Elder Jones week 56

Hey guys! I had a great week! I met my new mission president, President Larson, and his family this week. They´re really nice, and I can tell that I am going to learn a lot from them. 

This week we found a lot of really prepared people.  We were teaching Josael who is going to get baptized this week, and his 15 year old cousin walked in and we invited her to participate in the lesson.  Her name is Brillit, and she was really interested in the lesson and agreed to let us teach her and her family the next day.  The next day Josael accompanied us to teach Brillit´s family and they all accepted the invitation to be baptized!  We left them a copy of the Book of Mormon and an appointment to come back in two days.  When we came back, they told us that they weren´t able to read because another cousin of Josael, Colin, came to their house and saw the Book of Mormon and wanted to know what it was about, so he took it.

 

This entire family lives in the same alley, so we went where Colin lives and invited him and his family to join us in a lesson, we also found another cousin named Jericho and invited him and his family as well. We ended up teaching 5 families in the same lesson. We taught about faith, repentance, and baptism. We invited all of them to baptism and they all said yes.  But the ones with the most desire to get baptized were their children, Brillit, her sister Melani, Colin, and Jericho.  They´re all under the age of 18 but their parents gave them permission to get baptized. 

 

Yesterday Josael came to church with his four cousins and they really liked it and the ward did a great job of receiving them and making them feel welcome.  They want to get baptized this month. Tomorrow we have a big family home evening in the church with all of their families and the families of the ward leaders. 

Marco is also going to get baptized this week on Sunday, with Josael, so they can both enter in the temple.  The ward is going to the temple on the 15th.  So we have to help them out with their family history this week.  Marco is almost 80 years old and he forgets what we teach him easily, so while we´ve been teaching him I´ve really been focusing on teaching with simplicity and having short but frequent visits with him.  He has a lot of desire and he has a lot of friends in the church.  We reactivated his wife Hilda yesterday.  He has two grandchildren that are missionaries. 

So I think my favorite thing about Callao, that I haven´t seen in Rimac and Caja de Agua, is the fried squid.  It´s so good.  I´m trying not to eat it every day because I feel like it´s not that good for me, but it´s probably my favorite food now.  And it´s also really cheap so that makes it harder for me to avoid eating it. 

We had a good week as a district.  In La Punta, they had a few baptisms fall through this week (but not Flor) and that has been a little disappointing for them but they´re still working hard. 

I hope you guys have a great week! 

Elder Jones