The Brazilian Adventure: Week 107  June 22nd -- July 4th

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends

We had a great week. I had interviews with president last thursday. It went really well. I´m happy about my mission. I´m excited to come home now. My  time has come to an end. 

I don´t have any time. I can´t wait to see you all. 

Be happy

Love the Elder Jones

The Brazilian Adventure: Week 106  June 15th -- June 21st

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

The transfers was great. So do you guys remember how I go to a foot doctor place for many of my P-days. Well I´m still doing that, I´m going today. The person that attends us missionaries is a lady called Mari. She has been attending us missionaries for a little bit more than a year. We have developed a great relationship with her. We have taught her everything about the church, the 5 lessons. We have been talking about baptism with her also and the temple blessings. But she has always told us that she didn´t want to get baptized. Well on the transfers, our mission was blessed to be able to see her baptism. It was so awesome! She has such an incredible testimony. She said that she is so happy that she is finally a mormon. She had a hard time with coffee and with her family. Her baptism was so great. She said that she was especially super happy to be pure to take the sacrament yesterday, she said that she has always been curious to see how that bread and water taste like. She had a lot of opposition before her baptism. 

Opposition is something that is so real. I have seen it so many times. Right when we find someone, crazy things happen to that person so that they won´t get baptised. 

Our zone had a lot of new missionaries. They remind me of me at the begining. There is a sister from the US. and she doesn´t hardly understand anything that we are saying. And Elder perreira who gets super nervous to speak to people on the street. That is how I was. And now it is all good. 

It is so great to see wards grow with recent converts and reactivation. I have realized that ever since that we have helped out a lot with the retention and reactivation in our wards. A lot of the converts have been staying strong and they are growing so much. It is so awesome. 

Elder Paz had a great experience with a baptism interview with a lady from the area of Elder Rezabala. Her name is Luci. The day that she had the interview. She said that she wasn´t going to getbaptized  because she smoked a whole pack of cigerats that day and she was never going to be able to stop. That she has been smoking ever since she was 15 years old. But then elder Paz asked her if she really had a desire to stop, and she said yes. Then he asked her if she had faith that if we had the power to cure people like Christ did through the priesthood. And she said yes. Then Elder Paz and Eder Rezabala gave her a blessing. And ever since that moment and until today, she hasn´t smoked. And she was baptized yesterday. Awesome stuff.

Love you all.

Be happy

love the Elder Jones

The Brazilian Adventure: Week 104 (2 years) June 1st -- June 7th

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

This week was good in our zone. We are pushing the missionaries to work really hard. The numbers of new investigators and marced investigators have more than doubled in our zone. We are motivating all the missionaries to work hard. Elder Paz and I have been running around to help everyone. 

We have been having some really funny counsels  of our mission with all the zone leaders. We have been debating and changing a lot of things. We now can play sports every P-day. That is so crazy! We have changed so many things on the mission.

Working hard. Giving all that I got. Finishing running. 

Love you all 

Be happy

Love The Elder Jones

The women in the blond hair is eliana the recent convert that we helped to keep being strong in the church.

This women is Thalita, the less active who we help to come back to church. the one who we gave the blessing and she stoped using cigarets, marijuana and drugs in one day. And the young man in the middle of the next picture is another less active that we helped to come back to church. His name is felipe.

 Adventure: Week 103 May 25th -- May 31st

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

We have been doing a lot of divisions with our zone. There was one companionship that was strugling a little with working hard. We did a division with them. I stayed with one of the Elders in his area. This Elder is almost done with his mission. He is going home one transfer after me. He is feeling a little burnt out he said. He was a little upset with a few things about his mission. I talked to him and helped him out. It went very well. 

This friday, we had a meeting with the whole mission. It was so awesome. So on saturday, President dalton had a mission get to gether to his old mission when he was on his mission about 33 years ago. So his old mission president  and some of his companions on his mission where there this friday. His ex-mission president spoke to us all. It was so awesome. His is american. He is so funny and still speaks portugese very well. This day, I also beared my testimony for the mission. Normally the missionaries who are leaving, they bear there testimony. It was really good. A lot of people liked it. I love my mission. It was wierd that it was my turn to bear my testimony. It still doesn´t feel like it is actually ending. I always have a feeling sometimes that I didn´t do very well on my mission, or as good as I could have. I sometimes feel like I could have baptised a lot more then I could have. And I feel dad sometimes. But I believe that that feeling is normal. I was talking to a few other missionaries who are dieing also, and they said that they feel the same thing. So I just have to know that the atonement just comes in and takes care of all my weaknesses and the things that i didn´t do perfectly well. 

I love you all so much. 

Be happy

love the Elder Jon

The Brazilian Adventure: Week 103 May 25th -- May 31st

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

We have been doing a lot of divisions with our zone. There was one companionship that was strugling a little with working hard. We did a division with them. I stayed with one of the Elders in his area. This Elder is almost done with his mission. He is going home one transfer after me. He is feeling a little burnt out he said. He was a little upset with a few things about his mission. I talked to him and helped him out. It went very well. 

This friday, we had a meeting with the whole mission. It was so awesome. So on saturday, President dalton had a mission get to gether to his old mission when he was on his mission about 33 years ago. So his old mission president  and some of his companions on his mission where there this friday. His ex-mission president spoke to us all. It was so awesome. His is american. He is so funny and still speaks portugese very well. This day, I also beared my testimony for the mission. Normally the missionaries who are leaving, they bear there testimony. It was really good. A lot of people liked it. I love my mission. It was wierd that it was my turn to bear my testimony. It still doesn´t feel like it is actually ending. I always have a feeling sometimes that I didn´t do very well on my mission, or as good as I could have. I sometimes feel like I could have baptised a lot more then I could have. And I feel dad sometimes. But I believe that that feeling is normal. I was talking to a few other missionaries who are dieing also, and they said that they feel the same thing. So I just have to know that the atonement just comes in and takes care of all my weaknesses and the things that i didn´t do perfectly well. 

I love you all so much. 

Be happy

love the Elder Jones