Elder Jones

This week has been pretty weird haha its kinda weird not working out in the field after doing it so long but it gave me a lot of time to read the scriptures and ponder on the things i have learned so far without distractions so thats been nice! On Tuesday I texted everyone in our contacts list to see if we could share a message with them and like 3 people said yes haha. So we didn´t have anything to do on wednesday so I got on the BOM grind, love reading the Book Of Mormon! I really liked a part that I read about ammon and his brothers. The part about Aaron really stook out to me, he was stuck in prison for a long time for teaching the word of god and he said that he just and to suffer through his afflictions with patience and he would be blessed and the lord would prepare people for him! Then he gets out and go teaches a NATION!! I really liked it cause it reminded me of now cause were kind of stuck in prison or our houses but people are being prepared and the lord is going to ble...

So as all of you already probably know this coronavirus thing is crazy and the sad day has come were getting sent home! Super sad to be leaving Maxcanu and the best mission ever Mission Mexico Merida it has been so great and I have had so many great experiences but am so sad to leave. I am so grateful for the things I have been able to learn and the people I met. Hopefully  they ́ll send me back! I´ll only be home for about 2 weeks then I will go somewhere in the U.S. ( temporarily) I have had some of the best experiences here of my life and I don´t regret the decision I made to come. Theres no place or thing I´d rather be doing than to be serving the lord. This has been the best decision I have ever made and its only beginning!  Today I finished 8 months 1/3  of the mission!!!!! This week was crazy every day they gave us new rules of things we cant do for our health. But we still managed to have a transfer high of 11 NEW INVESTIGATORS it was super dop...

Whoaaaah this week was crazy for the first time in my whole mission I didn´t go to church. This corona virus must be crazy but luckily theres only one case of it here but the schools are all gonna close for 1 month. We cant shake hands with people in the streets its pretty crazy. The prophet wasn´t lying when he said that this next conference was going to be unforgettable. They also in the conference said that satan is going to work even harder and that we needed to have church centered in the home. It just goes to show that the prophet today still recieves revelation for us all. Revelation is so important because sometimes we don`t know how things are gonna go like the corona virus but the lord sure does so we should include him in every decision we make.  MY MAN SAUL GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!! This guy is a beast and #MB (Mission bound!) Not even the corona virus can stop him from getting baptized!!! Super cool story with him: about a month ago we left the house and when you l...

How is everyone doing? Hope good, everything is going good here in maxcanú were working hard and finding new people to teach! We have quite a bit of people progressing were hoping to baptize a few more here in Maxcanú. We have a baptism coming up this week for saul! I was talking to him and hes going to turn 17 this week and I asked him what are you gonna do when you turn 18 and he told me he wants to go on the mission. I was super pumped haha because he still hasn't even been baptized yet super awesome. We also had a multizone and I got to see some of the elders in Progreso my old area and they told me that the converts are starting to work hard with the missionaries and help them get more people to teach and progress. I was super excited to here that! We are also teaching this new investigator and her dad and sister were baptized 20 years ago but she never accepted the gospel. We found her when we started doing service haha, the people here dont like it when y...

Its been another great week here in maxcanú!! We have been working to reactivate the branch here so we have a branch activity every tuesday, english classes wednesday and play soccer fridays. We have been able to get a lot of less actives to come and recent converts. The work ́s rolling too we've found a few more people to teach and we had a bunch of investigators to church on sunday. The only problems is none of the people we are teaching that have a baptismal date could come but theres a lot of potential people who did come. On tuesday we went to Coauhila because they had some paint war thing going on where basically anyone who was in the street it was legal to throw paint at them haha. I was with one of my buddies from the MTC that was in my district and we put in work haha it was so awesome to see how much we have both changed and grown since we left the MTC. We found 2 new people and one of the two said she wanted to be baptized it was sweet. On wednesday we taught a fami...