FAT Goals in San Pedro! February 6, 2018

WHATSUP MY FAMILY 

This week has been so amazing let me tell you guys to start!! Me and Elder Cota are going CRAZY and been having so much fun!!

Let’s start with this last Wednesday. We spent it on the farthest part of our area in San Pedro (saint peter) which is about 20 minutes on a bike! We went there and decided that we did not have a whole lot of people to teach so we put fat goals and decided we weren’t going home until we got them! We reached our goals that night at 10 ha ha holy crap! I have never been so tired in my life of clapping at doors!! We found 10 people and taught 11 lessons that day it was nuts and sooooo tiring!! That morning we looked at all the members less actives in San Pedro to go and visit them and see if they needed help!! Turns out that literally no one has been visited in like years because the elders just forgot about San Pedro!!  Everyone there looks at us so weird!! It’s been a long time since the elders have been there so we’re excited to be the first ones back in a while!! 

Then came Thursday which was supposed to be weekly planning, but we had things to do that day so we saved weekly planning for the next day Friday and we just were outside all day!!   I’ll share a story about some people that we found!!  Their names are Graciela and Jose and this couple is married!! Here in Argentina, being married isn’t a normal thing anymore!! So these two were actually neighbors to a less active we were looking for and while clapping at the door of the less active they came out and were like "hey do you guys teach of god!?"Obviously we both got super pumped like mmmmm yes we do would you like to hear? She literally like ran into the house and we just sat there for like 2 minutes, then she came back out laughing and said "well are you guys gonna come in?" We laughed and went in to the house and that house is one of the most humble houses I have ever stepped foot in. They let us use their 2 chairs and they sat on an old bed that her and her husband shared on the ground! They were very humble and receptive to the message!! They are passing for a really hard time in their lives and say that all they know is that all of it is happening for a reason, but they don’t know the reason. They believe in God and wanted a lot of help!! We talked about the plan of salvation and trials and their eyes were lit the whole lesson and it was a spirit filled room! They want to come to church but don’t have money to put gas in their moto!! This next week were gonna go and give them some money to be able to come to church with us!!! If you’re ever looking for a friend’s house and someone in a different house comes out go ahead and teach them the gospel it worked well for us ha!!!

So now we’ll talk about Friday!!  MIRACLE FRIDAY We found a family who is less active named the Britos family and in this family there are 6 and TWO of them aren’t members. The husband and the daughter!! So the situation the daughter was being taught before to get baptized like 2 years ago and the elders just stopped coming for some reason!! We showed up out of nothing and this girls first words were "elders can you guys teach me the lessons and baptize me It’s been a while since I’ve wanted to". For 2 weeks straight now that family has been coming to church again!! AND one of the girls cousins is also gonna get baptized were teaching them together!! And the dad also we gotta baptize him!! Thats gonna be a little bit harder but well get him

  Then on Saturday we were in San Pedro again working hard and trying to find a lot of new people and we found a few and taught some really good lessons out there!!

Sunday was good. We ate good food we ate milanesas and had church and that night we went and taught Alejandro and his son which was weird!! The son is a catholic priest so he took out a pad of paper and took notes on what we said so that when we come back he can explain us his doubts and question!!

Yesterday was a really good day and I’m not gonna write about it because I’ve already written a ton and now we’re here today!!

Alright family I love you guy! I’m loving the time here and I’m happy you’re all doing great talk to you all soon

Elder Jones

Pics!!

Here’s some shots of asados we’ve eaten, a lifeguard hat in spanish that I’m wearing right now, a cool sword and ya

12 NEW People to Teach! January 30, 2018

Hey Guys! This week has been a really good week for me!! We had transfers this week and I’ll be staying here for another transfer! That’s definitely a little bit frightening, but also a time of excitement and lots and lots of plans!!

