Sunday, November 17, 2013

October 21, 2013

This week seems to have flown by!!! i cant believe it! The work is progressing and im super excited to be a part of it!
lets see... Last monday was pretty fun. we had our Zone p-day and we went down to champaign and another zone came up as well, and we played some serious dodgeball!  first we split of into teams and our team did pretty good. but the fun part was when we played zone against zone! It was crazy! best of three and we were winning the first game but we ended up slipping and lost it. But we came back the next two games to Take it all! Go our zone!
This week has been pretty eventful. We got a media referral the other day, so we called him up but he wasnt home. Later that night we got a phone call back from the guy and he Told us all about how he was being taught previously before he moved out here but wasnt able to finish all the lessons so he wanted to start those up again. And he had a baptismal date for Nov 9! We are so stoked! This week we are going to be heading up to wellington to visit with him and see where hes at in the lessons and then start from there but we are so excited! The only problem is that wellington is like an hour away! so we are worried about getting him a ride to church or if he has one and all that. But the lord will provide a way!
On Thursday we went on exchanges with the ZLs and did some tracting. Me and Elder Anderson started tracting this one street and ran into this guy and his friend and he was crackin a bunch of jokes and he told us how is girlfriends sister is mormon and talked all about them going on missions and stuff. Anyways long story short. he says he doing some BBQ on saturday and invited us! Elder Anderson didnt get to come but we went and it was sooo good! Barbequed Ribs, bbq chicken, homemade mac and cheese, cornbread the whole 9yrds! Me and Elder Erickson were loving it! they were such a nice family and he said stop by anytime and if im cooking just come on back and we'll fix you up! ...They should be mormon! but seriously. we will see where things go.
This week i gave a talk in church. Im sure you probably all have seen it on facebook by now... Sam records everything! It can be bothersome sometimes but... what do you do. I spoke on Utchdorfs talk he gave in priesthood session about rising up. If you didnt get the chance to listen to it please do. "You can do it now!" Its good. I hope i got the message across that i wanted.
I love you guys!! I hope you know that! Be sure to rise up in any situation. We have trials not to make life hard but to improve ourselves and become better. Have a good week! :)
Love,
~Elder Chris Jones~

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