Elder HJones: Tender Mercies

A funny story to start out. Last Saturday I was teaching an English class to some of our new friends. They asked me to pray in English. And to be completely honest, it was hard. Every time I prayed out loud, I pray in Spanish. I am not used to praying in English. So during the prayer, I wanted to speak in English but Spanish words left my mouth. I guess I need to practice now. haha

So this week was a big improvement in our area. When I arrived here two weeks ago we didn't see much progress. It was really different from my past areas and it was a little more difficult to see the progress that I wanted to see. But we have worked hard and we continue working hard and now we are started to see more progress in our area.

I was thinking about the things that we do to see the success and miracles from God. And I thought of three simple things that we do to see miracles from our Father in Heaven.
1. Diligence
2. Obedience
3. Trust in God

These three things are very important. Sometimes they are difficult to have. Sometimes everything fights against you and makes it almost impossible do them. But I have seen in the mission that nothing is impossible. If we do these three things, miracles will come. This weekend we are planning on baptizing two people. Sebastiana and Angel. Please pray for them. that they can continue progressing this week and that they can stay firm to their decision.

Something else I have learned here is that it is important for the missionaries to "win" the trust of our leaders. The other day, we passed by the house of the branch presidente. I hadn't talked with him a lot before,  and I had the impression to pass by to talk with him, ask him if he needed any help. We only talked with him for  5-7 minutes. We shared a scripture with him. And before we left, he expressed his gratitude to us for passing by to talk with him. He said that it had been a while since the missionaries have stopped by his house to talk with him and to ask if he needed help with anything. And now I can feel that he trusts us more. Because, in reality, we are on the same team. We are working towards the same purpose. So that was pretty cool this week. And yesterday he was talking with us quite a bit and I can tell that everything is going well between us.

Love you all! Have a great week!