I love you all so very much, and I hope you appreciate always our mothers. They are God´s gift to His children!

THIS week there is a bit more to discuss. The first things we did in the week were visit other areas as usual. We were expecting more convert baptisms in this week, but for the fault of not-so-great verification we will be baptizing in this week instead. But church was great! We have been teaching a sister named Nancy, who is 33 but looks like 23. She told us that sometimes when people know how old she is they call her with the word Señora which implicates that she is, well, older than she would like to be haha. But she is super great! She was introduced to the church when she went to a self sufficiency fair (thank you self sufficiency office :DD) and when we found her she was super excited to receive the lessons. She has been progressing brilliantly. One of her sisters died a year ago, so it was special to be able to share with her the Plan of Salvation and see the rising hope in her personage as we together read scriptures about the after life and even more about the resurrection. When she goes to the Temple, it is going to be really special for her to do that Temple work. Miraculously she lives close to the church, in a neighborhood where we almost never work because it just isn't productive. But it has been a wonderful experience thus far. She came to church and we are putting together a lesson with a recent covert, Frida, to bring it all home and get Nancy in the water. She already wants to be baptized though so the Lord is showering His blessings.

The other family that attended church was the The family of Teresa. Her kids are our focus. They are good young women. The mom can't progress much because she isn't legally married, but she wants her kids in church and the kids love it. And they all can go to church so we will see where that goes this week.

I got to talk to my beloved parents this week! It made me excited that the next call will literally be face to face haha. I love you all so very much, and I hope you appreciate always our mothers. They are God´s gift to His children!

Elder Smith