so this week was a long one! we had dinner with the Bishop, the lofthouses, and the Dominguez family. The dominguez family is awesome! She served her mission in italy...and she made us pasta for dinner. Mom...it was the best pasta i have ever tasted! it was out of this world! there arent words to describe how i feel about that pasta. the sauce was homemade and it was just the perfect combo of creaminess, cheesiness, and meatiness. hmmmm...and apparently her lasagna is even better! BWAHH!
we also had a party with the spanish group celebrating fathers day 1 week early. they made a HUGE pot of "sancocho de pollo" which is basically dumping 6 whole chickens in a pot and cooking them down with some veggies! oh man was it good! it was so fun too just to be around all of the spanish members! i really felt of their love for the missionaries which is just the best!
we also did a lot of service this week! we helped some members move on friday. then on saturday we went and fixed up the yard of a recent convert who is going through tons of struggles right now and her yard was a disaster and the HOA was getting angry with her because of it. and so we went without her asking and just knocked it all out within a couple hours to get it looking brand new again!
i love service!
The Mission is awesome! our district last transfer struggled a little bit because of our district leader who was going home didnt really care. but now we have a newbie district leader who has got that young blood in him to help us older missionaries get excited again! He gave us the "baptize" vision again as a focus and we have seen tons of miracles from it! we have one investigator named Jose who has a ton of doubts about everything and is just super confused right now. But we had a super good lesson with him where we were really bold and just told him that if he does what we ask him to do and asks god for a confirmation, he will be able to overcome all of his doubts and know that this is true. If he can do that he will be such a strong member!
then we had another miracle this week! we were tracting and the second door we knock on is a bunch of mexican bros who were playing fifa. the guy who opens the door takes one look at us and says "no....No..." and then just walks into the back room with the door still open. and so we are just standing there and i poke my head in and say hi to the other guy who was sitting on the couch. and so we start talking about soccer and then the gospel and it is a really good conversation, when "de repente" his friend/cousin comes out with his bible and has this curious look on his face. the First buddy says "hey man look! i am talking to these guys! come join me!" so we ask if we can come in and share more with both of them and they say SURE! and it was the coolest because they were totally prepared because we talked more about baptism in that lesson than even the book of mormon! and they were just wanting to just do it! it was sweet! we set a soft date for august 1st and we are going back on saturday!
then the third big miracle this week is that there is this LARC family who is struggling. but the Great Great grandma is trying to get to the temple! so she is being really active in the church. And so her Great Great Grandkid Isabella, who is 8, is coming to church with her. now we didnt have anybody that could be baptized this transfer, but during church when my companion was in the bathroom, isabella came up to me and i asked her, "When are you going to get baptized?!?" and she surprised me by saying, "I already told you! in 26 days!" haha i was like "WHAAAAAA????" so we are going over there tonight to try and teach her!
i love you guys and i am praying for you! hope you have a great week!
Sancocho!
we got lost on this dirt road.....
Love Elder Jones
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