Somebody in the ward said that I should tell you that I am staying in Mexico to marry a Mexican boy...as a joke for April Fools Day! But I decided not to, hahha! Anyway, this week was really good.
We have a guy named Jorge who is getting baptized this week in between the conference sessions on Sunday and then a family who is getting baptized the next week. This week was really good and we have been working really hard.
There has been a lot of drama going on here in the ward but one of the things I like about being a missionary is that you don't have to worry about it. What I have been thinking about a lot these few weeks are the experiences we have that help us remember what is really important. One of the things that I love about being in the mission here in Mexico is it helps you realize all the things that I had in the United States that we don't have here. Like air conditioning or washing machines, or not having to warm up our water with an iron in a bucket of water or coming home every night to kill tons of cockroaches. But the thing is, you can be happier even though you have less and it comes from realizing what is really important.
Also, I was reading my blessing that I got when I was set apart for the mission, and it was really interesting because it talks about how my family will be protected with protection and strength while I was gone. I thought about some of the things that happened while I have been gone (like Dan having health problems) and I was a little doubtful that Heavenly Father was protecting my family until I remembered what I had been thinking before. What is really important? Sometimes we can't see the plan Heavenly Father has for us but I started to think the protection that I was promised in the blessing was not physical protection at all-- it was the spiritual protection of our family. More important than anything that happens in this life is the spiritual strength that we obtain and the chance to live as an eternal family.
Since I can't think of anything else exciting that happened this week, I will share some more things I learned from my studies. Oh, and the class schedule looks good for BYU. OK, so another thing I was studying was about Jesus Christ and how when John the Baptist was in jail and asked if it is really the Savior and what the Savior sends back is tell him the people that were healed and the miracles that were preformed. He didn't send back any of the words he said or the lessons he taught he sent back the acts he had preformed. I like this example a lot because we need to follow the example o Jesus Christ and show people that we are representatives of Jesus Christ by our actions and deeds. What is the best way to share the gospel? by being an example.
Also in church they were talking about family history work and someone started talking about angels. How a lot of times we don't believe in angels in this day but how when we are doing family history work we are surrounding ourselves with angels. Our ancestors are guiding our efforts here in our lives or they are guiding our efforts to find their names. It brought a new meaning to family history work for me.
Anyway, I hope you guys have a great week and I hope it gets warmer there for you. The photos are of the family that is getting baptized next week, and of the washing machines here in Mexico :).
Love,
Hermana Jones
Hey guys! I had a great week!
So I received my new companion, Elder Price, this week and since the start I´ve realized that he´s such a blessing for this sector and ward. I was a little worried about being in the trio because I felt like we weren´t going to be able to teach all the people that need our help but now that I´m working with Elder Price everything is going really smoothly. I´m really grateful for the opportunity to work with a missionary as dedicated and obedient as Elder Price. He´s from Sacramento California and he has 16 months in the mission. He came from Condevilla because he was also training and his companion had to go home. We witnessed quite a few miracles this week.
On Thursday we were able to teach a recently reactivated young man, Samuel, with plans to go on a mission next year. We taught his cousin, William, who is almost ready to be reactivated, and his cousin Renato, who isn´t baptized yet but really enjoys the lessons. These three young men have such a great desire to learn more about the gospel and progress, it´s so much fun to teach them.
We´ve been working with Laura this week, and she will get baptized on April 25th. She´s so excited for her baptism and we can really see the progress she´s made. She´s made a goal to finish the entire book of Mormon before her baptism.
On Saturday we went to a baptism in Elder Price´s old ward and it was really great. Elder Price baptized a 17 year old young man named Franklin who looked really happy to be able to get baptized. It was a little sad, though, because that same day of his baptism his dad had to go to prison. On the way back, we were in a taxi talking to the taxi driver and he was actually really interested in our message. He accepted a book of Mormon and we wrote down his information to pass the referral, and when we tried to pay him he didn´t accept the money. He said that the Book of Mormon was more than enough.
Yesterday we were walking to a lesson with Isabella and someone said "hello" to us in English, like always, but for some reason we decided to go up and talk to him and he spoke perfect English, and it turns out that he was from Salt Lake City. He was born in Peru but grew up in Salt Lake with his Dad. His name is Raul, and he´s not a member, but his dad was and he always brought him to the general conferences when he was growing up. His dad passed away in November and now he´s living here in Lima alone. He´s 28. He told us that he feels really alone and that he´s going through a hard time right now. So we´re going to visit him this week and he´s going to go to the conferences with us. He´s a really nice person. He also has a really heavy Utah accent.
