Week 91

WOOOO SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA!!! I´M SO EXCITED FOR TYLER!!!! I just looked it up and it seems like a sweet mission. Way bigger than my mission. That´s so awesome he´s going to do great. That´s awesome that he´s leaving so soon and that he´s going to go to the Mexico CCM. He´s going to love it. So all three of us are going to be Spanish speakers!! We´ll have to plan out really well what we´re going to do from the 9th to the 13th. We had a great week! Johan and Erika were baptized! Ali and Dominica were going to get baptized too but on Saturday morning their grandpa came to take the kids out to do something and didn´t bring them back in time for their baptism. So they´re going to be baptized on Saturday. But what´s important is that the parents were baptized. the bishop baptized them. It was one of the best baptismal services I´ve ever attended. So many members came and bore their testimonies. Johan and Erika bore their testimonies, and I can tell that they´re going to stay in the church. They´re so happy.

This entire week we were looking for an apartment for the sisters in Jesus Maria, and it took a lot of time because there aren´t a lot of rooms within our price range that are big enough and meet the privacy requirements. we probably looked at about 10 apartments this week, and none of them met the requirements, until we finally found one that did. In the flyer that they put up they said that they were renting it for 650 soles a month which fit into our price range, but when we went to go see it they raised it to 800. I don´t know why, and I don´t want to assume why they raised it to 800 for us, but we told them that we would have to talk to our president about it because it was out of our budget. President Larson approved it, so I felt like we should move the sisters in, but Elder Bates kept saying that we should look for somewhere cheaper. I didn´t want to waste more time looking for another apartment because the apartment was approved by the president, so I resisted, but Elder Bates persisted. So I realized that if Elder Bates felt that way, it was probably an impression from the Holy Ghost, and that I should listen as well. So the moment that I mentally accepted what Elder Bates was saying, a member from their ward called us telling us that they were renting an apartment. We went to go see it, and it was a lot cheaper, and a lot bigger than the other one that we found. So I was reminded that I not only need to listen to the impressions that the Holy Ghost gives to me, but also to my companion. 

We found a lot of people to teach this week and I hope that whoever comes here to replace me tomorrow is going to help them get baptized! Have a great week!!

Elder Jones