This week we had a cool experience that we were contacting people in the street when a guy riding his bike yelled at us to go to his house because he wanted to hear our message. We didn't know if we should, because the only directions he gave us was the next street at the blue house. We went to the next street and there were at least 10 blue houses so we looked for one that had a bike. We finally found the house but he wasn't there. It was super weird, so we left but a little later we felt like we should go back and we found him there and now he and his family are listening and want to go to church this week! Yay!
This next week I am going on exchanges the whole week to get to know some of the areas of the other hermans here and help them find new people to teach. It is really tiring but also super fun to get to know lots of missionaries.
Oh, also there is a member of the church here who is going to live in Chicago for a few months with his family, so he asked me if there was anything that I wanted to send with him to Chicago. I am sending a few things that i don't use here but don't really want to throw away. I hope it is ok. He can speak decent English, I think, so you guys can communicate. They were pretty excited that I was from Chicago. It is super funny here because almost everyone here has family members who lives in Chicago and they always ask if I know them. I feel like they don't realize how big Chicago is.
This week was also super fun because it was my first time taking a mototaxi! They are like those things for little kids that attach to the back of the bike and the little kids sit in the little carriage. They do that here but it is a lot bigger. You can fit 4 people in it and the attach it to the back of a motorcycle. It was super fun and we wondered why they don't do things like that in the United States but we decided there are more laws against stuff like that in the U.S.
Anyway, we are working super hard here, having lots of fun, talking to tons of people, and missionary work is progressing quickly. We are working a lot with the members here and have a mission plan for every family. They have goals of how many people a week they are going to talk to about the church, how many books of Mormon they are going to give away in the month, and how many convert baptisms they are going to have in the year. It has been working really well and we have gotten lots of referrals from members. Sometimes I am amazed at how fast the work is moving here in Mexico. They are going to divide our ward in June. Here on my mission I have seen a branch become a ward, and this will be the second ward that I have been in that will split. Good times here in the mission!
Love,
Hermana Jones
Hahah the picture is of Jorge's baptism. He has the Mexican smile, which means they are always happy and laughing and the second you take out a camera they stop smiling and make a serious face!
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