Week 27 Elder Jones

Hey guys! This week was the best. Elder Figueroa is still the best. We eat so much but we work out so hard in the morning and we work so much during the day. And we eat so much good food. We eat a lot of spinach, carrots, tomatos, fruits, and oatmeal. So I`ve never felt this healthy on my mission before and that makes it a lot easier, because I`m not so sick all the time. Also happy birthday to Allison this week! It was weird when Courtney`s birthday passed this last week because that was the first family member birthday that I`ve missed on my mission so far. I got the Christmas package! that made me so happy. Elder Figueroa and I are gradually eating the twizzlers this week and we`re waiting for Christmas to eat the rest. Thank you so much guys that made my week. Oh speaking of Christmas I don`t have a time limit to talk to you guys so I guess we`ll just talk as long as you guys want to talk, haha. My mission president is very cool. I have to coordinate with Hermana Jones because I think she`s an hour behind me in Mexico City, and I don`t know if Chicago is the same time zone as Lima or an hour ahead. This week on Thursday is the mission Christmas party and I`m really excited. That`s really awesome about Mina I hope she gets baptized, because I`m pretty sure we have the best ward in the world to support new members. Congrats to Allison on her talk and her 3 stripes! and Dan and his two stripes! And Tyler on being on Youth Committee, and the ACT! That`s so weird to see a picture of the inside of our house because sometimes I forget that I used to live in a comfortable house.  

Okay so about this week. We worked really really hard. Isabel and Oliver have finished all the lessons and now they accompany us to teach other investigators. They`re both getting baptized the 27th, two days after I talk to you guys. They`re both really excited. We taught an amazing lesson to the inactive family of the missionary that left from our ward to Paraguay a few months ago. Before he left he told us to work on his family and try to get his parents to arrive at the temple and get sealed. Elder Figueroa`s family is inactive too and he bore his testimony to them, and told them that if they don`t want their son to suffer on his mission, they need to go to church. And they came to church yesterday! For the first time in years. There`s also a family in our ward with 9 children, and all of them are members except one daughter, and a while ago she would avoid us and didn`t want to listen to us, but then she fell from the 3rd story of her house, and now she`s bedridden for the next 4 months and we come by to visit her every day and we teach her and she actually listens to us now and she wants to get baptized. It probably wont be while I`m still here in Caja de Agua, but I`m still really excited for her. We reactivated a family this week too! They`re a really beautiful family and they are now preparing to enter the temple! It`s a lot better when the goal for the people we teach is the temple instead of just baptism or reactivation. We have a lot of investigators that are progressing very well but none of them were able to attend church yesterday. That was the first time in my mission that I didn`t have any investigators attend church. So in Gospel principles the only two people we had in the class were Hno. Jesùs and Hna. Salomè. Hna. Salomè is a recent convert and is 87 years old, and has been my substitute grandma for the past 5 months. She can`t hear very well but she loves to talk about Jesus Christ. Her daughter is a recent convert too and so is all of her daughter`s family. I`m excited for this next week and I hope you all are doing great and that you have a great week! 

Elder Jones