Great
to hear that you guys had such a great week. On the 31st we saw Meet
the Mormons as a mission and it was actually really good. Then later
we had dinner with Isabel and Oliver`s family and I saw the fireworks
for New Year's from the roof of my apartment and it was so insane!! I`ve
never seen a fireworks show anything like that before. There were
fireworks exploding 20 ft. above my head. I`m in a ring of small
mountains and the people from one side of the ring were shooting off
fireworks at the other side of the ring. The fireworks went on
continuously for 45 minuets and the sky filled with smoke really
quickly. And at the end when everyone ran out of fireworks they shot off
flares and there were a ton of flares in the sky and some people lit
floating lanterns that were really cool.
The next day on the 1st as a
zone we played soccer the entire day and cooked pizza and we had
permission to watch Frozen. Then the day after that we went to the
temple. It was really great to be able to go to the temple because I
found so much revelation for my investigators. For example afterwards my
companion and I talked and in the temple we had both felt that one of
our investigators, Manuel, needs to hear the words of Thomas S. Monson.
Even though we`ve never talked about the Prophet with him before. I got
some family names done too.
So
next week is transfers again and I`m probably going to leave Caja de
Agua this time and that`s really sad. I really want to see the parents
of Isabel and Oliver get baptized, but I know that God is preparing
specific people for me and specific people for other missionaries. I am
kind of exited to find out where I`m going to go though.
Yesterday
was fast and testimony meeting and one thing that I realized is that on
my mission there isn`t ever a fast and testimony meeting that I don`t
want to bear my testimony, because that`s my favorite thing to do now.
That`s always the best part of the lesson for me when I get to bear my
testimony. But yesterday I was about to go up to bear my testimony and I
felt the spirit actually telling me not to go up and bear my testimony,
and then immediately after that my recent convert with one week as a
member, Isabel, went up and bore an amazing testimony and I was so proud
of her.
I bought a
soccer ball and every day after running I`m practicing juggling it and
the first day I got up to 12 without it hitting the ground and then
every day since that I haven`t gotten anywhere close to that.
This
transfer went by so quickly for me and we had so many days off, but we
were still so productive.
We had 2 baptisms and 5 reactivated, and I`m
so happy for all of them because I can really feel that they are going
to endure to the end and progress in the gospel. That makes me really
happy. We reactivated the parents of the missionary that left from our
ward a few months ago and now we`re preparing them for the temple to get
sealed. There are actually so many people that we are working with to
arrive at the temple because a lot of them just never really learned why
what we do in the temple is so important.
I hope you guys have a great week and that everyone is well. Love you guys!
Elder Jones
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