Mom, Mom, Mom. I don't really know how
it feels like, but yeah it is kind of weird that soon we will be all out of the
house! But as your kids, we are all thankful for having you guys as our parents
who guided us into the gospel and always helped us along the way. How crazy
that soon Allison will be going to UVU and that she may even be on the dance
team. Good luck on that! Time really does fly! We are all grown up, but you
should be proud of yourself on how you did as our Mom while we were in our
youth! I have had the opportunity to teach and be with many families on my
mission and I just always think of our own family and how great it really is!
Anyway this week was a relief for
me. In the beginning of the week, we were kind of worried because we don't have
too many investigators so we prayed a lot this past week so that could change
and that we could find more people to receive this message, whether it be
through knocking doors or referrals from members. Wednesday we got some amazing
referrals from a member and they attended church yesterday. One is named Jimmy
and he is 14 years old, the only bad thing is that his parents work Sundays but
at least he came to church. We then received another referral from a member who
is 14 and is named Karen. She is cool and interested but such a typical teenager
and her mom wants her to change before she gets baptized so we plan on working
hard with her.
Oh also yesterday in church, an
investigator who is only 9 years old named Helen came to church but the cool
part is that she lives like a mile and a half away from the church and usually
comes with her aunt, but her aunt moved to Lima. I was quite inspired when I
asked her who she came with and she told me that she walked on her own to
church! I really want her to get baptized but her parents aren't really
supporting her with that. But we will see.
Elder Flores and I taught an amazing
lesson yesterday at church to the members on how to give a good referral to us
because a lot of them give a name of a person and expect us to go without them
but we taught that we need to work together and that they should come with us
to teach the lessons and they should pick them up to go to church and at the
end of the lesson we gave them books of Mormon and said that they had to give
it to a friend this week and that they need to tell us when we can go and teach
them if they are interested. The class was way cool and we hope to have even
more referrals this week.
Daniel got baptized this last week.
He really loves when we go and teach him and he always comes running to us
asking us when we are going to come and teach him. All the recent converts that
we have had in Morro Solar are very strong and every week attend church and
participate, so it has been amazing to be here and see all of that.
We are also hoping on having a
baptism this Saturday with a boy named Bryan who is 12 years old. About 3 weeks
ago we were in a lesson with Leydi and Mari (recent convert) and he came in and
listened and we invited him to come to church and since then he has come to
church on his own! We just need permission by his grandma because he lives with
her so we plan on doing that tomorrow!
But right now all is going very
well. The language has come really well for me these past few months and a lot
of people say I am getting a latino accent :) Also the zone leaders are telling
us we teach the most during the week and that President Risso is very pleased
with the work that we are doing!
Today was an awesome PDay! We played
soccer in a huge grass field and it rained the whole time. We also played
capture the flag and then went to a sweet Chinese restaurant. The only bad news
is that I freaking forgot my camera. But I am kind of happy I did because on
the way here to the internet cafe, I almost got robbed...my first time almost
getting robbed! We were walking in the street and I had my backpack on, and
Elder Flores was on my right side by the side walk, but behind me came a
motorcycle with 3 guys on the back. I couldn't really see them but they drove
up way close to me and the guy on the back grabbed my backpack strap but I held
on to it because I didn't want to let it go. They started to drive fast trying
to get away with me running trying to get him off of me, but before it got to
fast, I hit the guy on his arm, hard enough that he let go...it was pretty
intense and made me a little furious haha but I am glad I got away safe and the
guys took off.
Anyways, I love you all. He loves
you
Elder Smith
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