Jones, Emery

HEYYY friends and fam! Hope you're all doing amazing. lots of things happening here in El Bosque, here's the recap! ☆didn't get to finish training my hija...she went to Quito, so trio for a day with hna Alvarez and hna Tischner!!  ☆starting to miss not sweating every second...I want cold weather again ☆benito finished the Book of Mormon and WENT TO THE TEMPLE TO DO BAPTISMS!!! ☆ate lunch on Wednesday with bishop and ALL of us including us missionaries (the 1 day trio with hna Alvarez and Tischner) bishop, his wife, and their workers that ate the food got sick...the cook wouldn't admit that it was the food and low key her fault... ☆made corviche from the start, peeled 100 verde and shredded it to the corviche dough and helped fry them (sorry if u dont know what corviche is, all my friends who have verde in the mish know what im talkin bout) but MAN its a lot of work haha ☆saw a dead man on the street 5 minutes from our house last night... ☆contacted a total of 6-7 hours ...

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...

How are you all!?! Hope you all enjoyed every second of conference as much as i did! WOW what a fast and incredible week! Here's what happened! Quote of the week: "dude everyones been giving up jugo de naranja and its been the best fetchin week of my life"-bestie Elder Ford in the bus today on the way to Quito -Learned something new this week! When theres an old pair of sneakers hanging from the telephone lines it means that someone nearby sells drugs...there's old sneakers hanging on nearly every corner in our area...but don’t worry guys I LOVE THIS AREA and nothing bad has happened to me yet -have you guys seen the studio C, 7 guys on a scooter video?? Ya saw that yesterday but in real lifelegitimately saw 7 people packed on a little motorcycle...oh how i love Santo Domingo -ROSITAS BAPTISM! Shes just amazing and testified that just a little act of service when she met the missionaries (2 days before i got here to Santo Domingo) is what changed her life and said how...

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...