Small Girl In A Big City: Happy Pioneer Day!🇺🇸🎇

Hello! I hope you all had a fantastic week:) It feels like I wrote you
yesterday and it is rather alarming! It has been a very entertaining
and Spirit-filled week!

On Thursday we had zone conference- so we got to hear from President
Smith for 8 hours! I love meetings like that, they always relight a
fire for this wonderful work! We also had another meeting on Friday
for new missionaries, so we got to hear from President Smith for
another 5 hours! So, with the Spiritual tank filled to overflowing, we
went out to work:)

On Saturday the Elder's investigator was getting baptized so we
invited our investigator to come! It started out so wonderful, the
ward has been waiting for this sister to be baptized for a long time
now and it was so wonderful that it was finally happening! So, long
story short- this sister is also afraid of water. It led to a lot of
people literally cheering for her and encouraging her very loudly to
"just do it!" It was slightly reminiscent of a Super Bowl game...
Everything worked out finally and the crowd treated us with a round of
applause. It was all especially interesting because our investigator
also has a fear of water... After everything settled down she came out
and bore her testimony. And that brought the Spirit so strongly! It
might not have been the most conventional baptism, it might not have
gone exactly as planned, but she had an undeniable testimony of this
gospel and of her loving Heavenly Father:) Our investigator loved it
and she is so excited for her own baptism:) I love how no matter where
we are in the world or what our background is, the true Gospel of
Jesus Christ unites us and the Spirit is the same wherever we are.

Sister Hess and I have been working hard this week and we have
definitely seen the blessings that come from it! One way we really saw
the hand of the Lord in our lives this week was all the referrals we
received from other missionaries! We got multiple calls from sisters
in the mission saying they had found the MOST PREPARED PERSON IN THE
BRONX! So we called all of them, I'm not sure which of them is the
most prepared person in the Bronx, they all seem like it! We have
appointments set up with all of them for this next week and I am so
excited to see how Heavenly Father has been preparing them! I know He
knows all of His children and that He is preparing hearts LONG before
we come into the picture, and it's such a blessing to have a front row
seat to the miracles we see!

I hope Pioneer Day was cheery for all of you! We had a different kind
of Pioneer Day, meeting REAL pioneers in our day:) Everyday there are
people deciding to follow our Savior, they may not have to trek across
the plains, but their sacrifice is hard and it is real. I am so
grateful for all of the sacrifices people have made for this gospel
and this church! I know it is true:)

Love, Sister Jones