The Brazilian Adventure: Week 6 July 10-July 13

Dear Family and Friends

Yesturday I got my reasignedment!! I'm so pumped up! I got reasigned to the New Mexico Farmington Mission to wait for my VISA there. This Mission is also know as the four cornor state Mission. My area covers a chunk of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. It's kinda of a big area. I'm super excited because I know that this calling was a legit calling from the apostles, so that means the Lord has special people for me to meet down there also. I don't know who or why I'm going to meet them, but I know it is for a reason. Or maybe I'm supposed to meet someone who is going to teach me something. Well what ever the reason is, I'm going to try me best to do his will that he has for me. I can't wait to actually go out and start teaching and helping others. Even if i can't go to Brazil yet, as long as I'm teaching and helping someone, I will be satisfied. I am leaving this Monday morning and I am going to be in the field in that afternoon I believe. Can't wait to start putting all this learning into real practice. It is goint to be nice to teach in English. But I still hope I get my VISA soon. I need to go to Brazil and start teaching the people that the lord has in plan for me to teach and help. I'm really going to miss my district though, we are all going our seperate ways. We have truely grown into a family, and it is so sad to see them all go and know that I might not ever see them again. We have had so many great memories and great laughs. HUGE laughs! They are all just so great. We are all different working for the same work, that is what makes it so great. We are all doing it together. Sharing this great happiness with the world. I hope we are able to teach and do what it all how the Lord wants to do it. I'm going to miss them. But I'm not to worried, we'll see each other day maybe in heaven and stuff.  

 

This Mission so far here in the MTC has taught me so much so far. I'm starting to learn what it really means to have faith in Jesus and his full and true gospel today. Faith does't mean anything unless you put action into it. I'm starting to realize what it really means to have a testimony. If you have a testimony or if you have faith, that's great! Now what are you going to do to show that you really have faith or a testimony.It is not enough to just say you have a testimony, you must learn to be truely "converted" unto the Lord and show it. You beleive it's true, that is great! Now let Him see it. Show Heavenly Father with your actions on earth what it truely means to believe in Christ and our Heavenly Father. Be Christlike in all places, at all times, and with everyone you meet in your day. Read your scriptures, learn more about him. Pray often, through out your whole day. Always try to have his spirit with you and have you heart full and your mind clear to listen to what he wants you to do. Don't worry about what the world think. The world is not perfect, therefore they don't know what true happiness is. But He does. So fallow the Lords teachings, be more like Christ. Be good, and I promise you that you will be so happy and feel such amazing peace. And remember, it isn't the "worlds" happiness, Money, Fame, Popularity, and satisfying your humanly desires. A happiness that is never satifying and only last for a little while. But it is the "Lords" happiness. And that my Family and Friends is a happiness that is always satisfying and a happines that is forever. And this happiness is 100 times plus 1 more better then what the world can provide for you.

 

I'm so excited to go out and serve others soon. I hope I can do my best and give it my all. And always remember to do it the Lords way and never my way. I hope that I always remember that even for the two years that I'm out in the field, if I bring one person back to the lord and help them with their lives to do the Lords will and to be truely happy. And that one person is who the Lord wanted me to save. Then I hope I will be satisfied and humble with that one person. I hope I work hard and come home exhausted every night. I hope i do my best every second in my day for these two years. I'm out here to leave everything behind and work with all my heart and all my energy. I hope the Lord gives me strenght on the hard days and help me to keep going on. I'm out not fot me... but for Him, His Son, and for the people I serve and help come unto the Lord. Wow! I'm starting to sound like a missionary. This is so cool and wierd. But mostly cool. I hope you all are doing well, I miss you all.

 

Love, The Elder Jones