The Brazilian Adventure: Week 59 July 14 -- July 20

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

Transfers have arrived and I have been transferred. Man it is tough being transferred, I don´t like it to much. But I kinda knew that I would be transferred. Last week with my interview with President Dalton, he asked me how much time I have in Primavera, and I told him that I had  4 transfers and a half, or about 6 months,  and he laughed and then said "oooo and I think it is going to be your last." So it wasn´t to surprising. But it is still tough. But something crazy happen. Elder Cifuentes  and Elder Azevedo got transferred too. And they shut down our area, Primavera B, and now Primavera A and B are going to be one area with Elder Peruna. It is a big area. It is going to be sad leaving our investigators. We are teaching Alexia and she is so good. We taught her the 10 commandments one day and then the next day we came by and she had them memorized. It was awesome. She is going to be baptised next week, but we won´t be here, and that is ok. I´m glad that I had than opportunity to find and teach her. We also have a couple that went to church yesterday. the Husband is so funny. We had plans to help them get married and then help them get baptised. They are loving church. We also have these other two women that I talked about last week but Elder Peruna is going to have to work on their husbands because they don´t want to get married. I´m sad to leave our investigators but I hope that the next missionaries take good care of them. Our ward is going to have just one set of missionaries now. 

Yesterday, I was saying bye to some of my converts because I new that today I wouldn´t have to much time to say good bye to all of them today. It was so sad and so awesome. I was crying so much and they were too. I told them to just do the simple things always. To pray everyday, read the scriptures, and to go to church every sunday. And I tried helping them to have a goal and focus on going to the Temple after a year of their baptisms. I hope they can stay strong. Brazil isn´t the best with retention rate and so I hope that they can stay strong. I got there e-mail. Yesterday I bared them my testimony and told them about how we where all ounce in heaven together and that I told them in heaven that I was going to find them here on earth and I kept my promise and the Lord helped me find them. They thanked me so much and cried and said that I meant so much to them. Man I love our converts. Something was kinda interesting, a lot of them told me that I had a lot of persistence with them and that I was at times annoying when we were teaching them to do the commitments to read and to keep the commandments. But they all said that it was good and they thanked me for it. They said that it a good annoying. I gave them a picture of me. Man it is so amazing to look back and see how much you have done in the area. I still got a long way to go but I need to finish my mission running. Today we are going to say good bye to a few more and it is going to be sad and cool. I´m going to miss my convert so much. 

I love my mission! I love this gospel! I´m so thankful this sacred opportunity that He has given me to be a missionary in His church.  I´m nervous and excited to arrive in my new area to find more of the people who the Lord has prepared for me. 

Be Happy

Love the Elder Jones

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