Can you believe I am in Denver already!? This week has been so fantastic, and we have been so busy it is weird to think that we flew here only 7 days ago!
So just to tell you a little about my week. We had to get up at 3:50 last monday morning so we could get ready and packed to get on the bus at 5. The plane ride went great, there were 25 of us missionaries all going to the same mission on the same plane. It was the most social plane ride I have ever been on. You know how most plane rides are like an awkward plane silence and there are like 2 or 3 people talking? Well our plane ride was the opposite. Every body was joking, laughing, getting to know people, preaching and teaching the whole way there. It was fun. When we touched down in the denver airport all twenty five of us walked toward the tram to get our baggage. When the door opened we ran in. We thought we got everyone in but we turned around we saw that doors shut before elder Beus could get in. He just looked at us with a scared but laughing face on haha. HAha poor guy. He is an 18 year old little shy guy. We all waved and laughed and sang 'God be with you till we meet again' haha. Luckily he came in right after us on the next tram so he wasn't lost for too long. We then met President Maynes and his wife and the Assistant to the Presidents. They were super sweet and greeted us all. We grabbed our luggage and crammed into vans and trucks and drove to the mission office. The first day with orentation and going over mission rules was pretty long. Considering we had been up for 12 hours by 4 o clock. But we ate yummy food, took pictures of all of us and then headed to the mission home.
The next day we went to transfers meeting and were assigned our new companions and areas. I am with Sister Hatch and we are opening a new area called the University Hills East area. It was bitter sweet to be parted from all the sisters and elders in our district but I knew they were in for some great work so I wasn't to sad to see them leave. We socialized for a little bit with the people who knew my companion that were leaving to go home and everyone told me that I have a fantastic companion, and she is. I have learned alot from her already. Sister Drake (one of the senior couples in charge of housing) came up to us and told us that we are going to live in the basement of a single lady's house. She kept saying "Well we haven't been there yet and we heard she has cats, but don't worry, I'm sure its fine. Oh and she is kind of a hoarder, but the ward cleared out your space....(look down thinking) yeah I'm sure it's fine" Um yeah...My companion and I were pretty worried. I immediately imagined that show animal hoarders that I watched with my parents and I pictured us waking up every morning with cat liter in our beds and cat hair in our teeth. As you can imagine I was pretty terrified at the thought and I had this pit of worry in my stomach when we pulled up to the place. But don't you worry. I absolutely love our little basement apartment. It is perfect! It is totally retro and has a 70's kind of feel to it. I can't wait to send you pictures. It is super clean and I have only seen the cats like once or twice. I love the lady we live with she is a sweet heart. The lord definately is looking out for us, sister drake just tried to make us worry a little haha.
After we got settled in we got straight to work. We meet up with the elders, the relief society president and the bishop through out the day, got our area book, talked about people we could visit and set off. My companion and I have been crazy busy teaching and visiting people. Since we are opening a new area the work in this place is endless and we have been working every minute. I love it so much. The people in our ward are amazing. They all are super young. Everybody including the bishop is in their early 30s and don't have kids over the age of 5. They are so nice to us and have welcomed us with open arms. The people we have taught are equally amazing.
One quick story about a less active we visited that is so funny! It was our last visit of the day and we went to see this guy Gabrielle. We walked up to the apartment complex and he was walking out. We introduced ourselves and got to know him a little. He was cracking us up so much with all his stories. Basically he use to sell drugs to support his family and went to jail when he got caught. Since then he has turned his life around and has a huge testimony of the gospel. But he has just been slacking in the going to church part. He was telling us about how he use to be catholic but kind of fell away from that. Later down the road when he got out of jail he made friends with the muslim man. His friend asked him to go to mass (church) with him one day and he agreed. He said during the service they were doing alot of kneeling and praying and at the end they asked him to go to the front, so he did. Then this man dressed in white said some thing in arabic to him and did some other stuff and then it was over. He had no idea what happened. But he just went on his merry way and 9 years later he ran into another muslim and asked the guy what that service was all about. The muslim man laughed and said "They baptized you man." HAHAHA He had no idea for 9 years that he was baptized muslim. Oh man that story made me laugh. At the end of the story Garbrielle was like, "So now, I have been baptized catholic, Muslim, and Mormon." that made my day. I hope we can get Gabrielle to be more active. He is such a funny guy.
Any ways, things are going super good and I have already seen a lot of blessings and miracles happen since I have been here. I love you all. Thank you for all your support and love. Take care of yourselves!!!!
Love Sister Jones
My new address is
Sister Kelcey Jones
C/O Ms. Pratt
1831 S. Forest St.
Denver, CO 80222
Make sure you put C/O Ms. Pratt or else it might not get here.
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