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
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