Hola Familia!
It was way good to get all your emails and read them!
It sounds like everything is going good at home. This week was an okay
week. Not much happened because my
companion was sick with something. We had to stay in the house for three
days. I thought he could have just manned up and taught some people, but
he didn't. He sounded like he only had a stuffy nose, but he kept saying
he was feeling weak. Sometimes you have to put your big boy pants on and
work. He also focuses more on himself than on investigators and
people. He worries about his needs more than theirs. You got to
forget yourself out here. So ya that was most of my week, sitting in the
house reading Jesus the Christ and D&C. If you can believe it I
almost have finished Jesus the Christ because of all the time my companion has
been wasting. He doesn't like to do companionship study so I pick it up
and read until language study time, and when he doesn't want to work I pick it
up and read it some more. It is a really good book, and I enjoy reading
it. I am excited to get a new companion. I kind of want to train
because I want to do the 12 week packet again and so my Spanish can pick up.
But I am happy with anything that gets thrown my way.
On Friday and Saturday we started teaching so people.
On Friday we stopped by Jesus and he is doing good. He is slowly
recovering and he enjoys our chats from the doorstep. I hope through this
trial his heart is going to soften and he will accept the gospel this
time. We didn't stop by Margarita because we kind of gave her the boot
cuz she won’t do anything we tell her to do. We also taught Jorge and
Gina. They are doing super good. The got married on Saturday so we
went to that. It was a small wedding, and they didn't want to throw a big
party because they want to wait till they get sealed in a year. I think I
will be able to attend that so I am excited. But the wedding was good but
long. She is now cleared to get baptized in 2 weeks so I am excited for
that. Jorge is going to do it so that will be awesome to see.
Cecilia couldn't find time to meet with us this week but she came to church
this week with her daughter. We are going this Tuesday to teach her and
the family. She told us at church that the divorce keeps on getting worse
and worse. So that’s not good. We are probably going to invite her
to be baptized this Tuesday. We went to the outlet mall, which is just up
our street, and we were going to visit a less-active member who works there and
see if we could talk to anyone else. My companion also wanted to look a
basketball shoes because he is obsessed with basketball and stuff. So we
started walking in, and this man stopped us. He is a member from Sandy,
Utah, and he just wanted to talk to us. He also wanted to take us to
lunch on Tuesday. He is super nice. He asked where I lived in Utah,
and I told him where and gave the address to him. So if he comes knocking
on our door don't be alarmed - he is nice. His name is Brother Clough and
he is now taking us to lunch on Tuesday. So hopefully that goes
well. But other than that, not much has happened down here. It is
starting to cool down here too, but it is still like 80 down here. At
night it gets super cold because we are in the desert, but my sheets and
blanket fight off the cold just fine. But other than that stuff I am
doing good.
Hopefully everything at home is good this week, and Charlie
doesn't bolt for Tyler’s room again in the night. That made me
laugh! I hope Bear is doing good and give him a scratch for me! I
am bummed I can't see Breaking Bad. It
sounds super intense. I hope you guys have a great week, football goes
well this week, and the Pack get things turned around this BYE week! You
guys are always in my prayers and I miss you and love you guys tons!
Con mucho amor,
-Elder Smith
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