Elder Jones Week 55

Hey guys! I´m so glad to hear that everything is going so well! Everything is going great here.  I´m learning a lot, and we´re preparing a lot of people to get baptized in July.

 I had my first baptismal interview this week!  It was such a great experience. The baptismal candidate´s name was Flor and she´s about 50 years old and she had been sufficiently prepared to be baptized, but she still didn´t feel ready.  She felt like she needed to learn more about the church before getting baptized.  She wanted to wait until September or October.  So Elder Patiño and Elder Jordan had me give her an interview.  The spirit was so strong in the interview.  It was the only time in my mission where I had to teach someone by myself, without a companion.  But what lacked in number of missionaries was made up for by the power of the spirit. At the end of the interview, I was able to tell her that she was ready to be baptized and that she could be baptized right now if she wanted.  Somehow she changed her mind and she´s going to get baptized this Saturday. 

We´re finding a lot of people to teach.  On Friday one of our appointments fell through and we were walking towards the house of a recent convert and from the other side of the street a 20-ish year old man was looking at us and walking in the opposite direction and when I made I eye contact with him he nodded.  So I felt like we needed to talk to him, and we followed him into the alley where he lived and knocked on the door he entered, and the mother of the man who nodded at us answered the door.  We explained that we saw her son and we felt like we needed to talk to him.  It turns out that he is deaf and he lives there with his mother and his sister.  She let us in and we quickly found out that her husband recently died and we taught them about the plan of salvation and his mother, Yoni, wants to get baptized on July 25th. He taught me how to say Jesus Christ in sign language when I gave him a pass along card of Jesus Christ. 

We had a similar experience with one of our recent converts, Milagros.  She and her sister are both members but her parents and other sister aren´t.  We came last week and taught the father and the sister that aren´t members and they weren´t interested in what we had to say.  The next day the mother died.  We came back this week and taught the father about the plan of salvation and temples, and he wants to get baptized so he can go to the temple and get sealed to his deceased wife. 

We also found three really prepared people that are going to get baptized on July 18th.  Magdalena, Josael, and Marco.  We´re trying to have daily contact with them because they´re basically just waiting until they have enough church attendances to get baptized. If the could, they would get baptized today. 

I continue believing that I have the best district in the mission. I´m really grateful for how hard they work. 

I hope you guys have a great week!

Elder Jones