Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 7/10/17 ~ Pequeños Milagros

Hi Family! I hope you had a great fourth of July week and that there were lots of fireworks involved for my part! We did divisiones on the fourth and I went with Elder Lopez and he had the national anthem on his usb so we heard that a few times, but unfortunately there was a protest against the lack of neighborhood security in another part of our area and the streets were closed and we couldnt order pizza.... but we did find lots of future investigadores. 

The coolest experience of this week was finding an investigador named Eduardo. We contacted him outside while it was raining and he was lighting a cigarette. We asked him about his concept of religion and God and he told us that for him God can be a plant or an animal or something in nature. We explained the Godhead to him and left him a pamphlet of the plan of salvation. We found him two days later and he explained to us that he had read and understood that before this life we lived with God as his spirit children and that the fall of Adam and Eve was something God knew would happen, and that through the atonement of Jesus Christ we can overcome the fall. We then gave him a pamphlet of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and he loved it and said he understood that he needs to get baptized. A Jehova´s Witness tried to give a pamphlet and he said you can give it to me but im sorry im mormon!!! The guy even had his wife iron his pants to go to church and he took out some brand new shoes. The bad news is that he is moving to Mexico city this week and he was so sad to tell us that. 

We were able to place 6 baptismal dates this week and of the 11 investigators that said they were gonna show up, 6 of them did so that was great:)) We should have about 5 more baptisms this change so lets see what happens:)

I love you all tons and hope you have a great week!!

Elder Jordan Saunooke

Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 7/3/17 ~ 20 months, first move, and two baptisms

Hi family!!! I cant believe that tomorrow I hit twenty months in the mission field!! Literally everytime someone asks me how much time I have left and I tell them, they respond saying... o ya mero te vas... or in english youre basically giong home:P

At first this week was a little hard because I honestly learned my area in two days because its so small... but we are finding people and i think we have three pueblitos we are going to be working in:) On Tuesday we had to move houses and we moved to the furthest but newest part of Arboleda that is called Cielo Alto... it looks super fresa and nice but its more low key that what it looks like. That was the first time that ive had to change houses in 20 months in the mission because I always have avoided it but I guess it finally caught up to me. 

My area has a recent convert that is 19 years old that is seriously one of the most powerful converts i have ever met. He got baptized three weeks ago and I would swear he has been a member his whole life. 

This week we had two baptisms of a mom and a daughter that are really such great examples to me. The Dad was going to get baptized too but he kinda pulled a nutty last second and took off for another state without warning.. I think he will come back though. Anyway these two amazing women (one of them 16 years old) still decided to get baptized this week and are strong as ever in their testimony of the true church of Jesus Christ. 

I met the coolest family ever this week that lives in the counter corner of our house. They are the Familia Rivero and they actually lived in Florida for 4 years! They are so good to us and literally whatever we need at whatever time they do it automatically without even asking. Food, washer and dryer, or whatever and are so great to the missionaries. The ward has the biggest assistence I have seen since i got on the mission and we were about 150 on Sunday!

Love you all

Elder Jordan Saunooke

Elder Jordan Saunooke ~ 6/26/17 ~ Adios Tanlum!

Well just like I predicted... i had transfers this week! I said goodbye to Tanlum this morning after being there for 6 months and now im in the Zona Merida and im with Elder Mejia. The only sad thing is that the missionaries here had ac, but people broke into the house and stole it... good thing we are moving tomorrow even if it is a pain in the butt:P 

The best part about last week was Sunday. We were heading to church and we couldnt walk very fast because Elder Roa had a huge blister that burst on his ankle, and we were going to get there late but then our investigator happened to show up right on time and she was going to church with us! She like it so much that she asked us if she can split in two because she knows its true but doesnt wanna leave her church:P 

Also Dulce and Olaf invited us to eat lunch with them this week and it was super fun because we cooked tacos dorados... They are the same family that we made sushi with! Olaf said that he loved that we are with his family and even if he isnt there he likes us being there because we are such good examples to his children:) 

I dont have much to say this week, but I love you all tons and hope you have a great week! We are in the rainy season here so every day is lots of sun and rain somehow mixed together:P

Love,

Elder Jordan Saunooke