Its been another great week, although it scares me how fast time goes in the mission!
As for our investigators, Norma Lopez is doing great but is still working on stopping smoking. She doesnt smoke a lot, but it has just been really hard for her. I cant imagine. She has such strong desires to change and to be a good example for her sons. We had a lesson with her the other day and she just loves the scriptures. Whenever we plan on using a scripture with her, she always takes time to think and apply what we just read to herself while we are in the lesson. As we finished the lesson, we knelt down to have a prayer and she just started to cry and she litterally plead for the Lord to help her change. We are working towards the 28th of April with her for her to be baptized. It would mean so much to her if Gabriel would be baptized also because he doesnt have a lot of good examples around him.
Midium is doing great, but her marido, Cristian doesnt really want to listen. He is reading a lot in the Book of Mormon, but still says that he has his own religion. We are working with them to help them get married so that Midium can be baptized but getting all of their papers together is really complicated. She has such desires to change, once again like Norma, for her daughters. I think that she is really disapointed that Cristian doesnt want to be baptized also. She had all of these plans to have all of them together in the church.
Aquilina and Laureano... for right now we have to leave their names in the area book because they are not willing to get married. At least not Laureano. Other missionaries will help them in the future, but this is definitly the hardest part of the mission... to get to really love someone or a familiy, but because they are not keeping their commitments, we have to stop teaching them for a while.
Family, I just want to bear my testimony. I know that this church is true. I am so grateful for the knowledge that families can be together forever. Jesus Christ lives and guides us. He gives us council. He gives us direction. I love the words of the Prophet and the prophets and know that they are of God. I am learning more and more every day how to live a truely Christ like life and as I do this I am more and more greatful for His infinite Atonement that makes this posible.
Les quiero a todos,
su Hermana Jones
Fotos...
1. This is an example of what Hna. Leonor y Vincente do to earn money... they collect plastic and then sell it.
2. Gabriel and me' i was trying to teaching him to play the piano while we waited for everyone to show up for the baptism... it was planned for 7, but in south america time we all know that that means 730! We took Norma and her youngest son, Gabriel, to a baptisim this Saturday. Gabriel tells us that he would like to be baptized also! He just finished 9 years!
3. Our avocate tree!
4.We got a new map for our area that has a lot more detail, so we took a before picture before taking down our map of Ñemby that we have been using! You cant tell from the map but our area is HUGE! At least I think so! It takes more than an hour and half to walk from one end to the other! I love it!
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