I´m learning a lot, and I´m really happy.
I hope you guys have a great week!
Elder Jones
So this week was really good-- we had the baptism of Israel! Not a ton happened this week. One thing I did realize this week is that in every bad situation there is always silver lining. This week our backpacks got stolen with all our scriptures and everything, which was kind of sad because I have 13 months in the mission now, so my scriptures were pretty marked up. The good thing, though, was that we got to go to the temple visitor center and I got to go to the temple for the first time in my mission! It was so nice to see the temple after so long of not seeing it. That is the nice thing about the mission is your desire to go to the temple really grows. You learn so much more about the importance of the temple and I got really antsy sometimes thinking about not being able to got to the temple for a year and a half but really there is such a peace just to be on the temple grounds and feel all the peace that you can feel there.
Also I learned a lot of humility because I had to start all over again in my scriptures but it was a good experience to study basic doctrines again. Don't worry, though, we are completely safe though.
I am working super hard on my Spanish because my dream job after the mission would be to work at the MTC and if that doesn't happen maybe the cupcake store at BYU, so at least I will get lots of yummy cupcakes.
Anyway, more things that have happened this week... well, we spent most of the morning getting my visa renewed so I can stay here in Mexico. Also, I don't think I will be able to sign up for my classes for BYU, so Mom & Dad, I will need you to do it. I don't really care what classes they are, as long as they cover some of the classes that I need. Also, if I could finish my classes as early as possible because I would rather have classes early and finish early too. Especially on Monday because there is Family Home Evening. Also if you can sign me up for intermediate tap dance and beginning guitar. The other classes is just whatever generals I need and the beginning English classes.
Hey Guys! So I had a great week. My companion had to go home this week, but now I´m in a trio with Elder Kidd and Elder Pascual (the other companionship in my ward) It´s SO different with 3 missionaries, and I feel like I´m going to need to do splits everyday for these next 2 weeks that we´re together in a trio because there´s so much work to do in the two areas. Yesterday we didn´t do splits and we both had so many important appointments that day and we weren´t able to visit everyone we needed to visit, so I think it´ll be a lot easier and a lot more effective to do splits most days.
We had the baptism of Sofía yesterday! You need to hear her give her testimony-- it´s impressive. We had a lot of support from the ward and a lot of people came. It was a really great baptismal service, but the best part of it (also the part where I learned the most) was in the closing prayer. Sofías dad, who isn´t a member yet because he has to get married to his wife, gave the closing prayer. He said, in his prayer, "Thank you for baptizing my daughter by way of Elder Jones, and I ask that the next two people to get baptized be my wife and I". When I heard that, first of all I was impressed by how much he wanted to get baptized. But also I learned that he really understands the priesthood. I didn´t baptize his daughter, God did. I´m just an instrument. It´s true that I physically preformed the ordinance and put her under the water, but I was just an instrument in God´s hands in that. A hammer is needed to pull out a nail, but the hammer doesn´t pull out the nail, the person uses the hammer to pull out the nail. Eugenio understands the priesthood and baptism in a way that I didn't, and that´s just another testimony to me that the spirit is the real teacher in the lessons, not me.
So this week we had a lesson with Isabella. She was going to get baptized a few years ago but she´s from a part of Perú where the church really hasn´t reached yet and she realized that it would be really hard to be a member of the church where her family lives. But she goes to church every week with a family in our ward that she´s living with, because she´s here in Lima for a few years to study. And we taught her yesterday about the Book of Mormon and we invited her to do all the things necessary to find out that the Book of Mormon is true, and she committed to baptism! It is something she hasn't done in years, preparing to learn that the Book of Mormon is true. So I pray that this is the time God has prepared her for.
We lost This Is My Work And My Glory To Bring To Pass The Immortality And Eternal Life Of Man dog this week because we had to take a taxi somewhere. The dog followed our taxi for about two miles, but he couldn´t keep up with us and we lost him. But he did follow us around for almost an entire week.
I hope you guys are all doing great. I´ll continue to pray for you all!
