July 27, 2013

Hello Family!

This week went by pretty fast! remember those kittens? There is 3 of them i One is named Elder, The other Jones, and then one of them is Smith. ...cute...

We had exchanges with the other Elders in our district and i think it was definitely needed. We had kept trying to do them in the past but something came up so we weren't able to. But it worked out and it was definitely a breath of fresh air. Not that anything is wrong in either of our companionship's but it just felt good to have a little change up. I was with Elder Brown and got to be in the south Elders area. Their area is the ghetto... haha the dividing line between us and them is where it stops and gets.. "better." but it was so fun to be in the ghetto! There are a ton of black people and the way they talk is so fun! I want to pick up their accent! haha

The other day we decided to go to the farthest town in our area and tract up there for the day. So we take an hour drive up to this little town called Stockland and we get there and it is literally the smallest town i have ever seen! it has like 20 houses in it and we tracted the whole thing out in an hour. And had no success other then this one guy we talked to but we didnt get a return appointment with him. It ended up being an unproductive day and i feel like we could have gotten more work done down in our area... Im learning.

We have this guy that we have been working with along with previous Elders. His name is Matt Jones and he knows the church is true and wants to get baptized but his family hasnt been accepting of it and they have bad marriage problems and they have been threatening divorce for a long time. So like 3 weeks ago we stopped by his house. and we walk in on him and his wife in a huge argument! (it was probably the most awkward thing ever) and while we were there his wife took the kids and stormed out. Afterwards we sat there and tried to help him out. Well the last three weeks have gone by and we havent really been able to get a hold of him. On our way back from stockland we got a message from the bishop talking about matt. We asked him yesterday about it and he told us that the Divorce is definitely going to happen. and we shouldnt bother him right now while it happens. IT. BREAKS. MY. HEART...  To see a family be torn apart. He said after its all worked out he is going to get baptized, but the fact that his family is getting torn because of it Kills Me!

I know this Gospel is true. I know that families can be together forever. And i want everyone to experience the same joy I have felt, and continue to feel, from this Gospel!

I love you guys and hope you have a great week!

Love,

Elder Chris Jones.

July 22, 2013

Time is flying so fast! can you believe it?! Holy cow...

This week seemed to zip by. On wednesday we got to have interviews with the president. It was good to get to know him a little better and him me. He is from Farmington and seems like a pretty cool Mission President. Sister Morgan is awesome. At interviews we were standing around talking before it started and she comes up and asks if everyone is feeling alright...? No problems or sicknesses? I didn't want to bother them so we all said that we were fine. Well remember my Poison Ivy? It was getting way bad! its spreads through oils, and being out in the midwest, im sweating every second! so it just kept spreading! The next day i called her and told her remember how you asked if we had any problems...? well i lied... She laughed and sent me to the doctor. I got a shot... in my butt... The Poison Ivy is looking TONS better! and my arms is almost back to normal. :D it makes me so happy! im sick of it.

On thursday i got to go on exchanges with the zone leaders so i went down to campaign and was with Elder Anderson. Elder Anderson is pretty cool. and guess what? We hung out a couple times before the mission! he is one of Brayden's friends from St George! its cool to see him from back then to now. Anyway They serve on the campus of The University of Illinois and instead of tracting, we walked around campus and contacted! it was fun! I haven't done that before so i was definitely nervous doing it. but we talked to this Chinese girl and gave her a book of mormon and  told her all about it and she seemed way solid!

On Friday we had a dinner appointment, but we had some free time before it. So Elder Smith and i go visit this potential that lived near by. Her name is Latrice and she has a ton of little kids from 5-12yrs old and they were all there watching tv. Anyways long story short. We barged in, watched the restoration video with them and discussed it. And they were all so excited we gave them all a Book of Mormon and before we left they started reading it! It was so tight! We set a return appointment and we are visiting with them this week!

Last night we went over to a less actives house to see what we could do in helping them out (physically and spiritually) and while we were there the wife told us her cat was pregnant... a couple minutes later the cat comes over next to the wife and starts having contractions! So they got a box and a towel and put the cat in it, and in like 30mins out popped a kitten! then another 20mins or so goes by and out pops another! haha it was so weird! but i got to see the miracle of life... From a cat.... never thought that would happen on my mission. hahaha!

Well i love you all and i hope everything is going well back home!  I know this gospel is true! And i hope you guys know that to! Keep me updated on everything!

Till next time!

Love,

~Elder Chris Jones~

This is gross!