Hello everyone!!
I hope I caught your attention with my subject title this week haha! I´m not actually pregnant (physically speaking), but I am going to have a baby (in the mission)! That means that I´m going to train a brand new missionary that is "due" on Wednesday! There´s a 100% chance that it´s a boy, but there´s only a 1/7 chance that it´s a gringo. But there´s a 6/7 chance that it´s a latino, so I´ll give you all the update when I write next week!
I´m super excited for this opportunity (I´ve only ever had companions with way more time in the mission as me)! It will definitely be a new challenge for me, but it´ll be an adventure and I'm super excited because I know I'm going to learn a TON! That also means that I'm going to be staying in Santo Domingo until the end of July (when I complete a year in the mission... what) because you almost always stay with your child for two transfers (3 months). That means that I will have spent at least 6 months in Santo Domingo. I also spent 6 months in Puriscal. By the time I finish training, I will have only had 2 areas and 4 companions (minus the MTC) in the first half of my mission! Super crazy but super awesome! Also, the other 3 missionaries that were in Santo Domingo with me all got changed out so I'm going to be teaching the area to 3 missionaries instead of 1...
Anyways, I didn't really have any time to prepare to write you this week, so I'm going to be writing this from off the top of my head so sorry, but I'm sure I'm going to forget some stuff that happened this week. To start off, we had a miracle this week (we have miracles all the time but this one was a big one for me)! We´re teaching Eduardo y Yara (our awesome investigators that can't get baptized), but we also have been teaching Eduardo´s sister, María and her boyfriend. Anyways, we showed up Monday night to their house, and María told us that her boyfriend just moved out and left and she doesn't know where he is... Although that it is a little sad, that means she can get baptized right away if she wants!! She´s still not ready, but if she was still living with her boyfriend, she would´ve had to get married before she could get baptized. Maybe that doesn't seem like a huge miracle, but to me it was. We´ve spent a lot of time and effort with this family, and I feel like this was a blessing for our efforts we´ve put forth with them.
We´re still fighting to find the elect of God who are ready to hear and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ in Santo Domingo. We have had our struggles, but we have worked hard and I feel like the fruits of our labors are about to come forth. This is the Lord´s work, and if he wants the work to go forth, it will, regardless of who or where you are. We still need to do our part though so that we will be ready to recognize the miracles when they are placed in front of us. God is always willing and waiting to bless us, we just need to be willing to do his will so that he can. I know that God lives and that if we follow Him and the example of our Savior, Jesus Christ, we will always receive His love and His blessings.
I hope everyone has a great week this week!!
Elder Smith
Pics: Elder McCay and I, Hermana Romero and I with our "baby bumps", my "mom" goes home this week :(, some drunk guy from Mexico/the U.S. that talked to us about crazy stuff for like 20 min one day so we took a pic with him, me and my old zone leader from Santo Domingo at transfers this morning
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