Elder Jones
Hola! well this week was super good. We have the temple really close in my area now, so this week we are taking some of our investigators to the visitors center there.
We also have an investigator this week who is getting baptized. He has been coming to church for a long time and went to the visitor center at the temple and loved it. He has had a really hard time changing his life around though because he has had lots of problems with the law of chastity but we have been helping him and the Elders and he has been pretty much living with a family from the ward to help him out. I am super excited for him.
Anyway this week was fun we went with two other hermanas today and asked permission to go bowling! It was super fun because I haven't been bowling in so long! There are some perks to being in the city on preparation day-- there are so many fun things to do.
Anyway, a lot of our investigators are studying with the Jehovah's Witnesses, but it has really been a blessing because I have learned about a lot of things and spent lots of time studying the Bible. One of the hardest things that happened, though, was when we were teaching our investigator and the Jehovah's Witnesses came and wanted to talk to us, which was bad because they love to Bible bash, so we were in that lesson for a solid 2 hours. We tried our hardest though not to have contention and to have the spirit with us.
This week I also had a very interesting experience. We were teaching a lesson and it is a family of a Dad, his three sons, and the daughter. The lesson was good until the oldest son came in took out his Bible and started saying all these different scriptures about why we were wrong and how it wasn't the plan of God that we had trials that we came here and we would have lived in paradise if it weren't for Adam and Eve. We read a scripture but then I felt like I needed to tell him my experience with trials, but I just kept trying to push it away but finally I bore my testimony that I know that we are here to be tried. That there is a difference between innocence and wisdom and that through our experiences we gain wisdom. That every trial we have makes us stronger, tries our faith, and gives us an opportunity to choose to follow our Heavenly Father in whatever circumstance. So I shared some of my trials, and he just looked at me. I thought he was going to start arguing again, but he took off the hat he was wearing and he only had a little patch of hair on his head-- the rest was all burnt. He talked about how when he was younger he was bullied, but not just with words, people did terrible terrible things to him. I don't think I will ever forget the spirit I felt in that lesson or ever forget the love I felt in that moment for that boy and I know the love I felt wasn't my own it was the love that Heavenly Father really has for each of his children.
I know that our Father in Heaven suffers when he sees the pain we have here on this Earth, but he lets us have these experiences because he knows it is the only way we can be with him forever. It is the only way we can have really happiness. That moment I realized a boy who looked completely normal before had terrible scars under his hat. I realized in that moment every one of us here on this Earth has battle wounds whether they are visible or not. That this earth really is a war against Satan.
I have no doubt in my mind that Heavenly Father knows us personally. My patriarichal blessings talks a lot about some of the things that are trials for me, and I have gotten blessings from leaders who don't have any idea about what is happening, but they say the things that I need to hear and say things that are not possible for them to know. I don't know how much I am helping others here on my mission, but there is one thing that I can say is that the mission has helped me. I can truly say that I have seen miracles, that my testimony has grown immensely, and I have come to understand more what really is the gospel and atonement of Jesus Christ. One of my favorite talks I read this week was by Elder Holland and it is called "Aren't we all Beggars."
Anyway, I hope you guys have a great week. Much success to you!
With love,
Hermana Jones
Hey Guys! I had a great week! First of all everything is going well with the Ravello Family. Their 12 year old daughter Sofía gets baptized this Saturday! She`s really excited, and I can really tell that she knows that this church is true. She`s reading the Book of Mormon like crazy, she`s almost halfway done, and we started teaching her less than a month ago. Her parents are both excited for her baptism, and it turns out that the documents that they need to get married are going to cause a delay a little bit, because Doris first needs to legally get divorced from her ex-husband first, and he`s living in Panama right now. So it`s going to be a while before her parents can get married and baptized, but it`ll be some time this year so I`m happy about that. We had a family home evening with them and the Pezo family in our ward and we taught about temples and family history. They still have it as their goal to get sealed in the temple, and even though I wont be here on my mission when that happens.
