Elder Jones Week 74

HEY GUYS! I´m so happy for Courtney and Stephen!!!! That´s such great news. Did he talk to dad first? haha. My release date is June 1st. When does Tyler graduate? That reminds me, I need to know if I should keep my return plane ticket to O´Hare or if I should change it for a ticket to the Indianapolis airport or any other airport near there. Yea I´m done thinking about that now, I´ve still got a lot of time left in the mission. 

Transfers were last week and it looks like I´m going to be in Magdalena for 3 more months because Elder Montoya goes home in 5 weeks. 

We had a great week! We went to the temple with Mario and his brother Mickey. Mario was baptized for his grandfather, and he had a great experience! Lucio and Zulema also came to the temple with their 4 year old daughter, Ariana, and they had a great time. They also had some great news! Ariana is going to go to a school where they require the parents to be married, so they are going to get married! woo. But they still haven´t done anything yet to get married to I´m trying not to let myself get too excited because this is like the 6th time they´ve told us that they´re going to get married. 

We spent all of Friday and Saturday cleaning, painting, and fixing the house where the sisters in Pueblo Libre are going to live. It was a lot of work, but we´re glad that everything is finally ready for them to move in. I should have taken a before and after picture of the house like how they do in Hoarders. 

 Because we live so close to the offices and to a lot of hospitals, normally when someone in a hospital needs a blessing they ask us to do it. This week we had the opportunity to give a blessing in a hospital to a man named Gregorio. The Assistants told us that he has been anti-mormon for many many years, and never wanted to receive the missionaries in his house. His brother is a returned missionary and his sister and father are recent converts. When we entered his hospital room he was reading a Liahona and he was glad to see us. He was hospitalized because his blood pressure had been rising uncontrollably and he wanted a blessing. We gave him a blessing and we talked to him for a while and we could tell that he had been humbled by this experience. I could feel the spirit very strongly in the room with him and we taught him about Jesus Christ and baptism, and he accepted to be baptized on the 28th. When we left we both felt really good. He doesn´t live in our mission boundaries but he´s going to attend church where he lives. 

Thanks a lot to Grandpa for the line of authority last week. I sent it to Ernesto this week and he really enjoyed it. His wife is a returned missionary and she remembered Howard W. Hunter from when she was baptized some years ago. I´m really happy here, and I´m really enjoying the ward. Have a great week!