Cody Smiley
Cody’s letter was short, his companion was having some
troubles with his nose, so he just wrote and said his two investigators are
ready for baptism, and that other than that they were not able to do anything
Mark Smiley
ok sorry if I wasn’t
able to respond to your emails, we had a family that invited us to eat and didn’t
let us leave until super late in the day so we are at another family’s house
right now and they are so graciously allowing us to use their computer.
ok several stories
that are funny
First. we had
this Christmas ward activity where they asked the hermanas in the mission to
sing, and none of them wanted to because they had their own activities. Then we
told them that the president was coming and they dropped everything and even showed
up early. freaking hermanas!!!
A man we tried to
contact ended up giving me life advice on how I should never marry a Latina
because she will come with me to the US, have a kiddo, and then divorce and
steal everything. He did this for 45 minutes, and any time I let my eyes
wander, he would wave his hand in front of my face and tell me to pay
attention.
We got three
baptismal dates this week, and one kid that is gonna get baptized this week
asked me to baptize him! I felt bad because he has an older brother who can do
it but asked me. I don’t feel like
its my place, but it is his choice.
We also got 3
investigators to church! The past 8 weeks literally no one new has been coming
so this was an awesome turn of events.
We went to visit a
less active family and found them outside, and instead of wanting to talk, they
just wanted to watch their youngest son swear at me, and light fireworks with a
cigarette that he got from who knows where. viva Mexico.
I have been giving
lessons in my sleep. Elder Alvarez tells me every morning that I talked
again, and one night it got so bad that he yelled at me to wake up, but he ruined a perfectly good lesson on baptism.
Christmas and new
years were fun, but not too different, the only difference was all the freaking
food they gave us. Elder Alvarez got sick on Christmas because he ate so
much, and I wasn’t feeling too swift either.
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| Now that is the way to celebrate Christmas Eve!! |
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| Playing with the kids |
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| Somebody had to make the Tamales, wouldn't you know it it was the American!!! |
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| Oh, that looks safe. the iron does not work so they heat it up and iron their clothes. |
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