Cody Smiley
Well we had changes (about time) and I am with
another Elder Guerrero.
He was in the CCM with
Mark, that is really cool
As far as the week
goes, I did not do anything because Elder Ortiz and his nose, again but now things should get rolling again. We should start teaching a lot more people!!
He will be my new jumpstarter in the mission after all that time in the house!!
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| Twin Elders!! |
Elder Mark Smiley
I know you sent a text out to the rest of the
family telling them to say happy birthday to me, and I appreciate it. Apologize
to all of them for me. I can´t get to them because time is short
today:(
I am glad to know you
are enjoying the temple, because I cannot wait until I get to go back and enjoy
the serenity. We are able to go to the
temple if a convert is getting their endowment and they want us to go with
them. I think I found the family that I’m
going through with. They are called the Ascension family and one day I
will spend the whole two hours of email time to just talk about how incredible
they actually are, but right now I have too little time.
It sounds like you and
Dad are quite busy with dad´s calling, but it sounds like you´re enjoying it,
which is good.
We are going to go get
churros with grandma and grandpa Smiley´s birthday money and share them with
the family that you are sending packages to. They are the most dope, and I
can´t begin to explain how much they matter to me.
Wow! 19 years of being
Mark Smiley sure is tiring isn´t it? Mom I really appreciate that you put
up with my crap all the time. I am not worthy of parents like you and Dad.
You guys are so caring and patient with us. Please realize I thank God every
night that he sent me to people that would care for me like you two
have.
I´ll never repay you
for the man you´ve helped me become and I’ll never be able to realize just how
blessed I am to have a mom like Chris Smiley. I owe you so much and I
love you
Being a trainer and
district leader is really nice because I have so much to do and I don’t have to
focus on myself as much, but it´s also really hard because my Spanish is not nearly
where I’d like it to be with the positions I’ve been given.
My trainee is super
cool. He knows Spanish already, but is from Texas. He loves the
work already even though all we´ve been doing this week is walking a whole lot.
I hope his enthusiasm stays
strong. He has this incredible talking ability though. We went and
visited a less active who didn´t budge or give us anything to work with us the
last 3 months and then the first visit we have with Elder Guzmán, and he talks
with us about his life on the ranch for 2 hours without stopping! He was so excited! It was so cool
to see. The truth is there is a lot of work that has been buried by
members and others, and we are uncovering it. We are discovering a lot
of less actives and finding a new rhythm with this area.
We had an investigator
that could´ve been from the training film, The District. Literally he tells us he sees a light in his
friend in the church and wants that, so we start with lesson 1, right? The
first lesson my trainee has had, and we get a baptismal date! Feb. 17th here
we come! They could´ve filmed us with how incredibly bright his desires
were and how readily he accepted everything we taught him.
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