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Cathedral on Fire 馃敟
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Follow Head Honcho
Que pasa chavales! 馃
'Twas a good semana here in Le贸n :) I don't
really wanna write too much today so we will see how this email turns
out!!
Everything is looking super good for our
investigator Iris (less active Jefferson's girlfriend) to be baptized the 11th
of June! She is a little scared but after having a few
lessons with her this week, she has realized that she needs to put her faith
into practice and trust in the Lord. We did a couple fun object lessons with
her this week about following the prophets and even one about faith and she
loved them! We have a few more lessons to teach this week then Saturday she
will be having her baptismal interview! After that she'll be in the
water 馃槈
Last week I wrote a bit about our new
Colombian friends Diego and Lina... well they are doing awesome, especially
Lina!! She is almost 22 years old one of, if not, the most prepared person I
have ever seen/found on my mission! Last Saturday we met her for the first
time, and 5 days later on Thursday, she had read 180 pages in the Book of
Mormon!! We went zoinkers!!! We are talking to her about baptism too and so
hopefully this week we get a date with her and then we can start teaching
according to that :) her brother Diego is a bit rougher around the edges but he
has a good heart and is a lot more spiritual than most 19 year old teenage boys
in Spain. We also met the mom of the kids this week and that was good, she
loves us and thanked us for helping get her kids on the right path. Hopefully
we can get back and teach her again soon!! AND, they promised to make us a
"Bandeja Paisa" which is a special Colombian plate that is literally
to die for 馃槱 I
love Colombians so much.
On Thursday of this week, we had zone
conference with the Pack's here in Le贸n! It's always good when they are in town
:) Hermana Pack focused a lot on stress in the mission and talked about
urgency. Too much stress is obviously not a good thing but just the right
amount helps us to recognize that we have things to improve on and keeps us
constantly moving. She gave a cool example that I found interesting... it was
something like
Me + More = Christ
when it really should be
Me + Christ = More
Lots of times we think that when we do more,
Christ comes. He asks us to all we can and then when we allow him to help us
and take the other half of the load, we end up doing way more. I really liked
that example that she did :) so yeah, Zone Conference was good! And I got my
temple recommendation renewed from President which was cool too 馃檭
Another quick thing I noticed... after talking
to some Spanish members yesterday, I realized how much they have gone through
to get the church to where it is today. I am so grateful for their
courageousness and desire to share the gospel even when their friends and
family have completely disagreed with their decisions. Spain is such a great
country. Literally the best in the whole world myyyyy goodnessssssss.
This week we have a couple of intercambios,
district meetings, and baptismal interviews scheduled so it should be a busy
but fun one! I am definitely being pushed right up until the end which is just
what I wanted :) as铆 que no complaints from me! Love you all, have a bacano
week :):):)
Con amor,
Elder braids
Monday, May 22, 2017
Pics from this week
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| We found a baseball field this week!!! First time in my whole mission!!! 馃槏馃槏 |
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| Baseballllllll |
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| More baseballlllll #dingers |
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| Noche de hogar with the branch... chalking the plan of happiness! |
Ca帽a Con Cari帽o #dingers
Hola!!!
This week, the Lord's hand was EVERYWHERE to be found in the work here
in Le贸n!! It has been incredible to see the amount of prepared people
there are at this time. This was a great week full of miracles and
missionary work which seem to go pretty much hand in hand :) here's a
little bit about it!!
Coolest story first... we go over to teach Jefferson (less active kid)
and he was there with his girlfriend Iris (our investigator) and so we
decided to teach the restoration and it went soooooooo well, like
elder kiser and I taught with literally 100% unity. They invited us to
go back the next day and we taught the plan of salvation and law of
chastity together. At the end, we extended the baptismal invitation
and Iris was all for it!! So on the 10th of June.. if all goes well...
we should have a baptism!! We'll see though :) she has been to church
a bunch of times and loves the spirit she feels so hopefully we can
keep helping her!!
Next person... on intercambios a couple weeks ago, elder kiser
contacted this girl named Alejandra Feliz and when we got back to the
piso that night he goes "dude I just contacted our next baptism!" I
was like come on, she can't be that good!! I was wrong 馃檭 we had our
first lesson with her this week and now she has a baptismal date too!!
She said that when she comes to know that these things are true, she
will do whatever it takes to follow the Savior. There are sooooo many
prepared peeps out there, we just gotta keep looking! But for sure she
was another miracle :)
And the last cool story... like my 2nd week here I contacted this 19
year old chaval named Diego from Colombia who loves to play soccer. So
I have been calling him every week to get him to come play with us on
Saturday mornings but he never came... until this past Saturday!!
