Hello my good ole family (:
I am so happy to hear that you guys
had an amazing 4th of July! I missed the fireworks and all the food. That is
crazy what happened to Jordan and that he got injured! He always gets hurt when
we play stuff. But next year it's going down! Even though I am way out of
shape! A week ago for PDay I played basketball with some of the Elders here and
we all about died because we are so out of shape and we were breathing so
hard!
Congrats to Cannon for being
baptized. I really wish I could have been there, that would have been awesome.
That is crazy that he is already 8 years old and that Ryder is already 5 years
old. Where did the time go! I'm gonna be shocked to see everyone when I get
back because everyone is growing up!
Well, I'm back from Lima! I got back
at 9:30 at night yesterday. It was a lot of fun though. I left with 5 other
missionaries from the mission. One of them was Elder Allgaier who is from Lehi. The first night we shared a room in the Hotel
and talked all about Lehi, haha it was cool. Elder Winward also came with us
and it was cool to see how he was doing. But yeah anyway I got almost
everything done in Lima for my visa. We had to wait in lines for hours and fill
out some paperwork but we got just about everything finished. We just need to
go back in a few weeks to pick up something and that will be my last time
going. Do you know what is crazy though? That was my 10th flight on the
mission! Haha it's crazy. I didn't get sick though (: I loved the trip though,
we ate papa john's twice and McDonalds once haha. The highlight of the trip
though was we went to the temple and did the session!!!!!!!! My first time
entering the temple here in Lima. It really was sooo amazing. The temple was
pretty small, actually, really small but really pretty! After about a year since
going to the temple, it was such a great experience and a wonderful blessing.
The only bummer was that I couldn't take pictures because I left my camera in
the hotel that day. But some other missionaries will forward the pics they took
to my email and I'll forward them to you
guys.
This past week was freaking amazing.
Tuesday we had the meeting with the new president and all the zone leaders.
Pres. Williams is really funny and also so spiritual. He is gonna change
something huge I think for us as a mission. Right now, only the assistants, the
people from the office, and the zone leaders have cell phones, but we are gonna
all have cell phones I think pretty soon! It was such a great meeting besides
that too.
Sorry I have so much to write and so
I'll try to be brief with some stories that happened this past week.
This area is soo amazing and Elder
Chavez and I have already seen lives changed without baptizing! I say this
because we are teaching a family who is really less active. The dad hasn't gone
for about 2 years for work, the mom went to another church for about a year,
and the daughter just doesn't go because her parents don't, she is 19 yrs old.
The son of the parents died about 2 years ago when he was 21 so it was really
hard on them. Elder Chavez and I have been working hard with them. A week and a
half ago, the daughter came with us to church and she talked with the bishop
and was so happy. Then last week, we
visited them as a family about every day, and every time we did that, we
kneeled and prayed with them. This past Sunday, they all came to church! And
the mom and daughter gave their testimonies and now the daughter is going to activities
and everything! They really are so happy!
Also!!!!! We are going to have a
baptism today!!!!!!!!! Jenny is gonna get baptized!!!! She is 24 years old with
2 little girls of the ages of 3 and 6. She has been listening to the
missionaries for about 3 months now. She
has been catholic all of her life and we had to help her to understand a lot of
things. She had a cool answer to her prayer though. A while ago we invited her to pray to see if
the Book of Mormon is true and she did. The next day as she was walking to
work, she found a key chain on the ground and looked at it, and it was a key
chain of the Book of Mormon and she has always had that key chain in her hand
in every lesson that we have had. She is really excited to get baptized because
she told me that she wants to be a new person and have the Holy Ghost to help
her get baptized!
Today we are going to talk with the
dad of Alexis to get permission so that he can get baptized this Saturday. I am
really praying hard for help so that he can do it. He is so strong in the gospel
already.
Cool Story: Chiclayo is starting to
get pretty cold at night. When we were walking we saw a 19 year old homeless
boy. He came up to us and asked us if he could come to our house and spend the
night. Unfortunately we can't do that as missionaries, but after talking to him
about the gospel and giving him counsel, we told him to stay there and wait for
us so that we could run home and get clothes for him. We had some extra clothes
such as a sweater, sweats, a beanie, and also a blanket. Then we came back to
him and give it all to him. We felt really happy to help someone like that in
need. We haven't seen him since, but we pray that he is okay.
This past week was amazing and I've
seen the Lord help us a lot. I love you. He loves you.
Elder Smith
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