I hope everyone had a great week and a great Thanksgiving!
I actually had a Thanksgiving meal this week and it was awesome. First time I had eaten turkey, sweet potatoes, and mashed potatoes with gravy in quite some time haha. And I can't forget the pumpkin pie either. The lady that cooks for us made us Thanksgiving dinner and it was delicious.
Sorry but I have even less time to write today than last week... I sincerely promise that I´ll do better next week but just know that this will be short.
We didn't have a baptism this week :( but almost! Widelban is progressing super well and was going to get baptized on Saturday, but is still a little unsure. He placed his own baptismal date now for the 16th of December. He wants to get baptized and be a missionary, but he wants to make sure he´s doing it because God wants him to, not just because he wants to. Super spiritual 18 year old if you ask me. Pray for him please!
ALSO, I almost forgot. We had transfers! The sisters got take out and I received a new companion here in Flores. His name is Elder Lake and he´s from Texas! My first gringo companion in the mission since the MTC. He was actually in the MTC with me, but he was in a different district so i never got to know him too well. We should get along just fine and I´m excited to learn from him and work really hard this transfer.
To end, I´d like to share something I learned this week. Our Mission president came to our district meeting this week and shared a message that really impacted me. He talked to us about the importance of keeping a journal and writing down the spiritual experiences that we have in it. Sometimes we feel like we may not be progressing spiritually or that the Lord isn't there to help us, but that´s not true. He is always there! We just forget sometimes. It even happens to me sometimes here in the mission. He is always out to take care of us and work miracles in our lives. I know that miracles happen every single day, we just have to make the effort to look for them and I know we´ll find them. I challenge you all to start writing down these spiritual experiences that you have or where you saw the hand of the Lord in your lives on a daily basis. It might be hard but I promise you will see the difference if you do!
Hope everyone has a great week this week!
Elder Smith
The sisters got take out and I
pics: Thanksgiving!, the food, with our cook!, went to lunch on pday!
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