it turned out really well...
Monday, February 22, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Elder Smith 15 Feb 2010
Hey family,
Looks like I missed you guys this week. Hope everyone had a good week. Sounds like everyone went well at Sand Mountain. We had a good week too. The brother Agustin Jefers got baptized Saturday night. This week we are going to have our zone conference with a general authority so that should be a good experience. We are also going to have the stake conference this same week.
There isn’t too much new stuff going on. We are getting ready for another Noche Blanca, this time we have a really high goal as a zone so it will require lots of planning and hard work. In our ward everything is good. A new convert gave a really good talk in church yesterday, and another convert blessed the Sacrament. We have a few people that are getting ready to be baptized the 27th of Feb so we are going to keep working hard so that they can accomplish their goals.
Everything is going well here in Ecuador. Its still really hot but that’s ok, its part of the deal. We are looking forward to having a good week and to enjoy and learn a lot during the conferences. I hope that you all have a good week and ill be looking forward to hearing back from you all. Mi compañero les manda muchas saludes y dice, Hola.
Elder Smith
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Elder Smith-1 Feb 2010
Hello family,How is everyone doing? We had a really good week. My new companion and I get along really well and we are both excited to be able to work together here in Quevedo. We were able to finds lots of good people this week to teach and many of them we have invited to prepare them selves to receive a baptism and many have accepted the invitation. The time goes by a lot faster when there is a lot to do and people to teach. We are looking to having lots of success in February.
Last week we only had to travel to Guayaquil one time so that was nice haha we had a Conference with all the zone leaders of mission where we learned how we can be better and how to help the other missionaries have more success here in the mission.
There hasn’t been really anything too exciting that has happened to us this week. We are trying to find another house to live in but not with too much luck so far. Yesterday they called a new Bishop in our ward, Obispo Romero, he is really cool and we are excited to be able to work with him to strengthen the members and the ward.
Looking forward to hearing back from all of you this week. Hope that all is well at home!
Elder Smith
Monday, January 25, 2010
Elder Smith 25 Ene 2010
Hello family,
Another week gone by, another change gone by better said. we finished the week with a really nice baptism service. in the one 7 people where baptized. We have been running around like crazy this week doing a little bit of everything. i hope that everyone at home is doing well. i have a new Companion. his name is Elder Rojas from Mexico, i dont think that he is a family member but its close haha. looking forwad to anither good week. this week with the changes there are 8 new elders in the zone so we are gonig to have to get to know everyone of them and gain their confidence and work together in the mission work.
thank you to all those that wrote me this week. the letter mean alot and the words of encouragement are priceless. looking forward to hearing back from everyone next week.
Love and miss you all.
Elder Smith
Another week gone by, another change gone by better said. we finished the week with a really nice baptism service. in the one 7 people where baptized. We have been running around like crazy this week doing a little bit of everything. i hope that everyone at home is doing well. i have a new Companion. his name is Elder Rojas from Mexico, i dont think that he is a family member but its close haha. looking forwad to anither good week. this week with the changes there are 8 new elders in the zone so we are gonig to have to get to know everyone of them and gain their confidence and work together in the mission work.
thank you to all those that wrote me this week. the letter mean alot and the words of encouragement are priceless. looking forward to hearing back from everyone next week.
Love and miss you all.
Elder Smith
Monday, January 18, 2010
Elder Smith 18 Jan 2010
Hello family,
How is everyone doing at home? I hope all that is well and that everyone had a good week. We are about to finish another change. Hard to believe how fast the time goes by. The good part is that we have been keeping really busy. We are getting ready for a baptismal service in the zone this coming up Saturday. It should be a really good turnout. The missionaries have all been working very diligently. My companion is still working well too, enduring to the end haha. This week we have a lot to get done so the time will go by even faster than normal. We have a few baptism interviews to do, two interchanges, inspections of all the houses of the Elders and to make sure everything is ready for the baptisms Saturday.
As far as the work goes in our own sector, it’s been pretty slow. Defiantly less than what I have gotten use to here in the mission. We have been trying to find new people to teach and we have had very little success. We put together a small plan with the members so that they could talk with their neighbors so we are looking forward to receiving references from them. We have knocked a lot of doors and that was not a very successful way to find people even though we did find one sister that was very interested and we taught her two times and she accepted a baptism date, we were excited for her and for the lesson that we had taught and we were leaving her house when her son calls and says that they are going to be moving to Portoviejo, hopefully she will be able to find the church and the missionaries there.
Not too much more going on here in Ecuador. Staying busy, trying to help the people here in Quevedo find the happiness that every one of us as sons and daughter of our Heavenly Father deserves. Hope that all is well at home. Looking forward to hearing back from everyone this week.
Elder Smith
How is everyone doing at home? I hope all that is well and that everyone had a good week. We are about to finish another change. Hard to believe how fast the time goes by. The good part is that we have been keeping really busy. We are getting ready for a baptismal service in the zone this coming up Saturday. It should be a really good turnout. The missionaries have all been working very diligently. My companion is still working well too, enduring to the end haha. This week we have a lot to get done so the time will go by even faster than normal. We have a few baptism interviews to do, two interchanges, inspections of all the houses of the Elders and to make sure everything is ready for the baptisms Saturday.
As far as the work goes in our own sector, it’s been pretty slow. Defiantly less than what I have gotten use to here in the mission. We have been trying to find new people to teach and we have had very little success. We put together a small plan with the members so that they could talk with their neighbors so we are looking forward to receiving references from them. We have knocked a lot of doors and that was not a very successful way to find people even though we did find one sister that was very interested and we taught her two times and she accepted a baptism date, we were excited for her and for the lesson that we had taught and we were leaving her house when her son calls and says that they are going to be moving to Portoviejo, hopefully she will be able to find the church and the missionaries there.
Not too much more going on here in Ecuador. Staying busy, trying to help the people here in Quevedo find the happiness that every one of us as sons and daughter of our Heavenly Father deserves. Hope that all is well at home. Looking forward to hearing back from everyone this week.
Elder Smith
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Elder Smith 11 Jan 2010
Hola Familia
How is everyone doing? Hope that all is well at home. We finished a another week here in Quevedo. We had a pretty good week. The rain season has started here in Ecuador. So far we have been pretty lucky because it has only been raining at night. Not too much new has happen this week. We knocked a lot of doors trying to find new people to teach but we didn’t have too much luck. We are hoping that a few of the people that we were able to come into contact can become new investigators this week.
We have one person that is getting ready for his baptism the 23rd so we are excited for him. There are a couple of families that we have been teaching that are trying to progress but they haven’t been able to attend church. They are really good people that have a desire to learn more and change their lives so we are working hard to help each one of them complete the commitments that we give them so that they can get ready to receive a baptism.
Other than that not too much going on. My companion is about to finish his mission. He only has two more weeks left but he´s not too trunky. He is still working hard haha. Looking forward to hearing back from all of you this week.
Elder Smith
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