I can´t believe it´s already 2017! I complete 6 months in the mission this month on the 13th and I can´t believe how fast the time is passing. I can now officially say that I go home next year (even though it´s still 18 months away haha).
This week was a really good one! It´s super different but super fun to have four missionaries in Puriscal. In the area it´s me and Elder Navas, and two sister missionaries (Hermana Allen from Texas, and Hermana Henao from Colombia). All of them have more than a year in the mission so I´m still the newbie technically. We spent practically the whole week working together and teaching the area to the Hermanas. We weren´t able to visit quite as many people as usual this week, but I think it was effective and this week will be really great as well. Puriscal is huge (I still haven´t visited all parts of it in my 4 months here), but with the Hermanas, we´ll start to be able to visit new areas and hopefully find a lot of new, great people to teach.
Right now, we´re preparing two people for baptism (one of them we technically gave to the Hermanas to teach) and they both came to church this week for the first time! Moisés is 16 years old and he´s awesome. His whole family is really great, but his mom (who came to church yesterday as well) is moving to Minnesota this week with her fiance who´s from there. He doesn´t move to Minnesota until April or May and so we´ll be able to continue to teach him and his mom practically told us to baptize him yesterday. Our other investigator preparing for baptism is named Yaosca. She´s super great as well but actually didn't want anything to do with us when we first met her. We originally were teaching her sister, but now she doesn´t want anything but Yaosca does now haha.
We´re also starting to teach a 16 year old exchange student from Switzerland who is Atheist which is new and really different for me. Basically everyone here is really involved in some sort of religion (usually Catholic) and believes in God and Jesus Christ; it´s just part of the culture here. She´s super great and interested and has lots of questions, but it´s a whole different ballgame trying to teach someone who doesn't believe in God.
I´m so grateful that I know I have a Father in Heaven who loves me, and loves me so much that He sent His Only Begotten Son to die for me so that I can live with Him again someday. I´m so grateful for the opportunity that I have to serve Him for these 2 years of my life and help others obtain this knowledge as well.
I hope everyone has a great week this week!
Love,
Elder Smith
P.s. Sorry I didn't take any pics this week :/ Maybe I should make it one of my new year's resolutions...
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