Hello,
So in our zoner conference the mission president changed the mission "Vision" Our goal is now a baptism a week and they incorparated a bunch of new things in order to help us reach that goal. My companion and I have been working really hard to meet that goal. We just had some very cool experiences in our area. On Saturday Mary Joy was baptized. She is 16 and her family is Brother MJ the one who works with us everyday. Her baptism was on an Island here by Coron. There was a swimming acivity the day of her baptism so she was baptized at the beach in the ocean. She asked me to confirm her in sacrament which was way cool. Then after church she asked us if she could work with us that afternoon so she joined us with MJ and us 4 all went to work. Also on Saturday we taught a friend of Mary Joy's named Red. He is 22 and super interested. WE invited him to come to church on saturday night and we told him we would come to his home andall go together. While walking to church we saw him and Mary Joy walking to church together. It was awesome and he also has a baptismal date now. Yesterday while visting sister Camacho, one of our progressing investigators, she invited a friend to join the lesson. After we finished teaching I asked if they had questions and sister Camacho shared her testimony with her. It was then that I realized she has to know its true. She told her friend that she wanted her to hear our message and then she talked a little about Joseph Smith and because of him we now have the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She also talked a little about agency and it was a super cool experience!

Love you all!! Have a great week and I will write you next week!! Love you all

-Elder Jones

Hello All

So this week was very interesting because the three other missionaries that were here with me all got transferred and I had no missionary companion for Wednesday and part of Thursday. My companion for both of those days was a member in the ward named MJ. MJ is like a full time missionary who works with us everyday. On Wednesday we also moved apartments so we spent almost the entire day moving and cleaning. But luckily we did get some good work in. MJ and I went and visited an investigator that afternoon. We have been teaching Sister Kamacho and her daughter for a couple weeks now. They always come to church and on Wednesday when we sat down with them we asked them about their book of Mormon reading. Sister Kamacho began to tell us that earlier that day she sat down with the Bible Book of Mormon and the pamphlet about the restoration and read for a good period of time. She asked us a couple questions about the restoration and the apostasy and everything went great. It was so cool to see her progress and her desire to know if what we are teaching her is really true. One thing I told her is that I know these things are true and if we read and pray about it and really want to know, we will know. Im really looking forward to seeing the progression of sister Kamacho and her daughter over the next few months and hopefully very soon see them enter into the waters of baptism.  

I love you all so much!! 

Elder Jones

Good afternoon,

This week we had another great week. We taught a bunch of lessons again and we have several people who are progressing so well. One of our investigators named Merryjoy is family with a Recent Convert here. While talking to her this week I learned that she lived in my old area. How weird is that? She lived in my old area in a place where we passed almost everyday and now she is here in Coron and she is doing so well. She reads everyday, Prays and she says she feels its true. We see her reading all the time and she will be baptized this coming may 23. Another Investigator of ours is actually a young boy who all his family are members. His older Sister works with us almost everyday and they are active in the church. Because the church hasn't been here for very long they didn't know that he could be baptized at 8. They are also converts. So we have been teaching him and the other day when we went to teach him he told us" Elders I didn't get to read the Book Of Mormon yet." It was really cool because we cold tell by that that it was important to him. When we teach him we also have to simplify things a lot because he is so young but he understands are remembers it. He understands the restoration, Praying, the word of wisdom, and everything else we have taught him. Its so cool to see even though he is 8 he understands everything we are teaching him so well. 

So today we had our district activity and we went Island hopping. Since here in Palawan there are over 100 islands its a huge tourist activity. So today we went with one of the families in the branch and the Senior couple here. We went to two islands and we left at 8:30 this morning and just got back about an hour ago. It was super amazing, really fun, and the things we saw were amazing. I will send you some pictures next time but we came from the boat straight to the internet shop. 

Love you all and hope you have a great week!!! Cant wait to skype with you all! BYE Love you!!

Elder Jones

Hello 

So this week has been probably the best week so far in my mission. We had 17 lessons taught to investigators with a member and we found 9 new investigators including a family who was taught before we also had 9 investigators at church and to finish it off we had a baptism on Saturday. It was great! We taught so much and every single day was so busy. On Wednesday and Thursday we had exchanges with the zone leaders and since we are on a island an the zone leaders are in Manila they flew out here and we had threesomes two days in a row. Several of our days this week we had tons of amazing experiences. One lesson led to another, and another and we have been finding many new people to teach. 

