tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27527458158263106432024-03-21T18:36:58.961-07:00Elder Blake SmithElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-66207003719962231472011-10-17T15:23:00.000-07:002011-10-18T14:29:38.213-07:00September 15, 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2w1U86BVT1yfRu00G0o_UGpyGRmyxcwwuCZ7BQWv4k2GqSedhSknwFfRmAKtR5wcCO4DyIz0eZAbC5Q3rTForXbbIM2W852D20KgyCE5XExh28Gd1nd1skDKKimZWcXksJy0Y_9ny3Ni/s1600/IMG_2036.JPG"><br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGdhOGhT5EwBruevlKOHfr4bhSHIGlpXKpETfJOzk-oNo1PJcDlIKwgbUlEpsGbZ_Bhqqyxn9V3Qe-dkD-g2V7hfLaMWIPIKfMiznKzG8xKNhF-X_y-B0HD8QVjbOXitRsfHT_qsnJyp2/s1600/IMG_2030.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGdhOGhT5EwBruevlKOHfr4bhSHIGlpXKpETfJOzk-oNo1PJcDlIKwgbUlEpsGbZ_Bhqqyxn9V3Qe-dkD-g2V7hfLaMWIPIKfMiznKzG8xKNhF-X_y-B0HD8QVjbOXitRsfHT_qsnJyp2/s320/IMG_2030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664945884098375890" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDzwk7njp3oy_XOzXQ5Dg2aJKgjdz7rLNUnJJWQMQvF1wefjFN9fVLhOQFiSDAQ9zQdr5oCK7_aMErQyumez_mqKzgtNmA0iLh8eTib4aT1jntvXqlgeUHe1SSeoiGt_w0e9Id0sjupqB3/s1600/IMG_2033.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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I think we will leave in about an hour. we had a really good night last night with president lindahl. he said he had fun talking to you. you cry baby. no just kidding. he talked really good about you. he showed me where he put an offer on a house. it is like 15 20 away from us. not to far. it is in gilbert. well i thought i would just give you a little email. i am pretty bored here in the office. i love you a lot and see you tomorrow. </div> <div><br /></div>love elder blake smithElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-40003561880838179822011-10-17T15:12:00.001-07:002011-10-17T15:12:57.040-07:00September 13, 2010<div>Family,</div> <div> </div> <div>Wow, the time has come!!! </div> <div> </div> <div>That is so crazy. I am in the mission office right now. I am using the mission computer so i cant use it for to long. i am so glad that <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318889429_0">weston</span> is elder now. i am so happy for him. i am glad you all had a great spiritual day yesterday. yesterday was the hardest day of my mission. a lot of tears of me and other people and it was really good but really sad. i will tell you more when i get home. i wont write a lot. money i am doing fine. i think. my suit cases can only be really light and my backpack is really heavy. if they dont chech my backpack than i am good. if they do i will have to pay like 150 dollars. lets just hope that that doesnt happen. after i get home i am ok with anything. lets just do el charro. it is a little closer. not like that is important we wont be walking. YYYYYAAAAYYY. well i love you all so much and i will see you in like 2 days. tonight we eat dinner with presdient and tomorrow we leave. i love you all. chau chau</div> <div> </div> Elder Blake smithElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-54926039277256265022011-10-17T15:11:00.000-07:002011-10-17T15:12:23.346-07:00September 6, 2010Hey Mom,<br /><br />HAHA, all the members are asking how you are doing and I have told everyone that my mom doesn´t say much about me going home. Everyone says, oh she is dieing inside. It is pretty crazy. This is really like my last email. I don´t know how next week is going to be. We will see. It is really crazy, it still hasn´t hit me yet. It still feels like Grandma said, that I still lack a long time and that I still have more to do. I don´t think it will hit me until next week. It is sad. It is going to be sad <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318889429_0">this sunday</span> after church there is Zonda. I leave church there to go to the terminal to go to the offices. I am going to take a big picture with everyone there. I hope everyone goes. We will see how it goes. <br /><br />I am having a hard time with what to buy people because I don´t want to spend a lot of money but I want stuff to remember it by and I want to get you all some stuff. I will do my best. If any of you want anything special tell me today because I will read it tomorrow morning when I have to write my end of the mission letter. I have bought some stuff. What do you want mom? Tell me something that you think you would like, or ask Tanner´s mom what she liked from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318889429_1">Argentina</span> and I will get it for you. All the things just seem normal for me now. Ask her and tell me tomorrow. <br /><br />That is cool that Elder (Sam) Lewis is getting married. I´ll need to visit him after the mission, see how she is. I am proud of him.<br /><br />I hope Brady feels better. That has to be so hard. I can´t believe that Kylie is leaving next week. It is kind of funny that we miss eachother by so little. She is going to have a great time. Hopefully she has a fun week before she goes into the mtc. Her mission is probably a lot colder than mine. Hers is going to be a lot more humid than mine. But I will pick dry heat over humid heat anyday. She is going to have a blast. <br /><br />We have had a really good week. A lot of really good lessons with the recent converts. We are really trying to strengthen them so that they stay strong. I don't have a ton of time today but I will try to write more next week and if not we will see each other in a little bit. <br /><br />I love you,<br /><br />elder smith<br /><br />I will write a little more tomorrow. Make she you write me and tell me if the money is in there or not. thanks mom.Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-57965229057175288182010-08-30T22:06:00.000-07:002010-08-30T22:19:47.480-07:00August 30, 2010<span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:6;">FELIZ CUMPLE JENNA!!!!! THE BIG 25!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Wow, I can´t believe Jenna is 25. She is getting pretty old. It is pretty crazy how time is going. I hope you had a good birthday. It sounded like you had a fun time. Keeping it simple. That is how I like it. Mac (Pichón) sounds like a really fun kid. I guess until now it seems like I will ever be meeting him. I am really excited to meet the little one. He sounds really funny. We have an investigator that has a kid about the same age as him. She is really quiet and shy, I don´t think the parents were the best people before we showed up. But I am way excited to see him. <br /><br />That is horrible about Brady. That just sounds so painful and hard. I hope he is doing ok. I can´t even imagine the pain he is in right now. That has got to be so hard. Hopefully he gets better and up and walking soon. <br /><br />That is really cool that the stake center is going to be done so soon. That is like a month and half more. Or in missionary time, in one more transfer it will be up. That is cool that all the wards that interest me are in the same building. Our ward, the Arboleda Branch and the singles ward. The good thing is that it is right in front of the house and at 1230. I have gone to church at 9 for the past two years. It is going to be weird to go to church in the afternoon. But I am going to like it more. It sounds like it is going up fast. I am glad they put street lights in. It should help out with the punks that go out there all the time. <br /><br />So I might be working in the store for a while. That sounds good with me. Whatever will get me going will be good with me. What ideas does grandpa have in that brain of his? I guess I will be seeing. I owe him a lot anyways. That is the least I can do is to help him. <br /><br />This week was good and bad at the same time. A lot of good things happened and also a hot chocolate party that got me really mad. That may sound weird right now but you will find out. The people we baptized last weekend are doing great. She (Matilde) is doing everything she can to help her family know the importance of the church. She is so awesome. She is going to be the first <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1283231915_0">Relief Society president</span>. She just doesnt know it yet. Her husband is catholic and her inlaws are J-Dubs. She has had to fight to get baptized but she did. So did her daughter. The Morales Family is doing really good too. All the girls in the family have been reading about temple marriage and we talked with them about how important it is. It is going to be harder for them just because they will have to look really hard for someone to go with them. They are doing great though. They love reading and going to church. Sounds like a great way to strengthen a testimony. The Montaña family is doing great to. The bishop is going to set a goal with them about going to the temple next year. Sonia is really excited. That is why the week went so well. All of the recent converts that are there since I have been there are doing really well. The only thing that I didn´t like was that the <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1283231915_1">Zonda wind</span> came it for like two days today. It really messes with my head and is just so dusty. There are branches falling everywhere and it just is horrible. It just happened to be a day when all the people who we had appointments with weren´t there. It was a great day. Also on sunday, right in the same time as church they had a hot chocolate party. Something that the politics do to win votes. But they had hot chocolote and were giving away free stuff. Well a lot of the members and all the investigators thought it would be a better idea to go there than church. I was pretty upset but they have there agency and are able to do what they want. It is just sad that they chose that. We had a good week anyways. We had about 15 members go. That is pretty good for Zonda. <br /><br />Today we went with and investigator named Ramón and a kid named Johnny to climb a mountain. It was way fun. It was a little bigger than I thought. They thing I have noticed is that Argentines don´t believe in switch bakcs. I have never been so greatful for switch backs. There trail just went pretty much strait. It was the steepest train that I have ever been on. My legs are dead. We hiked up and played Uno. I guess our investigator doesnt know that saints and virgins can´t do anything for you because he lit candle for the virgin up on top. Everyone was saying how great the virgin is up there and there wasn´t even one there. I think someone stole it and just left the little house thing. But was really fun. It wasn´t a really clear day, there was a lot of dust in the air. But it was still really cool. I´ll be sending some pictures. <br /><br />Something pretty cool. We are going to be on the Zonda radio next saturday. they want to hear why and what we are doing here. I am really excited. <br /><br />Ok. So Emily wants a shirt. Sounds good. I have seen one that she might like. I am just going to have to make a guess on the size. I am going to buy some fake jerseys and some other stuff. I think 200 more should be good. I really have no idea. Just do what ever you can. I dont want to spend a lot of money if there isn´t any. If 200 is good that I am fine with that. What ever you can do. I will just be making some guesses on what I bring home. There isn´t a lot of difference in clothing here and there. So I will just hope I get lucky with finding stuff. <br /><br />I love you all so much. Fight to the end. Man I cant believe it already september. 