I`m so happy that this family is going to be together after this life. So we had 3 lessons with them this week, and one them only Sofía and Eugenio came, because Eugenio and Doris had been fighting earlier that day, and he just came to us with all of his marriage problems and frustrations and had a lot of faith that we knew exactly what to say to help him and his family. While he was telling me everything, I was feeling a little overwhelmed by everything. I don`t have experience in marriage counseling, and everything was riding on us being able to help this family, because if we can`t help them they won`t become an eternal family. So I was trying my best to listen really closely to what he was telling me and I remembered something that I had learned that day during the extra hour of companion study that trainers and new missionaries have. I remembered a quote from Elder Holland from the Preach my Gospel videos, where he says "If you listen, you won´t have to wonder what to say. If you listen, what they are saying will highlight a gospel truth that you need to teach". So I was listening to Eugenio with the intent to find out what gospel truth the Spirit was telling me to teach, and it turns out that it was repentance. And I felt impressed to share Alma 36 with him, all of it, the entire chapter. And I could feel the spirit testifying to me that that was what he needed.
So this week we received a bit of sad news from our investigators Jessica and Olga that were going to get baptized the 28th of this month. We went to an appointment we had scheduled with them and they weren`t home, so I called and they said that they feel like they don`t want to participate any more and that they don`t want us to visit them. So it is very sad, and I know that it`s the enemy placing doubt in their hearts, but it`s okay. Right now isn`t their time. God needs some time without missionaries to prepare them more.
Samuel is progressing really quickly. He will be reactivated this Sunday. I`ve never met a teenager on my mission so interested in learning the Gospel. He wasn`t able to learn these things growing up because his family was inactive, and now that he has the opportunity to learn he`s taking advantage of it. He`s also going to seminary every day, and we`re working with him in his family history also.
Also this week I went to the temple! I got a lot of really good answers for my investigators and I learned a few new things.
So yesterday something really funny happened. My companion and I were both feeling a little bit discouraged, and when we said a prayer to leave our apartment, my companion said a prayer to ask for encouragement. So we left to go teach, and right when we left, a stray dog started following us. It followed us the entire day. And when we entered a house he would wait for us until we came out. At the end of the day we entered our apartment and he waited outside for us the entire night. This morning he went running with us and right now he`s waiting outside the internet store for us. It`s insane. We named him "This is my work and my Glory. To bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man". I`ll send some pictures because maybe you don`t believe me... seriously this dog is crazy!
I hope you guys have a great week, and I continue to pray for you!
Elder Jones
So this week was super good but a little stressful. One thing I have learned is that when you have a leadership position, usually it means a lot more stress and a lot less sleep, but I am super grateful for the opportunity to help the sisters in their problems and that we have been able to see miracles in our area. I think my favorite part about being sister training leader is I get to work in lots of areas and know lots of different people here in the city.
It seems like every time I switch areas, I always get put into areas that haven't baptized in a long time. I was looking at the area book, and there have only been 5 baptisms for a whole year, which is a little hard because we are supposed to be baptizing every week. It is always hard, but it is definitely an opportunity for my faith to grow. Every area I get put into is somewhere that missionaries don't want to go, but when we find miracles, you can really see that they are miracles and not through anything that you did.
This week I was super sick on the way to church and was throwing up in the alleys on the way to church. It was really a miracle, though, because we had 7 people at church this week and they all said that they want to come back next week. The family of 4 is super cute and loved church. We are also teaching a guy who went to jail, but wants to be baptized and is super super excited to listen every time we teach him. He asks to go teaching with the Elders all the time because he loves sharing his testimony about Jesus Christ with people in the street. It is a little harder to get him baptized because he went to jail, but he wrote his letter to President Monson, and we are waiting for the reply to see if he can be baptized. I really hope the answer will be yes!
Also I had to conduct music in sacrament and I didn't know the hymn, so I just thought I would listen to the piano but no one could play the piano! So I was up there singing a song that I didn't know the tune and well no one else knew the tune, either, so we just went with it! Hahaha, good times here in Mexico!
On Monday I spent most of the day in a meeting with the zone leaders and assistants and then yesterday we had zone conference and I had to speak. One good thing about the mission is I feel like I have pretty much lost my fear of public speaking after giving so many sacrament talks right on the spot in Spanish, singing solos in church, playing the piano without knowing the hymn, talking in Zone conferences and conferences with the hermanas. My thought is if you can do it in a second language you will probably never have fear of public speaking again. Also here, because the people talk so much, it is impossible to be shy or you will never get a chance to give a lesson because they will just talk the whole time! hahaha I just love the people here in Mexico because what they are thinking they will say and so you know exactly what people think of you.
Two pictures I sent are of it hailing like crazy, which was super weird because it was hot all day and it melted in like 2 minutes.
