Week 36 Sister Jones

So this week was so amazing I can't even explain. We had all our recent converts in church.  We had our investigator in church and she invited another family to church with her.  Then we had the family that we contacted who wanted to learn English.  We had another investigator there.  So there were 12 investigators of ours at church! It was the best feeling ever because we tried to go to gospel principal's class second hour but it was so full of investigators and recent converts we couldn't even get more chairs in the classroom. It is a pretty good problem to have. 

I feel like this season you can really feel the love that God has for his children that he sent his only son to die for us. This week also we got all of Karen's papers together and she is finally getting married this week!!!! I am so excited this has been the longest process ever. 

I was so happy all week because I was so positive that we weren't going to have cambios.  They normally they don't move anyone the cambio before Christmas break. However,  Saturday night they called and said that Hermana Dungan was getting moved out of the area. We were so sad we went and bought a ton of ice cream and ate it all.  It was so sad though because she was seriously my favorite companion in my mission by ALOT. We just had so much fun together. I have not cried one time in my mission for moving to a different area but I did cry when Hermana Dungan left.  I feel like in the mission you find and build friendships that you couldn't find anywhere else. I was pretty sad but I have another American companion who is about to start her third cambio with me. It is crazy that if I include the MTC I have 8 cambios here in the mission!! Anyway I am sure that I am going to love my new companion too and we will have lots of success here in Sauces. 

Also at the bus station I found an Elder who is in El Oro ( my last area).   I sent tons of letters back to El Oro to the people there.  So that was a blessing to be able to send the letters. It is funny because the Elder I talked to said that people still ask what happened to the little red head girl that used to be there in El Oro. hahah I loved it there so much. However, I think you start loving every area you are in. 

It was kind of sad though when Hermana Dungan left.  The family that started investigating through English lessons is more attached to hermana Dungan and me than we thought. When Hermana Dungan said she was leaving they were so sad and thought that we both were going to spend the whole year and a half of our missions here in Sauces. They even went and talked to the bishop. They told him that it was really not going to help people progress in the church if they are moving missionaries all over the place.  They told the bishop that he should talk to the President and tell him just to leave us here for the rest of our missions. It was actually so sad because they were so upset. 

Today was also super fun because we washed Hermana Karen's dog for her.  The Hermana Karen who is about to get married. It was kind of hard because it kept running away and rolling in the dirt.  We would have to wash it again but it was fun. Then we went to our recent converts house and we played soccer with the mom and her three kids. It was so fun but it was kind of sad because even the 6 year old boy is better at soccer than I am. I swear people here are just born with soccer skills. Anyway I hope you have a great week!

Love Hermana Jones

The world is full of good intentions but with our actions we could change the world.

we went to the cool stained glass place at sunset!

baptizims are the best! This month we baptized 4 people and the Elders baptized 4 people so our ward had 8 baptizims this month. They are thinking of dividing the ward soon! this is also all the hermana in our ward :)

all the Americans with the USA flag

my favorite investigator Yantze!!

And her neighbor rosie :)