Nobody else showed up except for him and right as we were about to
leave, he came up to us and said "hey! Remember me?" We were so
shocked he came!! then he introduced us to his sister named Lina who
is like the sweetest person I have ever met in my life. She asked why
we were here and as soon as we said the word missionaries, she turns
to Diego and goes "I told you yesterday that I wanted to find a
church!" CAN YOU SAY MIRACLE?!?! Holy cow!! So we whipped out 2 copies
of the Book of Mormon and explained it, gave them a tour of the
church, and invited them to come back the next day and they did! They
came to church!! Seeing them walk in was like the greatest feeling of
all time :) we met up with them yesterday and taught the restoration
and they loved it. Soooo basically God has been treating us really
well this week... and I'm so happy to be where I am surrounded by such
wonderful people!!
Other than that, not too much new stuff to report on. But the forecast
is starting to look pretty good over here in Le贸n (missionary work
wise and weather as well... it's starting to get hot!) 馃 this week we
have Zone Conference so that means everyone will be coming down the
night before to sleep in our piso... things are gonna be crazy 馃槣 I'm
so happy here and loving life, I love each one of you and I'll see you
all soon! Peace ✌馃徑
Con amor,
Elder esmit
This week, the Lord's hand was EVERYWHERE to be found in the work here
in Le贸n!! It has been incredible to see the amount of prepared people
there are at this time. This was a great week full of miracles and
missionary work which seem to go pretty much hand in hand :) here's a
little bit about it!!
Coolest story first... we go over to teach Jefferson (less active kid)
and he was there with his girlfriend Iris (our investigator) and so we
decided to teach the restoration and it went soooooooo well, like
elder kiser and I taught with literally 100% unity. They invited us to
go back the next day and we taught the plan of salvation and law of
chastity together. At the end, we extended the baptismal invitation
and Iris was all for it!! So on the 10th of June.. if all goes well...
we should have a baptism!! We'll see though :) she has been to church
a bunch of times and loves the spirit she feels so hopefully we can
keep helping her!!
Next person... on intercambios a couple weeks ago, elder kiser
contacted this girl named Alejandra Feliz and when we got back to the
piso that night he goes "dude I just contacted our next baptism!" I
was like come on, she can't be that good!! I was wrong 馃檭 we had our
first lesson with her this week and now she has a baptismal date too!!
She said that when she comes to know that these things are true, she
will do whatever it takes to follow the Savior. There are sooooo many
prepared peeps out there, we just gotta keep looking! But for sure she
was another miracle :)
And the last cool story... like my 2nd week here I contacted this 19
year old chaval named Diego from Colombia who loves to play soccer. So
I have been calling him every week to get him to come play with us on
Saturday mornings but he never came... until this past Saturday!!
Nobody else showed up except for him and right as we were about to
leave, he came up to us and said "hey! Remember me?" We were so
shocked he came!! then he introduced us to his sister named Lina who
is like the sweetest person I have ever met in my life. She asked why
we were here and as soon as we said the word missionaries, she turns
to Diego and goes "I told you yesterday that I wanted to find a
church!" CAN YOU SAY MIRACLE?!?! Holy cow!! So we whipped out 2 copies
of the Book of Mormon and explained it, gave them a tour of the
church, and invited them to come back the next day and they did! They
came to church!! Seeing them walk in was like the greatest feeling of
all time :) we met up with them yesterday and taught the restoration
and they loved it. Soooo basically God has been treating us really
well this week... and I'm so happy to be where I am surrounded by such
wonderful people!!
Other than that, not too much new stuff to report on. But the forecast
is starting to look pretty good over here in Le贸n (missionary work
wise and weather as well... it's starting to get hot!) 馃 this week we
have Zone Conference so that means everyone will be coming down the
night before to sleep in our piso... things are gonna be crazy 馃槣 I'm
so happy here and loving life, I love each one of you and I'll see you
all soon! Peace ✌馃徑
Con amor,
Elder esmit
Monday, May 15, 2017
Pics from this week
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| Brother and Oviedo |
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| Skrill |
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| Preaching the good word |
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| P-day attempt at cool jumping in front of Jesus picture 馃槑 |
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| Last skype with my fambam!! |
A Danky Mother's Day
Buenas!!!
Well hello there to all my favorite people! I hope all the women in
the world had a great Mother's Day and all the missionary moms and
missionaries enjoyed their skype sessions as much as I enjoyed mine :)
I have the best mom ever. But probably the best part of the whole
skype was when dad said "im getting tired of being the only man around
here!" 馃檪 I miss you too big guy :) Also... happy early birthday to
kenna on Wednesday!! 18 baby WOO HOO!! 馃槤 Live it up! Can't wait to
start college with you!! Thanks for being the best curly haired sister
ever!! I'm gonna try and keep it short and sweet today because I
chatted a lot yesterday with the fam.
