Busses on Strike in Villa Dolores - September 12, 2017

September 5, 2017

This week has been a really busy week and this next week is gonna be just as bad!! So on Monday, well every Monday, we go and we dig up trees and trenches in our president’s house!! The elders haven’t had the best relationship with him in the past but we have his 100% confidence right now so it’s good! Wednesday we had our district meeting here in Villa Dolores, which was good! We talked about member missionary work and how we can really use the members when we try! We used Alma and Amulek how the difference was really made when Amulek gave him lunch!! Our numbers of excellence in the mission went from 10 new investigators a week to 20.  So I hope that really helps everyone! Speaking of investigators we have an AWESOME investigator named Christian.  We had a fast with him this Sunday to get him a testimony about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith so it was freaking awesome!! He is preparing to be baptized on the 23rd of September were gonna set this area on FIREEE!!! We’re so pumped haha!

Well not much more to talk about this week. I’m gonna head out see you guys later!!

Elder Jones

September 12, 2017

This week there isn’t a whole bunch to announce. We spent the whole week stuck away from our area because the busses went on strike so that stunk a lot! We were really worried about our investigator Christian, because we had recently done a fast with him to see if he should get baptized! So THE GREAT NEWS!! Christian had been investigating the church for 2 years and hope was almost lost with him! After the fast we show up to his house and our mission leader is there with him just hanging out with him, and we asked "what’s going on here"? Our leader said "hey we’re here celebrating Christian’s baptism." WHAT???? We were so confused like oh my gosh.  We talked to him about it and he wants to get baptized. He felt that it was right so he’s gonna have Elder Farrier baptize him and we’re so excited! So on the 23rd of this month on a Saturday we gonna be in whiteeeeee. Then THIS morning back in our area finally.  We went to talk to a lady named Soledad and she is a really nice lady! A very humble situation, she accepted to be baptized on the 23 so that was freaking exciting! The area is really getting going so yea!! Every week we started fasting one day and we have a lot of faith in it!  I’m sad because Elder Farrier is leaving in 2 weeks. I’m gonna MISS HIM SO MUCH! But ya anyways were gonna kill these last 2 weeks together so ahhhbooya!!!!! Anyway loving it here and I’ll be talking to you guys soon chauu

Elder Jones!!

Villa Dolores, Argentina - August 30, 2017

So starting on Monday we went to a place called Cura Brochero, which is a little city outside of Villa Dolores and it is totally beautiful!  We came here because our president of the branch (who is freaking awesome) invited us to do service and we didn’t know what we were going to do!! So we got there and holy freaking crap we spent 7 hours digging out huge trees by hand for the new house they are building!! So that was literally our entire day this Monday so that was pretty fun!! So Wednesday was a pretty crazy day in all honesty.  All day, we went out and tried to visit the people that we had planned and we were outside all day long. Like wow it was a long day, and we got nothing! It was a really big test of faith and it was really tough for both of us.  That night I had a really long talk with the guy upstairs asking for help because we needed it and well Thursday it worked!

So in this area and all the time before me, the elders in general didn’t go out and work in the morning because they never ever had any type of success in the morning.  Since I’ve gotten here, we’ve been going out every morning trusting in God that the blessings WILL come and they totally did! We went out at 10 and went and had 2 amazing lessons with 2 new investigators that we now have to teach! Their names are Maria who is 63 and she is really really nice and her husband and kids died a little while back so she is really looking for some direction in her life! We’re trying to help her with that.  Then we went to Soledad who is a lady that’s 25 and has a kid with adhd . She’s having a really tough time with him! Apparently at night the kid sees a man standing next to his bed and there’s a lot of weird stuff that happens in the house at night..... We’re gonna go and bless the house this week and really be careful when we go and teach her. Then that night we went and visited some more investigators which was obviously pretty fun!!! Friday, we found that snake so we’re pretty freaking worried about that. We’re gonna visit her on Thursday so lets hope that all goes good haha!! Saturday was the night the girl asked me if we wanted to have a relationship..... that was one of the most uncomfortable things ever like what the heck.. but hey I told her no, so we’re gonna be okay! On Sunday the girl keeps texting us and trying to ask how we’re doing.  She doesn’t realize that we don’t really do that a whole lot. Only members really understand that to its fullness, so she kept asking me what I was doing, how I was doing and lots of other interesting things without any response! Church was great. We had conference and I was really happy to be in conference, and then after we ward council.

