Elder Jones Week 33

Hey guys! Sounds like you all had a great week! This week we had a training from Carlos Godoy from the first quorum of the 70 this week. He gave a general conference talk in Portuguese this last October. He also speaks English and Spanish. I learned a lot from him. One of the things he told us was that when you magnify your calling, what people see in you is greater than who you where at the beginning of your mission, because they see your calling. They don´t see Hal, they see Elder Jones, and who Elder Jones is depends on how well I magnify my calling. And then at the end of my mission who I am is the sum of Hal and Elder Jones. He said that when people call you their angels it is because you are doing a good job of magnifying your calling, because they actually see you as their angels. (and then later that day two different investigators we have called us their angels, so that made me feel special)  Also this week one of our investigators, Eileen, received an answer to her payers that she definitively needs to get baptized, so I considered that a miracle and I decided to do a fast of gratitude, like I was talking about a couple of weeks before. It was really interesting. I wasn´t expecting anything amazing to come out of that fast and nothing amazing really did come out of it, but I do feel a lot closer to my Heavenly Father and I feel like I have more of his trust now. Also something really weird was that during the entire fast, I wasn´t hungry at all. So Yea I thought that was interesting.

One of the young men in our ward received his mission call this week. He had been waiting 3 months for it,  and he didn´t open it until sacrament meeting. He gave a talk first and then opened his mission call. It was the most suspenseful sacrament talk ever. He got called to Japan, which is really amazing because no one ever gets called to Japan from Peru unless they´re Japanese. And he´s not Japanese at all and doesn´t speak Japanese. I´m really excited for him because in the little time that I know him I already know that he´ll be a great missionary. 

I´m starting to take advantage of the time we use in the day walking from appointment to appointment to memorize scriptures in Spanish and it´s really great because we have about 4 or 5 hours a day of just walking so that´s more than half a week of scripture and language study every day. 

My companion has his doctor´s appointment today and we´re going to find out if he needs to go home or not. It´s gotten pretty bad, his stomach hurts a lot and it´s hard for him to work all day but hopefully he gets better

Hope you guys have a great week! 

Elder Jones