Mighty Mighty Joneses: Sister Jones Week 35 in Mexico

Wow sounds like you guys had a crazy week!!! I hope you guys are feeling better. Especially Dan Dan. I got food poisoning on Thanksgiving so I was sick too! Looks like we are twins :) We went to D.F on Wed. for a training meeting. I ate street food with all the other missionaries, which was probably a pretty bad idea.

Anyway this was a really good week. On Wed. we spent all day in the city and then on Thanksgiving we had crazy cambios. They mixed up everyone in the whole zone and we went to different areas and had different companions for the day. Luckily I ended up with an American so we celebrated Thanksgiving at night. It was kind of weird to have no one even know about Thanksgiving but it was good. In the mission we only have little hot plates to cook on. However, these other hermanas bought a waffle maker. So we made brownies and then cooked them in the waffle maker. It was actually pretty good :)

Then on Saturday we had a baptism!!! It was super great because it was a whole family getting baptized. I still can’t even explain how different they are from when I first met them. The first time we went over the parents were fighting, the kids were crying and the parents were at the point of getting divorced. Then the mom started listening and went to church for a while. However, she gave up hope because her husband didn’t want to come to church. Then about a month later a miracle happened the husband also showed up to church with all his kids. Then over the next month there was the biggest change I have ever seen in anyone. They started to be soooo happy and the husband and wife went to a church dance together and then. They accepted to be baptized. It was soo cute because their whole family was just so happy. They wanted to be baptized on Saturday so they could be confirmed on Sunday. So it was one of the best Thanksgiving ever.

Also on Sunday it was a miracle because we had a family of two, a family of 4 and one of our single investigators come to church. It just made me sooo happy. The family of 4 has become some of my favorite people here in the mission. One day the mom and the dad were in their car and they passed by us asking if we could give English lessons. They wanted to pay us but we told them if they would let us teach about our church for a half hour we would teach English for a half hour. So we went and they were amazing!!! They had so many questions about the church. We were starting to move it to English lessons because we had been teaching about the church for 45 minutes but they just kept asking questions about the church. Then after about an hour of teaching we moved to English. Then they just spent their time asking questions about the church in English hhahah. Then they came to church with us this Sunday and it was an interesting experience. In gospel principals we were talking about the spirit world but then it went really down hill. The teacher started talking about spirits and people started sharing really weird experiences and dreams. Then the mom of the family was super disturbed. It was a good thing her kids had gone to the other classes because I think the mom would never want to talk to us again. However, her 9-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son loooooved their classes. The son wanted to go to an activity with the church on Saturday. I could tell that she didn’t want him to go because she was so confused. So that night we went back over to her house and explained the plan of salvation to her and she ended up loving it. I was so grateful because I was so nervous we were going to loose her as an investigator hahaha the great things that happen in church sometimes :) Just goes to show that the church is perfect but sometimes we as humans make mistakes.

Anyway I have a lot to be thankful for this year. Oh also it is really funny because tons of people here ask if they can come visit us in Chicago when I get home form my mission. So maybe next Thanksgiving we can just have a house full of people from Mexico!!!!! hahahahaha anyway I hope that you guys have a great week and know that I am super grateful for everyone of you!!! I will definitely keep you guys in my prayers!

Love Hermana Jones

p.s- a Jones never gives up :)