I am officially half-way through my training here in Costa Rica! Today was my first transfer day in the mission and I'm staying in Puriscal with Elder Batres but this is most likely our last transfer together. Even though so much has happened these last 6 weeks and it sometimes seems like time isn't passing very fast, I can't believe I've been here 6 weeks already.
This week honestly was pretty uneventful as far as teaching goes. It seems like we have a lot of people to visit each day, but none of them are progressing very well which is really sad. It's great talking to them and teaching them, but I'm not sure they are following through with their commitments such as praying or reading the Book of Mormon/ pamphlets we give them. It's frustrating sometimes because we know doing those things will bless/change their lives so much, but they can't see that until they actually do it themselves. But we just need to figure out what we can do better as missionaries/teachers to help them keep their commitments and come unto Christ.
This week we had a multi-zone conference and it was with about half the mission, which there are 132 missionaries in our mission right now I believe. It was super great to see other missionaries that have been here awhile and see the kind of missionary I want to be like. We also had general conference this past weekend and it was great! We are so lucky to have a prophet and apostles and other church leaders on the earth and listen to them speak twice a year! It was all in Spanish so I couldn't understand hardly anything which was really sad, but what I could understand I liked a ton. One member let me listen to like half the Sunday morning session in English on his phone which was super nice. My favorite talk probably was from M. Russell Ballard during the Sunday morning session (one of the few talks I could listen to in English). He talked a lot about having faith in Christ. It's not always easy being a member of this church and we may sometimes have questions or doubts, but it's important to always remember that the answers are always there, we just need to have the faith and desire to sincerely search, ponder, and pray for them. I also loved listening to the missionary choir during the Saturday afternoon session. They sang "I'll go where you want me to go" which is my favorite song ever and always helps me to feel the Spirit.
I hope everyone has a great week this week! Watch general conference online if you missed it!
Love,
Elder Smith
Pics: soccer field in a super cool part of our area, me and Elder Batres wearing our Costa Rica soccer team shirts, me and my trainer, Elder Batres, and him with his trainer at the Multi-zone conference
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