Hello Family,
Sorry about
the late email last week. We have Multizones this week so changes ended
essentially on Thursday and we got right to preparing.
Saturday was
actually spent in the area, we taught the people we have, and looked for new
investigators. I might have misspoken unintentionally in my last email in
saying that we don´t have any progressing investigators. We do, but they
aren't for June, they´re for July. I don´t know if you remember Rosa, who
got baptized the first week of May right after I got transferred out.
Well, we´re teaching her sister who is really positive and went to church two
weeks ago. The problem is that either Rosa or her sister (her name is
Socorro, but she likes to be called Coco )
needs to stay home on Sundays to watch the house because it´s so flimsy and
open they can´t just lock it up and call it good. So her progress
is pretty slow because she can only go to church every other week at this
point. We´re looking for a solution but haven´t found anything so
far. Please pray that we can find a way to get them both to church at the
same time. The other investigator is named Christina. She´s the mom
of four people that got baptized last change with Elder Jungers and Petty but
she couldn't because she´s waiting on a divorce that should get finished up on
like the fourth of July ish. So she´s for July but she´s completely cool
and ready and wanting to get married and baptized as soon as her divorce comes
out.
On Sunday it
was raining pretty hard as we brought people to church but we stayed kind of
dry with our umbrellas. Elder Petty´s feet got soaked but I was fine with
my eccos. I was walking through some pretty high puddles and my feet only
got wet if the water washed over my ankle above the lowest point on my
shoe. I´d venture to say that those really expensive shoes are worth
it. But on Sunday the only person that came to church was Christina.
Also, familia
Murillo got baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday. I´m so happy
for them. I got to go to the baptism and talk on the Holy Ghost. It
was interesting because they wouldn´t come out of the bathroom in their
baptismal clothes because they thought it made them look fat so we had to do
the service with them in their normal clothes and they changed right before
getting baptized so they could be in the clothes for as little time as
possible. Then on Sunday they got confirmed and they were very excited.
Monday
was spent getting a ton of crap for Multizones at Pricesmart and getting it to
the chapel for Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Yesterday we
had the first multizone and everything went great except the power went out,
which took the AC with it. So it got pretty miserable there for a while
until the power and the AC came back. To avoid the risk of another power outage
it was decided to move multizones from the San Juan chapel to the Altagracia
chapel so today we´ll be moving all the crap from the chapel from yesterday to
the Altagracia chapel for tomorrow. At least we´ll have AC for the
multizones. It´s so weird to me that this is already my third multizone
in the office, and that out of all the secretaries and APs I´ve been here in
the office for the most time now. I already have more time in the office
than I have in all of my other areas (not counting the MTC) put together.
I also just completed 10 months. It´ll be hump day before I know
it. Weird. And, because I´m not training someone else to be Finance
Secretary I´ll be here for at least this change and another.
Now we just
have to get the multizones for tomorrow and Friday over with and we´ll have some
time to get caught up with everything and get back into a normal routine.
Thank
you family for the great emails, the constant prayers, love, and support.
Know that I love you and even though it´s impossible for me to know everything
you´re doing there at home, I wish you the best and pray for you
Love,
Elder Smith
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