Letter from Jon 6-8-09

6-8-09

Hey famWell its been another busy busy week and we have worked so hard to get these three girls confirmed.I’m so glad everyone is doing good and Ani is safe in Mass. B- ball rolls on! mom is still best/oldest skier in World and the count down is on for Jordy! Wolf! I remember those days. That’s nuts by the time he makes his first call home I’ll be there to chat with him hehe.Well this week has been wild. I don’t even know were to start. The two girls are getting put to test as converts. This week one got locked in her house and other got booted out. I was so sad for them and their parents said heck no to the confirmation. I was kind of mad and so we fasted again and my companion and I went to Chilca outside my area to have a little spiritual brawl with the dad. I was so nervous but so ready and full of the spirit my companion didn’t say anything. It was me and the dad for 45 min and it got kind of got heated. To make a long story short; the dad doesn’t want his daughter to be member because he is catholic and he didn’t what to have a Mormon daughter. He said everything he does is for her and he knows she won’t respect him if she joins the church. I told him that if he really loved her he’d let go of his catholic pride and respect her decision.
It was pretty cool the spirit was there even though we were kind of fighting. I asked him if there was anything we did in our church that was bad and he couldn’t think of one thing. All of a sudden he said you know what? I would like to know more cause I really don’t know anything about the church. I laughed and said then you’re invited tomorrow and he said no I don’t have time and I then said what a shame uh. We ended on good terms …well the girls got confirmed yesterday and bore their testimonies. It was awesome. Well this batch of conflict is finally over they are members and their parents are chill. We keep telling them one day their parents will be baptized. My companion and I gave each other knuckles during the confirmation. When he said receive the spirit we knew all are the hard work was not in vain! What a glorious day!!! So it ended like that…. woof and we have three new members.It’s been a good week and my comp and I are best buds. We really have bonded through all this and we are on FIRE now! We have seen three miracles with three different girls who couldn’t get baptized get baptized. They are now back in their homes with their parents.
This week we have taught some sweet lessons. One day we were way up on the mountain and we helped a family move all their stuff into a house. They were like where did these two boys come from? My companion and I were sure sweating but smiling because we knew we had free ticket into this family of 5 and 8…. yeah baby! We went back and taught them and challenged them. All agreed to be baptized. We have so much confidence in Lord and were rolling. We have so much fun too. We give each other knuckles like 23 times a day hehe and say tight!!!!!!!! Hehe when cool things happen. He is really working hard and I love him for it.
Yesterday we taught a lesson to a dude who doesn’t believe in got we tried to teach him about Joseph Smith and it was like beating a dead horse then he prayed to end the lesson and all of a sudden the room was hot and thick with the spirit. He started to cry and my companion and I looked at each other and then told him that’s the spirit that you feel my good brother. I stared crying too it was so awesome.I love you all and am enjoying my mission so much and my companion and helping these great people. One funny thing that happened is there are lots of pigs here and we were contacting a family and their little boy got tangled in the pig leash and then fell and scared the pig and pig ran off with the kid attached. The pig and the kid went mud tubing without the tube. The kid and the pie were screaming my companion was taking and The family and I were laughing so hard. We were just rolling . The best part was the kid after. He thought it was so fun!!!!!!!!!! Hehe o kids you got to love um. I wanted to try it too cause the pig is about as big as small carLove your son in lama land ---Jon