Aug 11, 2015

We moved houses last week to the ground floor and now we have two bathrooms and it's a little bigger. They moved transfers to Sunday now so I am not sure if we will still be writing on Mondays like we have been. We have three new guys in the Zone. Elder Carabajal- ex-assistant to President, Elder Soto- American who is from Mexico, Elder Hernandez- from Ecuador, my brother (he was trained by Elder Woolf), and lives in my house now.

How are the girls day to day?  Do you like your new mini are you going to let me drive it when I come home?  I was able to email back and forth with Kelly today.  That was fun he sounds really good.  Things are hard here but never impossible.  I am working everyday to be an instrument in the hands of the Lord.

Send emails I love hearing from you all. 

Aug 3 2015

I love my brother Elder Kelly Jones. I am super excited for him to join me in the ranks of the Lord´s Army and I can´t wait to here all of his cool stories. He went into the MTC last week.

Thank you so much family for the package of stuff and letters. The shirts look a little big but they will work.

The teaching here is going great. I am fluid in spanish but still learning little things everyday. Sometimes I have so much spanish running in my mind that I mess up cause I think ahead of talking. I am doing great. I have always remembered what dad said about the accent. I tell everyone who gives me a compliment on my spanish that my dad told me to get the accent down first then the words. Tell mom I love her. Yesterday I went through all of the letters that I have received since the beginning of my mission. We moved houses all day and so I am really tired.

Love Elder Kalen Jones

Picture of the people who brought my package from home Thank you so much

July 20 2015

I talked with the guy that we met last year President Flores. He is a Branch President in Bermejo, a city 3 hours south of Tarija. He called me on Friday. I did get permision from President Willard to go to the airport when Veronica gets here so she can give me the package. She´ll get here on the 1st of August. Transfers are the Aug 12th. Yes there is another Elder Jones here in the mission but he is in Santa Cruz I think. It was really weird to talk to Pres Flores because we talked in Spanish and I never imagined his voice to be what I heard. He also asked me how I was doing and we talked. He said it was also weird because now I speak spanish and the last time we talked I didn´t. (3 days before I left to the mission) It was a neat experience to see how far I have come and in only one year. Things change quickly in this world.

Elder Jones

July 13 2015

What a Life it is to be here in Bolivia. A world away from my family and yet I couldn´t be more close to my Father in Heaven. I feel so happy everyday here and I can´t believe sometimes that time is going by so quickly. I sometimes imagine what it will be like to go home at the end of two years. I can´t even think about what it will be like. Sometimes it doesn´t even feel like it´s going to come at all. I feel like I have been in the mission my whole life, like I was born here and raised here. I obviously remember my home and family but it feels like a dream. Maybe that is a side effect of being away for so long without seeing them or hearing their voices. I really do miss them and love all of you. I am super happy to be in ``the service of my fellow being´´ and yet I ``am only in the service of my God´´. Mosiah 2:17. I actually feel like I am on a different plane of living like it says in Preach My Gospel. The setting apart can be taken literally as a setting apart from the world, to another plane of thinking and living. I am helping a lot of people come to know Christ and make covenants with Him. I have to tell the truth, it´s not all flowers and rainbows here, but I don´t think that I would want to be anywhere else. I am getting to know the words of God through His Holy Scriptures and through personal revelation. I am speaking without a single problem and I love the people. I am super excited to continue and push forward even with the end clearly in mind that I can´t stay here forever. If I could I would serve for a long time. I don´t know how much time that is but I feel like it would be the best time of my life. If you are thinking about serving a mission or you want to share the Gospel with a friend or a stranger, JUST DO IT. (Thank you NIKE) I love being here and even though it is difficult, there is no better place in the world. I love you all and I pray that the Lord will provide and protect you. I leave my testimony that I know that Jesus Is the Christ, the very Son of God. I am a representative of Him here in Tarija and I have been given power to preach repentance to all that I meet. I do my job with Love but I fear no man, or woman. And behold, I am called Elder Jones, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Sone of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people that they might have everlasting life. 3 Nephi 5:12 . I love my mission and I hope that you too can preach His word. With all my love

July 6 2015

Is there a Temple in Kelly's mission?? I miss the Temple so so so so so so so so so so so much. Did you here that Pres. Packer died!?!?!?!?!?!? We got the announcement yesterday in church over the pulpit from the Bishop. Sad huh. Kelly shouldn´t be nervous, he´s gonna have to get used to talking with random people. I know he´s a people person and he likes to talk but these are random people and he is sharing his beliefs and dreams. Talking about sports is a lot different than sharing a part of yourself like your religion. Steel your nerves Kelly and prepare for some people who won´t want to hear a message about Jesus Christ. You have to be tough but at the same time loving to everyone. Just love everyone is my best advice. I have encountered some hard resistance here and plus the Pope is coming here to Bolivia this weekend. All of the Catholics are gonna go crazy. All I do is try to love everyone and live with the will of the Lord.

Elder Jones