Hey family,
How is everyone doing? i dont have a whole lot of time to write this week. i had a few things that i had to do today. we had a good week, no baptisms but we did invite one person to be baptized and they accepted the invitation. we have been working alot with the other Elders in the zone helping everyone of them be better and have more success.
Sounds like everyone had a pretty good week. It sounds like a good stake presidency that has been called.
Here in Quevedo there isnt very much news. I should have more to tell everyone next week. we are working alot witht he members to be able to find new people to teach. we are focusing alot on the Book Of Mormon still.
Looking forward to hearing back from everyone this week. Thank you to those that have written me this week. i love and miss you all and will be looking forward to talking to you all next week.
Elder Smith
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Elder Smith 9 Nov 2009
Hello Family,
How is everyone doing? I hope that all is well at home. It sounds like things are good. We had a good week here in Quevedo. We had another baptism yesterday before church. A young man was baptized. The members of his family are members of the church but inactive so in part of their reactivation their son was able to be baptized. I was able to meet most of the members this week which was good. It is important to have the confidence of the members so that we can work together in strengthening the ward.
I´m excited to be able to work in this zone again and in this sector. There are a lot of challenges in the ward but that just means that we have to work that much harder. The ward has many inactive members so we are going to have to work a lot with them and with the members and home/visiting teaching program. We have lots of good goals to accomplish here in the ward. We are working a lot with the Book of Mormon to find more references. There is a video I don’t know if you guys have seen it called, Small and Simple things, which is helping a lot to get the members excited to help us.
Looking forward to hearing from everyone next week. We are going to be working really hard because there is a lot to get done and not a lot of time to do it. Tomorrow we get to go to Guayaquil for a leadership Council so that should be really good, except for the part that we have to get up at 3:30 to travel for 4 hours to make it in time. Until next week, love and miss you all.
Elder Smith
How is everyone doing? I hope that all is well at home. It sounds like things are good. We had a good week here in Quevedo. We had another baptism yesterday before church. A young man was baptized. The members of his family are members of the church but inactive so in part of their reactivation their son was able to be baptized. I was able to meet most of the members this week which was good. It is important to have the confidence of the members so that we can work together in strengthening the ward.
I´m excited to be able to work in this zone again and in this sector. There are a lot of challenges in the ward but that just means that we have to work that much harder. The ward has many inactive members so we are going to have to work a lot with them and with the members and home/visiting teaching program. We have lots of good goals to accomplish here in the ward. We are working a lot with the Book of Mormon to find more references. There is a video I don’t know if you guys have seen it called, Small and Simple things, which is helping a lot to get the members excited to help us.
Looking forward to hearing from everyone next week. We are going to be working really hard because there is a lot to get done and not a lot of time to do it. Tomorrow we get to go to Guayaquil for a leadership Council so that should be really good, except for the part that we have to get up at 3:30 to travel for 4 hours to make it in time. Until next week, love and miss you all.
Elder Smith
Elder Smith 2 Nov 2009
Hello Family,
How is everyone doing? Very well I hope. Today we had changes. I’m back in the same zone that I came from in Quevedo Sur, but I’m in another sector or ward so that is the good part. Ill have the opportunity to meet new people and work with other members.
In Portoviejo we finished the change with two baptisms. One was a young man named Clever, 14 years old that has been assisting the church for a while and he was getting ready for his baptism. We were teaching his mom too but she hasn’t been able to go to church because she is a nurse and has to work Sundays.
The other baptism was of a sister named Carmen that we have been teaching for a really long time. She has had about 4 different baptism dates and every time a date gets close she decides that she doesn’t want to get baptized. We were going to have to stop teaching her because she wasn’t progressing but when she kept going to church we felt the need to keep visiting her. Saturday in the afternoon we went to her house with the intentions of teaching her daughter and granddaughter but they weren’t there so we thought we would share something small with Carmen before going to our next appointment. Carmen offered the opening prayer and mentioned her thoughts about the baptism. My companion and I were kind of shocked because she was so against the baptism. So we shared a scripture about the baptism and we asked her if she had taken the decision to follow the example of Jesus Christ and to be baptized in His church. She said yes, that she had been praying and that she was decided that she wanted to be baptized. Excited by her answer we told her that we could prepare a baptism service for the 14th of Nov and she said that she would much rather be baptized that same day, Saturday. That was kind of impossible to make happen but with the help of a few members, the bishop and President of the mission, Carmen was able to be baptized Sunday morning before the sacrament services.
The hard part of the weekend was saying bye to all the members and converts in the ward. I hope that some day I will be able to come back to see them again. All and all it was a good weekend. And I’m excited to be in a new sector to keep working hard to help more people come unto Christ.
