HEY guys! It makes me really happy to hear about how well your week went! Glad to hear that all of you are happy and safe. I honestly had one of the best weeks of my mission.
Okay, so at the beginning of the week we weren`t feeling very sure if either of the 2 baptisms we had planned for this Saturday would get baptized. Laura who isn`t married to the father of her children had made plans to get separated from him this week and get baptized, but things weren`t working out and it didn`t seem like she was going to be able to be baptized on Saturday. It wasn`t the ideal because we as missionaries don`t ever want to destroy families but but they have had a lot of problems and she has wanted to get baptized ever since she met the missionaries 4 years ago. So we had Laura and Miguel (who is her less active boyfriend) meet with the bishop this week to talk about their situation. And the bishop fixed everything! He had them talk about everything that frustrates them about the other and just talk about all their problems and now they have plans to get married! Laura is going to get baptized on Saturday and they are going to sleep in different houses for 2 weeks and get married on May 10th! Miguel is willing to stop drinking and come back to church and start being active again. So I`m really happy because that`s obviously better than a separated family. And they`re going to get married in the temple and sealed to their 3 small children in May 2016!
Isabela also had plans to get baptized this week but she was having a lot of family problems again and also she didn`t feel like she could keep the law of chastity because we explained it incorrectly the first time, but now she understands really what it means and she`s willing to keep it. It`s a good learning experience for me, that I need to explain the commandments as clearly as possible. She had her interview yesterday and she`s all ready for her baptism on Saturday. She`s so excited. She was going to get baptized 4 years ago but she never showed up for her baptism. Hopefully that doesn`t happen again.
Finally we were able to have a lesson with the familia Rosales Flores that I was talking about last week that recently moved here from Habish 3 weeks ago. It was one of the best lessons I`ve ever had in my misison. They have 6 kids. Ages 17, 16, 11, 9, 2, and 1. Their boys that are 11 and 9 years old, Leonardo and Gabriel, aren`t baptized and neither is the father. The father has wanted to get baptized and get married to his wife for years but because of work he hasn`t been able to. But now he has a job that works less hours and doesn`t work on Sunday and he`s ready to get married. He came to the General Conference and church yesterday. We invited him and his wife to get baptized May 10th and they said yes! and we invited the husband, Richard, to get baptized May 10 and he said yes! and we invited Leonardo and Gabriel to get baptized on Saturday and they (and their parents) said yes! We invited the parents to get married in the temple in May 2016 and get sealed to their children and they said yes! They`re so excited and it`s amazing to me how much the Lord has prepared these people.
Also good news about Eugenio and Doris, they have everything ready for Doris to get divorced to her ex-husband and get married to Eugenio May 10th! it`s going to be close but we`re going to hope that everything comes out well this week. They also have plans to get baptized that same day May 10th and after a year get sealed to Sofìa (who was baptized last month) and Carolina who`s 1.
So to sum up this week, we committed 3 families to get sealed in the temple in May 2016, or in other words, when I have 23 months in the mission. I keep praying for all of them that everything works out and that they can fulfill their desires to follow Jesus Christ.
We did a lot of work with less actives this week and we should have a few reactivated members by the end of the week.
There isn`t a greater joy than this. I hope you all have a great week!
Elder Jones
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