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJlZYW131q3n_yCyUS1nS7LDcm2nXcdyU3KFx_ZBJuB-0ueixpYbAix-THNDA0Zci6ruJ1uTnO7eiHT3uCTNQyPEz7vovjD524yyTca7x_5WHhwhMiRs7jaRtyjv_bcxMWo4IWgjYpO_p/s320/IMG_0169.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511436972723625410" border="0" /></a>here are some pictures, if you dont get them, i will explain latter. i dont have time right now. love ya alllElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-54851683102478553032010-08-25T21:38:00.001-07:002010-08-25T21:40:13.366-07:00Elder Smith is coming home !!!<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "serif";"></span> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">August 24, 2010</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"></span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">Dear Brother and Sister Smith,</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> A couple of weeks ago, we notified your stake president, that Elder Smith is to be released to return home on <b>14 Sep 2010</b>. We are providing you with the flight itinerary which Elder Smith has from Mendoza to <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_0">North America</span>. A copy of that itinerary is being e-mailed next week to Elder Smith, also. During the final interview with the <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_1">mission president</span>, Elder Smith will be given any other necessary instructions with the complete itinerary from Mendoza to the United States.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> The schedule for Elder Smith the day before his release will go something like this:</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">08:00 am.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> Weighing and preparing of luggage</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">10:00 a.m</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">. Interview with President Lindahl, issuing of interim temple recommend. </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">Noon-5:00 pm. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_2">Missionary</span> is allowed to shop for souvenirs in downtown Mendoza</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">06:30 p.m</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">. Farewell dinner and testimony meeting at the Lindahl home. </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> Early on 14 Sep 2010, Elder Smith will be transported to the Mendoza airport to catch his departing flight. In addition to personal luggage, each missionary will be carrying home two large white envelopes. One envelope will contain travel instructions and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_3">complete travel itinerary</span>. The other, a sealed envelope for the stake president, will contain the missionary release letter and certificate of release which the stake president will present at either the release interview or during Elder Smith´s visit to the Stake <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_4">High Council</span>. </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> At this juncture, I believe I speak for President and Sister Lindahl when I say that it has been a joy having Elder Smith in our mission. May the Lord continue to bless your family for the sacrifice you have made in preparing, sending, and maintaining a full-time missionary.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"> </span></p> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif";"><br /> </span> <div class="yiv1298648312Section2"> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="ES-AR">Elder Sandford</span></u></i></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES-AR">Secretario</span></b></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-AR">Mision Mendoza Argentina</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="ES-AR"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="ES-AR"><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_5">2012677@ldschurch.org</span></span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="ES-AR">(011)54-<span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_6">261-424-4165</span></span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "sans-serif";">Electronic tickets have been issued, only your passport and Visa will be needed to check-in </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "sans-serif";">To avoid <b>Cancellation of Reservation,</b> it is important to telephone the airline on which each missionary originates and reconfirm the reservation and Ticket Number at least <b>72 hours </b>prior to travel.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "sans-serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "sans-serif";">Tickets are non-refundable, Penalties apply for changes or cancellations.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "sans-serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "sans-serif";">Many of the US airline carriers are charging for a second bag when you fly. Please be prepared to pay the additional cost when you check in for your flight.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "sans-serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "sans-serif";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">CHURCH TRAVEL CWT DATE 22JUNE10</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">50 EAST NORTH TEMPLE ST AGENT VH/8C BOOKING REF 2RNAXE</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_7">SALT LAKE CITY UT 84150</span></span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">TELEPHONE: 801 240-5111 SMITH/BLAKE AUSTIN 140026-R</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">FAX : <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_8">801-240-5115</span></span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> MISSIONARY TRAVEL</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> ARGENTINA MENDOZA</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">SERVICE DATE FROM TO DEPART ARRIVE</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";" lang="ES-AR">_____________________ _____ ______________ ______________ _______ ______ </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";" lang="ES-AR"><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_9">DELTA AIR LINES</span> 14SEP BUENOS AIRE BA ATLANTA GA 830P 600A</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">DL 110 TUESDAY PISTARINI HARTSFIELD JAC 15SEP</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">L ECONOMY TERMINAL S</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> NON SMOKING DINNER NON STOP</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> RESERVATION CONFIRMED 10:30 DURATION</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> AIRCRAFT: BOEING 767-200/300</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> SEAT 40E NO SMOKING CONFIRMED</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_10">DELTA AIR LINES</span> 15SEP ATLANTA GA PHOENIX AZ 841A 945A</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">DL 2915 WEDNESDAY HARTSFIELD JAC SKY HARBOR INT </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">L ECONOMY TERMINAL S TERMINAL 3</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> NON SMOKING FOOD FOR PURCHASE NON STOP</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> RESERVATION CONFIRMED 4:04 DURATION</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> AIRCRAFT: BOEING 757-200/300</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> SEAT 46C NO SMOKING CONFIRMED</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">RESERVATION NUMBER(S) DL/EHE8JJ</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> </span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">-----------------------------------------------</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">BEIDLER C - EXT 25156</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">(8C) MISSION PRES JAMES BLAINE LINDAHL</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";">PH 011 54 261/ 424-4165 OFFICE 424-3197 HOME</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> * NOTICE * STATE OR FEDERAL PHOTO I.D. REQUIRED AT AIRPORT.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> BECAUSE CHECK-IN TIMES AROUND THE WORLD MAY VARY BASED</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> ON THE INDIVIDUAL AIRPORT AND DAY-TO-DAY SECURITY ISSUES</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY FOR YOUR FLIGHTS.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> IF YOU NEED FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_11">AIRPORT SECURITY</span>,</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> PLEASE CONTACT THE AIRPORT DIRECTLY.