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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 food lol

-Alejandros baptism!! So many complications and almost didn't get baptized but it allll worked out and 25 members came to support

-we played Carnaval for our preparation day! I got absolutely soaked with water, spray foam, and grass...lovely


SPIRITUAL:

I was studying in Alma 27:17-18 and it says,


"Now the joy of Ammon was so great even that he was full; yea, he was swallowed up in the joy of his God, even to the exhausting of his strength; and he fell again to the earth.  


 Now was not this exceeding joy? Behold, this is joy which none receiveth save it be the truly penitent and humble seeker of happiness."


I love that it says "swallowed up in the joy of Christ" because I really have seen so many lives change all because of the gospel of Christ. To the point that their faces change. There is light in their eyes and it's so noticeable because the the light of Jesus Christ. We work so hard "even to the exhausting of his strength" in the heat every single day but seeing that little light start to brighten, it's all worth it. 

 

Have such an amazing week my loves! 


Xoxo, 

Hermana Jones

Link to the photos!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jnuXJtQuNEdr2Qv97




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