elder jones week 70

Hey guys! I had a great week! This week we`ve been trying to talk with everyone possible and invite them to baptism with a date. I can feel the change happening in me. I feel like any sort of remaining fear I had to stop people in the street to talk about the gosple has been uprooted. The entire zone is getting better at it too. This week as a zone we had more than six times more invitations to baptism with a date than a couple of weeks ago. I feel happier and more satisfied with my work at the end of the day now that we are really pushing ourselves to find new people to teach. We had a few crazy experiences this week with finding new investigators. So it turns out that Cruz and Ubaldina actually live half a block outside of our ward boundaries, so we passed the referral to Pueblo Libre, and they are going to get baptized in Pueblo Libre. But in the same corner where we met Cruz we have found various new investigators. Without fail everytime we pass by this corner of Arnaldo Marquez and Rio de Janiero someone stops us to tell us that they want to listen to the missionaries or some family member wants to get baptized. It`s insane. But we`ve had several experiences on the same side of the same corner. On that corner we met a guy from Switzerland that attended church for 3 months in Switzerland and never got baptized because he never prayed honestly to know if the church is true, and now he`s willing to try again but with real intent this time. Also this week while we were on the bus to go to Breña to interview someone for baptism, an old investigator, named Luis, that I had never met called me and told me that he wanted us to visit him as soon as possible and that he wanted to get baptized. We visited him the next day and he told us about a series of events that have caused some big changes in his life and his priorities and that he had made his decision to get baptized! So that`s good. Also this week we were on our way to an appointment that we weren`t very sure about because it seemed like the person wasn`t that interested when they agreed to let us come by, and a man asked us if we had anything to read. We started talking to him and we were there in the street talking to him for about an hour. He said that he wanted to get baptized. we made another appointment to visit him and his family( his wife and 2 kids) and gave him our number. yesterday his wife called us telling us that she is a less active member and that after her husband talked to us the other day he felt a lot better and that he is really interested in joining the church and now she wants to start going to church. The only thing is that this week they are moving to another part of Lima outside of our mission. We`ve noticed this week that as we talk to more people we find more people that are willing to accept the gospel. It sounds pretty simple but it is the truth. I hope you guys have a great week!

Elder Jones   ps.     Oh and also my mission president and his wife know the Lex family from chicago. Sister Lex is sister Larson`s cousin. Haha small world