</span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> MISSIONARY TRAVEL <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_12">(800) 537-3537</span> OR <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_13">(801) 240-5111</span></span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> EMPLOYEE TRAVEL <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_14">(800) 537-1232</span> OR <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_15">(801) 240-1387</span></span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> GENERAL AUTHORITY TRAVEL <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_16">(800)453-3860</span> OR <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797477_17">(801)240-1000</span></span></p> <p class="yiv1298648312MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console";"> </span></p></div>Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-47070313407988291162010-08-25T21:37:00.001-07:002010-08-25T21:37:42.063-07:00August 23, 2010Hey family,<br /><br />Wow, time is going fast. It is insane how fast it is going. I really noticed it in church. But that is how it is. Well it sounds like you all had a good week. Sounds like you all had fun doing yardwork and being in the heat. Sounds like fun. <br /><br />So everyone has started school again. Is Brady going to go to school? I can imagine that it is pretty hard. That is horrible. I still can´t believe he broke his femer. Poor kid. Well I guess he wont be doing much when I get home. <br /><br />That is retarded that those kids screwed up the front of the church. Kids do stupid things everywhere not just there. The good thing is that there people are scared of the cops. Here no one is scared to get caught because the police doesn´t do anything. I have seen kids doing grafiti when a police man drove by. It is crazy but true. Lets just hope it doesn´t happen again.<br /><br />That is awesome that a General Authority is coming to our stake. I get home right in time for it. I am excited to see who it is. If I had a choice I would hope that Elder Holland came. He is so awesome, he talks so well. We´ll just have to see. It looks like I will have a little time to prepare my talk now. By the way has anyone told you on what I need to talk about? I´ll figure something out. <br /><br />That is sweet that Bryce is the ward representative. Hopefully he does a good job. We´ll help him get into shape. I have to get into a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797426_0">workout routine</span> anyways when I get home. I´ll have some time to go running and maybe go to a gym. I want to lose some more weight. 30 pounds is good but I want to loose a little bit more. You´ll have to help me out. <br /><br />I really respect President Ostler. I finally got the letter from him. He really seems like he cares for the RM´s and wants to help us out. He told me some of the things that I am going to have to do when I get home. A lot of what he said President Lindahl told us just an hour before I opened the letter. President wants a copy of it. But it was a very nice letter.<br /><br />Well, I guess now a little about my week. We had a really good week this week. A lot happened. On Friday we had zone conference. My last one and I am willing to say the best ones that I had. President talked about doing the little things in like good so that you can have a good life. He talked a lot about how he became so rich. (sounds weird). But he told us all the little things he did to help him out. All the little things he learned in his mission. He really wants us to have a good succesful life. He told me that he might buy a house in Gilbert and said we can drink some orange juice out on porch after the mission. He is a great guy. Sister lindahl had a great talk about how Satan messes with our minds. It was really a good confernce. Just a shame that it was my last. This week has been good but also I have really relized that my mission is about done. It is really sad. I look at all the things I am doing right now and I am going to miss it so much. It is a really weird feeling. It is kind of the feeling when I was getting ready to go on a mission. Sad I was leaving the life I had, scared for what was coming, excited for what was coming and having no idea what I was going to be doing. Well It is the same now. I am sad I am leaving the mission life, argentina, the people i have come to love behind. But at the same time I am excited and scared for the life I will be having. It is a happy/sad feeling. Just have to try my hardest. I have 3 weeks to give it all I have before I go home. <br /><br />This week we had 2 baptisms. Matilde and Soledad Recabarren. They are a really cool mom and daughter. They had to fight for it too. The husband at first did not like us at all. But with time and showing him the blessings from the church he let them get baptized. It was one of the best baptismal services I have had. The water was nice and warm, there were a couple of members but most importantly they and us felt the spirit. It was wonderful. It really hit me that night, the sad part of leaving behind the people I love and the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797426_1">missionary work</span>. I hope it is not my last baptism but it might be. We have some people but they have to get married. I am going to miss the work a lot. <br /><br />We ate lunch with the stake presdient. President Noriega. He is so awesome. He always has the spirit so strongly and he helps us out a ton. I want to live my life so that I can be someone like the leaders I have now. President Lindahl, Noriega and Ostler. They are such great examples and I need to strive to be a good person like them. <br /><br />We really had such a great week. A lot of people went to church and it was a great meeting. <br /><br />I love you all so much.<br /><br />Have a good week.<br /><br />Love Elder Smith<br /><br /><br />ps. mom, i got my flight plans and you should have gotten them too. if not tell me next week and i will send them to you. Could you just put some extra money of my card for when i am traveling and if i need to buy some more stuff to take home. i dont know what to buy, but I want to buy some stuff that i want to remember argentina with. thanks mom, i love you. time is coming down to the wire. I got to get one things. love you, elder smithElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-15053906709032050332010-08-25T21:36:00.001-07:002010-08-25T21:36:36.521-07:00August 16, 2010Dear Family,<br /><br />That is so sad that Brady broke his femer. I can´t even imagine. That has to hurt so badly. I hope he is ok. That is just bad luck to break it right before school. Hopefully he will be able to get around ok. Well I guess he wont be doing much when I get home. Just sitting around. Poor little kid. <br /><br />So Chad is married. I rememberd when we were in the bus on the way home like friday night that he was married. I can´t believe it. It is going to be so weird to know that he is married. Man he did that fast. Like was like 3 months or maybe a little more. It sounds like he is happy and I sure hope he is. He is such a good kid. So Logan still isnt doing to good. That is so retarded. It is so sad that he fell into that. I hope he can get out. <br /><br />That is really funny about the field is black and already to harvest. That is so awesome. It is sad but true. Everyone loves going to the poor areas. No one wants to go to the city of Mendoza when you go can go to a poor place. It is sad that there is such a big differnce but there is. <br /><br />So I was talking with my companion about the nephite lamanite thing. Actually it has never came up. But we were talking about it and I don´t think it has anything to do with what she thinks. Ok, God had to do something with the people of nephi and laman to show them apart. God made a promise with the people of nephi when they were obedient. God made the lamanites darker so that they could easily tell who were the ones following God. Really for God I don´t think that the color really matters because at one time the lamanites were more righteous then the nephites and the kept their color. But in this part of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797256_0">book of mormon</span> the nephites were righteous so what God did is changed that lamanites color to show that they repented and where not part of the lamanites. Mainly I think it is to just tell them apart. It just happened to be at this time that the nephite where righteous who had white skin so God took the curse away from them that they got from Laman. When it says they were made fair, I dont think they were talking about looking better just the skin turning color. There can always be doubts that people have. There are some things that the book of mormon talks about that are all new and may be a little different. Really, it all comes down to the big question. If a person really wants to know if the book of mormon is true just try the promise that moroni gives. Just ask God. It may seem so simple. But it is in the <span style="cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1282797256_1">end of the book of mormon</span> for a reason. We just try the word and then ask God. Elder Frost and I are telling everyone right now. It is amazing those that really have real intent and faith in Christ get an answer and it is so much easier. Doubts shouldnt stop people from reading. Really doubts can only be resolved my praying and reading. This doubt she has about the skin color is a legitament doubt but a doubt can always be resovled through prayer. <br /><br />I havn´t gotten any information about when I am going home or anything. I have no idea when I will get it either. I just know the day is the 15th of September. It is coming up so fast. It kind of hit me yesterday in church. I am going to miss argentina so badly. It is just so ghetto and fun. I love it. I am also going to miss being in a spanish speaking country. I will just have to get some mexican friends. Learn there kind of spanish.<br /><br />This week was really good. Elder Frost is still so new and it is so fun to be with him. He is a really good guy. Really funny and really is trying hard. He is really trying to not ever talk about home which is helping me stay focused. It is just sometimes like a machine. I am opening him up a little bit right now. He just has to be able to find the middle staying focused but not being a machine. <br /><br />We had a lot of success this week. Elder Frost came from a pretty hard area and I don´t think that did a ton of teaching and here in Zonda we are teaching a ton. Everyday he is so happy and so excited. <br /><br />We are teaching a girl named Viviana. She is doing great. She reads everything we leave and knows it is true. Like I said, real intent and faith in Christ. She just read really wanting to know if it was true and she knows it is true. She went to a primary activity from the stake. Which really helped her see that there are more then 15 mormons in the world. Her boyfriend went to church yesterday. Church went pretty bad. There were more investigators then members. I dont know what happened but almost every member was busy yesterday and three members went and 4 investigators. It was pretty sad. But I guess things like that happen. It was fun still. I think they all felt the spirit which is the important thing.