Hey guys!
It was great talking to you all yesterday!! You all seem happier than I`ve ever seen you. Glad to know you're doing great! I had a great week.
So, like I told you yesterday we were going to have a baptism yesterday for Amadea, Laura´s mom, and she didn`t come to church and when we went to her house we couldn´t find her. So she didn`t get baptized so that is sad BUT we did reactivate a pair of 15-year old twins named Orlando and Javier. And we`re going to the temple with them on the 20th! We have been visiting them for a couple of weeks after we met them in the street and recently this week we were able to talk to the entire family, and it turns out that the father wants to get baptized! but he just needs to get divorced to his ex-wife and get married to the mother of the twins. The mother of the twins is also attending church again. She said she felt like something was missing in her family when they weren`t attending church. They`re a really great family. The twins have always attended seminary every day despite the family being inactive.
So today I`m not going to have a ton of time to write because we just got back from the Municipality with Richard and Wudullnara helping them with their papers to get married this Saturday! It turns out that there was a cheaper massive marriage in another district of Lima on May 16th so they decided to choose that one. And Richard got a job this week! and what's better is that it doesn`t make him work on Sundays! This family is receiving sooo many blessings. I can`t wait to see where they are a year from now. We`re in a good ward with a good ward council so I`m sure that they`ll be sufficiently prepared for the temple a year from now.
Isabella is progressing really well. She just got a calling this week as president of the Gospel Principles class. She did a great job welcoming the class. She still wants to go on a mission. Next week she`s going to teach part of the class for Gospel Principles. She´s going to bring the name of her grandpa to the temple the 20th and one of the other converts in our ward, Cristian, is going to get baptized for him. We`re also working on getting names printed for Olinda, Sofía, Richard, Wudullnara, Rogger, Samuel, Orlando, Javier, and Kevin so they can all go to the temple for the first time! We`re going to have a family history activity on Friday just to get everyone ready for the temple trip on the 20th.
We had a couple of great experiences teaching tithing this week. last week in the fast and testimony meeting almost everyone that went up to bear their testimony spoke about the blessings of paying tithing, and this week we talked to a few less active members that noticed and want to pay their tithing now because they have faith that they will be blessed when they pay it.
Also I forgot to tell you about the craziest thing that happened this week!!! We had a surprise baptism on Friday. No one came to our English class, except for Robert who is 18 and was going to get baptized a while ago but his mom didn`t let him. But he`s 18 and therefore doesn`t need the permission of his mom, so we were talking to him and we asked him if he wanted to get baptized. He said yes. We asked him if he wanted to get baptized that same day, and he said yes. So we filled up the baptismal font and baptized him at 9:30 at night. It was a crazy experience. He´s got such a strong testimony and a lot of faith.
I had a great week, and I hope everything goes well for you guys this week!
Elder Jones
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