Elder CJones: A Clear Mind and A Spiritual Force

Well, this week I started off on exchanges with two of the three zone leaders in our area. Before I explain too much, I got the permission with one of my zone leaders, from the president, to play on a public basketball team with our bishop and members of the ward! This is one of the reasons we had exchanges, as well. We use these games to contact and find people to teach. After the game, I was talking to one of the two leaders and they were explaining the importance of baptismal dates. He explained it as a goal--like the end of a race. Without a goal or finish line we are working towards no goal. Therefore, I learned a little bit clearer the importance of setting goals and baptismal dates for the investigators.

During the rest of this last week we worked on setting these goals with the investigators and we saw more success as we worked hard. We had 3 investigators come to church, Anahi, one that I talked about last week and 2 new investigators, little girls, Estrella and Alma.

I recognized that as we set goals and work with the investigators with these goals, we will find success because the Spirit and us as missionaries have something to work with. This week, we lead our zone of 14 missionaries!

I know that we as a church have success. This week I finished reading "A Marvelous Work and a Wonder" by the apostle, LeGrand Richards. As I finished, my testimony of the Gospel was strengthened. I know that we are blessed as a church for having the truth and relelation from God. For all who wants to know the message we share as missionaries, I challenge you to read that book to understand the message that we share to the entire world.

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Love you all!
Elder Corom Jones

"The Mormon people teach the American religion; their principles teach the people not only of Heaven and its attendant glories, but how to live so that their social and economic relations with each other are placed on a sound basis. If the people follow the teachings of this Church, nothing can stop their progress — it will be limitless. There have been great movements started in the past but they have died or been modified before they reached maturity. If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known."