<br /><br />Well mom, if i find anything out about when i go home or anything i will let you know. <br /><br />i love you all so much.<br /><br />bye<br /><br />love elder smithElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-18473813782229091722010-08-09T17:56:00.000-07:002010-08-09T18:04:27.166-07:00August 9. 2010Hey Family,<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />How´s everything going? Hopefully really well. I don´t think moms email worked because I didn´t get her letter but I got Emily´s and Grandma´s. That is sad that Josh´s grandpa died. Even though they weren´t very close that is still sad. So Annie is pregnant. That is crazy. There are so many new babies in the family. There are three right now that I don´t know and another one coming. Atleast I will be home for Annie´s. That really is weird that Lindsay had a baby. It is going to be weird with all the new ones in the family. Especially Mac (Pichón). I am pretty excited to meet him. He seems like a really cool kid.<br /><br />That is sweet that Brittney and Dustin were sealed in the temple. They have got to be really happy. What a great blessing it is to have the temple in our lives.<br /><br />I can´t believe that Bryce and Kaylee are starting their senior year. That is to crazy. They still seem way to small to be seniors in high school. When I left they were sophmores. It is crazy how time goes by. My mission is flying by. I don´t get where the time is going. The weeks just feel like days now. I have been in Zonda for 7 weeks. It seems like I just got here. But I am loving it. I don´t know a lot of what happened this week in the family so I will just go into the week that I had.<br /><br />This week was really good. Elder Vazquez went to Albardón, another part of San Juan. Only about 45 minutes away so I will still see him. My new companion is Elder Frost. He is from Prescott. He is a really good Elder. He is helping me out a lot. He is pretty new in the mission. He has been here for about 4 and a half months but he is speaking really well. Everyone loves the way that he talks. Everyone in Zonda has had people that can speak pretty well, everyone has had atleast more than a year in the mission. He is the newest missionary that has ever gone to Zonda. We were saying a prayer in a families house and one of the kids just started laughing like crazy. He just thought the way that he talked was really funny. I almost started laughing just because the little kid thought that it was so funny. He is the third member of his family to serve a mission. He is really going to help me finish the mission well. I am doing really well actually. I know some missionaries that don´t do anything their last transfer. I just don´t get how they can do that. I am trying my hardest do just do the best I have ever done. I have 5 more weeks to just kill it out there. It is going to be really sad to have to leave Zonda. Zonda is doing really well. It is probably my favorite area that I have had. It is so different just because it is so new. I love it.<br /><br />This week we werent in Zonda as much as usuall because of transfers. But we still had a really good week. The Montaña Family is doing great. They got baptized on saturday and confirmed on sunday. I confirmed Sonia, the mom. It was the first time that I have confirmed someone. The bishopric usually takes care of that. I was suprised when they asked me. It was a really good experiece though. It was the first time that I have given anything to someone using the priesthood. I have never ordained anyone in the priesthood, I have just given blessings and baptized. So it was a relly cool experience to have to confirm someone.<br /><br />On saturday when we went to the Montaña family to pick them up to go to the city for their baptism. (there is not a font in Zonda) When we got there they werent ready yet. Alejandro was still in the shower and I was kind of nervous. The water was filling up and if we missed the next bus we were going to be late for the baptism and the font was going to overflow and flood the church. So I was hurrying them along and we finally left. They have little kids so they were walking pretty slow. As we are almost do the road we see the bus come. Elder Frost and I booked it to go stop the bus. They bus driver barely saw us and stopped. We were so lucky. It we were ten seconds later we would have missed the bus and it would have been a really big problem.<br /><br />We get to the church and no one is there. I was pretty mad because I had called a lot of people to go and no one came. There were three members in the baptism and 6 missionaries. It was horrible. Good thing they didn´t care. That is one thing that really bugs me. There are never a lot of people in the baptisms. But everything went well. The first one to get baptized was a girl named Luciana. As she got in her little brother started screaming NADÁ NADÁ. SWIM SWIM!!! So we had to calm them down to have the baptism. Everything went well with her. Then the mom Sonia got baptized. She took one stepp into the water and she slipped down the steps. It was pretty funny. Good thing she didn´t hurt herself. She just laughed it off. And good thing her kids didn´t see it because they would of been laughing really loudly. The other two were really good aswell. Alejandro is really tall and barely fit in the font. When Matias got in he thought it was so cool and just started laughing. It was a really good service. I liked it a lot. They all looked so happy. It really turned out really well. Everything was actually really nice.<br /><br />We are teaching this girl who we were teaching her uncle. Her uncle just likes us as friends. He just likes us over to talk about anything. And most the time he doesn´t like talking about the gospel. Well as we were trying to talk about the gospel his niece Viviana was listening to us. I asked if she was interested in what we were talking about and she said yes and she also said that she is reading the book we left for her uncle. The book of Mormon. So we taught her the first lesson and set a baptismal date with her. She accepted it really well. Then at the end of the lesson a little girl game out and we asked who it was and she said it was her daughter. Then the question that I am always scared to ask because I hate getting the answer. I asked if she was married and she said no. AAAHHHH I hate that. It can take a while in Argentina to get married. Well we just went and will have to teach her about the Law of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281402064_0">Chastity</span> this week. But on sunday we went to her house to get her and she answered the door and I asked if she was ready. She said, ya I have been waiting. I love hearing that. She went to church and I think she really liked it. The house was full. There were twenty people from Zonda there. That is awesome. There has not been that many since I have got there. She was talking to some of the members there hopefully making some friends. I think she really liked it. Hopefully she will be able to get married fast. I want to see her baptized before I go home. I´ll keep crossing my fingers and praying.<br /><br />That was about all for the week. It was really good Well I hope that you all have a great week. I love you all so much.<br /><br />Elder B. Smith<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWPAgionlVtt2OMiWH-qfvRbbR9X4AQrL5QWFoyDC60rAyR_sSPO476ON7XBbh9mjNhb4HHjRkEsjXDcZ1NaOC1LmwA3VOIpSUqbH2RdXLY5lk3bD-4ilV3JMGtK5DjfcNvZf3Cor9F9q/s1600/IMG_0125-1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWPAgionlVtt2OMiWH-qfvRbbR9X4AQrL5QWFoyDC60rAyR_sSPO476ON7XBbh9mjNhb4HHjRkEsjXDcZ1NaOC1LmwA3VOIpSUqbH2RdXLY5lk3bD-4ilV3JMGtK5DjfcNvZf3Cor9F9q/s320/IMG_0125-1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503580495997412130" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi94F1zNuLiq7wXCr9WxwrNfOfUcwD_0ydPTso1MORKJ4TR2jqRgYoIfMbENm-c-9SPtjvv6slmUo2jSGjT858pitoc-mPhPLouHoU2RfU-EoHB8olmMQSZGBfVjfNPEuIBZvZm1hW5rLLe/s1600/IMG_0125-1.JPG"><br /></a>the montaña family<br /></div></div></div>Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-37238929122842111062010-08-02T19:24:00.000-07:002010-08-02T19:38:57.892-07:00August 1, 2010Dear Family,<br /><br /><br />Wow, it is already august. I cant believe that. Time is going by so fast. CRAZY!!!! This last transfer went by so quickly. I can´t believe it has just been 6 weeks. But that´s how it goes. Thanks Jenna for the pictures and videos of Mac. They were really nice. He is so big. I didn´t imagine him that big. He looks like a really happy kid though. It is crazy how things change so fastly. Bryce is going to be a senior in ten days. I really can´t believe that one. That is really really crazy. That means it has been 4 years since I started my senior year. I am getting old. Oh well.<br /><br />Ya I remember going to the Randolf Center. Like you said mom, it is really humbling (i dont know how to spell that). But it is a really good experience. I liked it a lot. It really does think of the blessings that one has. Just being healthy. A lot of people ask for that when we pray with them for the first time and I am finally understanding it. It´s just our family has been really blessed with being healthy. I hope it stays that way too.<br /><br />I still keep forgeting that Jenna is in a new house. When you said their house looks really nice I just thought of the one by the wharehouse. That is going to be weird that she is way out there in the booneys. Spaghetti sounds good. I haven´t eaten a good meal in a while. I have a lot more respect for the member that give food to the missionaries. We have had one home cooked meal in zonda for the last five weeks. It has been weird just eating in the Pajarito eating a sandwhich(a nasty sandwhich) everday. But I garentee that the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280802122_0">spaghetti sauce</span> is better there than here. I like it, it is just not the best.<br /><br />That sounds so nice with all the rain and the good weather. The weather has been pretty nice here too. Not too cold. I hope it stays that way. I don´t like the cold while being a missionary or atleast not in argentina. If it is cold outside it is cold inside too.<br /><br />I am so excited to go to the temple again. It has been too long since I have gone. I need to go get refreshed. I just miss the quietness of it and just being so clean.