We
had a great week! Jose didn´t get baptized because his mom changed her
mind last minuet and isn´t willing to talk to us, but it´s fine, he´s
still going to come to church. We can´t really do anything if the
parents don´t give permission and don´t want to talk to us. But we had a
really great family home evening with José and Alejandro with the
Moscoso family on Monday. We taught Elder Moscoso´s dad this week and
he´s not really that interested, but we´re going to try again on
tuesday. Almost all day wednesday and thursday we were with Elder Juan
A. Uceda, the Area president. On wednesday he had a meeting with the
zone leaders and the sister trainer leaders and talked about the
challenges of the Area. I learned a lot from him. Tomorrow we´re going
to train the zone about what we learned with him. On wednesday night
there was a meeting with all the ward council members of the 10 stakes
in the mission with Elder Uceda and I got to see almost all the members
I´ve met on my mission. Rimac 2nd ward was all sitting together and it
was great to see all of them. I miss that ward so much. The Rosales
Flores family is still doing great. They´re getting ready to be sealed
in the temple in May! Which is not very far away. I also saw many
members from Caja de Agua and Callao. Elder Bates´ family visited Mabel
Lopez´ sister in Utah and sent pictures. It´s awesome. We have an
appointment with her and her family today. We´re teaching a family that
didn´t progress very much a few weeks ago, and now is progressing a lot.
The Bustamante family. It is a mom, dad, 3 children, and a lot of
grandchildren, but only one granddaughter old enough to be baptized,
she´s 14. They have a son that passed away in may, and we´ve been
visiting them every day this week, and they came to church yesterday.
The parents need to get married, but there´s a massive marriage that is
free this month, so we´re going to try to help them get married. I
realized that I enjoy trying to convince families to get married a lot
more than I do trying to convince parents that don´t want anything to
give permission for their children to get baptized. So I think for the
rest of my mission I should really just focus on families, because it´s a
lot easier, It´s a lot more probable that they stay active in the
church, and that´s how the church grows, through families.
That´s
awesome that dad was hired full time! What a blessing. I pray that
everything works out for mom´s teaching position. I filled out the BYU
endorsement and I´ll try to schedule an appointment with my mission
president this week. I´m definitely interested in taking the spanish
class. I don´t know what is a reasonable number of classes to take
during summer semester, but looking at the classes they offer I think I
would be interested in taking Calculus, Organic Chemistry, or any
english, history, or health science class. Preferably early in the
morning. I hope you guys have a great week!
Elder Jones
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