Today was ABSOLUTELY, WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE BEST MONDAY OF 2011!!! Earlier I got a brief email from Taylor that I knew COULD NOT be Taylor's weekly email, so I quickly replied to it thinking that he might still be on the computer writing the other email. In just a few seconds I got a response. I was able to have a conversation with Taylor for several minutes, over several emails!! As we were wrapping up our conversation, I asked him to tell me just briefly if he was happy, (I didn't want to wait for the longer email). Here is his reply:
yes i am happy. i am doing the lords work. i couldnt be in a bad mood!
As a mom, what could be better! I am grateful for his attitude. I am grateful for his example to me and to his brothers!! Enjoy his other letter!
ando bien acá.
well, im doin pretty good here. investigators are lacking unfortunately. we have a little boy named daniel ruiz, im not sure if i told you about him, but he has a fecha for the 6 of febrero. his family didnt come to church yesterday. so we are hoping they make it next week. his family had a cumpleaños saturday night and thus they didnt go to church. cumpleaños take a long time and people tend to sleep in the next day. but yeah, we have nothing else really. although, hermana linari, a member, brought a family of five to the capilla yesterday. we were so stoked. she introduced us and we set up a cita to go teach them. its a mom with three sons and one daughter and the oldest is ten. the others are around five and younger. so we could possibly get two fechas with them. we passed by their house last night to try and teach the first lesson but she had people over. we still talked and got a very quick first lesson in. about a 2 min lesson jaja. but we got another cita for tomorrow. we are bringing hermana linari with us because they are good friends and neighbors. hermana could explain everything a lot better than we can. plus she already gave silvena, the investigator, a folleto about the plan of salvation. so i feel we are in a good spot and this could be our golden family we have been praying for. they said they liked church and yeah. elder cox and i are very excited. so elisa. we found her this week. she talked to us and straight up dropped us. she told us she wont continue and when asked about churhc and why she didnt enter, she said she just couldnt and went to her brothers house. i bet she was having trouble with stopping smoking and stuff. it was annoying but people have their free will. if she really would have prayed for the answer to the things which we taught whether they are true, she would have been a great member. but we tried our best. and she wasnt progressing so we had to drop her unfortunately. yes, i am settling in ok here. i just have to ask a lot of people to repeat the things they say to me. its also a pain to have to go and change out my money from dollars to pesos. to actually change money, in a lot of places, i need my passport but its in the mission office. so it sucks. but i will find a way soon. i hear jewelry stores do changes so i could be in luck there. of course i am happy! i got to bahia blanca by plane from buenos aires. the most spiritual experience. hmm, not many this week. we had to do a lot of contacts, not many people would talk to us. but i would have to say it may have been talking to this investigator we found and i explained the origins of the book of mormon to him without really knowing what i was saying. but i sounded pretty legit and i am thankful for the gift of tongues and how it has blessed my life. general cerri is about thirty mins from bahia blanca. so i am not far from the mission home at all. laundry is pretty ghetto here. we have a "lavaropa" which pretty much just twirls our clothes around in water with some soap. then we hang em out to dry. so we dont wash clothes on the same day because there isnt much room to hang our clothes to dry. not much else happened this week. we have like no investigators right now. i hope this will change this week. we want to be able to have at least one baptism here this transfer. so right now, i am praying for a miracle! love you all and thanks for everything you have done!
love elder jones
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