I know you´ve been anxiously awaiting to hear the arrival of my son, and I have some pretty unexpected news... He´s from Uruguay!!! He´s the only missionary in our whole mission from Uruguay which is pretty cool! His name is Elder Parma, he´s 18, and he´s taller than I am haha. It´s been super different for me to say the least to train a brand new missionary but it´s been super awesome as well. All of my past companions have had way more time and experience in the mission as me, and now, my companion came in with practically no experience. I was honestly a little nervous to begin with but I think we´ve been doing pretty good if you ask me. Elder Parma is super great! He´s hard-working, obedient, and really dedicated to doing his best and to learn as much as he can which I love and appreciate. I don´t know how much I have to teach, but we have 11 more weeks together so it´ll be a learning experience for the both of us haha, but I'm super excited!!
It was a pretty crazy week this week as well! On Monday, I had a temporary companion while we waited for our sons to get here. Normally they don{t get here until Wednesday, but we got a call Tuesday morning that we had to be in Escazu at 11 am. There were 15 new missionaries in total and it was super nerve-wracking and fun to see who our kids would be. They lined us all up and picked one trainer at a time to reveal who their son or daughter would be. Then, on Wednesday, we went to the temple which was really great! Then finally on Thursday we had our first normal day. And I think I mentioned that the rainy season has started already, but this week was unbelievable haha. It rained ALL day, every day and made working interesting to say the least haha.
We did have one really cool experience this week that I want to share though. We recently found a new family to teach that lives practically right across the street from the church here in Santo Domingo. There´s quite a few of them I think and so we´ve met different people practically every time haha. But one member of the family, Fran, really stuck out to us from the rest. In the beginning, I kind of didn't want him to be there in the lessons because he had been a little bit drunk and was smoking the first time that we met him. We placed a returning appointment with him and when we came back and taught him, his wife really wanted to talk to us. She asked us what we did to her husband. I was confused because I didn't know what she meant. She explained further and told us that Fran is almost always drunk, especially on Saturdays (which is the day we went to visit him). But she told us that he basically hadn't drunk at all since he knew we were going to come visit him again!! We didn't even invite him to stop drinking! It was super cool to hear that and she said a lot of nice things about us afterwards and that she would go to church the next day if Fran did. Fran came to church!!! His wife didn't though haha. But he brought 2 of his grandkids though! We´ll have some challenges teaching him, but I'm super excited to see what happens with this great new family we found!
Lots of other things happened this week but I´ll leave it at that. I hope everyone has a great week this week!
Elder Smith
Pics: Saw my old companion E. Navas again in San José, right before we "gave birth", my son and I at the temple, gallo pinto!
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