February 24, 2014

Hola Familia!!

This week was good and interesting. We had many lessons but we felt like there was still no progression. We both realized that we have a ton of lessons but no investigators that are really progressing like we want them too. With these situations happening, I´ve been trying harder to put my trust in the Lord and to really stay in-tuned to the Spirit.
Polo, our one legged man, has been having a really hard time because his brother, Francisco (who has some mental problems), has a restraining order in a super mercado and he entered and he´s been sentenced to 4 months in prison. Polo, who had problems smoking, turned to smoking and we felt like we were just coming back to square-one. Now we only want to focus on the smoking problem and focusing on prayer and reading the book of mormon. We really hope that everything will smooth out and he´ll be able to relay on God than on tobacco.
Fi is doing well but he still hasn't gained a testimony that President Thomas S. Monson is the prophet. We´ve had so many people helping us and helping him and they all come back to say, ´´He believes in prophets! He knows what they are! Whats the problem? Baptize him!´´ but we both know that he doesn´t believe that Thomas S Monson IS the prophet. We´re going to give it some time and not try and force him to believe. Fi will believe when he´s ready and received his answer.
Harrison, a recent convert, as been helping us with lessons and, when he can, he gives us his friends number. We met with one of them saturday night and it went really well! He has them prepared for what we teach and already has taught them to pray, etc. He´s a good little example for me.

Alex, the budhist one, is doing really well! We had an amazing lesson with him and he´s progressing well. He told us straight up that he wants to be baptized but doesn´t know when. He had a couple of doubts but we have a lot of help from the members, especially with the language barrier. He went to institute class and was joining in in all the class discussions. We were super excited!!
We have new investigators and we feel really hopeful for them. We´re excited to accelerate the Work here! We have new elders también and one is from rexburg and the other from arizona. The one from Rexburg knows Logan Castagno! Hello mormons and small worlds.

Thanks for all your prayers and letters. I always enjoy receiving letters!! (AHEM.) As I come speedily to my year mark, I have been trying my hardest to be the best missionary I can be. I have been trying my hardest to be a good missionary and example for people here and for my loved ones far away. I cherish your testimonies and all your kind words to me.

love you all! We´re going to have a mission tour here in the islands and Elder....umm....he´s from portugal....well he´s in the 1st quorom of the seventy. he´s coming down and we´re very excited t meet him :)

love ya!

hermana smith

so hermana fowers helped me upload....annnywhooo..because we love each other and we are weird, we went and bought friendship bracelets that tell our mood. it was quite sweet. so as you can see, i´m the ´´BEST´´. the second pic is of a mom and daughter from argentina. they´re members and the coolest and sweetest ever! the last one is stella, our investigator. she wants to wait until she and her husband are together to be baptized but he´s working in england right now. so the missionaries are teaching him there and we´re teaching her here. she´s from colombia!