Elder ZJones: With Faith, it is Possible

Ohh Ezrom!!!! That is awesome! Another Spanish Speaking mission! It is awesome to see that he was way excited to!! I'm way excited for him as well!!!

A week into training and it is a lot different than I had expected. It is nice to know that Elder Marquez has the langauge down, so he is the one helping me with my Spanish! He is a hard worker and knows a lot about the gospel. He loves to talk, which has been good, and we are working well together. It is such an awesome opportunity to be able to work with and find the ways for both of us to be better missionaries.

This week, as a zone, we talked a lot about inviting our investigators to be baptized at the end of the week. They have encouraged us to teach and help them prepare our investigators to be baptized. And guess what? We baptized Cristain this week!!! We stopped by his house on Monday, to visit with his family. After talking with them for the first five minutes I simply asked, "We want to prepare your children to be baptized this next Sunday in the morning. What do you think?" Frederico, the father was all for it! He even said" I'm going to get baptized, too!" and slammed his fist on the table. haha. We had to explain more with him the importance of the law of chastity, and he understood. Facundo doesn´t have a big interest. Everytime we try to talk with him he leaves and goes to another room. But this week we are going to be praying for him and trying to help him have the desire to be baptized like his brother.

So here is crazy story time. So Cristian's baptism was Sunday in the morning. At 6:30 a.m. I got up and went to the bathroom. I then thought about the baptism.Then it came to me............ I forgot about the font!!!!! The font is empty and needs to be filled!! Man, I told my comp and I was flipping out. We quickly got ready for the day and headed to the church where we filled the font with water. I was at a sink using a bucket and my comp was doing the same. Luckily, we got it filled in time and had a nice baptismal meeting!

We are also working with Luana this week. She is ready to be baptized. Pray that this week everything will go well with her and her family.

Yesterday, we found a awesome family! Raul, Lorena and their three children ages 8, 5, and 2, I believe. We taught them about the Plan of Salvation, talked about families, and invited them to be baptized. They accepted and wanted to come to church as well. They are really intriged in our message and what we taught them. They really had a deep interest in the message, even with the kids screaming and running all around us (I thought of our family and how we did that as kids). But we forgot one thing!! One thing!!!!! We forgot to ask if they are married! We have a cita with them this week and are praying that they are married. From what I looks like, I dont think they are, but we will see.

Elder Shepard and Me

Oh, it is starting to get cold here. In the nights and in the mornings, it is cold.It isn´t something I am looking forward to, really.


General Conference is coming up and I can´t be more excited. I remember my very first weekend in the mission field was General Conferece weekend. Being able to listen to the prophet and follow his counsel only brings blessings. As we follow with faith and continue to press forward the blessings will come. I love sharing Mosiah 2:41 with others: because it applies to everything!

And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.

As we keep the commandments, we receive blessings. These blessing aren't things just spiritual, but also temporal. We can receive the help in our daily problems, our jobs, and in our families. When we receive blessings, we are happy. And this is the way the Lord wants things! He said so! I know these things are true and as we have the faith to follow the prophets and the commandments, we can live in never-ending happiness!!


Have a great week!
Love Elder Jones

P.S. I was talking about my family with a member at lunch and they talked about how hard it is to baptize in Spain. Then the member asked me how many baptisms my mom had on my mission. I said that I didn't know, and he said "Why? Ask your mom!" And I said if I asked my mom she would say that it doesn't matter. The number of baptisms isn't important!!
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