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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Nov 12th 2013 Quote of the Week-"I can't meet with you tonight, I have girl scout cookie training..."

Is that even a real thing? My companion and I beg to differ.
Anyways I have to tell you all about how my companion and I HAD THE BEST WEEK EVER!!! I'm not even exaggerating this time! I don't know how it happened but we were one lesson short of 30 lessons! 15 of which were member presents and we found 9 new investigators! Yeah, i'm still shocked at how that even happened! Golden investigators were dropping from the sky!
Ok coolest thing that happened this week, we were driving to get to an appointment. But I completely forgot where the house was. We turned down a wrong street and we spotted two young men outside of their car smoking. We pulled over our car and went over to talk to them. Their names were Austin and Walker. We started to ask them if we could sing them a song, but they said they had to go to work. So we gave them our card and told them that we as missionaries come and share with people a message and invite them to pray and ask god if it is true. Austin said, "Oh that's cool. We were just talking about finding a church to go to the other day. Can you come over to my house and teach me and my girlfriend and my girlfriend's mom?" we were like, "OF COURSE!" So we set up a time to go see them. We got to teach him and his friend but his girlfriend was still in school so we came back later to teach her. They all were super receptive and wanted us to come back! We taught them the restoration. We came back and just had a lesson with Austin we invited him to read and pray the time before and when we went back he said that he feels really happy when he prays about it. We asked him if he would be baptized and he said YES!!!  Aw man it was so cool. Heavenly father just placed them at the perfect time into our lives. SO coool. We also found 2 more families that we are going to teach this week and I am super pumped about it! They are also super awesome.
I am just blown away with how much god is blessing us. Wow, we are so lucky to be in this area. The zone leaders that we share the area with also had a super good week and they said on their zone leader confrence call President Murdock commented on how awesome we did. That just really makes us feel good. I don't know how in the world we are going to beat this week, but I hope and pray we can continue having amazing weeks.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you! My new companion is sister quist! She is from California, san jose area. She has been on her mission for 14 months. I love her to death already. She is super funny and keeps me laughing all the time. I do miss sister Bennett a ton, but I have a feeling this transfer is going to be an amazing one too. I hope all of you are doing well and are sharing the gospel with your friends! Now is the time! Romans 13:11-12. I love you all!!! Have a great and blessed day!!
 
Love Sister Jones!!!!

Nov 4th letter

TRANSFER NEWS!!!!!
 
I am having mixed feelings about this transfers transfer news.....I am staying here. And sister bennett is leaving me :(. I am super happy that I get to be here and stay in beautiful grand junction but my heart is breaking because I don't think I'm ready to be away from Sister Bennett. I love her so much. We have had the best/fastest transfer EVER!!!! I think it is because we had too much fun. Aw man, it is heart breaking. But I do love my area SO much. I love the people we teach SO much and I'm glad i don't have to be separated from them yet.
We had the absolute BEST week ever!! We had a baptism!!! Jaden Jensen, age 12 got baptized this saturday. It was so beautiful. The spirit was so strong and you will never guess what I did........I sang in the musical number!! What the?! I know I know, sister jones sings??? I made sister bennett practise with me THE ENTIRE week because I was soooo nervous! The elders, sister bennett and I sang "I know my redeemer lives" to the tune of "A poor wayfaring man of grief." We sang it acapela! It sounded so good! Wow, I was super impressed. That was seriously the first time ever, I have sang with less than 20 people for a musical number. Sister Bennett and I recorded ourselves singing it this morning. So if you are lucky (and if it works on the computer) I might send it to you guys haha.
Halloween was pretty awesome! We were able to do quite a bit of service. We organized the christmas decorations at Habitat for Humanity (it's like a goodwill) and we sang for people at the nursing home. It was SO great!!!
We also were able to get 25 lessons with 12 member presents this week!!!!! Member present is when we have a lesson with a member there. Some times it is really hard to cordinate having a member there, but we had awesome sucess with that this week!
I'm sorry that this email is pretty short this week. But I hope each of you had a wonderful halloween and are having an awesome day today. i love you all!!! have a wonderful day!!!
 
 
Love you!
love sister jones 
 
Picture=the coolest notebook I have ever seen at walmart!!

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