Elder Jones Week 42

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