Elder Tyler Jones week 51

It's been another great week!

That was awesome to hear from Allie about her trip and sounds like everyone's having a good time! That's fun to hear that all of the relatives are in town. I'm sure that must be crazy but I hope uncle Dewey and Susan had a good time on their mission.

So we got a new mission president this week. His name is President Hunt. We had an outgoing devotional for President Mella which was awesome. Everyone in the mission came together for the devotional. All of the Tongan missionaries got up and did a dance and it was all pretty fun.

President Hunt came in on June 30th. We met him at a baptism yesterday. He seemed really nice, We didn't talk much with him because he was super busy but we talked with Sister Hunt for a little bit and she seems super nice. It'll be awesome to have them here with us.

The ward had a baptism on Sunday. The missionaries found him a long time ago. He wanted to be baptized almost immediately but he couldn't as a result of some past problems. He stayed active for the whole time though. The First presidency waved the responsibility to the Mission President, President Mella interviewed him and he was able to get baptized. It was a super cool experience. There was a lot of support from the ward.

Abraham didn't come to church this week which was a bit disappointing, he had to work so he wasn't able to come. He's still preparing to be baptized at the end of July though. So we're still hopeful that all goes well with that.

Christian also didn't come to church this week, he came last week for the first time and had supposedly left on a camping trip. So we're trying to figure out what's his situation. He seemed to enjoy church the last time though so we don't know.

Also, they're starting a lot of road construction in the area so traffic has been even worse. So that's been a lot of fun to deal with. I suppose it gives me more time to listen to talks though. I've still particularly enjoyed talks by Neal A. Maxwell.

Here's a quote I like "Adequacy in the first estate may merely have ensured a stern, second estate with more duties and no immunities! additional tutoring and suffering appears to be the pattern for the lords most apt pupils". I thought that was an interesting way of looking at things.