Well this week was crazy and full of meetings, traveling, and new experiences.
I am here in Guanacaste and it is HOT... It reaches high 90´s every single day and it actually rained a few days this week which makes it really humid as well. Normally it´s really dry and just dries you out in like 5 minutes but thankfully we´re getting to the rainy season. We had to travel to San José and back twice this week so we spent a lot of time on the bus this week (the trip is 5 hours or more in bus each way). It´s really different here but I already love it and I feel a really good spirit here. I´m super excited to be here and I know Elder Waite and I are going to see lotssss of miracles in our time together here.
We have a few really great investigators but are starting to look for new people to teach as well. We should have a baptism this Saturday of a 14 year old named Jordy who´s great! His parents got baptized a little over a year ago but supposedly he didn't want anything to do with the church until now. He´s ready to get baptized, but he lives a little far away from the church and his family doesn't have much money. We´re working with him and his family right now so that they can come to church and so he can get baptized this Saturday!
We had our leadership council this week and it was great! Something that really stood out to me from the conference was the subject of sacrifice. They talked about the conference talk from one of the Seventies who talked about sacrifice and "one more day". I loved this talk from Taylor G. Godoy and I´m so happy that my mission president chose to talk about it. The talk mentions that sacrifice means "doing sacred things". I love that because I think it´s so true. Sometimes doing stuff like going to church, or reading the scriptures, or things like that seem like sacrifices, but they´re necessary in our eternal progression. When we sacrifice something of ourselves to do sacred things that the Lord wants us to do, we will truly be blessed in the long run. It´s a sacrifice in the moment, but truly a privilege and a great blessing.
I hope everyone has a great week this week!
Elder Smith
Pics: one of the tires on the bus popped when we were going to Guanacaste..., Elder Waite and I, trip to San Jose, one of the roads here in La Victoria
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