"I HATE THE SIESTA" AND "A TASTE OF MY OWN MEDICINE" AND 2 NEPHI 29

With the tragedy in Arizona, I am so grateful for the gospel in my life and my children's lives.  I am grateful for Taylor and the decision he has made in his life to be where he is and doing what he is doing.  I know he is being prayed for daily by many, many people and is being watched over and protected by Heavenly Father!

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questions first. there is a cyber cafe thing that has a bunch of computers. we just go there and pay. it works out well. i did not meet an elder walker i dont think. i am not very good with names here. in cerri, we walk around everywhere. its a small pueblito. when we go to other places outside of cerri, we have to take a bus or colectivo. we have to buy cards or tarjebus to use the colectivo each time. so we rode a bus into bahia for the buffet. my camera takes video and there isnt a rule about videos on my camera here. so i am good. i think i can just hook my camera up to the comp and send pics through email. that or i can go somewhere to get them put on a disk and send the disk home. 

i think that answers all your questions. well what happened this week. first of all, i hate the siesta. noone does nothing here. they all shut their doors and sleep. so we can do anything except set up citas with members and have lunch with them. its really annoying. so we set three fechas this week. one fell already because he said he doesnt want to get baptized. his name is maxi and he is 13. his mom is an active member and i can see him getting baptized real soon but he just dont have a desire right now. he always goes to the activities and hangs out with the members but he doesnt want to do anything else. the other is with carla valenzuela. she is 9 and the rest of her family are members. she wants to get baptized but its difficult because her parents are lazy and dont want to walk to church. they live far from the church and when we talked with them last week, the mom gave the excuse that her flip flops are broken and doesnt want to walk in the heat. its just frustrating dealing with them. so you can guess that they didnt come to church yesterday. o and the minimum for a invest. to get baptized for attending church meetings is 3. they have to attend 3 meetings to become baptized. the final fecha we had was with elisa, who is 50 something. she has a daughter who lives with her. they both had fechas before i got here, but they went on vacation and only the elisa came back last week. her daughter stayed in bahia i think. so we finally talked to her on saturday, her first fecha and she didnt even remember. so we set her new date for jan 29, the others are for the 29 as well. i hope it goes well and we can get some baptisms. 

this week at church, we had one invest. at church and it was the gf of a member.she wants to get baptized but her parents wont let her, so we have to wait until she is 18. i havent even met her yet. im still trying to meet all the members here. so we found one invest on my first day here, and we are still teaching him. his name is omar. he takes things seriously and i like it. i think he just needs to actually sit down and pray to god though to know if what we are teaching him is true. he would be a great member. a problem i noticed here in cerri is peopled dont promise anything. they say that they dont want to make a promise and break it, which means that they are not going to do it in the first place. so i am not happy about that. when we set up citas (appts) with people while tracting, people say we can pass by talk with them if they are there. nothing is ever set in stone here. they all are lazy in that aspect. so i am getting a taste of my own medicine. jaja. well, elder cox and i are getting along real well and i am glad to be with him. thats it for now. check out 2 nephi 29. i read it and its pretty good scrip. about how the book of mormon is true. it is revelation from god to nephi and the people. it talks about how the book of mormon can exist and other stuff like that. i like it a lot! well, i love you all and pray for the people of general cerri! o yeah, if you do dear elders to the mission office or mission home or whatever, i can get them on tuesdays at district meetings. that is all. love you!

con amor

elder jones

Find 2 Nephi 29 in the Book of Mormon here