Jones, Emery

Hola hola mi querido familia y amigos! Espero que todos esten muy bien y que han tenido una semana de milagros y bendicenos! This week flewwww by let's get right into it: -tuesday we were in the middle of putting a baptism date and the other hermanas wouldn't stop calling me so i pick up the phone and they tell me they didn't have light or water in their house. After the lesson there were absolutely ZERO taxis so we had to walk a solid 20 in the rain in a dangerous part of our area hehe and im trying call and figure out how we're supposed to get another mattress then we get it figured out and we get to our house waiting for the hermanas to arrive and we find out theres water allll over the ground in the other room in our house because my comp forgot to shut the window that morning and it had rained all day. -sleepover party with the hermanas de las islas! -entrevistas with President...Basically he told me what's gonna happen with all the hermanas in my zone and who...

MY LOVELY FRIENDS AND FAMILYYY what is up?!?! I miss you all so so much but the WORK. IS. GOOD. Let me tell ya! Let's get right into it: Things that only happen in a South American country: -a drunk guy came up to me and started speaking french bc he thought I'm from France and then grabbed my hand (while i was trying to pull it away) and kissed it with achohol bubbles around his mouth -a dad gave his 4 year old a cup of beer and said "its good right?" when the kid starting chugging it, that was just sad to watch honestly -ate the absolute best corviche of my life (if you dont know what that is I'm so sorry for you) and contacted the lady and on the spot taught her for 45 minutes and invited her to be baptized -taxi driver planned our wedding and asked me to marry him and told me we can live here in Ecuador..how nice -stressed ourselves out of our minds yesterday going to pick up our converts whole family for church yesterday. Basically what happened was that (kee...

CRAZZYYYY fast week and constantly busy busy busy!! THIS WEEK ☆I hit HALFWAY today, I legitimately don't know how that even possible ☆our new friend Cristian came to church yesterday and stayed for the first 2 hours and loved it so much that he stayed for the temple class after and used my Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants...he's a real one. definition of escogido ☆made best friends with a monkey...me and my comps dreams were made come true, his name is Titi and we're seeing him tonight im so excited ☆we traveled 45 minutes in bus to a further area called Luz de America and let's just say the mosquitos there are NOT my friends...104 mosquito bites later, I even used repellent but my comp told me "hermana your repellent is for the gringo mosquitos, it doesn't work" learned that lesson well ☆we did 2 service projects this week and man is was WORK. We painted a whole garage on viernes and painted a whole house on Saturday morning. I painted a whole ro...

Hola hola cómo están? THIS WEEK: - on monday hermana friend and i were together waiting for our uber the morning of leadership conference and some guy came up and robbed her phone it low key was terrifying and tried wrestling it out of her hands and kept saying "don't scream" then sprinted away, but honestly just glad he didn’t do something worse hermana friend even said , "The good thing is that when he opens the phone he'll see a picture of Christ and see that he robbed a disciple of Christ" HAHAHA -got to ride in Presidents car to Santo Domingo after the leadership conference it was a party car...ya we all slept lol -mini hurricane happened in a part of our sector called "Cristo vive" and tore off the roof of our friends house and flooded everything -Intercambios with hermana Panchana in the area called "Las Islas" -sacrificed our lunch yesterday to bring our 6 friends to church, worth it but now I'm starving and we don't have ...

BUENOS TARDES A TODOS! Ok ok so much happened this week let's get right into it (I'm so sorry this email is huge but I just love it so much I can't help myself) ☆Got transfer news on monday night telling me i was going to SANTO DOMINGO EN EL AREA EL BOSQUE literally got off my bed and started jumping uo and down i was so excited ☆Ate cow liver without knowing it was cow liver...low key not bad ☆every lunch they give us steaming hot soup which obviously i eat, but with sweat running down my back and face, its a lovely experience  ☆tuesday we stayed sheltered in a house with a family we're teaching because there was so much rain it looked like a hurricane, and yesterday it rained so much that we legitimately were drenched to the bone and my shoes are still squishy and wet haha ☆our friend Alejandro gets baptized next sunday after church and we are all PUMPED! ☆taught a watermelon vender on the side of the street with his wife in rain about baptism while loud trucks past u...