The Brazilian Adventure: Week 80 December 8 -- December 15

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

So we are working a lot with the recent converts and with reactivating members, there are a lot of less actives in our ward. We have been given promises in my mission that if we work with retention and reactivation, we are going to baptise a lot more. And I believe in that promise, and our mission president is really focused on the kingdom of God growing in our wards. So we are trying to work on increasing the number of people in the church. We helped this one family come back to church these last two Sundays. It is an awesome family. The dad is so funny. And they live with a whole lot of other people who we are trying to help to come back to church and we are finding a lot of family members who are not baptised. Oh yeah! 

This last week, we had an awesome mission tour with the area president of Brazil, President Costa. It was so awesome. He is such a funny guy, and he has the spirit so strong. He saided some amazing stories of missionaries on his mission when he was a mission president. He also told his conversion story, which was really cool. He was about 27 years old and his family were all members and he never wanted to join the church, but he had some sister´s that tried really hard to work on him. But he never wanted to listen to them. But one day he was in his parents house and someone was being taught in the other room and he could hear a little of the story of Joseph Smith and of the first vision. He then left the house to go look for his friends on his Moto. on the ride to look for his friends he was thinking a lot of what the sisters taught. He was being touched by the spirit. He then completely turned around and went home. He asked his mom for the story of Joseph and then went to his room alone. He began to read every verse of Joseph smith´s story, after every verse, he would pray to god and ask Him if it was true. He began at 7 at night and finished at 9...... in the morning. He prayed and read for 14 hours straight. And when he finished, he knew that it was all true. That same day, he went to find the sisters and told them that he wanted to be baptized right now. The sisters told him that he is going to have to wait because they could not do the baptism. But he tried convincing them to just baptized him right then and now. that was funny. He then was baptized 3 days later by an Elder. President Costa is such a great guy. He gave us some great counsel and we felt the spirit really Strong. 

This week has been raining a whole lot. 

Love you all 

be happy 

Love the Elder Jones