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:
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