Monkey See, Monkey Do - January 23, 2017

January 23, 2017

Hello my family!!!! S how has this week been you ask!! So this week I went to Cordoba and I got my son!

ELDER AMARAL DE BRAZIL, he literally speaks no English at all and he also does not speak Spanish haha! So I’ve been learning some Portugese as I go and freak it’s not easy at all!! He’s 19 years old and he’s so excited to be a missionary and baptize a ton!! It’s kinda scary in all honesty his expectations are to baptize a freak ton and so are mine. I just cannot let him down so I’m doing everything I can to baptize a ton!!!! We’re searching all day and putting baptismal dates with everyone!!!! I love it! It’s so much hard work and it’s so edifying!!!! good times!!! With me and him its monkey see monkey do so I need to do everything perfect basically, so it’s kinda stressful, ok its really stressful!  I plan everything, I cook a ton and clean a ton I just ya and he can’t understand very much still like period so it’s a little tough. But I love it anyways and I love him too!! We’re gonna keep going hard!! We get along pretty well so that’s good and I’ve been running every morning of this transfer besides Sunday and p day so I’m pretty proud of that!!!! but ya and we still didn’t get elders in villa viejo so we still work a ton in 2 areas. That’s a little hard but hey its good work!!! We’re still working to get a few specific people baptized so well get there!!! I love you guys so much but sheesh I got like 2000 emails today so I have no time to write. Love you guys talk to you soon!!!

My NEW Son! January 17, 2017

HELLO FAMILY!!!!!! so this week I will be getting my child in Cordoba. I leave tonight at 12 and I’ll get to Cordoba at 6 tomorrow morning!!!!! Then I’ll have a capacitation and then lunch and right after that I will receive mi hijo!!!! It’s gonna be awesome!! I’m super excited!! I’m also really, really nervous"!!! I truly don’t feel ready to train but the Lord makes anyone ready for anything!!!!! I’m excited and nervous and ready to be the best missionary this province has and ever will see!! Me and my son are going to work so hard be 100 percent obedient and hopefully baptize a ton!! I have faith that we will!!! So lately I have gained a HUGE LOVE for the scriptures like I freaking love them I actually get in a super pissy mood if I don’t get a full hour of studies reading and marking my scriptures!!!! DO IT AS A FAMILYYYYY!!! everyone get there scriptures and mark them up starting now it will help a ton!!!! anyways recently lulich died):): He got on the bus and now he’s going home to Oregon)))::: That’s kinda sad I’m gonna miss him a lot he was a great hardworking obedient companion and it was an honor to work with him! It’s still super hot here and sheesh walking around just sucks during the day!! also mom I have learned that being clean lets the spirit reside and its true!! Use that as your excuse to have the kids clean their rooms because the spirit truly can reside!!!! So this last week I did some boxing at a boxing club we went right after p day they invited for an asado to eat and they said put the gloves on and get in the ring! Oh my gosh I was sooo scared haha but all I had to do was hit a guys hand. I’m not sure how I looked you all tell me!! there’s a video in another email of it!!! anyways I’m so anxious and ready to get going on this kid!!! I love the mission and I’m changing more and more every day for the better!!! I love you all and wish you all a happy week!!!(:(:

Elder Jones!!!!(:

Don't Eat a Ton of Bread! January 10, 2017

WELL HELLO MY FAMILY!! So you guys have had some snow?? well that’s freaking awesome. I wish we had some snow here in all honesty!!! this week has been pretty good!! I got to baptize Abigail Nieva a little girl that loves the church and wanted to get baptized so we went ahead and did that for her ha ha. This week I think we’ll be having another baptism!!! It’s pretty crazy how people accept us sometimes they have just been so prepared to hear our message!!! It’s fabulous. She’s a really sweet girl and I’m really happy for her! There is nothing like being able to feel that joy.  Mother for an answer to your question I run a 5k every morning with lulich because it feels good and gets me up to be able to do my studies a lot better!!!! And we walk a ton too!!! I’ll start the month challenge with stino and take 2 pictures for you guys ha ha well see how it goes!!!(:(: Anyways austin is looking pretty fachero!!!tell him that running every day at least 20 minutes or more will help him a ton with energy in the morning!!! Now waking up isn’t even hard in the mornings because we don’t need as much energy!! so keep running!!!! and keep lifting!!!!and don’t eat a ton of bread like they do here!!!! anyways about the packages I know they are here it’s just that the guys haven’t gone to Cordoba. It’s been taking a little while like oh my gosh but hey they’ll get here someday I’m sure!! AND IM SO EXCITED!!!! Here’s a video of me playing the song sorry by justin beiber I hope you guys enjoy it.  I’ll send some other videos of me playing I have some super cool songs it’s just my camera voice recorder kinda SUCKSSSSS but that’s how it is!!! anyways I love Catamarca it’s sweet and I love the mission I’m very happy and man the time kinda flies really fast here but I guess that’s how it is here!! Talk to you guys in a quick week and we’ll see who my new companion is!!! Talk to you guys soon!! Oh and OH MY GOSH I know its super early for my birthday but literally all I want I mean the only thing is a slack line because every p day everyone wants to do something and oh my gosh it would be the coolest freaking thing in the world!!!!!!!I would love it and mother if you could like somehow get me a list of eveyones birthday so I don’t forget that would be prime time!!!! see you guys in a week !!!Love you guys!!

Elder Jones