<br /><br />So is Kylie getting excited to start the mission. She only has like six weeks left before she goes. She is going to love it.<br /><br />So we had a really good week this week. First off I am going to tell a story that happened today going to play soccer for p day. OUR BUS CRASHED!!!!!!!!! It was crazy. We were just going down the road and I was standing up just holding on to the bars and then a guy got up so I sat down. I was sitting down and then we hear the tires screak and everyone yell. Then BOOOOOMMM all the people standing up went flying to the front of the bus. I was just in my seat and how I was sitting I just hit my side in the seat in front of me. I look out the front window and we t-boned the car that just pulled out infront of us. What was she thinking? We helped the old ladys up. One hurt her knee and the other fell down the steps but I think she was ok. The lady in the car was bleeding pretty bad out of her eye. They ambulance got there and helped her out of her car and then we left. It really is a miracle that that is the only thing that happened. We hit her hard. I am just glad that a missionary didnt get hurt. There were like ten missionaries one there. I was thinking today. If something really did happen. It would ruin their mission. I am so glad that everything was ok. We were really blessed today that nothing happened.<br /><br />So that is the bus crash. Well today we started a new transfer. My last one. It is kind of sad. Elder Vazquez is leaving and I am getting a new companion named Elder Frost. I don´t know him at all or even where he is from. I heard he is cool though. So I am pretty excited.<br /><br />So with the Morales family. We baptized Carolina this sunday. Everything went well. She looked so happy. They have changed so much. We went to fill the font and the door wouldnt work on one side. So I had to go through the other one to change the water. That is why in one of the pictures you see me climbing through the font. It was pretty fun. It was a good baptism and the stake president which is the best by far leader that i have met in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280802122_1">argentina</span> did the confirmation. it was a really good meeting. Earlier in the week we were at their house and the dad came out and sat at the table with us (which has never happened before). He was just sitting there and he had told us before that he didnt want anything to do with it. he was ok with his family going but he dint want anything to do with it. He just sad down and i asked him what he thought of us(missionaries) now. his respons was a little lame. he said you are both really good. So i kept on asking him. i asked him about the changes he has seen in his family. he said that he really has seen a big change in his family. we then asked everyone there how going to church has helped in their lives. the best were of the mom and the two oldest girls. one of the girls said that it was a relief to go and just rest and learn. the other said that she goes because it makes her feel a lot better. one of the girls is 22 and has 2 kids. she never would stay with her kids. she would just go hang out with her friends. but a week ago she didnt go hang out, she wanted to be with her family. she said that it was the important thing not the friends. the mom said that she loves going to church because of the way her family has changed. when i got to zonda the mom said that carolina would never change and that she is the worst child she had. she now says the total opposite. you can actually see the love in them now. i love that family so much, i am going to miss then a ton. It is amazing how just keeping the commandments just really does bless people. i wish more people would realize it.<br /><br />We have also been working with another family. The Montaña family. the one with the whole family and elder barlow with his super man shirt. They are a really good family. as you can see in the pictures that they are eating pixy stix. they really like them a lot. it also really helps keep the kids quiet during the lessons. There are a miracle. but this family is doing really good. they all went to church. they are a family of 7. they are learing a lot. the mom is a little slow with all the things but she is getting it slowly. they made us a asado or bbq on saturday. it wasnt the best but it is the thought that counts. we really hope that this family gets baptized because we need more priesthood holders in zonda. we have been really praying about this family. they are a really important family for zonda.<br /><br />on sunday we had to go to the stake center. so we rented a van. there are 15 seats but we had a total of 20 people. it was AWESOME. Our goal was to fill the van and we got it. God is really blessing zonda right now. elder frost and i just have to keep on with the work there. he is going to love it.<br /><br />last night i met up with <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280802122_2">raul</span> meaurio. the guy that got baptized last year in <span style="cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280802122_3">santa lucia</span>. it was so sweet to see him. he was really happy to see me too. he bowed down to me when he saw me. he also told me that i still have a piece of land if i want to build a house in san juan. ha ha he is funny. but it was really nice to know that he is doing good and that he is still active.<br /><br />we ate lunch with the bishop chacon and his family. they are from santa lucia and we also visited a inactive family that we were working with. it was so good to see them all. it is good to catch up with all of them.<br /><br />So i had to use that 50 dollars becasue the money that the mission gave me just doesnt make it for the month. we travel to much. but i need to know if anyone wants anything from here. i dont know what to get. the close are the same from the state and so is jewlry. so if anyone wants anything tell me and i will see if they have it here. let me know.<br /><br />well i am about out of time. i hope you all have a good week. i love you all so much.<br /><br />love elder smith<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQA2kSG_NxXqee5jsAQikD0wVlmZagm_zfar20jCYYkmckhSwerTMgtT7416889jUvUAz1iezVqy15v8AWn-F5NQzqWR-Ef0QxPoWyyZa1SfjMIHD3hSnui_P6_aEYtAk_uabyImQ6onl7/s1600/IMG_0103+%282%29.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnxzoVn_4hQKZ1O9ZJ9f4r2-wg46ws-fO7O6SbaPPSHNC_5xnLDQrj8Fc73MxHHuEWxDkezRpMXK00zkIb3GGWhQ4fRx4V1cocgJ0SVhbsL8qEqyCVazTTh_hH33PtVUdDFB-pBu2uxOe/s320/IMG_0093.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501005072894276754" border="0" /></a>Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-44313152216902112942010-07-26T18:06:00.000-07:002010-07-26T18:26:24.147-07:00July 26, 2010¿Cómo está familia mia?<br /><br />Hey family, how is everyone? It sounds like everyone is doing great. Man, I can´t even imagine how pretty the mountains look right now. I am in a place that looks like mesa in the winter. There is nothing green. But I can imagine how it will look in summer. It has to be so pretty in summer. I´ll send you all some pictures. It is definatley my favorite area. I love it so much. That fish fry really sounded good. But I have to go on a good diet when I get home, I still have to loose some weight. I stopped loosing weight. I just got used to the ton of walking and the food i guess. I have a lot to do and a lot of goals to make. Thanks mom for checking up on that stuff for me. Man Brady is right. It is so weird being in this time of the mission. I have to work really hard though. I can make the goal I put for my second year. Just have to work like no other. We are doing really good and we have been really really blessed. There are so many families that i have learned to love here. <br /><br />Happy Birthday to everone, Grandpa(sorry i missed it) grandma and katie. Grandma i liked the story of caleb. It is way funny how little kids talk. I love when little kids here want to pray. their prayers are so awesome. But it is ok if we are all looking old. Everyone thinks that I look inbetween 28 and 35 years old. I sure hope they are just blind. But it is funny anyway. they always get so suprised when they find out how old we really are. I think it is the clothes.<br /><br />So we had a really good week this week. really good. We are working with a family right now. The morales family. They are so awesome. The love us. They are always making us presents and we love them alot too. They are so happy and nice. The awesome part is that this family was doing really really bad only like a month ago. When I got here they were about to split apart. They all hated eachother and they were always fighting. One even pulled out a knife and wanted to use it on her sister. It was crazy. Well there were a couple that werent baptized and we were still working with them. We didnt do anything differnt we just really wanted to show our love for them. We tried every thing. Playing dont eat pete, making banana bread and brownies and just being their friends. We have had a lot of talks about famileis and the problems they can have. They thought their family wasn´t good just because they faught. We both talked about our families, i told them i chased emily with a bat and we also talked about how much we love our families, how much we have been blessed by the gospel. We promised them a lot of blessings. The Lord completes with his blessings. He really worked a miracle with that family. The family is together. almost all of them are baptized and they love eachother now. The ones that were fighting and almost stabbed eachother, are now always together and always happy. one of them got baptized yesterday. They were so happy. The smiles on their faces were priceless. The family is doing good and they are going 100% with church. They are reading and praying and doing everything they need to do. Vanesa and Carolina have read 400 pages of the book of mormon. They are almost done. The power of the book of mormon is so true. They love reading it and they always have a ton of questions for us when we go. They are so amazing. <br /><br />Yesterday they were suposed to both be getting baptized but one of them had problems and i wont go into detail but she is getting baptized next week. but one of them did. it was a great day in church. They learned a lot and the members(in the city not zonda) really helped them out and made them feel good. We have to baptize in