Also, the other pictures are a really good FHE object lesson I learned from my companion. When you look at the container, you first ask the person how many balls can you see in the water, and the will say one because you can only see the one blue ball that is in the water. Step two, then you ask them to put their hand in the water and then ask them how many balls there are, and they say that there are tons! The rest of the family is super confused because they still see one ball but then they put their hands in the water too, aaaaand the final step is everyone realizes that there are tons of see-through balls in the water! This example I loved because it shows that really we need to have faith in our experiences. Sometimes we feel like we can see the whole picture or that we can see every outcome but faith isn't something that you can see. Faith is the things that are hoped for and not seen. I know that God has a plan for each of us and we just have the faith to endure to the end.
My favorite quote of the week is everything is possible if we can just believe. I hope you guys have a great week! We are seeing lots of miracles here.
Love,
Hermana Jones
Hey guys!
I had a great week! Again, lots of miracles. So training is going pretty well. Every day we´re practicing. We met a lot of really great people this week.
The craziest experience we had this week was that on Thursday morning when we woke up we found a note that someone had slipped under our door. It read: "My name is Jessica, I´m interested in getting baptized." And she left her number. So we called her that day and she said that she had been receiving the lessons from the missionaries in August and she had attended church a few times, but she went to Argentina for a few months with her mother to see her brother. And it turns out that her brother had joined the church while living in Argentina without telling his family. And when Jessica and her mom, Olga, went to visit him, they saw him completely changed and happier. So that made them more interested in learning about the gospel and they attended church with him a few times in Argentina. Now that they´re back in Lima they want to have the lessons with the missionaries and get baptized.
So yesterday after church we had a really great lesson with Jessica and Olga, and Carlos, a returned missionary from Ecuador, and Hanz, who´s leaving on his mission in April to Japan, taught them with us. It was such a great lesson. Elder Mestre invited them to baptism, and they are going to get baptized the 28th of March.
We´re also working a lot with the Ravello family, who is a family of investigators that are a referral from our ward mission leader. The parents are really motivated to get baptized, but they have to get married first. But their daughter, Sofi, went to the temple this week with the young men and young women, and had a really great experience, and she´s also really excited to get baptized on March 21st. This week on Tuesday we´re going to have a family home evening with them and the Pezo family from our ward about temples and family history.
Also this week we met a less active member named Samuel, who is 16 years old and has been inactive since he was 8. We met him on Monday and we invited him to go to seminary that same day because it was the first day of seminary. And he went! He´s going every day now. There´s a group of 3 other young men that live by him that pick him up and drop him off from seminary every day. He was also able to go and visit the temple this week with the young men and women. He really liked the visitor´s center. He went to Stake Conference yesterday with the other young men, and I´m very hopeful that we´re going to be able to help him get to the temple by April.
I had a really great week. I´m so amazed by how many people God is preparing to receive this message. It is a testimony to me that the Lord is hastening the work.
I hope you guys have a great week and I love you all!
Elder Jones
Hey guys! So like you already know I´m training! It was so scary for me because tuesday was the day of transfers and they usually tell you if you or your companion have a transfer the day before on monday, or on sunday if you´re training so you can go to the training for new trainers on monday. But they didn´t tell me until an HOUR before the tranfers that Elder Membrillo is going to Condevilla and that I´m training! So I wasn´t able to go to the new trainers training but right now I´m a lot more okay with that than I was on Tuesday.
So my new son is Elder Mestre! He´s from Santiago Chile and he´s 18 years old! He´s a convert, the first member, and the first missionary in his family. We had a great week. So since he´s new we have an hour extra of companionship study together every day. It´s honestly the best. He just loves to learn and get better as a missionary. A couple of days this week we accidentally spent the entire first hour of companionship study just sharing what we learned in personal study. This week we finished our plans for personal study, companionship study, and language study for the first 3 weeks of this transfer. He´s also not afraid to talk to anyone. Since the taxi that brought us from the transfers to Rimac, he´s just been talking to people. I´ve learned so much from him this week and I´m trying my best to teach him in a way that will help him be the best missionary he can be. I´ve learned a lot this week about the power of my example. He does what I do. In the apartment if I take off my shoes he takes off his shoes, or if I take off my tie he takes off his tie. One of the families in our ward gave us all the books of the teachings of all the presidents of the church this week, and honestly it was such a temptation for me to just spend all my time this week reading them, but I decided that after my mission is probably a better time for those books, and that right now I should just anchor my study in the scriptures and preach my gospel, focusing on what my investigators need.
