Hey fam!! estoy aquí. don´t worry. i´ll do a recap of the last 2 weeks for ya. you´re getting double the awesomeness today!
2 weeks ago we started talking to this guy on a bench and then his friends came and joined us. We had a really good conversation with them but they only wanted to know about English class. One of the men is named Thomas and he spoke English very well. We gave him our card and as we were leaving, Hermana Cassinat and I both felt that Thomas was golden and ready. We didn't see him until a couple of days later when he came to English class. Again, we both felt that this man was special. At the end he told us that he wanted to show us something. He pulled out of his bag a photo of two sister missionaries from 14 years ago with his daughter. He had been receiving the charlas and he said he liked them very much! Hermana Cassinat and I are very excited to talk with him and we both feel very strongly that he's going to be a great leader in the Church. We invited him to church, but he couldn´t come. That really bummed us out. He has an amazing voice. Hermana Cassinat and I call it the spanish Sean Connery voice. I want to video tape him speaking sometime. Sometimes we like to just sit and listen to him speak:)
Oh a funny occasion. So we contacted this slightly crazy guy (thats not unusual) and he kept on saying the only english words he knows ´´looky looky, boogy boogy, i like to move it move it!!´´ we try not to laugh in his face. but each time he wants to have a juice with us and this one (and last) occasion, he took us into this cafe...........well so i´m trying to have a conversasion with him and its usually the same thing, ´´no we can´t go to your house unless there´s another woman. i don´t care if you´re honorable. other people may not know, but we work for Someone who WILL know...etc.´´ meanwhile, hermana cassinat is bombarded by 3 drunk guys and she got some numbers!!! hahaha actually, nothing came of this occasion, i just thought it was overall super funny. don´t worry peeps; they may be drunk, but they are honorable drunk men!
we contacted this joven and he´s super cool. He doesn´t live in our area, but we´ve been trying to send his number to those missionaries. he works in Telde so a lot of times hermana cassinat and i go and try and teach him a bit. we gave him the bom and he´s been reading and praying!! He spends most of his time here in telde and last week we tried to meet him at institute in Las Palmas. In the end, algo pasó and he couldn´t come. but we were promised a ride back by the buhlers so we got to stay a couple of minutes. i remember talking to sasha about a few Canarians that i should say hi to and so i went up and talked to the institute teacher. I told him that Elder Zimmerman is my sisinlaws father and he said no me digas! haha he is such a wonderful man and spoke highly of the zimmerman family!
We had Zone Conference and it was absolutely wonderful. It´s a 2 day thing so we were at the old mission home in the mountains (Canaries used to be its own mission) and monday we played sports and ate all day. then we watched 17 miracles and i cried like a baby. then we had the actual conference the next day. WOW. So amazing! I sang with some other missionaries and well....2 of the elders got a ´´giggle attack´´, as they say it. hahahaaha we were so confused why everyone inthe audience was smiling while we singa super spiritual song. haha now me know. All the speakers were wonderful and I feltt they were definitely following the Spirit and it was all so uplifting. This is by far my favorite conference! The one´s in Madrid were good but i felt more chastized then uplifted.
Update on Leo and his wife Irma! We have been working with him and his baptism. Yesterday, Leo and Irma came to church! Afterwards, we showed them the baptismal font and explained with the whole process. I dipped Hermana Cassinat. They were both surprised at how simple it was and I think that fear that they had is gone now that they know. We were going to have it this Saturday, but we´ve changed it to the next Saturday, the 8th. It will be so wonderful, because the rama will be so involved! they´re talking about having the primary sing a musical number and its so amzing because b6 never put their 2 cents in and here we can have a lesson an hour before and show up for the service on time and the members have done it all! and that means no more flooding baptismal fonts!!
I finished reading the book of mormon this week and it was really so wonderful. ah, i just LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON SO STINKIN MUCH!!!!! Hermana Cassinat, by her example, is really helping me set more goals to achieve. In all, she´s a wonderful missionary and I feel so blessed to know that I have this next and last transfer with her. A lot of times, I still feel like I´m being trained (she also reminds me so much of Hermana Hansen!!!!) because I´m learning so much. Oh yeah, and Hermana Cassinat goes home after this transfer, on Jan. 6th or something like that. Its crazy how time flies! I really admire her because she isn't letting the thought of her going home soon affect her teaching or make her lazy at all. Or trunky. We just don´t talk about it. But it WIGS my mind that the transfer is gone and we´re on a new one. I was talking to the Jacksons and asking their advice about going home dates. and they told me i needed to go to school and no i couldn´t do a half transfer....that means times a ticking and no me gusta para nada
thank you so much for all your prayers and letters. oh and the jacksons found my package!! aparently some elder stuck it in a closet in the stake building up in madrid and its been sitting there ever sense...but i´ll get it sooner or later!!
LOVE YA!
hermana smith
oh and we have permission to have a thanksgiving meal with the Buhlers this thursday!! yum.
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