Hello everyone!! Pura Vida!
I hope everyone had a great week this last week! Especially to my beautiful sister, Chelsea, and my new brother-in-law, Ryan who got married this last week! Sad I couldn't be there to support you but I couldn't be happier :)
Well... We got transfers news yesterday and my 4th transfer in Santo Domingo was my last :(. I loved my time in Santo Domingo and it was sad to say goodbye, but I'm super excited for my new area which is... Naranjo (Naranjo de San Ramon de Alajuela if anyone wants to look up exactly where it is)!!! I was not expecting to get called to this part of Costa Rica at all, but I´m super excited to see how it goes. All I´ve heard about it so far is that it´s a cooler climate (like all of my areas in the mission so far) and it has a TON of hills... So basically it sounds like Puriscal Round 2 so I´m super excited! Also... I didn't know until I showed up for transfers today, but I´m going to be "whitewashing" Naranjo. That means that they took out both the missionaries in this area, and put in two new ones (me and my new companion) meaning that neither one of us knows the area or the people... It should be interesting but I´m looking forward to helping the people in this area!
But other than that, nothing too crazy or exciting happened this last week. We had tons of meetings, tons of exchanges, and lots of goodbyes. I will share one pretty cool thing that happened this week. About 2 months ago maybe, Elder Parma and I contacted a bus (shared a message with all of the people on the bus). After we share a message with the people, we pass by every seat and ask if they´d like to hear more. Well, one lady was listening intently the entire time we were talking, and I knew she was going to say yes to hearing more (she did). I wrote down her number and address, but later on couldn't find her house and her number was incorrect. I was so confused because she looked and sounded sincere when we talked to her. Well... This week we were visiting people near where she had told us that she lived, and I saw this one house and just felt like we should contact it before going to a different part of our area. Guess who it was? The lady we had contacted about 2 months beforehand!! Not even 5 minutes earlier, I was talking to Elder Parma about how sad it was that we never found her. It turns out I wrote down her number wrong by one number... She remembered us, accepted a return appointment, and accepted a baptismal date in that return appointment! I won't be there to see how it all turns out, but I was so glad to be there and have this experience where I was guided by the Spirit to find the people that are ready and willing to listen to us.
Well my time is up but I love and miss you all and will let you know how everything goes this week in Naranjo!
Elder Smith
Pics: me and Elder Gonzalez with our pupusas last p day, had the opportunity to baptize the investigator of the sisters (Tamara), ordered a ton of pizza our last Saturday together, saying goodbye to Frank and his family, saying goodbye to one of my favorite members in Santo Domingo, Jose Carlos
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