Week 43 (March 13, 2017)

I got my Package!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Splits with Hermana Workman from Hawaii! What!! But she grew up also in Michigan

My back was hurting from the hard bed so I asked and they said they could get me a new one! So 3 days later the mission offices brought me the new one! (on the left) and now I can sleep well. 

Wow, this week nothing huge happened, but we have just been working and walking and finding.  My companion walks SO fast so sometimes its hard to keep up haha which is funny because she is in the same group as my hija! (the Sister I trained last transfer) so my comp im with now has been in the mission for 4 months and its actaully been really fun.  Like I said last week, she is from Argentina, and so even though Ive never had a companion from the states, everysingle one of my comps is from a different country! how cool is that. 

Well, this week we taught Raul and Carlos pretty much everyday!  Carlos quit on us Sunday, but then actually apoligized the next day! he said he had been dealing with personal problems and took it out on us. But he started listening to us and after shoving his Book of Mormon we had given him back to us, on tuesday he asked for it back again! They also both came to church on Sunday! and really enjoyed the class. Raul believes and really has a lot of desires to be baptized, which we set a baptism date for March 25! the day after my Birthday haha but Carlos is very hard. He has a lot of doubts about the Book of mormon but likes the Gospel Principles book they used in 2nd hour for the class so we are going to start using that because hes open to listen from that! which is great because its has pretty much all the missionary lessons in that book! So we hope everything will be ok.  Carlos also believes God and Jesus are the same person. and the holy ghost is seperate... so we keep trying to explain and testify that they are 3 seperate.

I know this church is true with all my heart!! I am so greatful for the opportunity to be here! And even if carlos doesnt accept the gospel, my testimony has truly been stregnthen. At times, Carlos would say things, like how no church is true, and we just believe because we were raised in the gospel, and I could feel satans power and influence trying to make me doubt, but I couldnt. I know this is true, and I am so greatful that I WAS raised in the gospel because that just gave me more time to learn and more time to recieve those blessings!! I KNOW this is christs church, under the direction of God the father, who is the father of our spirits. I KNOW that Joseph Smith really did see them and restored Christs church again upon the earth!! I KNOW that the book of mormon is TRUE!! and that the gospel is true.  I am so greatful for the opportunity to be here! and for this amazing gospel!!! I hope and pray that Raul will be able to stay with his desire to be baptized, even with the influence of Carlos's doubt, so he can recieve those blessings too! And that Carlos can live this gospel as well. 

I love you all and am so greatful for your examples to me and for your love and support!! 

Love, Hna Smoot