So this past week we had a pretty good lesson with one of our
investigators named Iris. She is the girlfriend of this less active
kid who we are teaching and she is super interested. We shared the
story of Ammon in the Book of Mormon with her and she loved it and
then came to church for like the 3rd time and loved that too!! So we
are hoping to talk more often with her and the kid too so they can
start living the law of chastity lol and eventually get her baptized
and yeah! She's super awesome and is always so happy when we teach her
so hopefully things go well with that! Keep them in your prayers!!
On Friday the Hermanas baptized a little family of 3 people, a mom, 16
year old son, and a 9 year old girl and it was so beautiful! One of
the best baptismal services I've seen on my mission. They were so
reverent the whole time and really understood the magnitude of the
covenant that they were making with God. On Sunday, elder kiser and I
confirmed all 3 of them in church and that was a super sweet
experience to be a part of that! They will be a great addition to the
branch here and get put right to work :) also, my favorite family from
Talavera called me this week and told me that they are moving to
LE脫N!!! Eduardo, Tati, Mar, and Esther are all coming here at the end
of June!! They found work in one of the pueblos right outside of the
city so they will be here at the end of June :) I was flipping out
with excitement when they called me. They are literally exactly what
the branch needs right now, good families make all the difference in
the world! So things here in Le贸n are going bastante bien if you ask
me :)
Today for P-Day we went to elder kiser's home, Oviedo, and hiked to
the big Christ Statue that is there. It's similar to the one in Rio de
Janeiro but not anywhere near as big. I love northern Spain. It is
absolutely beautiful 馃槏 from Galicia to Asturias to Castilla y Le贸n,
it's just all sooooo pretty. I'm gonna miss it up here so much :(
humidity, green mountain ranges, cows, weather, cleanliness of the
cities, everything. You just can't beat a country like Spain!!
Hopefully that's short and sweet enough for you guys, I love you all!
I'm grateful for the time I have had as a full-time missionary of this
church and for the rest of the time I still have left! There's lots of
work to still be done, and I'm loving every second! Have a great
week!!
Con amor,
Elder Brady Smith
Well hello there to all my favorite people! I hope all the women in
the world had a great Mother's Day and all the missionary moms and
missionaries enjoyed their skype sessions as much as I enjoyed mine :)
I have the best mom ever. But probably the best part of the whole
skype was when dad said "im getting tired of being the only man around
here!" 馃檪 I miss you too big guy :) Also... happy early birthday to
kenna on Wednesday!! 18 baby WOO HOO!! 馃槤 Live it up! Can't wait to
start college with you!! Thanks for being the best curly haired sister
ever!! I'm gonna try and keep it short and sweet today because I
chatted a lot yesterday with the fam.
So this past week we had a pretty good lesson with one of our
investigators named Iris. She is the girlfriend of this less active
kid who we are teaching and she is super interested. We shared the
story of Ammon in the Book of Mormon with her and she loved it and
then came to church for like the 3rd time and loved that too!! So we
are hoping to talk more often with her and the kid too so they can
start living the law of chastity lol and eventually get her baptized
and yeah! She's super awesome and is always so happy when we teach her
so hopefully things go well with that! Keep them in your prayers!!
On Friday the Hermanas baptized a little family of 3 people, a mom, 16
year old son, and a 9 year old girl and it was so beautiful! One of
the best baptismal services I've seen on my mission. They were so
reverent the whole time and really understood the magnitude of the
covenant that they were making with God. On Sunday, elder kiser and I
confirmed all 3 of them in church and that was a super sweet
experience to be a part of that! They will be a great addition to the
branch here and get put right to work :) also, my favorite family from
Talavera called me this week and told me that they are moving to
LE脫N!!! Eduardo, Tati, Mar, and Esther are all coming here at the end
of June!! They found work in one of the pueblos right outside of the
city so they will be here at the end of June :) I was flipping out
with excitement when they called me. They are literally exactly what
the branch needs right now, good families make all the difference in
the world! So things here in Le贸n are going bastante bien if you ask
me :)
Today for P-Day we went to elder kiser's home, Oviedo, and hiked to
the big Christ Statue that is there. It's similar to the one in Rio de
Janeiro but not anywhere near as big. I love northern Spain. It is
absolutely beautiful 馃槏 from Galicia to Asturias to Castilla y Le贸n,
it's just all sooooo pretty. I'm gonna miss it up here so much :(
humidity, green mountain ranges, cows, weather, cleanliness of the
cities, everything. You just can't beat a country like Spain!!
Hopefully that's short and sweet enough for you guys, I love you all!
I'm grateful for the time I have had as a full-time missionary of this
church and for the rest of the time I still have left! There's lots of
work to still be done, and I'm loving every second! Have a great
week!!
Con amor,
Elder Brady Smith
Friday, May 12, 2017
Pics from this week
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Valladolid homies part 1
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Valladolid homies part 2
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All the zone gathered together @ district conference! The only
building in
Le贸n that fits enough people is a giant catholic hotel :)
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Conciliooooooo
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Selfie with president and hermana pack by the cathedral! Repping
their BYU gear!
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