October 28, 2013

How goes it?!

This week has been busy! but i love it! Sometimes when i get down to email i think of what things happened this last week and then when i start typing it i realize that it happened the week before! Time just meshes together and then runs right past me! Its crazy! it just seems to be going by so fast!

This week was great though. On tuesday i went on exchanges with the Elder Harrington and was able to see how they were doing and let me tell you. They are doing awesome! They just want to work hard and thats what they do! And you can really see it! I love our district!

This week we were able to see our referral that lives forever away! But it was awesome! Basically this guy has done everything! He was in prison for awhile and while he was there he got a hold of a Book of Mormon and when he started to read it he went into it trying to finding something wrong. But as he read he couldnt find anything! So he read it and then noticed there were other books that the church had so he ordered the triple combo and read that whole thing! and hes read like 4 times! Thats not the end of it. While he was there he was writing the church and he did personal study seminary and has graduated seminary! He had all the documents and papers he had written to the church about questions he had and he knows all of it! He had a baptismal date for Nov 9 and we kept it! But, He may still be on parole. so next time we meet with him we are going to see whats up and how everything is doing. We may have to move his date though... :( We have like 5 people lined up for baptism and ready but it seems like we just cant get them to take that next step! Its frustrating! but all in due time.

Remember that super rich/super catholic guy? Well we are like his best friends! Last week we had a lesson with him about the restoration and finally got him to realize that the Book of Mormon was written at the time of Christ and not in 1820! Its been slow with him but we are making some great progress! We committed him to praying to know if this was true and he said yes! After our lesson we were about to go but he gave us a whole tour of his house and showed us his childhood pictures and i played him in a game of pool! He won though... He gets a lot of practice down at his bar. But im going to challenge him again and i will beat him... someday.

That night our ward had their Fall Fest and a chili cook off! Guess who the judges were... The missionaries! We got to make our own chili as well and we were going for most unique so we made Mango chili! And guess what? it was delicious! but we didnt win... what do you do. But it was a good night and there were a bunch of non-members there that we were able to meet and possibly start teaching.
Ran a 5k The other day. The "halloween hustle" and the Mormons swept it pretty good! A kid who used to be in our ward took First overall and then Elder Harrington took 3rd overall and I took 5th overall and 2nd in our division. Elder harrington already got a medal or he would have been first in our division so they gave me the first place medal! :) and Elder Harrington got a 3rd place medal so... i beat him haha... but not really My time was 26.44 and his was 23.31 hes fast The cool thing about it was that since we were ranked and got medals we got our pictures in the paper! Mormons Stormin the Paper! Represent! Word of Wisdom! - its real.

Well I hope all is well! I Hope you know that i love you and wish the best for you all! Keep up all the good work you do. Until next time! :)

Love, 

~Elder Chris Jones~