One day we went to a part of our area and taught one of our new investigators. She is family with a Recent convert here and she is doing great. She is always at church reading the Book Of Mormon and really feels that it is true. After that while trying to contact a referral we talked to a family who was actually taught about a year and a half ago. We asked them if we could share a message with them and afterwards we asked them if we could return and they all agreed. We have been having many great experiences like that and next month we have several more baptisms lined up. We are just doing everything to help their faith and desire increase. 

For the Baptism his name is Ryan and his mom is a member but his dad isn't. He is 9 almost 10 and his mom has been inactive for some time but now she is active again. Ryan asked Elder Ordesta my companion to baptize him and me to confirm him in sacrament meeting. It was super cool and the first time I've been able to do that. It was also in Tagalog so ya it was very different. My first time confiming someone was in Tagalog. Ryan is great he is just super shy. But he is always at church and he reads the Book Of Mormon and is very smart. His Dad came to the baptism and we think that he felt something. We are going to try to follow up and hopefully teach him. He seemed to be pondering a lot at the baptism and listened very well to the talks given. It was a super cool experience. 

But the work is going great. Every single day here is just teaching teaching teaching we hardly ever have a single hour where we don't teach. My companion and I are working super good together and me and him have actually been friends since my first transfer in the field. So it was super cool to be able to work together. Ya every week we get a letter from President Oslter and are able to read it. He is a really good mission President and we just had our interviews with him on Saturday which went great. Here in Coron we are almost nonexistent in the mission because there is only 4 of us and we are on an Island far from Manila.  

Mahal ko po Kayo at Mag-eemail ako sa inyo sa susunod na linggo! Mag-Ingat po Kayo

Hello Jones family

4/20/15

So whats up right now is we are sitting in a computer shop Emailing. Lately things have been great. We are having a lot of fun, working hard, and just enjoying our missions. Things have been great lately and we have been teaching a lot. This Saturday we also have a baptism. A boy named Ryan Ardines is getting baptized this Saturday. His mother is a member but his father is not. His mother has also been inactive but now she is active again and her son will be baptized this week. Its so cool to be here in Coron. Its really hot here right now but luckily we get a lot of cold wind from the ocean. We also see a lot of tourists here since its a big tourist spot. 

This week we had a good week. Just two weeks ago while meeting with a less active member we met his sister and her daughters who we have been teaching. She is very interested and has been coming to church, started reading the Book of Mormon and has expressed to us that she wants to change things in her life. We are also trying to get her brother involved in order to help him return to church. Also one of the recent converts here named Norlito. He is 13. Him and I have become good friends. He is always wanted to talk with him and I joke around with him. 

Well I will talk to you all next week and I'm looking forward to skyping you guys and being able to talk with you all!! Love you guys!!! Miss you a ton!!!

Elder Jones

Hello 4/12/15

So right now in our area we are actually teaching a ton! We taught about 13 or 14 lessons last week with a member present. There is a member here who works with us everyday he doesn't have a job so he is almost like a full time missionary with us. Its so nice to always have him come a long cause it gives us many opportunities. Right now we have several baptisms lined up but we are really trying to make sure these people are prepared for baptism, understand the doctrine, and realize the importance of baptism. One thing that has been happening in our area is we dont find a lot of new investigators in one week but the investigators that we do find are very serious about the message. We have several new investigators who are coming to church and are doing well. We also have several new investigators who already have baptismal dates. 

We meet in a very small branch building here. There are only about 6 rooms then the main room where we have sacrament. There are usually a good number of people there every Sunday. My companion and I actually knew each other from my first transfer in the field and he is hard working. We are actually going home batch so we both go home at the same exact time. He is from Cebu. So far things have been great here and the work is great. We teach a lot and have many investigators at church every Sunday. 

Love Elder Jones

Hello

This week we had some really cool things happen. On Tuesday we had a service project and build a home for one of the members in our branch. It took us all day. We left early in the morning and we left later that night. I had so much fun even though it was very very very hot!! Then on Saturday we had a activity for the Primary and the youth. The activity was about the plan of salvation. Many people came and we had a great out come. My companion and I went and invited several less active members who live right next to each other. We ended up having them come with us to the church and the next day at church they all came. It was great to see them come to the activity and then the next day watch them all walk up the street to the church. In the activity We had two paths that they could choose, the right path and the wrong path. There was also a pre earth life and a celestial room. They started at the Pre earth life of course and then walked trough earth life with their families. There were pictures of things on the correct path and the incorrect path. Then at the end of the correct path was the celestial kingdom where the families sat together and wrote their feelings. 

The new area is great I love it a lot. The flight was only 45 minutes so very short. We haven't seen general conference yet. It is this weekend for us so we are excited and looking forward to watching it.

Love you all!! Have a great week!!