 So this last week we had Elder Cota in Cordoba again until Thursday which is always not fun at all!! He got back Thursday evening with me! That day we decided to do a huge planning session for basically the entire transfer that we would be spending together!! We made goals for the entire transfer and broke it down to weekly goals and daily goals, to see what we would need to get those goals!! Then made plans to reach them!! We’re super pumped with all of the plans that we have to be better missionaries and I’m excited to be with him for another transfer!! Then we finished around 10:30 with all of the planning and goal setting and hit the sack!! We woke up the next day and studied for a while then had a dopppee day!! We went out and found people in the Cadelagos barrio, then had lunch with him and stayed the ciesta in his house. At 4 o’clock when people get up, we went out to Los Olivos to find some more people and visit people that we hadn’t visited in a while!! That was really fun and I saw some people I hadn’t seen in a while!! We ended in the pension at 10 and talked about the day, did abs, showered and passed out sooo fast!! 

  Next day we woke up and had lunch in a far-away little city. We found all of the less actives in the ward list there and headed out at 10 after the usual studies!! We went walking which SUCKED! We need to pump up our bikes gosh dang it haha.  They get unpumped way too fast!! That morning we found a really cool kid named Jonathan who is catholic and wanted to know more about Jose Smith! Then we ended up looking for a part member family for the next hour before lunch started which was definitely pretty annoying and we never ended up finding them! Then we had lunch with the Cordero family which was SOOOO good (see pictures below) and hung out with them and taught them until the ciesta was over and then went out and went hard on the area!! We ended up at the end of the day having found 12 new people to teach and having taught 11 lessons!! And one of those is a little girl who is part of a family that aren’t all members!! At the end of the lesson with them she said to us "hey elders can you guys teach me so I can get baptized? I almost got baptized a while ago but the elders left.  YESSS haha! It was a hard- working day and again at night we passed out REAL fast and got up for church the next day.

  Church was good as always and I did not have a talk ready, but yes I did have to give a talk! So I gave the talk it was fine. I guess I don’t like being unprepared at all it sucks! Then after church, our friend from the United States invited us over for lunch in Merlo!! It was SOOOOO GOOOOD! We made a huge asado and oh man I loved that food so much! It’s the best I’ve eaten in a long time!! This guy is freaking rich so his house made me feel like really at home. With a nice table using forks and spoons and talking about adulty things, I don’t know it was different!

We stayed in Merlo so that man wouldn’t be alone and we’re heading back today at 2 o’clock so it was a good pday!! I love all you guys so much and hope your all having a great week!!

Elder Jones

Worst Hair Cut!

What’s up fam? How is everybody doing!! This week was party week for the city which definitely made the work a little bit harder for us if you ask me. This week we were looking for new people and everyone was busy with "the fiestas" so that was a little bit irritating!! Oh well! We’ll have a way better week this week. I’m sure of it!! Here is a story from this week!! We were waiting in the street for our bus and an old lady asked us for the time!! We told her the time and she said "oh good the mormons have the same time as us because they do everything different". And oh man my comp said in a quiet voice "ya but we’re better than you". She WIGGED out and there was a scene in the middle of the plaza and we literally had to call the police over to leave us alone so... ya there’s our story of the week for you guys haha!!

I got the worst hair cut of my life. I guess every missionary has to have a bad hair cut and this week was my turn. The sister was cutting my hair and wasn’t happy with it. She just kept cutting it shorter and shorter and then got so frustrated that she buzzed it. Oh well! Anyways hope the fiestas have been great for everyone and I love you all

Elder Jones

64 People at Church!

HEY fam how is everybody doing!! This week has been really good so I’ll tell you guys a little bit about it!! This week actually we found a bunch of new people!! First, we found people that have been inactive for like 20 years. The wife and daughter aren’t members so we are gonna work with them!! After them we found a lady who was visiting from Buenos Aires whose daughter and entire family live here and wanted to get baptized before!!! So that is super exciting!! This Sunday literally SO Many people showed up!! Usually we have around 30 people that come to church and this week, we had like 64 PEOPLE COME!! Tons of less active people that haven’t come in years came and like want to get to going again so that’s exciting!! Three of those are people that we can baptize in the future so we took huge advantage of that and taught all of them together!! It was an amazing day!! I hope that the family is doing good because I’m doing freaking great!! I love the mission and I don’t have a whole lot of time left but hey gotta take advantage of it!! talk to you guys soon!!

Elder Jones!!

Mariachi Christmas in Argentina!

