Elder HJones: Hey!!

So this past week was a little rough.

I have learned during the course of my mission that Satan works really hard, too. He knows that we are teaching the restored gospel and that the people we are teaching are making steps to be saved, so he is working really hard too. This past week some baptisms fell through in the zone. People who are really awesome that want to baptized but just want more time. Satan is putting doubts in their heads. But I know that God's power is stronger. We are just gonna keep working, because compared to God, Satan is nothing.

The zone is doing pretty well. Working really hard. As the zone leader here, I'm pleased with the missionaries here. They are hard workers. It's awesome when you don't have to worry about disobedient missionaries or missionaries that don't want to work. So as a zone, we are doing pretty well.

We have had a little hard time in our own area. It has been a little difficult to find people that want to progress and come to church. We talk with everyone and we are trying to work more with the members. But we are just gonna keep working and trusting in God.

This week we are working with Carolyn. She is a miracle send from God. She contacted us in the street the other day telling us that see wants to learn more about our book! Her sister is a member and she came to church with us yesterday! She is super awesome and we are planning and working with her so that she gets baptized this weekend. Please pray that she can feel the Spirit more and make the decision to get baptized.

Crazy story! We have been teaching a lady named Estefani and her family. She is cool, but believes in reincarnation and in the beginning didn't believe in God. She likes to read and we gave her a Book of Mormon. She read the whole thing in like 2-3 weeks. We talked to her about it and she wrote a summary of the book, and it was quite exact. Like she understood the whole thing. In the end she told us that she believes in God now, but still believes in reincarnation and that the true church isn't on the earth. We just need to improve in our lives and that's that. But I guess that's what happens when you don't read that book with the intent to know if it is true. She read it to inform herself and learn more, but she said that it doesn't mean much. What!?

Love you guys a ton! Elder Jones