Talara

This week was pretty good but very busy. It feels a little weird being here because every once in a while I run into people from my last area in Talara Alta. Anyways, we have been getting to know everyone here and getting to know the area. We have a few members that have been helping us a lot and taking us to all the places so we are grateful for that. There wasn't much left for us from last transfer so we are trying to find a lot of new people. We had some success and found people who are ready for the Gospel but it looks like they will have to get married. 

I really do like the new area though but it gets cold at night and in the morning so our showers aren't very enjoyable. 

We did get to go to Piura during the week for leadership council and it was nice to see everyone there and we learned a lot. It's hard to believe how fast time is flying. 

Love y'all!

Elder Smith

Some pictures from the last area before being transferred to Talara 

How we felt after getting transfers 

Back in Talara

Well, we got transfers this week and I have been transferred 1 last time. I am now going back to Talara but to a different part and it has the beach. I'm still Zone leader and my new companion and I are replacing the 2 other zone leaders before us. My new companion's name is Elder Vera and he is from Uruguay. He has 10 months and this is his first time as zone leader. I'm not exactly sure what has been going on here before us but let's just say we have a lot of things to try and fix. My companion and I have already bonded pretty well because we cleaned our room for 3 hours after a 2 hour bus ride together. Neither of us know the area so it's a similar situation as to last transfer.

I'm really sad because I wanted to finish in my last area but I hope to have a good last transfer here. Time has really flown by and it's weird thinking about it. Not too much out of the ordinary happened this last week in my last area but it was sad saying bye to some people after such a short time. 

I wish I could send pics because I have a lot to send but I won't be able to till next week. 

Love y'all!

Elder Smith

We had a pretty good week here in Miguel Grau

We had a pretty good week here in Miguel Grau. Nothing out of the normal happened but we are happy because the mom and son that we were teaching got baptized. It's been awesome to see the changes they have made in their lives as we've been teaching them. We will continue working with the daughter and hopefully she will have more desires to get baptized. 

We have some other people that are progressing as well and coming to church but the only problem is that the majority of them aren't married. We are still looking for more people and hoping to have more miracles. 

Love y'all!

Elder Smith 

We will have 2 baptisms this week

We had a pretty good week but we were very busy. We had our multizona and interviews this week and we had to run around and do a lot of errands. 

Other than that we had some success and we will be having 2 baptisms this week. The mom and the son that we are teaching will be getting baptized but the daughter doesn't want to yet. We will still be working with her but the other 2 don't want to wait to get baptized. We're excited because they're awesome people and have really been converted to Christ.

We had a really fun p-day today because we woke up at 3:30 to go to a place called Canchaque and hike as a zone. We got some pretty cool pictures and had a lot of fun as a zone.

Love y'all!

Elder Smith