What’s up fam!! This week has been good and bad so I’ll tell you how it’s been going!! This last week we had the Christmas conference and it was awesome. We literally had the best food EVER!! Me and Arreola sang mariachi in the talent show. It was really fun to see everyone and it was fun to have a "day off" to say it like that!! After that we started working again on Wednesday! We sadly have lost like a lot of investigators this week and it sucked. The whole week we’re looking for new people and doors were just shut and shut and shut. The whole week we found new people and the got shut down with them the next day. It was a tough week and literally up until Sunday. We didn’t have anyone that was really investigating, and I was praying that we could have some type of miracle or someone to teach.  AND YEEEEE turns out it like totally happened. Something that happened during the week, we found a guy who yelled at us and he was WASTED and he was like "hey elders you know I served a mission in naokin and I kinda miss the church where is it?” With drunk people literally it doesn’t work ever, but we said well here is the church we’ll see you there on Sunday. He said, "you know what you will see me there elders", and this Sunday freak the guy showed up. And he brought with him his 2 daughters and 1 granddaughter and all of them are interested and want to be baptized like her dad!! WHATTTT So were so excited to teach them. They live a little far but hey that doesn’t matter. We’re super excited for them and hopefully all goes well!! Prayers get answered just sometimes not on my time. This week we have interviews with president tomorrow for skype so that’s gonna be a little weird, we’ll see how it goes.  But ya, pretty soon I’ll be skyping all of you guys. I’m pretty excited to see how all of you guys are doing so be ready with questions! This is one of the last times that you’ll get to ask while Im in the mission because the next time we skype I’ll literally be 2 weeks from coming home!! Also, this week I think that it’s my last week so I’m kinda bummed. I really don’t want to leave this area, but we’ll see what happens! Anyways today we’re gonna go hard and have a great p day just in case it’s my last!! Alright love all of you guys and have a fantastic day and I’ll talk to you all very soon!!!

Six Months to Sexy!

December 4

Hey Family!! This week has been pretty good!! I’m here in my third transfer of Villa Dolores and I love it here! I don’t really want to leave because usually three transfers is all that we get, but I do NOT want to leave. We have had some awesome people lately and I want to see all of them through!! One of the people I want to see through is Crystal!! This week Crystal went to literally all the church activities and then went to church on Sunday with her boyfriend!! She is super smart and says that she feels something in her chest when she listens to us and we all know what that is!! She is doing great and her boyfriend also is doing super good! His name is Ezequiel and he is actually like really smart and obtains stuff really fast!! I hope that he comes back to church this next Sunday!! Christian has been having a tough time, he started going back to the testigos de jehova so his ideas are getting all twisted and messed up about what the true gospel is.  Now he kind of just has his own "ideas" and that’s the problem. He shares his ideas in church and when there’s investigators we can’t have that. We need to have a pretty frank talk with him because he’s 31 and he acts like he’s 19. He wants to conform gods rules to him. Meaning, what he likes he’ll follow and what he doesn’t like he won’t.  That’s not how it works and he needs to know that. Other than that, me and Elder Sanchez are getting along like de diez.  He’s a great guy and we’ve been working our butts off lately to get people to church because apparently here it has always been really hard to get people to church! We’re trying to change that mentality of the members showing them that people actually do come haha!!

   This week also marks that I have 6 months left so it’s time to do some six months to sexy! We’ll see how it goes. I’m starting Wednesday after the Christmas conference!! Speaking of the conference its actually tomorrow, so we’re all gonna celebrate Christmas on the 5th of December!! Mom and dad that kinda means that I’m gonna open my presents tomorrow because it’s basically Christmas for me!!  I’m quite excited for that!! I’m also quite excited to talk to all of you on Christmas day!! 

   this week has been really good. I’m happy and excited for this next week to get more people being taught. Right now we’re really still looking for new people and oh my gosh people sometimes are so lazy like gosh dang. Everyone tells us to come back and they just never are there when they come back. So that would be a good thing to pray that this city can be less wicked my goodness haha!

Anyways family, I hope that everything is good!!  I love you guys and hope you have a good week!!

chau chauuu!!

Elder jones

Sweet Pension Photos!