I JUST WANT TO BE A TOOL IN THE LORD'S HANDS AND BRING THE JOY AND HAPPINESS I KNOW AS THE GOSPEL TO OTHERS HERE IN ARGENTINA

I don't think that the work can be summed up any better than Taylor said it in that one sentence I used as the headline for this post.  As a mom, I have been proud of all my boys for different reasons throughout their lives, but I have never felt such sustained joy!

hi everyone!

well this past week was a good one. daniel and ara both got baptized and confirmed! the service went well, when it was time for daniel to be submerged in the water to be baptized he freaked out and thought he was drowning before he went all the way under. so they had to do it a second time. the second time he went all the way under jaja. ara´s baptism was graceful. so it just goes to show girls are more graceful than boys jaja. so in church we had six investigators, excluding ara and daniel. daniels parents, aras mom and brother jorge, and a couple others. we also had about 50 in church in total! that is a record elder cox said since he has got here. a couple of inactive families came and it was great. one of the familys we have lunch with every week and the other we had family night with last week. they said that things had started going bad as soon as they stopped going to church. but they are coming back because they know they will receive the blessings for doing so. we found two new investigators this week and got a fecha for them for the 19 of march. so we are doing pretty well from what i know so far. i have heard that the most a missionary has got in baptisms is around 45. i was told by president to set a goal on how many baptisms i want. so i have set my goal at 45 for here in the mission. i just want to be a tool in the lords hands and bring the joy and happiness i know as the gospel to others here in argentina. so i am doing well here in cerri so far. i just hope it continues and the lord keeps on blessing us for our hard work. well last week not much else went down, we spent a lot of time searching around for baptismal clothing for ara and daniel. it took us until saturday morning to find clothing. it was a bit stressful but it all worked out. i heard that my zone this past week had 9 baptisms and 9 confirmations. i dont know if i already told you but president detlefsen and the member of the seventy who is over argentina set a goal to have 180 baptisms here in this mission this month of march. it is possible and i hope we can get it done! well that is all this week. i love you all and take care!

elder jones