Hello Family!!
We were really blessed this
week.
So on Thursday I got up at
like 2:30 in the morning to go to the airport with the departing missionaries
to help them pay their extra bag fees and stuff. That made me kind of
tired I guess but after we were able to sleep for a bit. The airport is
always weird because it´s full of white people. I heard some super deep
southern accents and was trying to teach Elder Alcerro what a redneck is.
I don´t think he got it very well.
On Thursday and Friday after
the office we found quite a few people. We found four pretty cool people,
three sons and their mom. Lula is the mom and her sons are Jonathan (22),
Aaron (16), and Melvin (8). The mom already had a commitment for Sunday
morning and couldn't come to church but we put fechas with all of them and committed
the three sons to church. On Sunday they lied and said that Jonathan was
gone (we found out later he was hiding next door) but Aaron and Melvin came
with us and LOVED church. We also went and played soccer with Aaron today
at the church. It was funny because Aaron wore a shirt to church with a
Giraffe by a tree with Marijuana leaves that said (in English) "smoke
trees every day". Luckily hardly anyone in the ward understood it
but all of us missionaries. The mom is going to go to church with us this
week.
Also when we were teaching
the girls that came to church last week (their names are Wendy, Alejandra,
Marta, Mercedes, and Yovannah so from here on out I´ll refer to them as
"WAMMY") we invited a friend of their brother, who was just hanging
out to join us in the lesson and he accepted. His name is Oliver and is
19. He is quite the opposite as WAMMY because he´s very intelligent,
well-mannered, and sociable. He also went to church on Sunday and stayed
all three hours and loved it as well. He´s really cool. Also three
of WAMMY went. I think it was Wendy, Alejandra, and Marta. They
were still super shy but not as bad as before. I´m not sure what will
happen with them, please pray that they´ll keep progressing and go to church
again. If nothing else, at least they led us to Oliver.
Also Luis went to church and got
interviewed for his baptism which is set for Saturday at 3. Also
Christina went to church like always. We think the lawyer might finally
finish her divorce this week and if so, she´ll get married and baptized
too. Also there´s a guy that lives in our area that has gone to Elder
Hanson´s ward in Altagracia two times now and is apparently pretty
positive. We called him and have an appointment with him tomorrow.
Hopefully he´ll just beg us to baptize him on the 30th:) But we´ll see.
Yesterday was a big holiday here
and basically every Daniel Ortega lover in Nicaragua
gets in a bus and rides down to Managua Nicaragua
just loads itself up with people and drives down to Managua Managua
Today we went to the church
and played soccer with Aaron and a bunch of other young men. It was fun
but I´m pretty bad at soccer. I do have a bit more color now. And I
was reminded how pitifully out of shape I am and how hot Nicaragua
On Friday and Saturday the
ward is doing something pretty cool. On Friday the YM teachers will be
doing a mini MTC for the priests and teaching them the basics of how to be a
missionary and then on Saturday all six of us missionaries in San Judas will be
going to the chapel at 8 and we´ll each have a Priest as a comp for the
day. At 8 we´ll study with them and then we´ll go and work all day with
them. Us and San Judas 1 baptisms on Saturday so 4 priests will already
have a baptism. I don´t think it really counts though but it´ll be cool
for them to say.
Tomorrow I have an Accutane
appointment so I´ll let you know next week how that goes. I think I´ll
probably get off of it in about a month.
Dad, I´m glad lake Powell
was so fun and I hope you have fun in Idaho
Love you!!
Elder Smith
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