Change is Good

Dear Family and Friends,

So this is week has been awesome! 

Back to Biking Basics

It is so refreshing to be in a bike area again!

So since it is a huge bike area we have been biking way too much but on the times that we can't bike anymore, we ride the bus! And oh man is that a crazy story itself! We had an appointment with our baptismal date Lara's and she just moved out of our area but we had permission to go if we were able to get over there. So we took the bus! It was so fun but we were pretty much out of our area and then we went taught our lesson and then when we were done we realized that we had ten minutes to get to the bus stop to get home. We got over there and we were literally two minutes late! We were stranded! Luckily we called the Winchester sisters to get the pioneer sisters number and called asking for a ride! We felt so bad! However, good ole' Sister Hinton, Sister Lloyd and Sister Rammel came to our rescue! It was so weird to see Sister Hinton again but such a wonderful blessing! I love her :)

Brother Hale gave us and the elders a ride home. And he himself wanted an icee and so we stopped at a gas station and got some! Sister Reed and I were having too much fun :) I adore here :)

Tell us about Lexington and your new companion

Sister Reed is an awesome missionary! She is black!!! Haha I love her! She is my height... Actually a bit taller and is so cool and down to earth! She is hypoglycemic and lactose intolerant, so we eat pretty healthy around here! Plus the biking is adding to that :) she has been out around 8 months and she was companions with Sister Emended my MTC companion. The area we are working in right now is fairly dead and the ward is a young family ward that skunk the missionaries but we have goals to change that! We actually just set a baptismal date with a woman named Carla and we have a baptism this week! I am so excited! :D We are so excited because Laura is getting baptized and the sisters have been working with her for a while and she is so prepared and wants to do all that she can to follow Christ ! We love her!

This is area has so many blessings! I love it!

We share our apartment with a companionship of Hermanas and our apartment is SUPER NICE! We have wifi in our apartment so I can receive emails but can't obviously email until Monday.

Lexington is a college town, just like Richmond and there are a lot of people here. We ride the bus and we can only teach the people that are not college students -_- so we have to look a little bit harder. But! That means we can teach families! :D

Praying about goals and miracles

I know that I say that about each of my companions but I just am so proud of her humility and hard work ethics! She is doing well for taking over an area. She has goals, and her and I matched up our goals, and they are practically the same. We plan to baptize two people in December as a goal and we actually just set a baptismal date with a woman named Carla for December 31 and we are currently searching for the second one. It was so cool because we both prayed for a number of a goal to baptize and she and I came up with same number and that has happened every  time we pray about a number or goal or something that we need to do. We have seen so many miracles from doing so.

Well there was so much that happened but I think I am already getting tired of writing emails.....

Happy birthday to my cousin Tristan!  You’re an old fart yesterday! I hope it was a great birthday!

I love you all and pray your week has plenty of miracles and happiness that last

*Question from Mom:  Are you close to your BFF, Sister Hannah now that you’re in Lexington?*

Yes Sister Hannah and I are in the same stake! I just saw her last night because our zone/stake had a fireside and I saw her there and a lot of other missionaries that I adore! :D our stake conference is in two week so sister Hannah and I will be making sure to hang out then!

Oh man I love it here :) and Sister Reed and I get along so well and we work hard and laugh and oh man she is so incredible!

Also I saw a lot of members from the Richmond ward that were at our church building yesterday because they have stake callings! Oh I love it! And riding the bus is crazy I have a fun story about that! I love it!

Don't worry mom! You’re getting us all back! We are not gone forever! It's freaking me out even more how close to home I am getting, obviously still have a six months but being in a young family ward is surreal and freaking me out......

My address is: 2075 regency road #72 Lexington, Kentucky 40503

-I love you and yes, please send those tights -- it will be a blessing    !

Sister Jones