Very Busy Week! - 6/23/15

Hey family how are you all doing? It sounds like it was a huge week
back home full of excitement! Happy Fathers Day Dad. And welcome to
the family little Ainsley. It is crazy there are now 10 grandchildren.
I love it haha! I am glad you all are doing great and are safe and
sound. I hope you all have another great week. I love you all so much!

This week for me was pretty interesting and very busy! First off on
Monday after we emailed I was able to go down and meet up with the
Boss's. Man that was so good to see them. I absolutely loved it! They
are some great people. And they did deliver your letters to me. Thank
you so much for the great letters and the extra spending money. That
really helped out! They had an awesome family who lives in one of my
former areas. They live up right next to Gonzales. It was fun getting
to meet them and talk to them a little bit. Then the rest of that day
was really good. I took elder Davis down to all of the fun sights. He
loved it. He is from Minnesota from the city so he felt like he was at
home. So that was a good day.

Then the rest of the week really consisted of trying to see all our
investigators. We had a good week with that. We found 2 new
investigators. They were both referrals we had received. One of the
guys names is S. We went over there this week to find him painting his
kitchen. So it was a bad time to try and talk to him so we offered to
come over and help him the following day. He said sure. He was
surprising his wife by redueing the kitchen while she was gone for a
week and he needed all the help he could get. So we went over there
and helped him out with that and it was great. He is an awesome guy!
Very friendly and very funny! We are going to try and go over this
week again and see how it goes.

Then we also were able to go on exchanges with the Zone Leaders. I was
able to go with one of my favorite people out here. Elder Jean Louis.
He is from Haiti. His first day in the mission I was able to meet him
and we became really good friends. We have served around each other
off and on while serving out here. It was a much needed exchange and
we had a ton of fun just talking about the mission and all the cool
things that has happened. We had a great day with missionary work as
well. We found 1 new investigator and were able to see a lot of our
investigators. It was awesome!

On Friday we went over to the Becnals again. It was great as usual!
they made some amazing food and showed me a picture of baby Ainsley.
She is so cute. I bet Ryan and Keelie are so happy. But it was really
cool at the Becnals. We had a great lesson with them and we were
really able to help them out. Or the Spirit was really able to help
them out. They are the best members down here to us. It is like
walking into my home back home. They are so loving and thoughtful. I
am glad you were able to talk to her a little bit. She is from Mexico
so her accent probably made it a little harder to understand for ya
mom. She is so awesome! She has really conviced me of healthy eating.
We are going to have to try some things when I get home. It will be a
lot of fun!

So some really good news for me is that my legs aren't hurting anymore
when I run! I went and got some new shoes and have been rolling them
every night. I will finally be able to start getting on my good
routine again. We have been eating really healthy and i am just trying
to finish strong because it is boating season!! haha.

Sunday was a very spiritual day for me. I really thought about our
family and how much I love you all. I have been blessed with such a
great family. I have the 3 best brothers and the 3 best sisters and on
top of that the 2 best parents! And now the best 10 nieces and
nephews. I am so excited to see you all in a couple of weeks. But
until then I will do my best to finish what I have started.

Well this week should bring in some new excitement. I hope it will be
as good as last week! My comp and I get along pretty well. He is just
different.Well I am sorry this letter is a little shorter, but I feel
like I have wrote everything home 30 times already. It is just the
same ol stuff each week, but it is great and I love it! Well I love
you all so much! Have a great week and I will talk to you next week!
See ya!

Love Elder Smith