June 3rd letter.

Hello Everyone!!

This week has been one of my absolute best weeks on the mission! So many great things happened.
 We had Zone conference in Grand Junction on Thursday and we got to have a sleep over with the two other sets of sisters in Rifle on Wednesday night. It was so awesome. It was fun to catch up with the sisters that I served in the MTC with and to meet the other sisters I haven't seen yet. We had a great time. Zone Conference is always the best. For those of you who don't know, it is when a few Zones get together and we have spiritual thoughts/trainings from the Assistants to the President and trainings from President and Sister Maynes. I always leave Zone Conference on a way big spiritual high and it was the same with this one. We had lunch there and I got a little treat for having a birthday in the last transfer haha. 

Another awesome thing that happened this week is that we have a new pet deer. (Brother Bambi) He likes to sleep/rest in our front "lawn" and just say hi every once in a while. There are deer all over the place in Craig. The deer seem super tame and don't mind humans at all. I got within 5 feet from Brother Bambi and he didn't care at all. Last night he had a lady friend with him and Sister Robinson and I think we might need to teach him the Law of Chastity soon.

The best thing that happened this week though is we got 5 NEW INVESTIGATORS!!!!! That has been my goal of the mission. To find 5 new people to teach in one week. And it happened. Oh man I could cry I was so happy. All of them are really solid too. One of them is a little boy named Zachary. His family is really less-active and Zachary has only been to church about 2 times. (we think) The bishop asked if we could stop by and see if Zachary wanted to be taught and if he wanted to be baptized. We showed up and both Zachary and his brother,Preston, (age 9) Stole my heart!! If I could adopt them to be my sons I totally would. They are the most adorable little boys I have ever met. They are so precious! I just want to squeeze them and carry them in my pocket all day long. We went over for our first lesson with them we sat down around the table and Zachary says "When can I get baptized?" (I wish I could hear that every day) We told him that we needed to teach him the lessons and he needed to come to church 3 times. He was bummed it was going to take awhile but we started right into a lesson. It was all over the place. They asked us a million questions. We basically could only answer about 5 of them. They were questions like, "How did God put our spirit into our body? If God loves us why did he make things that hurt us?Are Zombies real? Why did Jesus make Dinosaurs?" The only two things we really did get to teach them was about prophets and pray. It was so sweet because when we told them how Heavenly Father hears and answers every prayer we pray they both turned to their mom and were like."Mom! we can not forget to pray at every meal!" At the end of the lesson we committed them to say their nightly prayers and ask Heavenly Father if what we said was true. The were like, "Oh we believe every thing you have said." (another thing I wish we could hear every day lol) We told them not to take our word for it, to ask Heavenly Father if it is true and they said they would. 
Oh that lesson touched my heart so much. Their faith and their hearts were so pure and so humble. It helped me to realize that, that is what it is all about. We all need to find our child-like humility and faith to remember our testimonies. When I think about when my testimony started i think I was about 6. Heavenly Father answered one of my humble prayers and I have always believed ever since. I am so grateful that I had a family to teach me at such a young age, when my faith was so pure. I am also so grateful to be here to help others find that faith again or for the first times in their lives. I absolutely love being a missionary and I am so excited to see the new miracles the Lord has in store for this area and these people. Thank you for all of your love and support! I love you all!!!!!!

Love Sister Jones

Picture #1= Brother Bambi in our "lawn" haha