I hope everyone had a great week this week! I always forget what happens during my week when it's time to email but I know I had a good week at least!
In reference to my subject title, I'm officially a Tico!! This week I had to go to Migration and I received my Costa Rican ID so I'm not an illegal immigrant anymore haha. It took forever but I didn't have to do anything. All I had to do was sign my name twice and take a awkward mugshot picture and the migration secretary for the mission did the rest. I got to see and talk to some friends from my MTC group while I was there though which was fun.
I said last week that I would talk about the people I teach more, but then didn't do it haha. In case some of you don't know, basically an average day for me goes like this: Wake up at 6:30 every day (or earlier if I have a meeting), exercise, eat, get ready, study for 3-4 hours, proselite (not sure how to spell it) for an hour, eat lunch, and then proselite for 7ish hours until 9 at night. Sounds super fun right? Haha it's a lot better than it sounds on paper, I promise. Anyways, the majority of my days I'm teaching people the gospel which is pretty cool. And when I'm not teaching people, I'm trying to find people to teach. Our main purpose as missionaries is to invite others to come unto Christ and help them receive the gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. It's not always the easiest thing to do, but it's worth it to see people understand and come closer to their Savior.
One family that we are teaching right now is the Cascante family. We've been teaching them for about a month and a half and just this last Sunday one of them came to church for the first time! We had 5 investigators come to church yesterday by the way (the most I've had come so far in the mission)! They are a super great family. They were a referral from a recent convert to the church and they plan on getting married this Saturday! They have 2 daughters that are 12 and 8. They aren't progressing super quickly but we are working with them a lot and it has been fun to see the progress they have made!
Culture note: Directions here are impossible! I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but addresses here basically don't exist. If you ask someone for their address, they tell you the name of the city and an estimate of how many meters (or kilometers) they are away from the nearest somewhat recognizable landmark. And then since the homes don't have numbers, they tell you what color their house is, or some other way to distinguish it. If that sounds confusing, try understanding it in Spanish!
*Didn't prepare a spiritual thought, sorry!
I love and miss you all and hope everyone has a great week this week!
Love,
Elder Smith
Pics: 2 pics of me and Elder Canul with Marta (the lady that we eat with every Saturday), this is how Puriscal has been weather wise for the past little while :(
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