So this week we had a lot of really great spiritual experiences.
First of all we met a really amazing family! They are a referral from Hno. Gonzalez, our ward mission leader. His friend, Eucevio, has had some problems with alcohol, and recently his wife told him that he needs to change or she and their two daughters need to leave. So he remembered what Hno. Gonzalez had told him about the church and how it changed his life, so he called Hno Gonzalez on thursday and said he wants to meet the Elders. So on thursday Hno Gonzalez called us and set up an appointment that same night in the church building. Eucevio, his wife Doris, and their daughters,Sofi and Carolina, came. We had a great lesson and at the end Elder Mestre invited Eucevio, Doris, and Sofi to baptism and they accepted! they came to church yesterday and they´re going with our ward to the temple tomorrow! They said that they really enjoyed church and that they want to come back. So I´m really excited to be able to teach them and see them grow. I think if there is one family I´m probably going to be able to see get sealed on my mission it´s them.
So this week I was thinking about dropping one of our investigators, Hector, because he hasn´t been completing the commitments. He has many many addictions and we´ve invited him to meet the bishop and seek professional help, but he wasn´t willing to do either of those. So I was talking to Elder Mestre this week about how we were probably going to drop Hector as an investigator this week. And his answer surprised me. He said that what we do as missionaries, we do because we don´t want these people to feel lonely or unloved by their heavenly father, and if we leave someone feeling that way we aren´t doing our job. When I heard that I felt like what he was saying was true, even though he hadn´t ever dropped an investigator before. So we visited Hector this week and we had a very spiritual lesson with him. It wasn´t about the word of wisdom, or the law of chastity, or the changing power of the atonement, we just taught about the Book of Mormon. And we invited him to come to church. and with Hector he hand´t ever been able to go to church because it´s hard for him to go so long without smoking, but on Sunday he came! and he met the bishop and now he´s progressing little by little. We asked him what changed and he said that he wasn´t going to go but an angel appeared to him the night after we visited him. So now he has had a spritual experience that will help him progress in the gospel.
I hope you guys are doing great! glad you´re reading the scriptures!
Elder Jones
Me and Elder Mestre:
So we had cambios! I was a little sad after having 4 cambios in Sauces. When I left in the morning it was worse than when I left home to go on the mission. I am in D.F now (the big city). It feels really funny because it was about a year ago that I was here in the city and now I am back!
I am Capacitadora now (I dont really know what that it in English, but probably like sister training leader) I am a little nervous because usually there are two, but I am the only one and it is my first time, so I don't really have anyone to learn from, but I am sure it will be a great cambio.
My new companion is Hermana Aguilar, and she is from Mexico. She is super nice and I knew her from my other zone so that's good. It is also weird to be in the city because it is reversed because in Toluca it is so safe-- our zone had only 6 elders and 14 hermanas. Here we only have 6 hermanas but I am super excited. My area seems really nice, and the people are really nice here. It is funny being an American hermana sometimes, though, because I am the first American hermana ever in this area so the members of the ward are super excited that president sent an American hermana hahha.
This week we brought a girl named Ruth to church. She is 14 and she loooved it. When we were on the bus ride home she said "today was magical." We asked her why and she said that she loved church and she loved all the people there so that made us really happy. Her family was really interested when Ruth got home from church because she talked about how much they loved it, so I am sure that they are going to get baptized. It is weird going from such a huge house in Sauces to a tiny house in the city but even though it was sad to change I feel like it feels so much more like an adventure because I haven't changed in so long.
I hope everything is going great there. Anyway this week was super awesome and I am excited to get to be Capacitadora because we get to go to presidents house once a month and talk about things the missionaries need and I heard it was really fun. It is always fun to be able to see the mission president and his wife because in the mission they are like your parents. Anyway, I hope you have a great week and I will send you lots of pictures next week of my new area :)
My release date is set for August 17th, but I don't know if that is the exact date or not.
The pictures show a member's house we ate at last week, and also the girl who is getting baptized. I was sad to leave! The doll is one that a member made me before I left, and also there is a picture of me with my new companion.
Love,
Hermana Jones
