Friday, May 2, 2008

Wed, 30 April 2008

Hey!

NOT TRANSFERED!! I am pretty happy that I am not being transferred. My companion is staying as well. So the baptism went well. Just the daughter was baptized, something came up so the mother is waiting.

Oh, so last week. The thing that happened. We were down on Madison and Cicero like on Friday, and on Saturday or Sunday I guess there was a huge gun fight down on Madison and Lockwood. So we were still pretty far away from that spot but near it enough to freak you out. The newspaper said 4 were dead and about 23 wounded. It is funny because when ever we go down that way, they all think we are cops or something.

Wed, 23 April 2008

Things have been well. Last week somewhere in our district there was a baptism of a father and two kids, and this week there is a baptism of a man tomorrow, and we have a baptism of a woman and her daughter. It will be great. Their other daughter wasn't sure if she wanted to be baptized yet so they are giving her more time.

We had a great surprise on Sunday because Juana Soto finally came to church! We have been trying to get her to come for forever and because she wasn't coming we were going to drop her, which we didn't want to do because she knows the things are true and reads the Book of Mormon to her kids, but it was mainly because of work. But she finally came so I hope things will continue to progress with her.

A few days ago we walked by a Hispanic in handcuffs talking to some police and I heard the police say, “You don't know how to spell your last name? If you don't know how to spell your last name than you're going to jail, so you better learn quick!" It was pretty hilarious.

It is SO diverse and a lot of interesting people. Chicago, Chicago,..... WOW!

Later!

Que Les Vaya Bien!

Hey really quick. Here is a quote I liked from conference. I don’t think I remembered it correctly but it was something like this: “The laughter of the world is [evil] trying to reassure itself!" - Elder W. Craig Zwick(I just don’t remember if it said evil or another word), just thought it was great.

Wed, 16 April 2008

Hey!

This transfer has flown by so fast! I finally met someone from Costa Rica! It was some person that a member wanted to visit. I'm not sure if she is a member or not. She had a picture on the wall that just said "COSTA RICA... es pura vida." It was awesome! It was weird because for some reason it just felt like Costa Rica in their house and she just talked and seemed like Costa Rica. It really felt like I was there for a little while.

We had exchanges the past Friday and they partnered up the two MTC companions, Elder Hickman and I. It was an awesome experience and great to really feel the excitement of being in charge. It was nice to plan everything to do.

Also on Tuesday I woke up to something new. I heard a pounding on the door next to us and they were the police. They were saying open up and stuff. I could hear them talking and they asked them if they knew who lived next door (us) and the guy said "some Mormons" and the police in a questioning, stunned reply said back “Mormons". It was pretty funny. But they came to the door and showed me some mug shots of some dudes and asked me if I had seen them. I felt a little weird because I was in my pajamas, early morning look face and everything, but what was weird was when they asked who I was I didn't think and said "Elder" Smith and extended my hand to shake his. (I don’t remember if we shook hands or not though, I wasn't even thinking, it kind-of just happened) I'm pretty sure we did. It was something different to start the day. My companion comes out of the shower and asked who that was and what it was about. Pretty funny.

Later!