Oct. 8, 2018 Risk... is a brutal game

And after 2 brutal losses this morning. I dont know if I can return to play again.

Well, this week was a rough one. A lot of work, and not a lot of success, which always makes my companion a little more stressed. But the mission is all stress, and you have to learn to cope with it, because real life is all stress. He will get there, and he will be an amazing missionary. I have faith in that. 

Moving on to a little about the week, the days honestly went by rather fast, but at the same time, they were really slow. Like it was a weird phenomenon(please pardon the english, Im trying) We just spent the majority of the week knocking doors, and doing our best to talk to more people, but its been a little hard. We haven't been having the greatest success in finding, and if you dont find, you dont have success. thats missionary work for ya. So hay que trabajar aun mas. And its pretty rough sometimes, because we think we have time to do stuff, and then all of a sudden, its the end of the week again. 

General conference was honestly pretty great, I would have to say that the best talk would be that by Elder Holland, and I think its something that all of us can learn from. We need to learn to let go things of the past, in order to progress further. We unfortunately didnt have the opportunity to watch conference in english, which made it a little harder. In the sense, I had to think a lot more, because they use some big words. But even still it was great. 

Well I apologize for the sporaticness of my email. Writing is hard. But love yall. Take care and have a great week!

Elder Smith

Oct. 1, 2018 Pinta azul? Si, por favor

So the past two weeks I haven't really written, and for that I apologize. But this week we bought these suckers that are called pinta azul, and they legit turn everything blue. Your mouth, your teeth, your face. You name it. They are the best. So like responsible adults, we bought a LOT of them... I'm so happy(:

So things with Elder Croxall have been getting better. He is adjusting to mission life, and we are having fun and working super hard together. We are teaching better together, and I love this guy. He is so bold in trying new things. He is just an awesome guy, and he is going to be a great missionary. Its all coming day by day.

This week we had the chance to go to Piedras Negras for 2.5 days for a zone conference, in which we stayed with Elder Sabey and his companion. SO, that probably wasn't the best idea to go stay with them, and Elder Sabey is hands down on of my best friends. But we were about to catch up and talk about a lot of things within missionary work that we are working on improving. We also had an amazing Zone Conference. It was such a spiritual and uplifting experience.

This week we are going to have the amazing opportunity to listen to our living prophets and Apostles on Saturday and Sunday. I invite all of you to tune in and prepare spiritually to receive further light from them. I love you all and hope you have a great week!