well, yes i got your package. well, with all the new investigators we found, not any progress. werent able to find any of the new investigators to teach once more. we called c saturday night and found out she was in the hospital with her five year old, he had had an accident or something and she wasnt able to make it to church that day. so we pretty much didnt have any investigators at church on sunday. j did come to church. but we talked with her afterwards and have pretty much dropped her now. she doesnt want to get married and neither does her marido. so we really just need to find more newbies. today, we are in olavarria. we came to be with the senior missionaries. they had all the missionaries from olavarria over plus us to have lunch. then they showed us pictures of their missions in southafrica, madagascar and china. pretty much they are amazing. i want to be like them. i also realized i want to go travel the world. we also had interviews with presidente this week. he gave a great talk before interviews about doing things in the way of the Lord, instead of our way. in 1 nephi 17:8-10 it talks about nefi building the ship in the Lords way instead of his way. but he had to wait to be shown how to do it. before he was shown, he had to follow all the commandments and then after everything he did, he was shown how to build the boat, where to go to get the materials and then he did it. it was pretty awesome and i learned that i need to read the scriptures even slower to try and get the things the spirit is telling me. we shouldnt speed through the scriptures when we read. we are to learn and apply what we learn to ourselves and our lives. i havent been the best at that and now i am trying to do those things that i have learned, like doing the work in the Lords way instead of mine, taking the time to understand the scriptures etc... we got a new mission leader called as well. its the old branch president. so i think we will have a lot more success having another mission leader. our old mission leader is still having problems though. members have stopped coming because of the hipocrisy they have seen in the church. so we are having to do a lot of damage control. elder f talked with us today about how we reallly are here to fix problems. not just go for a cake walk. he said we should take a step back sometimes and just realize that we are here to fix the problems and that we pretty much set apart to fix them. well mom, i love you. take care!
love elder jones
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