Elder Jones week 49

HEY GUYS! Great to hear about how you are doing this week! So we had a great week to end the transfer. Richard and Wudullnara got married!! We had the opportunity to attend their marriage.  It was a massive marriage-- 114 other people got married that same day!  They had their wedding reception in the church building, and then right after the reception was the baptism of Jairo and Alex. They`re two really strong young men that always accompany us. 

And then on Sunday after the meetings we had the baptism of Richard and his son Rogger baptized him.  It was a really great baptismal service and I can`t wait until a year from now when they go to the temple.  Rogger is seriously thinking about serving a mission now.  When we met him 3 weeks ago he said he wanted to enter into the police force, but he had 3 exams this last week to enter into the police force and he said that if he didn´t make it in he was going to go on a mission, and if he did he was going into the police.  And he didn´t make it in!  I let him borrow my white baptism tie for Richard´s baptism and told him to keep it for his mission. Hopefully I don´t leave Rimac this week so I can actually go to the temple to get a white tie. 

As of now, all our recent converts and reactivated members that qualify to go to the temple on Wednesday have a family name to bring to the temple!  So that´s a great relief for me.  Isabella taught the Gospel Principles class on Sunday for the first time and she did a great job!  We´re thinking that she´s going to be the new teacher for gospel principles because we haven´t had one for a couple of months, because she wants to teach the class, and because she wants to serve a mission a year from now.  

Also we had a really awesome sacament meeting yesterday! we`ve been teaching this family with a child prodigy violinist. His name is Rodrigo Castillo. His dad wants us to look him up on youtube but we can´t but maybe you guys can if you want.   They live in the floor below Olinda, and whenever we´re teaching Olinda we always hear him practicing violin and he´s amazing.  He´s also 13.  We´ve taught them a few times and they love the Book of Mormon.  He also speaks English and he´s been to Chicago before.  So anyway we gave him a hymnbook and told him that it would be great if we could do a special musical number in church someday and sing "the Spirit of God" while he plays it on violin.  He said he would like to but they rarely have time for teaching appointments, much less church.  But he showed up out of nowhere yesterday in church yesterday with his dad and his violin and told us that he wanted to do it.  So Elder Price and I sang the Spirit of God while a Child prodigy was playing it on violin and his dad, Fernando, accompanied him on the piano. It turned out so well. 

And the best part was that we had 10 investigators attend church yesterday.  The mission is seriously the best.  There is nothing like this.  I hope I get to stay a while longer to be able to go to the temple with these people.  I hope you guys have a great week! 

Elder Jones