November 11, 2013

I love my mission!

How are things going in the ol' Grove street?

Lets see... to start off the week last monday we had an awesome P-day. It was Sister scotts last P-day so... we balled so hard and played a Danville favorite... Dodgeball (bird flu), for hours! lots of fun. Then we had a lesson that night and we ended up picking up 3 new investigators! so sweet! Crazy story how we found them.
One day we were getting ready to head to the library with the other Elders for some training, and before we left we said a prayer as usual. Elder Brooks said it and he Prayed that someone would approach us about the gospel. We all were like.... ok sure! And then we left. As soon as we got out the door of our apartment building this lady outside asks "hey are you Jehovah Witness?" *head slap* "No we are Mormons." "Oh... Do you have any Books?" we all looked at eachother and were like what? yeah we do! So we got her some Book Of Mormons for her and her family and gave her our number. But we didnt schedule a time to meet with her. *another head slap* rookie mistake. So Elder Erickson prayed and prayed for us to meet her again and... we did! Set up a time and finally got to sit down and have a lesson with her! Prayer really does work! I love it!

It went great! It was pretty loud and distracting when we met with them but we had a lesson and afterwards her daughters friend was asking a bunch of questions! We have a lesson scheduled tonight so hopefully it goes well. :)

After out lesson we went to the Strawsers house for FHE The are an awesome family in our ward! it was great! They did this parable about popcorn and then after we played popcorn olympics! It was so much fun! When i get back we are for sure doing that for FHE.

We did some service this week at a members house and their basement had water in it. So we used their shop vac and sucked up all the water into buckets and then dumped it in this drain thing. At first he made it sound like there was going to be like Three inches of water down there and we needed boots and all that. I went barefoot and it turned out to be like a rain puddle at most. It wasnt a lot of work but it was long and at the end i just wanated to be done and go talk to people but then he asked if we could help him with one more thing and the first thing that went through my head was "No." But we said yes and we ended up helping him get salt for his water softener and while his water was being softened by salt my heart was being softened as i looked at this Old man who couldn't lift it. Just the simple help that we gave him went a long way. By the end of the day i was grateful for the service we gave.

Well those are the highlights of my week. other then that we have been super busy! and i just love it! i feel liike i have told you that everytime for the past couple weeks but  We are picking up the work here and its great! We have a baptism scheduled for sunday for Lina and the following satruday with Jimmy Hauffa! We are so excited! The work is great and I love it so much! i never want to end my mission!

I love you guys and hope you are doing great! i got to go but i will talk to you next week.

Love, Elder Chris Jones