Monday September 8, 2014
Dear Mom, and other people too,
Dear Mom, and other people too,
To answer your question, yes, to wash our clothes we just
beat them with a rock. Its actually a super special clothes beating rock and
all you do is hit your dirty clothes with it a couple times and your clothes
are magically cleaned!
That was a joke.
No usually we take our clothes to the laundry place and just
pick them up like a couple days later, but then we discovered that this family
in our ward (Los F, who happen to be the family of the Relief Society
president, the bishop, and our ward mission leader all in one) actually have a
washing machine that we can use cause they're like super rich. And they have a
computer too that they let us use to write!! Ok well actually its the
"church's" computer but seeing as the church is destroyed right now
it's living in the house of the F family.
ALSO, yeah I know what talk that is [note from Camille, I asked her about a talk called "His Grace is Sufficient" here is the link,] I've read it! Ok well I
haven't read it but my companion has which is kinda the same thing cause she
pretty much like read and annotated the whole thing to me over the course of two weeks. She was obsessed with it for a while. So yeah I guess I should
re-read it and compare notes with HP. Just to see who has better notes ya know.
just kidding, we're not competitive like that. Yeah it really helped us
understand the atonement better and what's possible for us because of Christ and
everything, It's actually way good!
Her district
"so... this is a
house. supposedly. But I don't know who would live there. Maybe a monkey"
"Amen"
Right now its raining. Like pretty much every day. I love
it! And I would dance and play in it all the time too but I'm afraid someone
would see me and be like "ugh those Mormons are so weird" and never
want to listen to us.
My gosh guess what!!!! Lupita went to church on Sunday and so we officially have a progressing investigator!!! The SECOND
progressing investigator we've had in 2 transfers. And guess what else, President
called me last night to talk about the area cause we've had really really low
numbers in Izamal for like a year now and he was thinking about closing the
area, but wanted to get my opinion. And HP and I had actually JUST been talking
about that like 5 minutes before he called and we were commenting about how we
really wanted to see a baptism here, to show everyone that Izamal COULD
baptize! So I don't know why or how it came out but I ended up telling him that I would like to stay here with my companion one more transfer to try to see
through our plans that we had made....... What the heck Hermana Smith why'd you
tell him that, right? I don't know... but so he was like "OK Hermana Smith I trust you."
I also asked him to divide the area 'cause its way too huge and I told him we need bikes... but we'll see what he does about that. So he's
not going to close the area and we already know that when transfers come next
week we'll already know that we're staying here 6 more weeks. But its OK 'cause I'm SO DETERMINED to baptize our investigators!!! I don't know if you guys were
praying for Lupita but if you were [another note from Camille- we were!!] THANK YOU cause she came to church and I think she liked it.. it was hard to tell though. we just need to work on making
our investigators keep going to church and not just stop everything after one
time! So keep praying for her!
We also found this guy this week named Felipe
and he seems like he has potential and says he really wants to listen to us and
read our book! His story is super cool so listen to this. Last week was like
the worst week ever right? So we go to district meeting and our district leader Elder Fonseca gets us all pumped up again and gives us all these ideas on how
to have success! And he talked about having specific prayers, like SPECIFICALLY
asking for what you want and how that helps us. SO we decided to try that on Tuesday, and we both decided we wanted to find 3 new investigators, 2 men and 1
woman, and we wanted to be able to teach a complete lesson with all three of
them. We knew that was a little ambitious, but we really wanted to redeem
ourselves from last week. So we are walking down the street and this guy calls
out to us just like asking us where we're from and then we start talking and
he's like, "hey do you guys want to come into my house for a minute, I want you
to meet my family." So we're like OK! And we go in and teach him and his wife
and his two sons, one of which is 10 years old, so officially old enough to be
counted as an investigator. 2 guys and one girl, all with complete lessons! Woahhh... THEN later as we were leaving, HP tells me that this morning she was
actually thinking about the goal we put, and she thought it was a little crazy,
so she actually prayed so that they would all be put into a family, and that's
exactly what we got!! Hahe hey prayer works! Who knew? Just kidding I already
knew that. But anyway so pray for him!
Lucy hasn't come back to church:( not
because she doesn't want to but because she started school and doesn't have
time anymore... but we're still going with her too. In other scandalous news,
one of our investigators who is the "wife" of a recent convert from Merida came to church too and she's super awesome and willing to be baptized! The only problem is we had suspicions which were confirmed this week that she
is not actually married to her "husband". The most frustrating thing
though, is that they WERE married but got divorced cause he was always
drinking, but they still love each other and sometimes live together. AND we
didn't know this until just barely but her "husband" just got
baptized not too long ago and we're not sure if he was worthy... ohhh drama. It's rough.
Ok well that is a super long letter, and now I have to send
pictures. So hope you all know that the church is true and the book is blue and I love you all!
HS
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