Jones, Landon

Hey everyone, it's been a crazy past few weeks!  Starting off, I got transfered! I'm not in Minas Gerais anymore, which is the state I've been in for the last 9 months of my mission.  I'm back in Rio de Janeiro! It's a city called Volta Redonda. Fun fact, my area is called 7 de septembro which is the independence day for Brasil! I've been here for like 2 weeks now, it's been really sick, we have a ton of people progressing, like a ton. And,  we keep finding new people everyday! My new comp is named Elder Goldhardt. This is his last transfer on the mission, so that will be fun!  These past few weeks we've seen so many miracles, it seems like everywhere we go, every corner we turn God's preparing something for us! We have this recent convert named Adriana that's loving church and has a daughter that's 21. We've been trying to get to know her to teach her about the gospel, but she works a ton. This last week we helped Adriana move houses, wh...

Hey everyone!!! Happy Semana Santa!!!! Hope you all are doing amazing, and had the opportunity to watch General Conference this weekend!  This week has been a little bit interesting, luckily this week no one was sick, because last week everyone was super sick. This week we had Zone Conference on Thursday, which is always super fun and insightful! We talked alot about being guided by the spirit and how we have power when we are 100% obedient to the Lord's commandments! Then we had an activity at the church that us missionários put on! It was a movie night, it was a huge success both the night of and now afterward!!! We invited two wards to the activity and both of them found a new sort of excitement about missionary work! They are so excited that we're already doing another activity this Tuesday, which will be a barbeque! I'm so glad it gave them that sort of spirit, because activities are the best way to show people what the church is about!!  This weekend was also G...