So we went to presidents house on Sunday night and stayed the night in his hotel and in the morning we got up and worked pulling out trees and working our freaking butts off like oh my gosh you have no idea!

Love, Elder Jones!!(:

Here's a pic of me at 4 in the morning after being on the bus all night for transfers. No one wakes up here til 5 and there is nowhere to sleep. Only one more bus ride for 4 hours.

A Chunk of My Heart - August 1, 2017

​​​HEYY MY FAMILYY!!!

So I know if been a little bit of a turd when it comes to writing the big group email. So I’m gonna go ahead and do that today!! This week has been a quite interesting week with lots of ups and downs. One of the ups would be my weight because dang you guys I feel like I’ve gained some weight here in this area like my gosh and we don’t even eat anything! But when we do it its almost always like a peice of chicken and then potatoes and carrots literally every single day.  That is something that when I started it sucked but now I love somehow and it will be hard to leave! So we shall start with Gabriel!!  Gabriel was our investigator progressing more than literally anyone. We was doing soooo good!! We would teach him something and he would respond to us and re-explain what we had taught, but in a better way than we taught it! He was doing great and the next lesson we were going to teach was going to be the​​ Book of Mormon and it was going to be freaking awesome so ya we were really excited for that!! We show up at his house to teach him all about with a Book of Mormon in hand!! He opens the door we go in and sit down and he goes,

“well guys I was actually talking to my parents the other day and well........ and then his mom walked in and me an Arreola both just knew that she was gonna shut us down. She first started talking about how all churches are one and that all churches lead to God. Then I followed that by asking well thats great so its ok if we teach your son, and oh my gosh she took that to the heaviest of offenses!! She told us no never ever to come back and that he would never go to church with us again.... that freakin was the saddest night of the entire week. We both just wanted to cry.  He was the best investigator we have ever had in this area. So that was a pretty sad day for the both of us!!  Then after the Lord was looking after us we went to the next house!! We went and just out of pure sadness and feeling let down we went and knocked on some doors! Well actually we only had to knock on one haha .  Two women came out (one for more than one reason), but luckily they were  both SUPER interested!! We taught about baptism and why we truly are baptized and what it means. They both truly had desires to get baptized!! So that was a good way end the day!!

Personally I’m doing really good in the mission with my testimony and all, lots of fine tuning through fine tuning repentance for the little things... I feel good can’t lie about that haha!!

     ME and Elder Arreola have become the absolute best of friends and I am really, really going to miss him. I love that guy like a brother. Mom and dad we need to goon another cruise to Cozumel so that I can see him when he finishes his mission because I need to go to his wedding!! And he most certainly needs to come to mine!! 

    Here in the argentine land of Nonogasta I have come to love it a lot! Nonogasta will always have a fat chunk of my heart. I’m not sure if I’ll be leaving it any time soon is the thing!! I lost my wallet the other week and that had my ID in it so I don’t know if I will be able to travel to Cordoba because you need your ID to go there!! Oh well what are you gonna do about that haha!! Well my family, I hope that this was worth reading. I’ll get another good one next week and every other week that follows so you have more to read!! Sorry for being inconsiderate about that, had to repent about that haha. Now I gotta change!! Alright my family I love you all so much Austin, Kaylee, Aiden, Mom and Dad. I love you guys and Dad I’m telling everyone about your promotion so that people think​ you’re awesome. 

Love, Elder Jones