You can't be late until you show up

Sent 3/14/16

The humidity is on another level this week... Straight dripping all day.

Lately we've been working on marriages. We have about 6 couples that need to get married. They pretty much always go to church and are active and everything, and want to get married but can’t because the cost, the paperwork and everything involved. So we've been working a lot with that kind of thing, getting new cedillas (forms) and helping people make wedding plans, so then they can get baptized.

We also had divisiones this week with our District Leaders.  What President is asking us zone-leaders to do is, bring our district leaders to our area, instead of going to their area. This has been working really well with our zone, because we can help them out by example instead of correcting them by pointing fingers.  

The bishop and our companionship have agreed also on 5 less active families that we need to help, so we visited one of them on Friday...los grandwell.  WOW, our area is pure mountain and this family lives up in the nothing! It took us 45 minutes to just get there.  Pure subida (straight climb?).

We also had some baptism interviews in Confite this week. It was pretty cool going out there again after like a year and a half. 

Also we helped an investigator move a pila (a big cement tub) heh, that was… well a trip.

Oh ya, we also had a tube (pipe) break in our house, so we came home to a waterbed. Literally, since we are the ZLs, we have about 3 or 4 extra beds in our house for divisions and changes and all that, and they were all wet... ya that was great.

Tomorrow we have divisions with the assistants, so that will be great. We are also going to pass by Berlin on the way! (another area Andy served in last year)

Alma 29:13-17

13 Yea, and that same God did establish his church among them; yea, and that same God hath called me by a holy calling, to preach the word unto this people, and hath given me much success, in the which my joy is full.  

14 But I do not joy in my own success alone, but my joy is more full because of the success of my brethren, who have been up to the land of Nephi.  

15 Behold, they have labored exceedingly, and have brought forth much fruit; and how great shall be their reward!  

16 Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, as it were, so great is my joy.  

17 And now may God grant unto these, my brethren, that they may sit down in the kingdom of God; yea, and also all those who are the fruit of their labors that they may go no more out, but that they may praise him forever. And may God grant that it may be done according to my words, even as I have spoken. Amen.

MACIZO

Elder Smart

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Sent: 3/7/16

This week was fulllll.

First we had the Zone Leadership meeting in La Paz, which is super far away, we just talked about the multi-zone conference that we were going to have and all the good stuff going on in the mission. It was good.

Then later in the week, we had to go rent tables for the multi-zone conference. All the missionaries from La Ceiba, Miramar, and Olanchito were going to be there, and there wasn't enough tables in the stake center for all of them, so we rented 16 extras.

Then we had the multi-zone. It was pretty sweet.  Me and my comp had a workshop on revelation through church attendance. It went well.

My comp also fulfilled one year in the mission, so we did the necessary activities.

Oh ya, my shoes are wrecked, so i sewed em up a little.

Well a lot went down this week, and it was a good one.

 3 Nephi 29:6

 6 Yea, wo unto him that shall deny the revelations of the Lord, and that shall say the Lord no longer worketh by revelation, or by prophecy, or by gifts, or by tongues, or by healings, or by the power of the Holy Ghost!

#Halleluja mate

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MACIZO

Elder Smart