Blue Springs!!!

Another great week for us in blue springs! Elder Nelson and I have been putting in some work! They split our area in half so we needed to find some new people so we contacted a ton and we were able to find 5 new people this week which is a tonnnnn!!!! The mission standard is 1 a week so we smashed that goal haha! 2 we found through Facebook and we were able to teach them a bit! We have been teaching a ton of lessons members and investigators! We have been working hard and seeing the results! I also got to teach a guy from Columbia he was way cool and understood everything we taught very well, hopefully the missionaries there are able to find him! We did some service a few weeks ago for this guy and we kept trying to set up lessons with him and we finally got one and his wife listened in too, he seemed to like it a lot and we were able to give him a book of mormon and committed him to reading and praying!


The lord has been blessing us so much in our efforts, its definitely weird teaching and finding through the phone but we have been learning as we go! We probably contacted like 200 people this week just from Facebook haha! Not really what I was expecting I'd be doing on the mission but it definitely works!


This week I've really been focusing on being more christlike,we had a devotional by brother corbit (I think) he's the 1st counselor in the Ym general presidency and he was talking about how we were during our lives in the spirit world and some of the traits we had, I really liked how he told us that we all had joy from the atonement! It's really cool because it was before the atonement but we all had joy from the faith that we had in jesus christ, it thought it was pretty cool and it helped me a lot to compare it to today how we need to have hope in gods plan for us and take joy knowing that we chose this plan and that it's all going to work out! When we put our faith in the lord we need to have no fear in what's going to happen!


Sorry I feel like my email was all over the place haha

I need to get better at taking pictures promise this week will be better! Love you all!


-Elder Jones

x

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