Mi querido familia,
We are working with Alejandro Arevelos. He will be baptized this Saturday! He is an example to his parents and really wants to do what is right. It is hard for him to come to church every Sunday and read his scriptures without the example of his parents, but they are working together and his parents are starting to come back to church more and more
We are also still working with Norma Lopez. She still has not come to church and the only thing that really keeps her from coming is because of activities for her sons that she feels obligated to be at. Understandable and commendable as a Mom, but she just needs to come to church! It is her ultimate thing keeping her back from being baptized. She reads her Book of Mormon every day and keeps her commitments. We are teaching all of the commandments right now and just taught the law of the tithe and because money is really really tight, she is praying for the “faith to keep it”. I shared your story, Dad, of when you were in college and you didnt have a job or money and chose to pay your tithing and the next day someone offered you a job. That really really helped her.
Midium, the mother of the two little girls, is also progressing. She is already in Jacob 5 and reads the scriptures and really thinks about what it means and applies it to her self! We can already see a change in her. She is much happier and is gaining more and more confidence in herself. She is also more and more patient with her two little girls. She and her marido, Christian are still not married, but he continues to read the pamphlets that we give to Midium and asks her lots of questions and she shares what she has been reading in the Book of Mormon. We have talked to him a couple of times, but he is starting his own negosio, so he is not home very often. They have both said that they would like to get married, but the thing that is holding them back is that at this point Christian feels that it would be for “the church” instead of to keep a commandment. Midium told us, "if he would just read the book of mormon he would make the decision faster!" We were like yes yes yesss!!!!!! PLEASE!!!! We are finally going to have a lesson with him too this Thursday! We also taught about following the prophet. Many times, even if people believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet, they have a hard time accepting that we have a prophet who lives and guides us. But we left the Liahona with her to read his talks from General Conference and she is excited to come to conference to listen to him and the apostles! No matter what she will know President Monson is a prophet and i am excited for her!
Aquilina and Laureano are also progressing. (Aquilina is the lady with diabetees and uses a wheel chair because she had her leg amputated). Aquilina’s problem is that she cannot read because her sight is so bad. Her granddaughter, Violeta, will read to her sometimes, but hasn’t read to her since she started school. Laureano has been to church every Sunday for almost a month and Aquilina came to church for the first time a week ago and made the effort to come this past Sunday even when Laureano couldn’t which was a really big step for her. We looked for a large Book of Mormon today when we went to the temple in the Distribution Center next door, but they didn’t have any. I was so bummed...that is exactly what she needs to progress!!! We might start going to her house every day to read to her or something!
We also just taught the law of chastity and they, after 35 years of being together, have decided to get married! Hermano Miguel was there of course... and his testimony was exactly what they needed. We asked them what they needed to do to prepare to be baptized, "We need to get married!", Aquilina stated emphatically! Hno. Miguel (the member who helped us with Vincente also and baptized him) was so excited he blurted out, "I will be your witness if you would like!". In my head I was thinking, "AAHHH POR FAVOR, NO AHORA HNO MIGUEL!" haha but just asked him, "you know, maybe we can talk about that a little later!". I had to laugh...it was very Hermano Miguel. As we walked home for the night, hno. mig. drove by honking, "they are going to get married!!"
I sure do love all of you and pray every day that Heavenly Father takes care of you and I know that He does. I know that Heavenly Father lives and so does His Son, Jesus Christ. They live and guide this church and this work. I love they people here in ñemby and I hope and pray I can serve my whole mission here :)
Te amo.
les amo a todos,
Hermana Jones
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