Thanksgiving in Peru

So this week has been a little interesting. Long story short, I'm now with a mini missionary for the last 2 weeks of this transfer because my other companion went home for some personal problems.

So we had a lot of activities this week with a multizona and also interviews. We also gathered as a zone on Thursday to have a Thanksgiving lunch. We just shared a rotisserie chicken for each companionship and it was actually really good. I also got to drink my Dr. Pepper. 

However, we will have a baptism this week of a girl named Nicole. I'm excited for that and we should also have a baptism with Oscar next week if he can stop smoking completely because he only smokes every other day now and he's improving. 

Love you guys!  

What we wake up to every morning...

We got new mosquito nets

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving complete with Dr Pepper

Stake Conference

This week was a pretty good week and we had some good progress. It looks like we could baptize 3 or 4 times in December but we'll have to work hard. 2 should be pretty set and the other ones will happen if we can help reactivate their families. We had good news with one of our investigators who was struggling with tobacco and he has finally decided to quit. He'll be a baptism in December as long as he passes his interview. 

This week we also had Stake Conference and an area seventy came from Ecuador which was awesome. Other than that, I had a work exchange with a new Elder named Elder Henrie which was fun. 

I'm sorry I don't have pictures to send this week because I forgot to copy them to my USB. 

Love you guys!

Elder Smith 

Week 2 with my kid

This past week was good with my kid. He's still adjusting to the mission a little bit but things are going well and getting better. We had a little trouble finding new people this week but we do have progress here. We should have a few weeks in December when we should have baptisms. 

Not too much happened other than the normal but we did have a cool experience when we were contacting outside of a store last Monday night. We went to a place where there was a good amount of people and just talked to a lot of people to get references. We talked to one family of 4 at the time and testified that families could be eternal and we ended up getting the reference for another area. The other Elders went to their house and it turns out to be a family of 8 who was super excited to hear about the Gospel. It was a good testimony builder that talking to everyone works. 

Well we will keep working hard and seeing more miracles. Love you guys and have a good week!

Elder Smith

1st Week of Training

This first week of training was pretty good but tiring. My kid's name is Elder Bejarano from Bolivia. We did have quite a bit of success in the first week which was awesome and we found some good people and put them with baptismal dates. Right now we have 14 with baptismal dates but it's looking like about 4 or 5 of them may get baptized on their actual goal. We just have to work some more with the ward and we could have a lot of success. We also got some people to finally come to church this past week and some less actives so the work has been satisfying lately. 

One of the people we found this week is a little crazy because he likes to talk a ton but he's awesome. He ran into some other missionaries in the street and wanted us to go visit him. He went to church on Sunday and he already received his answer that the church is true. He's had a rough past but he's ready to change now and he has a lot of desires to progress. 

Love you guys!

Elder Smith 

mi hijo (my son)

The first time seeing my dad since training