We have CHURCH ATTENDANCE!!!

Monday, August 28, 2017

This week was sooooo funny!!!!!!!!!

Elder Hernandez did a street contact and the woman could only say ehhh like sí.  Later we started to joke around and invite her to be baptized and I asked her if the LDM is true and she said yes to both of the questions jajajajaja.

I totally forgot to tell you guys what happened in Jacarandas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One Hermana heard I had changes to Aguascalientes and mentioned it to Elder Villegas and he said this of me, “You will never find an Elder that works hard and enjoys his time as a missionary like Elder Smiley”.   I love that guy.

Since no one came to church last week except the branch president, my companion and I.  What a disaster. So, this week in the branch Elder Hernandez and I focused a lot on members.  We visited all 15 members! 14 of them went to church!!!!! Plus two investigators!!!!!!!!! It was a good week!!!!!!!

Prayer list:

Kevin

Titu

Elder Smiley

Martín

Love,

Elder Smiley

"Found a bottle, but no ocean, figured we'd do what they do in the movies . . ."Message in a Bottle"

Now a week later here is the comings and goings in Cavillo

Well opening an area is a little wierder that I thought.  Things did not start out good here in Calvillo.

Monday: After I was done writing we left to go work.  We only contacted people that day.  We did not want to try and set appointments because we knew we would get lost.

Tuesday: We opened the area folder and were excited to see what was there.......there was nothing.  We took a deep breath and went to work. 

Wednesday through Saturday we just worked and sweated out butts off.

Sunday:  We won the confidence of a hermana that previously would not let her kids get baptized.  Thanks to some service we did, we won her confidence and now we are teaching a little more than before jaja

Other notes I forgot to tell you guys!!!!!!!!

I got to see Elder Magaña!!!!!!!!!

We found a stray dog we named him Serdote.  He followed us to all of our citas and then left in the morning.

Calvillo is like Utah because there is a ton of green!!!!!!!!

Has a country feel to it!!

Two Weeks Ago Letter TRANSFERS, YUCK He wanted to stay!!Elder

This week was a sad week!!!!!!!!

 We had changes! It was so sad because Elder Villegas and I cried a ton!!! It was probably the hardest thing I have done in the mission!!!!!

I am in Aguas again .....well, kinda it is a village with the name Calvillo.  There are mountains everywhere!!!!!!! I am opening a new area.   My comp is Elder Hernandez.   This place is very pretty though!!!!!!!! 

Elder Hernandez is from Mexico and we are good friends!!!!!!

I got to see all of my friends again, it was so cool!!!!!!!!!

Elder Villegas, my favorite!!

Cavillo, soon to be my favorite!!  I hope.

Nice Shower in this new place.  Kind of funny taking a picture of a shower!!

Dad is the first counselor in a bishopric!

This week was a week of ups and downs.....

Tuesday we heard from Rolando1!!!!!!! He told us that he has stopped drinking!!!!!!!!! We are teaching Janette again!!!!!!!! 

We found a less active member who has a kid, and the kid is ready to be baptized. The only thing we need to do is teach him and BAM we can have a baptism!!!!!!!!

We will have changes next week and I am praying that I can stay here with Elder Villegas for a little more time!!!!!!!! Everyone thinks that I will be a District Leader or Zone Leader!!!!! I hope they are wrong!!  But Elder Villegas and I are looking at a white August and September!! 

Here we go with another week

Dad is the first counselor in a bishopric!

This week was a week of ups and downs.....

Tuesday we heard from Rolando1!!!!!!! He told us that he has stopped drinking!!!!!!!!! We are teaching Janette again!!!!!!!! 

We found a less active member who has a kid, and the kid is ready to be baptized. The only thing we need to do is teach him and BAM we can have a baptism!!!!!!!!

We will have changes next week and I am praying that I can stay here with Elder Villegas for a little more time!!!!!!!! Everyone thinks that I will be a District Leader or Zone Leader!!!!! I hope they are wrong!!  But Elder Villegas and I are looking at a white August and September!! 

One day after working really hard with Elder Villegas we arrived in the house and he jumped in his bed with all of his misison clothes still on......... I thougt it was a joke but he was dead asleep!!!!!!

LEGO movie  "Everything is awesome!"

This says "Happy Birthday"

Cody with a friend in Mexico