Woo! I had a great and difficult week. The only reason it was difficult is because I had a stomach infection almost the entire week. And I got it because one night we were out of bottled water, and we couldn´t go out to buy more because it was really late, and I was really thirsty, so I decided that just a little bit of tap water wouldn´t hurt me... But yea I´m starting to feel a little bit better.
Our ward went to the temple, and Josael and Marco were able to go too! But we couldn´t go because we didn´t let the assistants know soon enough.
We had a surprise baptism this week!! Her name is Dayanna. She´s 14 and she´s an active member of the church and she goes to seminary every day. She went in for her interview to go to the temple on Tuesday and the bishop told her that he couldn´t find her membership record. They just couldn´t find her membership record. It was lost. So she had to be baptized again! We taught her all the lessons at 10am on Sunday, she had her baptismal interview at 10:30 and she was baptized at 11am. She wanted me to baptize her because her dad isn´t baptized yet. We´re working with her parents to be able to get married in August so her dad can get baptized. Same thing with Josael´s parents. So it was good that Dayanna´s father was able to see a baptism.
Also we have another baptism coming up on Saturday. Magdalena attended church for the 3rd time yesterday and she´s so anxious to get baptized. We´re going to visit her every day this week to help her prepare for her baptism.
Today for Pday we went to La Punta as a district. The parts of La Punta that aren´t touching Callao aren´t dangerous at all. It feels like the United States. It´s pretty calm and quiet and there aren´t very many people in the streets. We went to a beach and we found a washed up sea lion. We took pictures with it but I didn´t have my camera so I´ll have to send pictures next week. I also recently found out today that in Callao and La Punta we´re allowed to baptize in the ocean! So that´s my goal before I leave here. To baptize someone in the ocean.
This morning I had to go to the mission offices to sign a paper, and I saw Elder Charles who is in Caja De Agua right now and he said that Jesus Pachas was able to sell enough shoes to buy himself some glasses that he needed for his therapy and that he now has a vial for consecrated oil and his favorite thing to do now is visit members and ask them if they need a heath blessing. I can´t wait to see him again in October when he goes through the temple for the first time.
Everything is going well for Josael´s cousins. We found another one of them that wants to get baptized in August. His name is Jeremi. He´s 15 and when we met him he asked us if he could get baptized right away, but we put a baptismal date for the 15th. Of all of Josael´s cousins that we are teaching, Colin is the one that is progressing fastest. He´s the one that stole the Book of Mormon. He reads, marks, and understands the Book of Mormon thoroughly. I´m really proud to be the missionary that God has entrusted to teach him because he´s really prepared. He´s going to be a good missionary some day. He is a testimony to me that anyone that sincerely reads the Book of Mormon and desires to find answers in it will find them and will feel the desire to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized. The Book of Mormon has the answers.
This week as a district we have been working on building our faith, especially in the Book of Mormon. So I told my district that if one of their investigators has a problem and they don´t know what to say, to just have them open the Book of Mormon with faith and the first verse they see will be the verse that they need. And we did that this week as a district and all of us have found that it works every time. The Book of Mormon has what people need, that is why the people that read it find what they need. I hope you guys have a great week!
Elder Jones
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