Elder Cody Smiley
I am so excited to
tell you that I baptized Norma on Saturday. You won’t believe what happened
either. So, I told her how I was going
to baptize her and she said ok. We went in the font and I said the prayer
and she closed her eyes and began to go into the water before I could plug her
nose. I lifted her up waaaay fast!!!!!!!! I said, “You need to close your
nose”!!!! Then I baptized her again, correctly this time. That water was
by far the coldest water I have ever baptized anyone in. It was so cold for me. I could not imagine how cold it was for her,
gosh.
Nothing else has happened this week.
Elder Ortiz will need to go home because he needs surgery on his nose. His doctor says that we cannot
work.
Love you
Elder Smiley
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| New Mexican suit |
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| The only mustache Elder Ortiz will ever have |
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| Norma got baptized!!! |
So this week was interestingly quick and long
at the same time.
Lots of citas and
walking and re-scheduling because the zone leaders have plans we don’t know
about until the day of usually.
We had a zone
conference this week that lasted 7 hours! Good to know when the
assistants ask the sisters to teach, we will be in for a good 2.5 hour lesson
on baptismal dates. It as all good though because AFTERWARD WE GOT OUR
PACKAGES AND INSIDE WAS MY BELOVED IPOD THANK ALL THAT IS HOLY.
A couple of dope
miracles this week. One of them is that our investigator who has a fecha
(baptismal date) for this week explained to his catholic wife about our church
meetings, and she is now much more open to us. She thought we went to
church and screamed and ran around and acted crazy. Not gonna lie I have
no idea where she heard that.
We got to teach a
whole family! Bulmaro and Lucía and their kids about the gospel of Jesus
Christ. They are so ready, but when we asked about baptism they got
apprehensive, saying they didn´t want to put a date on anything, they wanted to
see a sure ¨sign¨ that they were ready to be baptized. AHHH THEY ARE SO
READY. But yeah we got a bit of work to do with these guys. But they love
us so much its incredible. I will legit cry when I gotta say goodbye to
them.
Elder Alvarez told me
that he convinced the zone leaders to say that I am ready to train this next
change and that he heard talk that I might be a trainer this next change, which
terrifies me, because I don´t know if he´s joking.
love yall. It
has gotten extremely freaking cold these last couple of days so that´s been a change. I love to hear from you
guys and the pictures are always appreciated! Stay solid and bear your religion
with pride this week
-elder smiley
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| Just like Spain, colorful letters for the town |
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| Big baptism font in ancient ruins |
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| Mark and his companion |
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