Week 20 - December 16

Wow what a busy week.   we are all getting ready for Christmas but we feel its so weird because its so hot.   We found out sunday morning that a lot of missionaries are going to be singing a Christmas song on Friday. We had our first practice yesterday and everyday, yes, even today we will practice.  We are having a Christmas party tomorrow all day pretty much, we are excited for it all. We don't know where we are going to skype we been trying to find a member but no luck.  Lots are leaving or have a lot of family over. One family's not sure yet, but we will find something we should find out when we are skyping today or next monday hopefully.   No one really knows yet. we haven't seen our investigators this last week because we had a lot of meetings and then they've fallen through.  We had a sister on Saturday we were getting ready for a baby shower when she went in to the hospital not feeling good she lost her baby.  8 month pregnant and she lost it.  So sad, and now our bishops wife went in because she wasnt feeling good.  Not sure how shes doing yet.  Lots happening this week, but the blessing is that the babe is with God. Its a blessing that we know this and that someday they will meet.

well love you all

Hermana Smith

Week 19 - December 9

wow what a week we took our companion on wed to the terminal (bus station) to send her on her way with he companion,we have a district leader Elder connoly he was my district leader in  the MTC small mission no just haven't seen very much of it yet at our lunch on Friday a 13 yr old member  walked in with out a shirt and left fast his mom came in and sad the he was so embarrassed"the sisters saw me with a shirt I'm going to die it was so embarrassing" really funny. We didn't have any investigators come to church  yesterday muy sad but it rain hard we couldn't hear the speaker talk at all it rain so hard you couldn't see wow amazing lucky it stopped by the time church was over, We have amazing investigators one at first said she would listen but not really interested in religion but now she asked us what does she need to do to get baptized get married so shes been talking with her boyfriend who is a less active she lives with and the are going to chose a date and shes trying to get him to come to church with her its so amazing we hope they can chose a date soon because it takes about a month we've been told so we are trying to figure out the marriages here, but i would like to ask all of you we have a dead time of the day its the siesta  they really love it here and is so hard to find anyone in the streets and well as answering the doors stores are also closed so no one is around what advice do you give? what ideas do you have for us love to know  and i hope everyone is going to be there on Christmas i don't know when we are calling yet no ones been told so hopefully soon

Week 18 - December 2

Holy Cow i cant believe its December already, time really flys well its transfers again and me and Hna Tanner will be staying in Mendoza, our other comp Hna Cerrato will be leaving to Maipú funny its pronounced like this "My Poo" its a joke with the Americans. well this week was great we had 4 assistants at church we are so excited, the elders in our ward had a baptism on Saturday and our zone leaders said we cant go unless we have a investigator we called and invited everyone but none as far as we knew were coming, so we sadly went home the baptism was at 9 in the night so we went home and planed for the next day, well Sunday we found out that we did have an investigator come she is 15 and amazing her dad is Evangelist  but she and her mom are very open we are very excited, the area is staring to open up more and i know its the lord blessing us for being obedient and working hard. Well i know i missed thanksgiving so the one thing im grateful for is that i did not get spaghetti with hot dogs on thanksgiving that is my least favorite meal here in Argentina, but the members make it with love for us so shouldn't complain i love you all so much and hope you have a great week

Week 17- November 26

Buenas día everyone

this week has been great my companion and i received a new companion Hna Cerrato from Honduras, she is fantastic we had 2 investigators come to church  1 German 23 is slow to understand our purpose but came to church so we are very happy and he is starting to read the scriptures too the other is a new family kinda the girlfriend is a member but less active and has a daughter about 3 and the boyfriend is a convert. the first time we met him he looked so sad but did look a bit happier after we had been there for a while the came to church it was great he wants to be baptized but the need to get married first so it will be good science he already has that desire, today is much cooler its been raining cats and dogs seriously i haven't seen it rain this much for a long while, but i love it its great our DL is amazing to he really tries to help us when we need it i grateful for the help of our leaders and the love of our families this is an amazing time its truly the last days and we need to speak bold, its amazing when the spirit teaches because we are not truly teaching  but the spirit is.

i hope you have a good week i love you all 

Hermana Smith 

Week 16- November 18

Week 15 - November 11

Buenas Día everyone, This past week we have had a few changes in the way we count our lessons, and such so now numbers are put lower and we focus on better lessons and the people even more my companion hna Tanner and i are quite happy, i always felt pressured to have high numbers but the changes are going to help. we have been teaching a 12 year old girl Trinidad she goes to church with her friend most Sundays, her mom is a less active and dad is not a member both are very nice but wont sit in on the lessons and don't really care that we are teaching their daughter shes not sure if she wants to be baptized, something scares her we are not sure what but she knows that if she gets baptized its a good thing, also teaching Don Pedra a 50ish man who is very open feels the spirit when we come but still hasn't come to church, said that he waiting for god to show him the right church we have tried to help him understand that he needs to act its part of faith there are a new family we are teaching is Buchanan the dad is a bit different, definitely the one in charge but we feel if he wold stop trying to teach us and let his wife and daughter,speak they would learn more the wife and daughter are more open so i hope we can get to teach them the father believes in all the prophets, even Joseph smith but not in the living one says the holy ghost is the profeta, we have heard about the stuff in the Philippines my companion has a friend there he went with out food for 4 days not to long ago and now another disaster, wow when i think i have it hard i think of the others i mean all i dont have is water in our apartment luckily the members do so we are bless to go and shower and leave our laundry at the members home this morning, we had rain yesterday it got pretty cold but i loved it thought it felt so good, its becoming tourist season so we met a few people from Ireland,England and one from Africa a British colony i think its fun to see where people are from most don't know any Spanish and still spend a lot of time here it would be a lot of fun.  So something interesting we found out this week is that we think we are cousins my comp hna Tanners mom maiden name is Kunz from Driggs ID she knows shes from one of the wives of a John Kunz but thats all kinda funny who you meet. well i love you hope you send pictures from halloween and tell me all about thing 

love Hna Smith