I was able to go back to my last area for another baptism.

We had a pretty good week here. We found a lot of new people to teach this week and some of them have some potential to progress. We’re still improving little by little. We are still working with the family of 3 and the mom and son are progressing really well and coming to church. The daughter that is 17 is progressing a little bit but still needs to come to church a little more. They all have a baptismal date for August 10^th and we’re hoping they can make it as a family because the mom and son are pretty much set.

I was able to go back to my last area for another baptism. We baptized a 16 year old whose mom was inactive for a long time but has been to church every week for the last 5 o 6 weeks after we found them. She also had an 8 year old son that wasn’t baptized but wanted to get baptized and he chose us to do it. It was probably the last time that I’ll go back to my last area for a little while so I’m a little sad for that but excited for the future in this area.

Love y'all!

Elder Smith 

Ruth's Baptism

This week was pretty good and we saw some progress in our area. We have a family of 3 that is progressing really well and came to church on Sunday for the 3^rd time. They have a lot of desires to follow Christ and they have a goal to be baptized on August 10^th and it looks like they will be able to.

Things are going pretty well in my new area with my new companion as well. Things are starting to progress little by little.

I also had the chance to go back to my last area and baptize Ruth. She was the reference from our recent convert Yaris that got baptized like 4 weeks ago so that was really cool.

Love y'all!

We had a pretty Good but stressful week.

We had a pretty Good but stressful week. We got lost a few times in our new area but we feel pretty comfortable here now. We have some cool people that we are teaching that are progressing and may get baptized this transfer.

I was able to go back to my last area for the baptism and I’m going back again on Saturday for another baptism. My new ward is pretty good and it has some awesome members.  However, my zone and my district are super cool so I'm excited. 

I don't really have much else to say but have a good week!

Elder Smith 

I will send some pics when I get them downloaded

This is a family we activated and the daughter got baptized

I'm now in a zone called Algarrobos and I'm still zone leader.

Well this week was pretty good but pretty sad as well. We had transfers and I got transfered to another zone in Piura. I'm pretty sad because I wanted to finish there and it was hard to say bye to some people. I'm now in a zone called Algarrobos and I'm still zone leader. However, I'm opening up the area with my new companion Elder Cabanillas from Lima. We're opening it up because the zone leaders before us were taken out so we're just going to try and get things figured out this week. 

The week was awesome though because Pierina and Miguel got baptized. It was another awesome experience and we were able to get a lot of people there to support them. We are also still working with them mom so that she can be baptized in the future. 

I'm sad as well because we had plans to baptize the next 3 weeks in a row but I was transferred. However, I should be able to go to all of their baptisms. 

Love y'all!

Elder Smith

An awesome week here

We had an awesome week here and we have some exciting news. We've been working with a family for a little while and the Dad has become active again. We've been teaching his wife and 2 kids who are 20 and 11. They've been progressing for a long time but we've just been waiting for the wife's papers of divorcement from her ex-husband to come in so that she can be married and then baptized. The whole process has been taking awhile and our plan was to baptize all 3 together. The process has taken longer than planned but the family has decided that they want 2 kids to be baptized and they'll be baptized this week. Their names are Pierina and Miguel and it's been cool and a lot of fun to teach them because they're super prepared. 

Other good news is that our recent convert Yaris is doing really well and has already given us 3 references and wants to go visit her friends which we were able to do this past week. It also looks like we could baptize every week in July which I'm excited for but I'm also nervous because we have transfers this week and I don't want to leave. 

We had a fun p-day as well and we went sand boarding as a zone. There were quite a few falls but we all came out alive and nobody got injured. 

Love y'all and happy 4th of July!

Elder Smith