Hola!
Thanks for all the birthday wishes! It will be a pretty normal day, but I´m sure grateful for all the love and support! Today for p-day one of the Elders from Peru (Elder Leon) is going to make my favorite dish from Peru (papa a la huancaina) and we are going to play soccer at the church to celebrate.
This week was a little rough, but I know things will get better and we´ll get people progressing. We had to drop most of our investigators this week. No one was going to church and no one was progressing. Also we found out there´s an area in our area (barrio mitre) that is prohibited to enter, which I didn´t know. Most of our investigators lived there, so we are going to be kind of started over as far as a lot of things go this week. Maria del Carmen couldn´t make it to church yesterday because everyone from Peru had to go vote yesterday in the morning. They had elections and get fined if they don´t vote. Also she has lots of complications with her work right now. She is such a golden investigator but it´s hard because she is so stinking busy working and going to school full time.
Diego the grandkid of a member is going to get baptized soon. We just need to get the permission from his dad. We are working on that. It could be any day now...
Anyways, not too much is new. We have zone conference with Zona Norta (my first zone) on thursday. I am excited. I will get to see Hna. Campos again and receive mail. Not to mention the conference itself will be awesome and I will have lots more to repent of and improve I´m sure.
I can´t believe how fast the time is flying by. In one month I will complete a year in the mission and will only have 6 months left. I feel like I just started.
Well, in this email I don´t have new pictures but will send a song that I love and hope inspires you all!
Love,
Hermana Jones
lunes, 11 de abril de 2011
Hola!
Well, this week was good. We did lots of service for investigators and members. In one investigators house, she used the excuse that she had to go clean her house before her husband got home, and didn´t have time to talk to us. So, we went in and cleaned. I washed dishes for literally an hour. My companion was cleaning the kitchen while I did that. The lady was a lot more receptive after that ;).
¿¡Qué tal conference!? I love conference in the mission. Unfortunately we didn´t have a single investigator there. We should have had lots there since there were 4 time options but we went and passed by every single one that said they were going to go, and they all had excuses not to go or weren´t there. That was a bummer, but a member from Belgrano brough her friends and introduced us to them, they live in our area. So we did get some new investigators there!
I loved all the talks, but I think my favorite was Elder Oaks when he talked about desires. But I liked all of them. I got to watch almost all of conference in english. I wasn´t going to get to, but then there was a girl from the US that was able to go on divisions with me while my companion was with the other hermanas (both latinas) in our zone. So I watched conference with the elders. We watched in through internet with a TV connected to the computer.
Well, I think we need to drop most of our investigators at this point. No one is progressing. Nicolas doesn´t even want to talk to us. Marcelo is still drinking. Maria del Carmen couldn´t go to conference because something came up in work. I still have faith that she will make it to her baptismal date the 23rd. Other than that, not too much is new here.
Oh for April Fools day our district leader got me good. He called in the morning right after comp study and said that he talked to the asistents and there was going to be some riots and civil unrest in our area because we have some goverment buildings. He said for 1-2 weeks our area was being closed and we were going to be split up and transferred to other areas. He said he didn´t know anything more than that and that the asistents would be calling me to let me know more. I hung up and explained this all to my companion in spanish, (because she didn´t understand it in english when he said it, we have a rule we have to speak english when with latinos) and just as I finished explaining he called back and said April fools. haha. I totally believed him.
This week the weather was nice! I finished the Book of Mormon again this morning in english and will finish it in spanish again this week too.
I hope everyone has a great week and enjoyed conference! I don´t have new pictures this week. This picture is from when I arrived in Nuñez, I can´t remember if I already sent it or not...
Love,
Hermana Jones
Kasey - the video is in a weird format and didn´t work, but thanks for trying!
Well, this week was good. We did lots of service for investigators and members. In one investigators house, she used the excuse that she had to go clean her house before her husband got home, and didn´t have time to talk to us. So, we went in and cleaned. I washed dishes for literally an hour. My companion was cleaning the kitchen while I did that. The lady was a lot more receptive after that ;).
¿¡Qué tal conference!? I love conference in the mission. Unfortunately we didn´t have a single investigator there. We should have had lots there since there were 4 time options but we went and passed by every single one that said they were going to go, and they all had excuses not to go or weren´t there. That was a bummer, but a member from Belgrano brough her friends and introduced us to them, they live in our area. So we did get some new investigators there!
I loved all the talks, but I think my favorite was Elder Oaks when he talked about desires. But I liked all of them. I got to watch almost all of conference in english. I wasn´t going to get to, but then there was a girl from the US that was able to go on divisions with me while my companion was with the other hermanas (both latinas) in our zone. So I watched conference with the elders. We watched in through internet with a TV connected to the computer.
Well, I think we need to drop most of our investigators at this point. No one is progressing. Nicolas doesn´t even want to talk to us. Marcelo is still drinking. Maria del Carmen couldn´t go to conference because something came up in work. I still have faith that she will make it to her baptismal date the 23rd. Other than that, not too much is new here.
Oh for April Fools day our district leader got me good. He called in the morning right after comp study and said that he talked to the asistents and there was going to be some riots and civil unrest in our area because we have some goverment buildings. He said for 1-2 weeks our area was being closed and we were going to be split up and transferred to other areas. He said he didn´t know anything more than that and that the asistents would be calling me to let me know more. I hung up and explained this all to my companion in spanish, (because she didn´t understand it in english when he said it, we have a rule we have to speak english when with latinos) and just as I finished explaining he called back and said April fools. haha. I totally believed him.
