Hey everyone! How are you all doing? how was your week? This week was super sweet! We had some great lessons and saw some pretty cool things happen! First off it was way hot here, like there were 2 days where it was 98 with 100% humidity, ya we showered three times those days, i came hot just dripping with sweat but it was still good!
So we got this new investigator that is golden this week, she is pretty amazing! Her name is Nayrreph and she has two little kids named Christopher and Sharlie. So a little bit of her story what she told us she was abandoned by her family when she was 8 years old in Mexico and did anything she could for a lady that let her work for her cleaning at the age of 8. She told the lady she had a family but just stayed in the park on the weekends. The lady taught her many things about Jesus and what not. Then her sister found her years later and took her in. Then she came here and got married to a white guy who left her and the 2 kids for another lady about a year and a half ago, she has a ton of faith in God and has seen many miracles in her life to many to write about. But anyways we had a lesson with her on Friday and it helped build my testimony it was so strong. Then she came to church yesterday and loved it, her kids told her they wanted to only come back to our church. She is now friends with a few people in the branch we have a lesson tonight about the Restoration i am really excited to see how it goes. There are many good things going on right now, we are hoping for 2 baptisms in this transfer. I also had my record here this last week with 35 total lessons it went good! I think the baptism just gave me like a motivation to work hard and realizing i only have 5 months left and i want to lay it all on the line. Yesterday i gave a talk on the talk in General conference about being fully converted to the gospel.
Well about the soccer tournament we lost. We had two teams that played this last week and we lost the first and won the second. Basically a fight almost broke out the first game because they said some things to us and our team was upset cause the basically were giving them everything. So i played the second game too. But then that team ended up playing against the team we lost to and it was dumb they wouldn't let me play, i think the bishops wife of that ward yelled in my face and told me i couldn't play that it was super important i just wanted to play i told her we are just here to play friendly soccer and she was really crazy or something, it made me feel horrible and also to see that she would do that to a missionary and in front of all our investigators that were there, i was pretty disappointed to see that. Oh well
Well i love you all its crazy down to 5 months and counting this time is going to fly by! I so excited to see what happens in the next 5 months!
Love you
Elder Smart
