March 12

Masticable means Chewable. In case you didnt know... Because let me tell you. I thought I read my medicine right, but Ive been swallowing this huge chewable pill because I didnt know that word. Just another week here in the great country of mexico. I really had a rough week. To start things off, I had the pleasure of having this super bad stomach bug all week. And in addition to spending a third of my time in the bathroom I had a stinking cold all day. ( shout out to Elder Sabey for passing that one off). So this week overall was really pretty hard to get through. But it went by faster than I thought it would. Elder sabey says I tend to get weird when Im tired/sick. And I would deny it, But I was so out of it several days. We didnt even go out of the house on thursday because I like couldnt move. And we did our weekly planning, But I had to redo it, because I didnt remember anything that we talked about. BUT despite being slightly dead throughout the week. We still went out and tried to work. We wanted to take a break from just contacting a bunch of random houses, so we went through 5 years of old investigators and tried to go visit a ton of them that seemed like they had some promise. It ended up being okay, but we didnt have a ton of success. We walked way out to kingdom come. several time to find some people. But none of them answered, or didnt want anything to do with us. So we are going to be changing our contact back to just random houses. At least we get to talk to people. But that being said, we did find a new family of investigators. Carmin and her daughter, cousin and niece. All of them are dilligently reading the book of mormon and are coming to church ( which is so hard to get people there). They have a fecha for the 24 of march. Im super excited for them. They are people who the lord has truly prepared. Im almost positive they will be baptized and Im jsut so excited for them. They are all excited for general conference even!!. Im so blessed to even help them. So I had some scary firsts this week. Mainly I gave my first spanish blessing. It was so scary, and also kind of weird. Here in Mexico ( and in the spanish language) when giving someone a blessing you use a different from of the word you. And its just weird to use it, because we dont use it casually as a missionary. So that was a fun and scary experience. I also had the pleasure of giving my first 10 minute talk in spanish. And it went super well. I didnt really write anything down. I just wrote down some scriptures I wanted to share, and then trusted the lord. And sure enough lots of good spanish came out. ANd it was a good talk about revelation. I have to be a little honest. I said I would bring my journal to write to write a better letter, and I did. But this week was not a super crazy week. I dont have any crazy stories or anything. We did find some cool parts of our area that I had never seen. (pictures included). But thats about it. Well Much love from out here in Mexico. Your little mexican Elder Smith