the city because dont have a baptismal font in zonda. But we had a priest baptize her and everything was doing good. it was probably the best baptism i have had just because the spirit was so strong. We played a movie where there are clips of converts that are talking well they cuoted the book of alma when ammon is talking. He talks about how they were made into insturments in the hands of God. It hit me hard, that i was used as an insturment in the lords hands to help them. Right then i never felt a better feeling then my whole life seeing these people getting baptized. It was the best feeling every and i never want to for get it. i loved everypart of it. I love the mission and i love the people. they have so many trials and such a hard life, but they are fighting for something better, fighting really hard. It is so true, the promise of being blessed as you obey the commandments. <br /><br />We are also working with a the montaña family. they are a family of seven. They are doing really good. The mom loves everything we are talking about. especially the idea of her sons going on a mission. They went to church yesterday, or actually the little house. It is so small. but it was really nice. they felt good even though the sister did not teach the lesson verywell. my companion and i had to do an overall summary so they could understand. Mom, i used your ;The purpose of fasting is fasting with a purpose. the members liked it. <br /><br />On saturday we had a really sweet activity with the youth from the stake. They did an activity that they went on an island and they had a whole bunch of games and other stuff to do. They gave them white pieces of papers to buy things there. There were booths like dancing, video games, cooking, soccer, volleball, tie tieing, missionary work<img style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="http://f654.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f767021%5fAB0JDUwAAUD9TE3aXwqr2Rtpbos&pid=2&fid=Inbox&inline=1" /> and some others. They go around doing all the thing and they sale their white papers for all the activities the have. the also get blue pieces of papers for doing wordly thing and white for doing spiritual things. we had an activity on how they can talk to their friends at school. we had some people but not a ton. well when it all finished they were going back to argenitna in the plane and the plane crashed. then they had judgement. everyone that had more white papers then blue got to go to the celestial kingdom and the others had to go to the terestial and the telestial. in the two bottom ones they were really hot rooms and nasty food. about 90 percent were in there. then the ones that went to the celestial kingdom were met my the stake president and his wife(the best lider i have met in my whole mission). They had some really good food and gave them a nice prise. it was so good. it was an awesome activity. it would be fun at home too. <br /><br />the thing that suprised me is that the youth here are really strong. they have a huge testimony and they actually talked really well.<br /><br />well if i am going to send pictures i have to go. but i love you all so much. have a good week. <br /><br />elder smith<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9CJHgMMffAUptftMS-2xKHJjcTC9tgJQGRrvvVbMZTyFjg6cLyH0nQPRhi8NDXJ6aISYUJwaQ2OoexxA7KqoPOR2rHLhNGpHTc-CJc-CKAJbNwwiroJ4x7zZ09TTSaamplEWvZKFWewOK/s1600/DSC09845.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9CJHgMMffAUptftMS-2xKHJjcTC9tgJQGRrvvVbMZTyFjg6cLyH0nQPRhi8NDXJ6aISYUJwaQ2OoexxA7KqoPOR2rHLhNGpHTc-CJc-CKAJbNwwiroJ4x7zZ09TTSaamplEWvZKFWewOK/s320/DSC09845.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498390803207701538" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwgiZemmkmcnoPEgl9Adihe1wo9AQ4T6GaRE3JG5rMXYOzcq2H8tx5lstrXUPKKYKFI9Wyb73Rk8wyZsKWfWOGJ08LSAK_2MNgnGEs3vwiMa5_Ews1lYff60f9qOFmuMHGKPOpyoIIhAIW/s1600/DSC00004.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjarBryFCL7keqfKmITar58XpWiIyoxzgsp6KC0DsF-ct8MF0kM3_xj2EK-O22AL6Jnx4HG4eKxpPOebKmEFJ4pQL-mNqBTwREVuF3avU7E4WoJWJaoFQjwIq6qzKXbsY7ileLp7QLJS7Pw/s320/24264127.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498386589770513234" border="0" /></a>Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-86732085370167052882010-07-25T14:15:00.000-07:002010-07-25T14:21:00.942-07:00July 19, 2010Hola familia,<br /><br />I am glad to hear that Mac (or the name I think I might call him Pichón) is ok. That is scary. It is amazing that he didn´t break anthing. He has some strong bones and what it looks like in the picture some fat. I am just happy to hear that he is ok and that he is learning who I am. He is going to love me. A kid in the ward here fell off the second story of the stake center and nothing happened. Lucky kid.<br /><br />I hope you aunt will be ok. I guess it is never too late to learn those things. She would do good here in <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092541_0">Argentina</span> because you can´t pump your own gas. By law they have to have a professional do it. What a great profession! But I hope she is ok. It has to be really hard to lose your husband like that.<br /><br />That is pretty cool about Josh´s new rank in the marines. I have like no idea what it is but that is cool. Does he get paid more? I sure hope so. People think that it is like the coolest thing to hear that he is in the marines. They always tell me not to mess with him. I just tell them that I am not scared of him. We will see when I see him again. I havn´t seen him for a long time. right now a little more than two years. I think. But that is really cool that he gets some good words put in for him. Is he going to stay in the marines for longer than 5 years or is he stopping? Just curious.<br /><br />I hope you all are enjoying being warm. It is freezing right now. It snowed on wedensday or thursday I can´t remember what day. But it had been cold. We are just babies down here. We are just not used to it. The cold weather just came in from no where. We woke up and all of a sudden it was cold and snowing. I was with E Barlow on divisions. He is such a funny elder from <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092541_1">Utah</span>. We went to his area and he got lost which wasn´t that fun in the cold. But we had some fun. He is pretty new so I don´t blame him on getting lost. But not only did he get lost but he also doesn´t know spanish very well either. It was really fun though. I am going to send you some pictures of elder vazquez and I in all our winter clothes. The only bad thing is that it is really cold outside and in most houses it is colder inside. We can´t escape it. We are teaching a family that lives in a house made out of mud bricks and it has wholes in the walls. I just don´t get how they don´t freeze to death. But is it what they have.<br /><br />This week was really good, other than the cold. We are teaching a lot of people and are just trying to help them understand the importance of going to church. All of them are catholic and they are used to going to church once or twice a year. Not every sunday. It is always fun taking to people to church or the house of <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092541_2">Elvira</span>. I want to know what they think when they go in. It is a pretty scethcy house.<br /><br />We were going to have 2 baptisms this last week and the other elders had 4. Everything was going good. We had the interviews done, we have the baptismal clothes ready, talks and everything. The bishos calls us at about 7 pm saturday night and told us that their was a gas leak and that they have to turn off the gas in the chapel. We can´t baptize anyone in cold water right now, it is to cold So we have to wait until next sunday. We have been working so hard with these two girls and we finally had them ready. They have a testimony and are reading and praying. There is always problems though I just have to keep remembering that. But they are going to be good. We are going to have them baptized next week and maybe another lady also. We are trying to baptize 5 this month and we have to work really hard to finish it up. There are two more weeks and then we are already in August. Time is going so fast. I have to work really hard to finish my goal for this year. I just can´t stop until the end. There isn´t much time left. This transfer has gone so fast and then I have one more left. Elder Vazquez is getting down to the wire too. I am glad president put us together. We can depend on eachother and we are both working hard to finish our goals.<br /><br />We are trying to complete a family right now. (the two girls that are getting baptized) They are the Morales family. They are so cool. They love us. They always get us little presents. The mom is the best. She doesnt understand everything still but she wants to do the best she can. She helps us out a lot. She gets the kid in shape. We played Don´t Eat Pete this last week and they loved it. They have been playing like every night. They are a family of 11 and live in a really small house. All of them are really close except two girls. The ones getting baptized. They fight a lot. That is why we have had to help them. They see a differnce when they are doing what they should do. I wish they would just relize gets nothing accomplished if you fight. I always tell them that I feel so bad when I think about fighting with one of my brothers or sisters back at home. I tell them once you get older all the little things don´t matter and just have to learn to love eachother. We can see in them that they are doing better. I hope they stay like that. They need to relize that the best friends that you will have are the family members.<br /><br />Alright to I dont have much more time but I just want to say that I love you all. I am so greatful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Really it changes the lives of people in such a great way. They just have to give it a try. Happy people live the gospel of Jesus Christ. Dont forget it. I love my mission and all that it has taught me and all the people that I have met. I wouldnt change it for anything.<br /><br />Have a good week.<br /><br />Elder B. Smith<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUpQ-GtzufNKaBD683o-WnDHKNRmmzCTPLlrKLybofkMt-4hYTn9L9oP5OoLjIlAM2DALZw9it2qP49yl6Edievah3OnEdjVTOJ6G6gvvTBd9kuIDMpHaX6XqlTp8y6Q7wPhKqgEkQSHG/s1600/IMG_0249.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUpQ-GtzufNKaBD683o-WnDHKNRmmzCTPLlrKLybofkMt-4hYTn9L9oP5OoLjIlAM2DALZw9it2qP49yl6Edievah3OnEdjVTOJ6G6gvvTBd9kuIDMpHaX6XqlTp8y6Q7wPhKqgEkQSHG/s320/IMG_0249.