Elder Jones Week 68

Hey guys! I had a great week! I have a new companion! his name is Elder Montoya. You killed his father, prepare to die. (Ha, ha, ha  - joke) He´s from Juliacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.  He´s awesome.  He´s also about to finish his mission. He has 21 months in the mission.  I´m learning a lot from him.  

So yea, to catch you guys up on what happened last week, I was putting in the zone achievements in the morning and we received news that one of the young men in the ward had tried committing suicide and he was in the hospital.  So we went to the hospital to give him a blessing and then the entire day I was with Elder Anderson while he said goodbye to people.  

On Saturday Arantza and Mario were baptized.  And afterward Mario invited us and the mission secretaries to go eat chifa.  He´s so happy.  Arantza told Elder Dayton in her baptismal interview that the week before she met us she had been praying that someone would come to help her repent and feel closer to God.  So that´s awesome.  We´re still working on getting Lucio and Sulema married, they´re going through some problems right now that we don´t understand and we can´t figure out what is going on, but they don´t want to get married for now.  But some good news is that Eugenio and Doris from Rimac finally got baptized on Saturday! I met them in March and I baptized their daughter Sofia and I got to go back to Rimac to baptize them. They were so happy.  I´m glad things finally worked out for them.  

We´ve met a ton of new people this week.  The referrals have just been coming like crazy.  So we should be having quite a few people progressing this upcoming week.  On Saturday we were walking towards a referral´s house and since I´m the one showing Elder Montoya where everything is, I accidentally took a wrong turn and we could do one of two things; keep walking and take the longer route and at the same time keep my pride from getting hurt, or we could turn around and take the shorter route.  We took the shorter route, and while we were on the shorter route a woman came up to us asking us what she needed to do to get baptized in the Mormon church.  She had listened to missionaries in the past when she lived in Ica, but she never wanted to get baptized.  When she saw us and she felt like she needed to get baptized and she wanted us to prepare her to get baptized as soon as possible.  So that was the highlight of my week. 

Also the Luis that we were teaching when I first got here, the one who almost got bapitzed and changed his mind after a few days.  He lives with his aunt and uncle and cousin.  His uncle, Leonardo, is inactive, his aunt, Rosalía, attends church every week with her nephew Lyon who is 11 who was baptized in August.  Rosalía wants to get baptized but she can´t because Leonardo doesn´t want to get married.  They´re really hard to teach because Leonardo and Luis don´t want us to enter the house.  But this week we offered to do service and they let us in.  We helped them put a ton of books into bookshelves in their library. (they´re super rich and love to read).  And after that we taught them something short, and they came to church yesterday! So hopefully that´s not a one time thing and they´re actually interested in progressing.  I´m learning a lot and I´m really excited for this next week. We´re going to have a lot of people to teach.  I hope you guys have a great week! and congrats to Dan on his cross country meet!