November 4, 2013

Happy Halloween!!! hope you all had fun!

The last week has been great! me and my companion are killing it out here! He has the Greeny Fire and we are using it! It seems like everyday our appointments are solid and its hard to schedule in people sometimes. But we have been doing a bunch of less active work and our goal right now is to start a branch up in hoopeston! theres enough members up in that area! it would be easy... minus the whole they need to come to church thing. Also its hard to get up there to see people because its like half hour away and we only have so many miles a month for our car. But we figure it out. This last week we were able to go up there and see a couple of people and even farther to see Donny. We had great lessons with all of them and a few said they were going to come to church this sunday, but... they didnt. Its frustrating. But Sunday was still way good and there were a ton of people there which made it even better. Fast and testimony is always great and you could feel the spirit so strongly! I loved it! After Church the Sisters missionaries in our ward had a baptism! The Catterson Family! Its was awesome! since it was right after church we had a ton of members there to support them and it was cool To see their excitement and even some tears... haha it was great! My role in the program was a pretty big deal... i was chorister and i crushed it! got to sit up on stand, and when the music played... i lead. haha It seemed to be a bigger deal to some people then it really was. Last baptism i lead and i didnt know the count so some people were nervous, but i killed it.

Im sure you all want to know about how halloween was.... It was Fun! We had a Zone training that afternoon so we did our normal studies and then headed down to champaign  for that. It was pretty fun and i got to say goodbye to some missionaries who are headed home in the next couple days. Braydens friend from St. George is headed home so i got to say goodbye to him and he will be hanging out with him in the next week im sure. But that went really good and it got us pumped for missionary work! Then we came home and visited a couple people but we had to be in by 6:00pm That night so we came back and then went upstairs to the other Elders Apt and we played Dew Pong! haha it was so fun! No trick or treaters but we ate candy and just hung out with the other Elders. You guys looked great in all of your costumes! i hope you had a fun time and got TONS of candy!

All of our investigators are doing great! thery are so close to baptism its insane! but the adversary knows that and is working hard to keep them from it. Sam is doing great! We havent really been able to meet with her other then on sundays and a brief stop by over the weeks Which is bugging me! But this week we are really going to be focused on them because we promised a lesson with them and we are men of our word.

Well i hope you are all doing great! Im loving my mission sooo much and i hope you guys are getting opportunities to share the gospel because it is the greatest thing ever!!!

I Love you all and hope you have a great week! Stay classy!

Love,

~Elder Chris Jones~