April 15, 2013

I'm In the Field

In front of St Louis temple

Aloha Ohana!!!

MOM SEND MY UKULELE!!! I CAN HAVE ONE HERE!!!! (also some church ukulele songs so i can play those? that'd be great!)

Man its been awhile huh? Lets see... General conference was SICK!!! it was the first time i have sat through all 5 sessions! and it was amazing! i loved Hollands talk! "what you do know will always trump what you dont know!" conference was amazing! and it would take way to long to go through it all. But we watched conference in the gym at the mtc so there was TONS of people! and when they said "at which point we will here from president Holland." everyone got so excited and it basically got loud in the gym. Anyways it was SICK!

Well im in the field now! Its crazy! so my first day here we had a transfer meeting where we all got assigned our companions, and after that was done all the Elders and Sisters who are leaving home got up and gave their testimony and right after that my companion was like... "K lets go we have an appointment." What?! already? i didnt get to say goodbye to my old district. So we go to this girls house (her name is jennifer) shes going to be baptized on thursday but she was having this problem with smoking, so guess what i did on my first day? Yep! Gave my first blessing! it was insane! and then later that night there was a tornado!! (dont worry mom it wasnt in my area) it actually happened like 20mins away in... some other area haha im in O'Fallon. i was actually pretty bummed i didnt get to see it.

So my new companions are Elder Gallegos, and Elder Lewis. Im in a trio. but its cool. Elder Lewis is leaving in like a week and a half and then it will just be me and Elder Gallegos. They're Awesome! Elder lewis taught me how to do a rubix cube so, theres a new skill! he's from farmington utah and we get along really good! Elder Gallegos is from Kansas city and hes this short stocky mexican guy, but hes pretty cool! He found some duck eggs by our appartment and he tried to incubate them with his lava lamp but ended up cooking them and making them rotten! hahaha so me and Elder Lewis told him we would give him $100 dollars to eat one! SO GROSS! he peeled off the shell and it was brown and some parts almost black and it smelt soooooooo bad! but he tried it anyway! hahahahaha He was determined to get it down but his body wouldn't let him so he just sat there with the reddest face ever! making the worst noises, Gagging so hard!!! hahahahaha he ended up spitting it out outside. and we didnt have to give him any money! ;D but it was so funny.

Being out here is definitely hard but its so worth it. The other day we went over to Jennifers house and just went over the baptismal interview questions with her, and she basically told us everything! It was so crazy! she has had a lot of stuff happen in her life! And it made me appreciate bishops sooo much!! because it was hard listening to that! but i know that she can be forgiven of all those things through the atonement and she is on her way to doing that. anyways next time you see bishop stewart or court, just tell them thank you. They deserve it. so Jennifer came to church on sunday and shes not the kind of person who cries but after hearing all the testimonies and everything she cried! it was awesome! she just felt the spirit so strongly! and apparently later in relief society she gave her testimony!!! So Tight! Seeing her progress so much on sunday just made it soo good!!

Anyways thanks for all the letters! They mean the world! and i love them so much! keep 'em comin. I love you guys! talk to you next week!

Love, Elder Chris Jones