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497956875883224786" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-gWWNQsWTs8TEJYez88cIyP7R_x6A-S_k7ctWqNr4FagFM5KFj5LEnPS5yEP9f-ibgq0Wk_cUNmPvtVl5xewcfEH24qKCED4ecGNSXBA6XuMtQg5wKAUa9KpsktliLhC3gtZDOPk-vgJ/s1600/IMG_0208.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-gWWNQsWTs8TEJYez88cIyP7R_x6A-S_k7ctWqNr4FagFM5KFj5LEnPS5yEP9f-ibgq0Wk_cUNmPvtVl5xewcfEH24qKCED4ecGNSXBA6XuMtQg5wKAUa9KpsktliLhC3gtZDOPk-vgJ/s320/IMG_0208.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497956544623943522" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThOWYQWehGCdU97lbB3kfd0JBCEPuTOPWJxxQOCgmGXpa7IeG4XtNWAA-m9qoBOzukWblOcmK9pvoZGRaCxkQmZ9Zcw0tmgjUijP2V_Va5Z8N11T2SglTwzyLOwt-P3cIFuQBV2NNcdZk/s1600/IMG_0209.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThOWYQWehGCdU97lbB3kfd0JBCEPuTOPWJxxQOCgmGXpa7IeG4XtNWAA-m9qoBOzukWblOcmK9pvoZGRaCxkQmZ9Zcw0tmgjUijP2V_Va5Z8N11T2SglTwzyLOwt-P3cIFuQBV2NNcdZk/s320/IMG_0209.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497956540170381490" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MLBXKnKtQmzs3e0vv7aio52zN9f8vxV1wLFzjwL007rRLYKauxTNnGy0UuIl8H4e9AuZRh2MGWrYmfcg7yBtRfq0zu0A9R7hxkkwpjCKEI2PdetkB90nQlwGY4D9Jp7WyaK3d_Xcj6tZ/s1600/IMG_0229.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MLBXKnKtQmzs3e0vv7aio52zN9f8vxV1wLFzjwL007rRLYKauxTNnGy0UuIl8H4e9AuZRh2MGWrYmfcg7yBtRfq0zu0A9R7hxkkwpjCKEI2PdetkB90nQlwGY4D9Jp7WyaK3d_Xcj6tZ/s320/IMG_0229.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497956531563505042" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SsigEwY4HAA76Fji466tB44l0oMuL-0_WNIst8bieOfajIP14U3CrtS_xGQIE72u06gX_qwYbc9RL0UmNFnrmCx8Gqi4tEQpnX7LXdh2RNjdGd5XBYbFO7Nsr4-KLxBKfn-EHpk75q7V/s1600/IMG_0239.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SsigEwY4HAA76Fji466tB44l0oMuL-0_WNIst8bieOfajIP14U3CrtS_xGQIE72u06gX_qwYbc9RL0UmNFnrmCx8Gqi4tEQpnX7LXdh2RNjdGd5XBYbFO7Nsr4-KLxBKfn-EHpk75q7V/s320/IMG_0239.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497956519236900818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjY2jInPpfqpI3-a4xXy_79WHTtZuEL8_T0xxm1AdjFh0rX5PJj70dgxbURz1pkbQxigXDq6F3E8ptIKGaTndBs8D2DKUYSehzw4hstwAg1AqfhgPn_s_O-6EBUWSjuxiHa5lHcukBR3NF/s1600/IMG_0247.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjY2jInPpfqpI3-a4xXy_79WHTtZuEL8_T0xxm1AdjFh0rX5PJj70dgxbURz1pkbQxigXDq6F3E8ptIKGaTndBs8D2DKUYSehzw4hstwAg1AqfhgPn_s_O-6EBUWSjuxiHa5lHcukBR3NF/s320/IMG_0247.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497956511078095698" border="0" /></a>Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-75247817988365799652010-07-25T14:10:00.000-07:002010-07-25T14:15:24.987-07:00July 12, 2010Hey family,<br /><br /><br />Wow a lot of stuff happened this week. It is pretty crazy. I also heard but I am not sure if it is true, i heard that there was a huricane in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_0">Texas</span> this last week. I just heard it from one member though. Who knows if it is true. That is really sad about Josh´s brother. I sure hope he is ok. Helmets were made for a good reason. That is really scary too. I can´t even imagine how bad that would hurt and how scary that would be. I hope he will be ok. That is sad about your uncle and the guy from <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_1">Lehi</span> 9th ward. It is crazy how life is just so fragile. The good thing is that he was faithful until the end. Going to the church to help set up the chairs. The last step of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, endure to the end. One of the hardest but the most important. How blessed are we to have the blessings of the Gospel to help us in those kind of times. The Plan of Salvation is an awesome thing. That has to be pretty hard on their grandson that is serving right now too. I rember when grandpa Hiett died, my like third day of the MTC. It was pretty hard for me. We just have to fight to the end and everything will be ok in the longrun.<br /><br />So Lindsay had her baby. That is so weird that she is a mom already. They were just barely married when I left. There are a lot of new babies in the family. It will be fun. A lot of new faces to get to know. There are three new ones. Mac, Kate and Lindsays new baby. That is really cool. Now grandpa and grandma have two grandchildren.<br /><br />So the <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_2">World Cup</span> is over. I am really happy that I was here for the World Cup. It is a lot diferent here. It is more than a sport. Sometimes they get a little to into it. But it was cool. Funny story. So yesterday I went with Elder Morera to look for investigators and we were like 40 minutes early. The whole world was watching the final of the world cup. So we knew it was pretty much imposilble to teach anyone right then. We knocked a door and we said that we were from the US(even though he is argentine) and said we have never seen a final of the world cup and we had like 40 minutes. We asked if we could go in for a little and they let us in. They gave us a cup of Pepsi and some lemon pie. Ha ha they loved us. The wife was going to give it to us with plastic forks and the husband said no give them good silverware. It was really funny we felt really important. So we got to watch a little of it and also we got to meet some new people. A really cool family that had talked to the missionaries in Villa Mercedes San Luis. It was really cool. It was a great game as Bryce probably already knows. But now it is over and the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_3">missionary work</span> will go back to normal.<br /><br />So it sounds like the tomatoes are doing really good. Remember before the mission I couldn´t or better said didn´t want to eat tomatoes or onions. Well now I love them, A LOT!!!!!!! They are so good. Especially how the argentines do it. So I am excited to have a lot more onion and tomatoe flavors in all the mexican food. Next week we are going to make fajitas with some other companionship. It will be pretty good. We will see if Elder Vazquez´s mom taught him anything good.<br /><br />That is cool that you all had a good <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_4">4th of July</span>. We really do live in a great country. Down here they are trying to change a lot too. They are trying to legalize on a country level, gay mariage. The president is a little mixed up with the way she thinks but they members of almost all the churches are fighting on behalf of the families. There are signs everywhere that says ´we want a dad and a mom.´ They are having another strike this next week trying to show that they really don´t want it. The majority doesnt want it. The president said that they have to help the minority too not just the majority. So the members of a lot of churches are fighting it until the end. It is pretty big right now here in San Juan. We have to fight for the good things that we have and if we don´t fight we wont have what we want. I sure hope that the people in charge will realize what they are doing. It will be really bad if it passes.<br /><br />Like Emily said, the Johnsons just didn´t have much luck this week. That stinks to just get the boat on the water and then have to push it back and get back in the car and go. It is still weird for me thinking that it is hot up there. It isn´t really cold here in San Juan but it is chilly. There are two types of winds here in San Juan. One that is called Zonda which comes from the mountains and is really hot and then there is one that comes from the south that is really cold. Well yesterday right as our sunday school/sacrament meeting in Zonda was about to start there came a really strong southern wind. So right as we are about to start and right as investigators should be getting to church the wind started really strongly. We just started the meeting with the people that we had. We had two of our investigators so we were happy that atleast they came. The wind came in really hard. We could just hear it and dust was coming in from the windows and under the door too. It was crazy. Well the investigators didn´t all come because it really does screw up the head. There was the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_5">Zonda wind</span> which is hot then it just changed to southern wind that is really cold. It always gives me a headache but I don´t care. The people from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_6">San Juan</span> are kind of like babies when it comes to the weather. So we weren´t too angry about it. We got the two most important people to go. They are getting bapized this weekend. There names are Carolina, 23 years old and Vanesa, 17 years old. We almost have completed the family. We only need the dad and the younger brother. The men are always the hardest ones. Carolina is doing really good. She is reading a lot of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_7">Book of Mormon</span> and she stopped smoking. She is the one that had to do most of the changes. She wasn´t hanging out with the best kids and not doing the best stuff either. But she has changed a lot. They are a really cool family. In the picture that I sent last week, she is the one that is with her head down and the other one is the one with the purple jacket. They are going to be great and they are the first youth of Zonda. They are the pioneers. I don´t think they notice that yet.<br /><br />So a little about how Zonda works. So as of right now there are like 12-15 members that go to church. The family that we are working with makes up like half the family. But there is one priesthood holder, his name is Julio Luque. So what we do on sunday is that at 5 30 in the afternoon we go and so does the ward missionaries and a member of the bishopric. He presides. The Zonda branch is a part of the Libertador Ward. It depends off the ward. Until it can be its own branch it will be a part of the ward. We have to find some more priesthood holders for that. So we have church in a members house. Which is tiny by the way. My comp and I have to stand up for it. But Julio and I blessed the sacrament and then they just gave like a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_8">sunday school lesson</span>. It was really nice. It would have been better if we could have gotten more people to go but we always have next week. It is pretty crazy. We have church it this tiny house which is not the most pretiest house in the world. But we are in there and it looks like <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_9">relief society</span>. There are a lot of women and some men. But it is good. We have a lot of work to do there. I want to baptize a lot before I go home. We have a lot of people that we are teaching right now too. Just have to help them out a lot.