The Brazilian Adventure: Week 33 January 13 -- January 19

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends

    I´m loving this mission so much. I´m having such a spiritual high, I can´t explain to you how amazing I´m feeling. This week we a great training from the assistants of the the president this last Friday. I learned so many great things. I learned a lot of things about faith and teaching better. The assistants are such great missionaries. Their conversion is so great. This transfer we are seeing a lot of great miracles. We are finding a lot of great people to teach. I will be honest with you guys. I didn´t talk about it to much. But last transfer was actually pretty rough. We had a really hard time and we weren´t having a lot of success in the work. We taught a lot of people and a lot of them fell through and didn´t want to continue with us. We had to drop a lot of great people. There was a lot of things that I wanted to happen, but many times things didn´t go my way. It really hurt me inside and I started to get down on my self. But the lord helped me to learn how to keep continuing to work hard and to keep being diligent in the work. He helped me to keep being strictly obedient and keep pushing on with a positive attitude. He helped me to learn how to have hope and to continue with a smile on my face. And it has been awesome. I´m learning a lot about faith. I´m learning in the lords work that we need to do everything that we can to do our part and then let the lord do the rest. And let him do it the way he sees fit. In his own way and his own time. If I am doing my best and doing all I can to do my part. Then that is great. I´m feeling so much more peace and joy. 

    This Saturday we had a great baptism. The Lord helped us baptise an 18 year old teenager named Bruno. He has been an investigator of the church for about 4 years and has never wanted to be baptise. He has been through a lot of missionaries. But the Lord helped us teach him, and a month later. He was baptised. It was supper tough, but we were able to do it. His baptism was so great. And yesterday he allowed me to give him the Holy Ghost. It was so awesome. He walked up to me after the baptism and told me thank you for helping me find this happiness and doing this. I just told him that it was all the Lord, just thank him. I honestly felt like we didn´t do much.But I was so grateful to be a apart of that. 

   A lot a great stuff is happening. We are finding a lot of great people to teach. Valeria said that she read the Book of Mormon and that she said a prayer to know if it is true. And on our next visit she said that she received an answer, and that she knows that it is true. It was so awesome. She really wants to visit the church and her kids are excited about it too. Yesterday she didn´t come because she said that she was taking care of her kids. But her 12 year old daughter came and she said that she really enjoyed. Hopefully they can make it this next week. 

    My companion is so flippen funny. We are having a great time. I´m learning a lot of great stuff. He knows a lot of deep doctrine and is teaching me some. It is so cool. and so weird. haha 

    I hope you all are doing great. I love you tons and miss ya. Keep jamming out and doing some good.

Be happy. 

Love, The Elder Jones