Elder Jones week 66

Hey guys!! Glad to hear that everything is going great! Oh my gosh, Dan is so grown up now.  I can´t believe how much he´s grown while I´ve been on my mission. He did a great job too in the cross country meet! Congrats. 

We had a great week. Still working with the Ortiz family. Last Monday we had a family home evening with them and the Godoy family. Tonight we have another one with them and the Moscoso family. The ward is still working with us really well with the Ortiz family. Arantza is getting baptized this Saturday!! Her parents will soon follow, once they get their marriage figured out. This week we were teaching the Ortiz family about the Word of Wisdom and it was really hard for them at first because the mom really likes coffee, tea, and wine but two things really helped them out. 1: that we had Manuel Ramos there teaching with us.  He´s 18 and he´s preparing to serve a mission.  He was able to bear his testimony and he helped them out a lot. And 2: We reminded them of their testimonies of the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith was a prophet because the Book of Mormon is true. And thus the Word of Wisdom is a commandment inspired of God. So they´re willing to keep the Word of Wisdom now. And to bury their weapons of war they got rid of their cabinet that was full of fancy alcohol bottles and glasses. 

Mario Gonzales will also get baptized this week! It´s kind of amazing how quickly this change has been brought to pass in him. We met him a little over 2 weeks ago and he´s a completely different person. He loves the Book of Mormon and church. We´re really happy for him and excited about the change that is going on in his life.   

This week I was on a companionship interchange with Elder Martinez and something he and his companion Elder Adams are doing is every time they see a father with his children they talk with him.  So we saw one who was about 23 years old and he went over to talk to him. He wasn´t actually a father, he was just playing with his older sister´s child.  Then then his younger sister who is 22 came running over saying that she´s Mormon too and that she moved here from another ward and stopped going to church when she moved. So we were able to teach her, her brother, her older sister with the 2 year old son, and their mother. They almost got baptized a while ago but just didn´t do it, but they´re really receptive and they want to get baptized now that a lot of things have changed in their lives. So we have another family that we are teaching! The Astete Family. 

So yea I´m still happy. I´m learning a lot. I participated in the mission council for the first time in my mission this week. That was fun. Well I hope you guys have another great week love you all!