Week 46 (April 3, 2017)

With the Sisters

General Conference!!

La Mordida

Cake Face

Wow, well this week was a pretty good week. Tuesday, they celebrated my birthday in the district meeting with the zone with cake and singing happy birthday in english then in spanish and then as I was going in for a little bite to do the tradition ''la mordida'' where you bite the cake, then someone pushed my head in farther so the cake got ALL OVER MY FACE. I just thought it was hilarious. but we definetly got a picture of it.

This week was a Zone Conference with president and he taught us so much about how to help our investigators find there testimonies, because a lot of ours wanted to be baptized, but didnt have testimonies yet. He explained that they have to be the ones to say it, but we can help guide them by asking how they feel when reading the book of mormon. If they feel good, peace, happy ect while reading, or hunger for more, using a scripture, thos are fruits of the spirit. which is from god, and therefore god is responding that the book of mormon is true and therefore joseph smith translated it and restored this gospel and therefore this church is true!! It really strengthened my own testimony as well!!  

Which General Conference was also this week!! Which I absolutely loved!! I asked if we could somehow watch it in english, and my leaders said no, because president wanted us to sit with our investigators, and learn spanish... so although somethings i kind of missed or didnt get it, I still loved conference and I could feel the spirit. I absolutley loved the prophets talk, which had english subtitles! so i understood every single word! and how powerful it was. STUDY THE BOOK OF MORMON EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Also Raul had his 2nd interview this week and all is well and so he will be baptized April 15, 2017!! which is one week after transfers.. But we are so excited for him! And he basically stopped talking to Carlos, because Carlos was trying to convince him other wise and he didnt want that in his life, so they still talk, but not a lot. I am so glad he relized satan was working through carlos.

I love this gospel and I love being a missionary. Even though its SO hard at times, I know it will all be worth it in the end. and I know that when we obey gods commandments we recieve BLESSINGS!!! so I am so excited to recieve even more blessings in the future.  I love you all so much and know this church is true.

Love, Hna Smoot