Jones, Emery

HELLO HELLOOO!! The last week of this transfer flewww by! Here's what's up: - we put a fecha with our friend Maria! She's awesome, I'm so so excited for her to enter the covenant path -7 friends in church yesterday!! - had a visit with a social media referral and holy cow they are the definition of CHOSENNNN there names are Antony and Erika...our first visit we talked about baptism and they both said they wanna get baptized, only one problem...they're not married. Any missionary or person that has served a mission understands the pain of this hahaha and on top of that he has to get a divorce...there's a likely chance I won't be here to see their baptism haha it might take a while, but they came to church yesterday with their 2 sweet girls who wouldn't stop hugging me and holding my hand oh my heck I love kids they truly are a piece of heaven on earth - Benitos perspective for why he cant find his phone anywhere is because he knows when he reads BOM on hi...

Heyyyy anotha week down! Here's what's up in Santo Domingo: - a pair of my favorite shoes molded over...hna Mendez and Friend, i now believe you two that things mold here in SD - comps birthday on Wednesday so we got to celebrate with some members and ate the best hamburger and cake of my entire life - AP skousen (best ap that ever existed and one of my best mission friends) and one of our zone leaders acompanied us to a lesson and wowww sooo powerful!! - just walking in an area where we don't usually go, we found 2 inactive families who haven't gone to church in over 10 years and said they wanna come back - our convert Benito disappeared for a whole week, didn't answer ANY calls and when we went by his house he was never there, the elders then told us that they ran into him in the street and he said he's fine but he just can't find his phone in his house, me and my comp legit thought something bad had happened to him..trying to give us a heart attack over h...

Hola holaa anotha fast week! Here's what's up -our convert Benito said he's reaching the end of Alma and wants to finish the book as fast as he can so he can start over -found 2 cockroaches and a lizard in the house...I'm the only one that deals with them bc my comp is so scared she literally stands a mile away and screams, so basically I've halfway overcome my fear of killing insects -BESTIES WEDDING! One of the best and hardest days of my mission tbh, honestly just grateful that technology worked and that I was able to watch all the important events happen and feel a percentage of what it would have been like to be there in person. I'm so so so happy for her and my new BROTHER IN LAW WHATTT?!? Welcome to the fam Rob -painted another house with the elders in our district -one of our friends excuse for not coming to church yesterday was that her dog killed the neighbors chicken and they had to "figure things out", now she has to pay him back a chicken...

Holaaa mis queridos amigos! This week was so so fast, they just keep getting faster in the mission! This week: ☆the big convo going around this week was the big 6.3 earthquake, first time experiencing one! Literally just brushing my teeth lookin out the window then next thing i know everythings shaking, soo wierd. It actually was a ton stronger in the coast tho, pic below! ☆intercambios with one of my past comps hna Xivir! ☆had an adventure in a pueblo in my area called el esfuerzo! Waited 45 minutes for the bus to come, we had an hour and a half lesson, then had to wait another hour for the bus to come again to bring us back to SD ☆saw an iguana in the wild ☆ate crab for the first time with our favorite member and WOW i think crab is one of my new favorite foods ☆two of my bestie little girls yesterday in church, Valentina and Gladys, begged me to stay and Santo Domingo and live with them the rest of my life haha, i told them i can't do that but maybe i can stay here in this area ...

Holaaa mis queridos!! Hope you all had a wonderful Easter remembering our Savior! This weeks recap: -exchanges with the hermanas in la Concordia with hna Tischner (aka one of my new best friends) and let me just say, two white girls in the dangerous parts of my area...not a good idea -reached almost all of our goals this past week and found SO many escogidos and only 1 person came to church for Easter, definitely not the result i was hoping to have -when we went to la Concordia to start exchanges and finally got to ride my first mototaxi -got to do the Easter studies every day this week and wowww it made it so incredibly special! -as for the title of this email, we just went to the part lf our area called "Cristo Vive" or "Christ lives" on the day that he resurrected so i thought that was kinda cool!! SPIRITUAL: Ok this week i honestly just want to share my testimony! I'm so grateful for this Easter to have been able to serve this Lord with all my might and stre...

HELLOOO my wonderful friends and family! The life of Hermana Jones in Santo Domingo just got a whoooole lot more interesting so we're getting right to it! Today I'm gonna write this by day of what happened because just so many eventful things that went down Monday: traveled to Quito, went to an appointment with the mission presidents wife, then waited in the offices to receive transfers, opened transfers in front of President and me and hermana friend SCREAMED and literally jumped out of our seats when we saw we're training AGAIN!!! (We even have video proof) Tuesday: leadership council and helping the other hermanas get ready for transfers and traveling Wednesday: started off the day with a great start, we go to the terminal in Carcelen and get the other hermanas in the bus and while they're sitting in the bus waiting a guy comes in a robs them, her phone and her money and her card, and they hadn't even left to go to the concordia yet...sometimes i hate ecuador wit...