elder jones week 69

Hey guys! glad you all had a great week and enjoyed conference! We had a great week! We worked harder than I think I`ve ever worked on my misison this week, but still it`s not even close to the vision that President Larson has for the mission. On thursday we had mission council with President Larson and the other zone leaders and I`m really excited about the new changes that are going to occur in the mission. They`re going to help me stay more focused on my purpose as a missionary.

So we`re teaching Cruz who is the woman who found us in the street saying that she wants to get baptized. She attended the Saturday afternoon session of conference and she really liked it. She told us that she was going to be able to go to the session in the morning but didn`t show up and she showed up a little late to afternoon session so we didn`t see her come in. At the end of the session we were disappointed that she didn`t come and when they turned on the lights and we stood up we saw her! She`s still going strong for her baptism on the 24th. Also we met her ex-mother-in-law who lives with her this week. Her name is Ubaldina and she`s about 80 years old. When we came into the house to teach Cruz and her grandson, Ubaldina walked in and told us that she couldn`t listen to us because she`s catholic, but we invited her to come listen to our message about Jesus Christ, and she did. At the end we invited Cruz to get baptized on the 24th and she said yes, and before we could even ask Ubaldina she said that she wanted to get baptized too! She came to conference and she was sleeping through a lot of it but she said she felt the spirit. I think just the fact that she came to the conference is enough to show her faith in wanting to find out if the church is true despite her physical limitations. She has a really bad gambling addiction. She will leave her house and be in a casino for 3 days at a time, and sometimes lose up to 20,000 peruvian soles or 7,000 dollars. The baptismal interview doesn`t mention anything about gambling but we definitely want to help her out with that problem. We have also been teaching Cristian, who is japanese, and is a referral from the sisters in Pueblo Libre. We gave him a tour of the church this week and taught the gospel of jesus christ because he doesn`t know very much about Jesus Christ. When we showed him the baptismal font and explained baptism and extended the baptismal invitation, you could feel the spirit very strongly and he accepted. He wasn`t able to come to conference. 

I got a lot out of conference this time. While I was watching, I tried to write down introspective questions that came to my mind that I can meditate on later throughout the week and in my studies, instead of feverishly writing down every interesting sentence that I hear in the conference. I hope you guys have a great week! 

Elder Jones