Looking forward to hearing back from everyone. Miss you all a ton. Until next week. Chao.
Elder Smith
How is everyone doing? Very well I hope. Today we had changes. I’m back in the same zone that I came from in Quevedo Sur, but I’m in another sector or ward so that is the good part. Ill have the opportunity to meet new people and work with other members.
In Portoviejo we finished the change with two baptisms. One was a young man named Clever, 14 years old that has been assisting the church for a while and he was getting ready for his baptism. We were teaching his mom too but she hasn’t been able to go to church because she is a nurse and has to work Sundays.
The other baptism was of a sister named Carmen that we have been teaching for a really long time. She has had about 4 different baptism dates and every time a date gets close she decides that she doesn’t want to get baptized. We were going to have to stop teaching her because she wasn’t progressing but when she kept going to church we felt the need to keep visiting her. Saturday in the afternoon we went to her house with the intentions of teaching her daughter and granddaughter but they weren’t there so we thought we would share something small with Carmen before going to our next appointment. Carmen offered the opening prayer and mentioned her thoughts about the baptism. My companion and I were kind of shocked because she was so against the baptism. So we shared a scripture about the baptism and we asked her if she had taken the decision to follow the example of Jesus Christ and to be baptized in His church. She said yes, that she had been praying and that she was decided that she wanted to be baptized. Excited by her answer we told her that we could prepare a baptism service for the 14th of Nov and she said that she would much rather be baptized that same day, Saturday. That was kind of impossible to make happen but with the help of a few members, the bishop and President of the mission, Carmen was able to be baptized Sunday morning before the sacrament services.
The hard part of the weekend was saying bye to all the members and converts in the ward. I hope that some day I will be able to come back to see them again. All and all it was a good weekend. And I’m excited to be in a new sector to keep working hard to help more people come unto Christ.
Looking forward to hearing back from everyone. Miss you all a ton. Until next week. Chao.
Elder Smith
Elder Smith 26 Oct 2009
Hey family,
How is everyone doing. I m doing well here in Ecuador. We ended up having a really good week. Like I was talking about last week the importance of working with the members in the mission work we really focused in that this week and it paid off. We were able to teach lots of people with the help of the members and we also were able to receive some really good references of people to teach.
We are looking forward to another good week. This is that last week of the change and it looks like I might be getting transferred. I really like this sector so it will be a hard ward to leave.
Looking forward to hearing back from everyone. Love and miss you all.
Elder Smith
How is everyone doing. I m doing well here in Ecuador. We ended up having a really good week. Like I was talking about last week the importance of working with the members in the mission work we really focused in that this week and it paid off. We were able to teach lots of people with the help of the members and we also were able to receive some really good references of people to teach.
We are looking forward to another good week. This is that last week of the change and it looks like I might be getting transferred. I really like this sector so it will be a hard ward to leave.
Looking forward to hearing back from everyone. Love and miss you all.
Elder Smith
Elder Smith 19 Oct 2009
Hey family,
How is everyone doing? I am doing really well. We are still working really hard here in Portoviejo. We are still healthy so we haven’t had to worry about any hospital visits so that is really good. We received a few really good references this week. We met a family Monday and taught them the restoration and invited them to pray to know if what we had taught was the truth and when we returned for the next appointment they had received an answer and accepted out invitation to be baptized. We are really excited for them and it was another example of why the members are so important in this work. The success of the missionaries depends on the members of the ward. We are going to keep working diligently so that we can help these people return to the presence of our Heavenly Father.
Today for our preparation day we went to watch baseball!! An international baseball tournament with teams from USA, Panama, Costa Rica, Peru all of south America actually. The first time in 18 months. The latins that I live with didn’t like it that much so we only got to watch three innings but that was ok. It was good to see something else that isn’t “futbol” hhaha. Well I hope all is well at home. Looking forward to hearing back from everyone.
Elder Smith
How is everyone doing? I am doing really well. We are still working really hard here in Portoviejo. We are still healthy so we haven’t had to worry about any hospital visits so that is really good. We received a few really good references this week. We met a family Monday and taught them the restoration and invited them to pray to know if what we had taught was the truth and when we returned for the next appointment they had received an answer and accepted out invitation to be baptized. We are really excited for them and it was another example of why the members are so important in this work. The success of the missionaries depends on the members of the ward. We are going to keep working diligently so that we can help these people return to the presence of our Heavenly Father.
Today for our preparation day we went to watch baseball!! An international baseball tournament with teams from USA, Panama, Costa Rica, Peru all of south America actually. The first time in 18 months. The latins that I live with didn’t like it that much so we only got to watch three innings but that was ok. It was good to see something else that isn’t “futbol” hhaha. Well I hope all is well at home. Looking forward to hearing back from everyone.
