Elder Jones week 52

HEY GUYS!

That's great news that everything is going according to plan with the move.  I wish you guys the best of luck this week with everything!  Especially Dan with his birthday! 

I had one of the best weeks in my mission so far.  We just focused on being as efficient as possible with our time this week and do everything we needed to do to teach with members, have new investigators, and invite EVERYONE to baptism.  We invited everyone we taught to baptism this week.  Also before this week the greatest number of lessons with a member present I had had was 10, and I could never get above 10.  This week we did everything we could to get above 10 lessons with a member present, and we got 20.  Numbers don´t define success in missionary work, but I can say that I learned a lot this week about how to work efficiently and effectively. 

We witnessed some miracles this week.  Alicia, who is the aunt of Isabella, who recently was baptized, has a 2-year-old grand daughter that Isabella takes care of.  This week her grand daughter caught a fever and they weren´t able to calm the fever so they took her to the hospital and when they got there they told her something along the lines of that a virus had entered into the brain and that it would probably leave her as a vegetable.  They called their hometeachers and they came to the hospital to give the blessing, and then later we came to start a fast with them.  Then during the fast, the fever disappeared and she started to eat again.  She still needs to stay in the hospital for treatment, but as long as the fever is down it´s a lot more hopeful that she´s not going to have permanent complications.  It was a really great experience because Isabella was recently baptized and this has really strengthened her testimony of the fast. (Also a really good Mormon message if you want to learn more about fasting is "the hope of God´s light") 

I´ve been really sick all week but I´m still really happy with all the work we´ve done.  I´m learning a lot and I can feel myself growing and progressing.  I love the mission.  I hope you guys have a great week! 

Elder Jones