So transfers was on Tuesday and I`m staying in Caja de Agua, and my new companion is Elder Figueroa from Cordova, Argentina! I`m not exaggerating when I say this, he`s the funniest person I've ever met in my life. I spend about 90% of my day laughing. He also works harder than almost any other missionary I know, and it`s amazing because I really want to work hard too so we get a lot done. This week we had 8 new investigators. He also knows how to talk to people, and this week we`ve gained the trust of a lot of people. I`m the happiest that I have been on my mission. Elder Figueroa runs with me every morning so that`s awesome. I am going to work as hard as I can to keep up with Elder Figueroa. I realize that I won't always have such hard working companions on my mission, and I'm going to take advantage of it.
We met a family this week, the Parra family. The daughter just had a baby last week and they`re really prepared to receive what we teach. For the 27th of December we`re going to have 3 baptisms: Isabel, Oliver, and Michelle. Isabel and Oliver I`ve already told you guys about and their mom won`t be able to be baptized the 27th because she is still looking for work that won`t make her work Sundays. Right now she has a job that she works every other Sunday. Michelle is 10 and her sisters and cousins and uncles and aunts are members, and she attends church every week and she received the lessons from the elders a while ago, but never got baptized because her family members went inactive. But now they`re active and we`re going over the lessons again and she`s going to get baptized. This week was stake conference and one of the 70 came and he`s so awesome. Elder Calderòn. We brought Jesùs and he was able to talk with Elder Calderòn for a while. Also speaking of Jesùs, we were able to get him the Book of Mormon on audio when we went to the temple and one of the members in our ward let him borrow something to play it on, and this week he`s been listening to the Book of Mormon! He says that he already knew it was true, but now that he has the opportunity to study the book of Mormon his testimony is even stronger. Also Jesùs got the Melchizedek Priesthood yesterday! That was really exciting for me. He told me that now that he`s an Elder I have to call him Elder Pachas.
I got bit by a dog this week. We were walking up a staircase and I saw the 3 year old son of one of our investigators, Nato, and I shouted "Nato", and the dog that was next to me on the staircase, that I didn`t even notice was there, bit me on my calf. It didn`t break the skin but there`s a hole in the calf of my pants. I`m going to try to fix it this week. And what`s funny is that it was on the way to pick up Isabel, Oliver, and Jesùs for stake conference, so I didn`t have time to change pants before stake conference. My mission president and the member of the Seventy were at this conference and when I shook their hands they both noticed that I had a hole in the calf of my pants. I hope you guys have a great week. I`m loving my mission and it`s going by too fast. It gets pretty hot here, but there are people with Christmas sweaters. It`s really different than any Christmas I`ve known but I love it. Love you guys.
Elder Jones
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What a blessing to have such a good companion. Work, work, work. Watch for dogs!
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