Elder Smith
Elder Smith 12 Oct 2009
How is everyone doing? I hope all is well at home. Here in Ecuador we are still working hard in the Lords work. We didn’t have the baptism that we were planning on this week. The sister that was going to get baptized wasn’t able to have her baptism interview so maybe it will have to wait for another date.
This week I got to do an interchange with the elders in Bahia de Caraques, the sector that is the furthest from Guayaquil in the mission. It was a pretty long bus ride but I got to meet lots of good people and it was for a baptism interview so that is always good.
In the stake center this week all of the missionaries from Portoviejo participated in an Open house where the public was invited to the chapel to learn more about our beliefs, activities and organizations that we have in the church. My companion and I were in charge of the Mission Work and Baptism. Lots of people came and we were able to meet lots of new people to teach.
We are trying to work a lot with the members looking for new people to teach. It can be really tuff when there are people to teach. I think a lot in the talks of the apostles when they teach us that every member is a missionary in the sense that all the members have friends and families that aren’t members of the church and that the missionaries are called to teach. The work would progress so much faster and we would see miracles if we could follow the councils of the prophets and apostles.
I hope that every one of us can be the missionary that the Lord expects us to be, that we can share our testimonies with all those that we come in contact with. We are looking forward to having a good week here in Portoviejo. Friday we have Zone conference in Manta so that will be good. Hope to hear from all of you this week.
Elder Smith
This week I got to do an interchange with the elders in Bahia de Caraques, the sector that is the furthest from Guayaquil in the mission. It was a pretty long bus ride but I got to meet lots of good people and it was for a baptism interview so that is always good.
In the stake center this week all of the missionaries from Portoviejo participated in an Open house where the public was invited to the chapel to learn more about our beliefs, activities and organizations that we have in the church. My companion and I were in charge of the Mission Work and Baptism. Lots of people came and we were able to meet lots of new people to teach.
We are trying to work a lot with the members looking for new people to teach. It can be really tuff when there are people to teach. I think a lot in the talks of the apostles when they teach us that every member is a missionary in the sense that all the members have friends and families that aren’t members of the church and that the missionaries are called to teach. The work would progress so much faster and we would see miracles if we could follow the councils of the prophets and apostles.
I hope that every one of us can be the missionary that the Lord expects us to be, that we can share our testimonies with all those that we come in contact with. We are looking forward to having a good week here in Portoviejo. Friday we have Zone conference in Manta so that will be good. Hope to hear from all of you this week.
Elder Smith
Elder Smith 28 Sep 2009
Hey Family,
How is everyone doing? Hope all is well at home. Here in Ecuador we are doing really well. I’m doing a lot better with my foot and now I can walk. It was killing me to be in the house so long without doing anything but now that I can walk I’m more than ready to get back top work. I wasn’t able to finish the bible this week like I was aiming for but I did read the Gospels and learned a lot of good stuff. Reading the scriptures really does help strengthen the testimony of a person. Every that I read the scriptures I’m more sure of what I’m doing and where I am at is the truth. I’m so thankful to be here in Ecuador and to have the opportunity to share my testimony with the people that we come in contact with. Even though the people sometimes don’t want to accept what we are teaching no body can reject a sincere testimony. I hope that everyone one us can gain the breakable testimony that Our Heavenly Father desires that we have through the reading of the scriptures and fervent prayer.
Looking forward to hearing from everyone this week. It would be good to hear how you are all doing. Until next week. Chao. Oh ya, everyone has to go to conference this week and invite a friend to hear the voice of a prophet call of God. What a privilege it is for us to live in these days when we have prophets and apostles to lead and guide us with their counsels.
Elder Smith
How is everyone doing? Hope all is well at home. Here in Ecuador we are doing really well. I’m doing a lot better with my foot and now I can walk. It was killing me to be in the house so long without doing anything but now that I can walk I’m more than ready to get back top work. I wasn’t able to finish the bible this week like I was aiming for but I did read the Gospels and learned a lot of good stuff. Reading the scriptures really does help strengthen the testimony of a person. Every that I read the scriptures I’m more sure of what I’m doing and where I am at is the truth. I’m so thankful to be here in Ecuador and to have the opportunity to share my testimony with the people that we come in contact with. Even though the people sometimes don’t want to accept what we are teaching no body can reject a sincere testimony. I hope that everyone one us can gain the breakable testimony that Our Heavenly Father desires that we have through the reading of the scriptures and fervent prayer.
Looking forward to hearing from everyone this week. It would be good to hear how you are all doing. Until next week. Chao. Oh ya, everyone has to go to conference this week and invite a friend to hear the voice of a prophet call of God. What a privilege it is for us to live in these days when we have prophets and apostles to lead and guide us with their counsels.
Elder Smith
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