This week the weather was nice! I finished the Book of Mormon again this morning in english and will finish it in spanish again this week too.
I hope everyone has a great week and enjoyed conference! I don´t have new pictures this week. This picture is from when I arrived in Nuñez, I can´t remember if I already sent it or not...
Love,
Hermana Jones
Kasey - the video is in a weird format and didn´t work, but thanks for trying!
lunes, 28 de marzo de 2011
Hola!
Well, this week wasn´t too out of the ordinary... still working, teaching, etc. :) Marcelo is still fighting his addiction and Nicolas still doesn´t want to be Mormon... but Maria del Carmen is progressing nicely, quit working sundays and made it to church yesterday! She gets baptized April 23rd. We are also teaching a kid named Diego. He is like 10 and his grandma is a member. He is now living with his grandma. He has all the lessons, church attendance, everything except the permission from his mom, so we are working on that. Hopefully we can get it and he will get baptized. This week we found a guy named David that accepted a baptismal date as well, but then he didn´t go to church on sunday. We are going to work more with him and hopefully he gets to conference saturday and sunday!
Speaking of conference I am excited! This time it will be all in spanish because my companion doesn´t speak english. A challenge for all of you: watch conference, every session, LIVE!
Funny story
So this week we were going to visit the Hurtado family. They´re less active. We were getting close to their house, rounded the corner, and the wife and son (11) were helping the dad climb a tree in the street in capital. That was a funny sight. We went and asked what they were doing. We looked up and there were 2 hens high up in the tree! Apparently their hens jumped off the roof of their house (2 stories) and were perched in the tree. The dad was lowering the hens and passing them to the son. As he was passing the second one it pooped all over the son´s face and in his mouth. How gross is that. He laughed. This family is from Peru in the jungle. Things like that don´t even phase them. I never carry my camera with me, only on p-day but it just so happened to be p-day when we passed by! There are lots of families from Peru here. The other photo is the Llerena family from Trujillo, Peru. They are awesome!
There is definitely no shortage of learning going on here... Yesterday was nuts. We teach a convert that has literally lost every family member she has. Her parents and all of her brothers and sisters. They were all tragic deaths, and all were young. Her last brother died recently (Nov.) in an accident and she saw him ripped apart and dying. Needless to say, she has a lot of emotional instability and needs lots of attention and lots of visits. Every day we talk to people who have experienced things or are going through different phases in their lives. It is incredible how different people live their lives. But it is cool that the Atonement makes everyone´s life better in whatever circumstances they may be in.
Well, I enjoy reading Hna Payne´s and Hna Pincock´s letters!
Kasey, don´t kill yourself with the front flips. ;)
Enjoy spring break! Enjoy Park City!
I love you all!
Hermana Jones
Well, this week wasn´t too out of the ordinary... still working, teaching, etc. :) Marcelo is still fighting his addiction and Nicolas still doesn´t want to be Mormon... but Maria del Carmen is progressing nicely, quit working sundays and made it to church yesterday! She gets baptized April 23rd. We are also teaching a kid named Diego. He is like 10 and his grandma is a member. He is now living with his grandma. He has all the lessons, church attendance, everything except the permission from his mom, so we are working on that. Hopefully we can get it and he will get baptized. This week we found a guy named David that accepted a baptismal date as well, but then he didn´t go to church on sunday. We are going to work more with him and hopefully he gets to conference saturday and sunday!
Speaking of conference I am excited! This time it will be all in spanish because my companion doesn´t speak english. A challenge for all of you: watch conference, every session, LIVE!
Funny story
So this week we were going to visit the Hurtado family. They´re less active. We were getting close to their house, rounded the corner, and the wife and son (11) were helping the dad climb a tree in the street in capital. That was a funny sight. We went and asked what they were doing. We looked up and there were 2 hens high up in the tree! Apparently their hens jumped off the roof of their house (2 stories) and were perched in the tree. The dad was lowering the hens and passing them to the son. As he was passing the second one it pooped all over the son´s face and in his mouth. How gross is that. He laughed. This family is from Peru in the jungle. Things like that don´t even phase them. I never carry my camera with me, only on p-day but it just so happened to be p-day when we passed by! There are lots of families from Peru here. The other photo is the Llerena family from Trujillo, Peru. They are awesome!
There is definitely no shortage of learning going on here... Yesterday was nuts. We teach a convert that has literally lost every family member she has. Her parents and all of her brothers and sisters. They were all tragic deaths, and all were young. Her last brother died recently (Nov.) in an accident and she saw him ripped apart and dying. Needless to say, she has a lot of emotional instability and needs lots of attention and lots of visits. Every day we talk to people who have experienced things or are going through different phases in their lives. It is incredible how different people live their lives. But it is cool that the Atonement makes everyone´s life better in whatever circumstances they may be in.
Well, I enjoy reading Hna Payne´s and Hna Pincock´s letters!
Kasey, don´t kill yourself with the front flips. ;)
Enjoy spring break! Enjoy Park City!
I love you all!
Hermana Jones
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