February 3, 2014

HOOOOOOLA Family!!

This week was good and time seems to fly by faster and faster. We´re always running around trying to get to places, so you´ll have to ask for updates later and probably when i copy my companions journal (i´m a wee bit behind). speaking of companions, i love hermana fowers!! we´re two peas in a pod. We both have things we wanna work on and we´re both willing to work on them together! We´ve been trying to improve our teaching, specifically on lessons for the first time. We have many things we can talk about and we just end up shoving a bunch of information into their brains. So after one lesson (which i don´t even want to talk about), we finally talked it out and we´re both working hard to be better at it. Also, for some reason, there are just some investigators that just really rub us the wrong way, each of us a different one. So we´ve been working on that-hahaa.
We have quite a bit of investigators with smoking problems and we have been trying more to have daily contact with them. Its been really good to see the change in them and for them to feel that they´re important to us. We´re trying to visit them daily and just share a strengthening scripture with them each time. It has worked out really well so far!
We were having a lesson with Yasmina and she straight up told us that she had told her boyfriend they were living together in sin and she´s already thinking about what do for her wedding!! She say´s she wants to be baptized so that she can do the work for her grandfather in the temple. Literally, she´s just wonderful. The problem is waiting for her to get married, but she knows the importance of it and said she´d get baptized right after the marriage ceremony.
We talked with Fi from Africa and we´ve been trying to figure out what he needs and whats stopping him from being baptized. Its great, because each time we visit him he´s more and more receptive to the Spirit and to what we´re teaching. He´s got a date for the 26th and we feel that its fijo for sure! At first, he didn´t have testimony, then with a testimony, he had problema smoking, then he wanted to be baptized in a river (ha) but now he´s fijo! (that means...uh...its set!)
We´ve been working hard to try and help our investigators. We have soooo many of them that are just inches from baptism, but there is always one little thing that is stopping them. It´s a little bewildering but we´re hoping that it will be their time soon. We love this work and we love working together!! It´s just a wonderful life.

and i don´t know why my computers acting weird. So if i send this letter and its highlighted grey, i don´t know why.

cool fact: we had our first stake conference after the stake was formed and they said that the canary islands are the first stake to be spread apart by islands. or something like that. it was way awesome!!! the missionaries sang the armies of helaman and it was sooooo cool. the spirit was so strong.

i love you all! everythings going well. i love the góspel and i love being a missionary. its da best!

love hermana smith