Hola Hola!
First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BIG SISTER RACHEL! You are
getting so old, jaja. I hope you had a really good day and that this will be
the best year of your life! If you will make Christ the center of it there is no way it won't be.
Second,
CONGRATULATIONS TO MY LITTLE COUSINS, AVA AND ALLIE, FOR GETTING BAPTIZED!
I can't believe you are both already 8. But I'm super proud of you for
living the gospel of Jesus Christ and being baptized!
Also congrats to Daniel
Madsen for getting his mission call. Good luck out there Daniel! You are
going to be great!
Wow. That is really good
news about the soccer scholarship offer to Western Wyoming! That would be super
fun to play with Landon again! I would love that. But I haven't prayed
or fasted about it, or even really thought about it at all. I would like
to take some time to do that... these are big decisions! Let's just hold our horses for a
little while and see what happens!
This
week was hard. Elder Yac got sick. Really sick. Monday
after writing we went back to the house and he fell asleep. He didn't
leave his bed again until Friday! Dengue is EVERYWHERE down here right
now! I hate mosquitoes. But its OK, the rainy season is now over. So they
should all start to die soon. But entonces, I had a really boring week.
I was able to go work with some of the youth of the ward a few times, but we lost a lot of progress we had made the week before. It's frustrating to be a missionary stuck in the house.
Besides
that my zone is falling apart a little bit. Hermana Randall went
home. It was really hard to say goodbye to her.
She's a great missionary. Then they took her companion Hermana Zavala to
another zone to be in a trio because we don't have anyone to be
her companion down here. And last week Elder Moore went to the office to be
the new secretary. His old companion Elder Flores is with us now, and we
are also in a trio. Super cool guy! But we started
as a zone of 16 and we are now down to 13... all three of those
things were out of my control, but still we're not doing so hot
right now. But this week we are finally back on track and we are going to
have the best week ever!
This week I studied a
lot about the quality of virtue. It is one of the attributes of Christ. But I didn't
really know how to define it, so I studied it for a couple days.
I learned a couple of things that I really liked. Virtue is something that
has to do with our thoughts. What we think about when we
don't have anything to think about is a good judge of our virtue. It's
not just about not thinking bad things, it's consciously choosing to think
righteous thoughts. There are a bunch of promises given to those who are virtuous, but my favorite is that we will have confidence in the
presence of God! So I've been working on having virtuous thoughts this
week. If you guys have some insights on virtue I would love to hear
them!
Oh, also Elder Yac and I had to
give a workshop sorta thing for zone conference this
week! That was pretty cool. I'll probably remember that for the rest of
my life.
Anyway, that's all for this week! I
hope you all remember the covenants that you have made with your Heavenly Father, including priesthood covenants. They are real. They bring blessings and peace. Think
about them more and you will realize, or maybe re-realize how important
they are.
Love, Elder Smith!
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