the primary program and he cried almost the whole time listening to them sing. I was a little nervous about whether the young men would accept him but they came by and brought him to his next class. Then after church I was afraid he had left in the middle of third hour because I couldn't find him anywhere. Then I walked outside and I nearly cried. He was surrounded in a group of all the young men. They were all laughing, having fun, asking for his phone number and asking if he was coming to mutual on Wed. It just touched my heart so much. I'm amazed how much the spirit of missionary work grew in the ward after this activity. It was super funny too because we were thinking that we should probably try to get young men to do visits with us at Mario's house. Then after church there were 5 young men who brought their Moms over and asked when they could come and visit Mario with us. I can't explain how great this week has been.

Satan has been fighting against us super hard this week. Hermana Dungan has a sinus infection and asthma. I have had a cold and food poisoning. However, when you are seeing the miracles of the Lord in your life the other things don't even bother you for a second. You just can't stop being grateful for the blessings that you have in your life. I know that this is the church of Jesus Christ and I know that when members and missionaries work together there can be many miracles. I hope you guys have a great week!

Love hermana Jones

Oh and as for Christmas... just whatever... makeup and things like that would be super appreciated but its whatever you want I will be happy with anything :)