<br /><br />This week a member took us out to lunch. This has never happened in my whole mission. It was crazy. She took us to a place called <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092232_10">Las Leñas</span>. She dropped a lot of money. I felt so bad but she wanted to do it. She spent 450 pesos on us 5. 4 missionaies and her. It was really good food but now 450 pesos worth. I will send you a pictures of her. She is crazy. But she is a really good member too. She has had a hard life.<br /><br />We had a really good week. We are just trying to explode things out here. We have three weeks left in the transfer and we are trying to get it ready for my new comp and I. We are pretty sure and Elder Vazquez is leaviing and I will have one more companion that will kill me off. So we will see how it goes.<br /><br />How are things going with the Book of Mormon reading before I get home? Everyone still doing it? Just so you all know I am doing it too. Well I don´t have much more time left and I have to write president. I love you all so much. Have a good week. Be Safe!!!!!!<br /><br />Elder B. Smith<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizs3T5je3vvFeEP3ryeWUjkJMc2FEE6dBXfHtfgawuuLzO1p3_oZLtEcmUz8eFcHHG8Aei-fe3Qa3E_ObG-jVSCYGkd-rT1O66TwJHpXTYVPIFk0kQzODqDqGIlmgHH0-SNMaREOR9tRtZ/s1600/IMG_0186.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizs3T5je3vvFeEP3ryeWUjkJMc2FEE6dBXfHtfgawuuLzO1p3_oZLtEcmUz8eFcHHG8Aei-fe3Qa3E_ObG-jVSCYGkd-rT1O66TwJHpXTYVPIFk0kQzODqDqGIlmgHH0-SNMaREOR9tRtZ/s320/IMG_0186.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497955208133016594" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiwbC-Atza1n85lymMbtnKTWOMVMBT67k-9WlzZY-34uxJvPLQwequ6XpD9P38VmYHOUgdmFR9PR_pkfVauWKP5Eb9WjBVwSa5e4vwkmAN8qloO5WcFmPJEVEHClyirzON6spISqpEPUU5/s1600/IMG_0188.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiwbC-Atza1n85lymMbtnKTWOMVMBT67k-9WlzZY-34uxJvPLQwequ6XpD9P38VmYHOUgdmFR9PR_pkfVauWKP5Eb9WjBVwSa5e4vwkmAN8qloO5WcFmPJEVEHClyirzON6spISqpEPUU5/s320/IMG_0188.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497955197864262866" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgxLSzx0GgSFfpaGPEIwRxXE3tUW-j_FqP36AXI_iODB-QGthoaN6bLTSlrsqA_h0sKBslU_xWisGPqqEaEKZbA8_X1o8Dbb0EI8Cxs77ssLm4hB1eue5Au-TRpwt8d4vNu6o8GqYzEH_/s1600/IMG_0190.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgxLSzx0GgSFfpaGPEIwRxXE3tUW-j_FqP36AXI_iODB-QGthoaN6bLTSlrsqA_h0sKBslU_xWisGPqqEaEKZbA8_X1o8Dbb0EI8Cxs77ssLm4hB1eue5Au-TRpwt8d4vNu6o8GqYzEH_/s320/IMG_0190.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497955194030942706" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Dcy9ksIYQaUC1X8IZsVkFUXaz_gYnuSiAERlvPfe3o9_9o3-IhG0DQMrkcEnyk3bpdDqmBcW9QICtHriFVRQ6uy7tiA9Il70mWcPf-Tv1O3Bsd457msAHuWTxN7j6YgxeBw2AEHYo0OG/s1600/IMG_0194.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Dcy9ksIYQaUC1X8IZsVkFUXaz_gYnuSiAERlvPfe3o9_9o3-IhG0DQMrkcEnyk3bpdDqmBcW9QICtHriFVRQ6uy7tiA9Il70mWcPf-Tv1O3Bsd457msAHuWTxN7j6YgxeBw2AEHYo0OG/s320/IMG_0194.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497955185012022610" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiwu51snhOVQOy-TwW4D47ycnFYyLHeLnLjq23vqv9xt4hVL_VvrvGvucRD5L_ySSBnMNSzjieL_5mwZcahfm_fSLs8ZIdoSsfJFpM_XUfFSVynxsUIPm2q5PH-LXZnkMJ0gQgt8RBZ-A/s1600/IMG_0186.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiwu51snhOVQOy-TwW4D47ycnFYyLHeLnLjq23vqv9xt4hVL_VvrvGvucRD5L_ySSBnMNSzjieL_5mwZcahfm_fSLs8ZIdoSsfJFpM_XUfFSVynxsUIPm2q5PH-LXZnkMJ0gQgt8RBZ-A/s320/IMG_0186.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497955178363051298" border="0" /></a><br />Here are some pictures. The picutres of the city is me trying to show you where my area is. In between the big mountains and the little ones is my area. We live pretty far from the area. The other one is of the sister that bought us lunch and a map of <span style="cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092263_0">san juan</span>. the best providence of <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092263_1">argentina</span>.!!!!!!!Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-90538084989690034792010-07-25T14:06:00.000-07:002010-07-25T14:10:17.745-07:00July 5, 2010Hey family,<br /><br /><span style="cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092009_0">Happy 4th of July</span>!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Well we had a good <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092009_1">4th of July</span> here too. We didn´t do anything diferent but it was nice. We live with a porteño (a person from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092009_2">Buenos Aires</span>). Well not a lot of people like them. They are known to be really prideful and think they are better than us. Well anyways, to make him mad we listened to all patriotic songs. It was pretty funny. I quess it is what we can do in the mission to have fun.<br /><br />So it sounds like it was a good week for a lot of people. That is so sweet that Gary Whitting works at Lehi Valley. I sure hope he is working there when I get home. Tell him that I say hi. It would be nice. Tell everone in Lehi Valley that I say hi. Tell the mexicans there that they have to cook me some mexican food when I get home. I am with Elder Vazquez right now and we are always talking about mexican food. Haha. He is teaching me some more food. Too bad that we can´t find the ingredients here.<br /><br />That is pretty sweet and scary that a bear killed a cow. I sure hope they catch it soon. I can´t imagine how nice it is up there right now. It isn´t hot but I have not seen rain in a while. It never rains in San Juan. But I still love it. So I imagine the 4th of July was pretty fun. It has to be more fun with all the little kids out there. I hope mac and everyone got a lot of candy. Did you take picutres? If you did send me them. I have not seen a picture of Marks new baby yet. Thanks. Oh before I forget, did you send me another package? The office told me that I had another package. I was just wondering if it was from you.<br /><br />I am glad that you had a gook birthday. Sounds like mac is a bunch of fun too. I am still thinking of a nickname for him. I have to think of something really good for him.<br /><br />So you talked with Elder Deuel, well Jordan now. That is cool. He is a really good guy, I am glad I was with him. It was really nice.<br /><br />Hey Bryce what ever happened of sending me pictures of you and your friends. Send me them.<br /><br />So I was looking through my pictures with Elder Vazquez and he saw Derron and he said he thinks he looks mexican. I don´t see it at all but I thought it was funny. They also all say that Dad looks Argentine. I dont know maybe it is just because I am used to seeing them all the time but they all see it. So chad is doing good I assume. He is getting married in like a month. That is so weird. I still can´t believe it. Bryce do you know her?<br /><br />Alright so a little about the week that we had. We had a really good week. We baptized yesterday so that made for a really good 4th of July. Her name is Nancy Morales. We are slowly finishing a family out there in Zonda. The mom and now 3 kids are baptized. We are working with the dad and two more daughters. One of the daughters is getting baptized in two weeks (Vanesa Morales) and the others are a little harder. They know it is true but they just don´t want to stop smoking. She dosnt know who we are. We are going to help her get rid of that trash.<br /><br />We are teaching a couple more people too. We are having for sure 3 baptisms on the 17th maybe five. There is another family that is looking really good. The family that her husband was beating her. She is really excited about chuch and of the only members there is friends with her. We just have to work hard with them. We were walking down the street and some lady stopped us and asked us if we spoke english. We said yes and she wants us to help her husband with english. well we went there on saturday. They live in a really poor neighborhood. All the houses are made of mud bricks. There was only one house that had windows on it. But the impotant thing was that almost every house had a dish satalite. I was just so amazed. They don´t have windows but they have satalite tv. Priorities. But they are all really cool. Hopefully they progress.<br /><br />So saturday was a really sad day in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092009_3">argentina</span>. THEY LOST AGAINST GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not going to lie, it was really sad. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092009_4">Germany</span> trashed them. The family we were with were so angry and their daughter cried. It was hard not to laugh. It is so much more than a game here. We were with elder morera who is from San Nicolás. He didn´t talk for like an hour and a half. It was so funny. There was no one in the streets and everyone was mad. We had to leave and do an interview and everyone thought that elder jones and i were from germany. I actually felt scared. they would kill me if i was german. Good thing Zonda is a really calm place. I sure hope that <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280092009_5">Spain</span> or uruguay wins. Anyone except germany.<br /><br />Today we had pday in the afternoon. We played a lot of soccer I am so tired. I can barely stay awake.<br />But I am glad everyone had a good week. I love you all. Write you all next week.<br /><br />love,<br />Elder Smith<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPfVSois1uhGfqrE2y6EY1HVT_BxppQqk9dQrXgkyRL1tRhVO_hHFE_p7RU59tk-xmH-MWIL2UZhbWj5JJO935yEbEgxMe24JiGqR5B7NUpXxTIongZt5DkU1GRsW-4VXFyPhft2VSGv5/s1600/IMG_0147+%282%29.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPfVSois1uhGfqrE2y6EY1HVT_BxppQqk9dQrXgkyRL1tRhVO_hHFE_p7RU59tk-xmH-MWIL2UZhbWj5JJO935yEbEgxMe24JiGqR5B7NUpXxTIongZt5DkU1GRsW-4VXFyPhft2VSGv5/s320/IMG_0147+%282%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497954003585933938" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxykwU_qLk9FUTOOF7XH8FIhN0eZ_HbpfeuNnImRNMNNjg5yC8z-aPn29ayOk_vE2J7Y5aXJgGqbd58HZb4Wid6PH4xQzoT_h41taBQqoXH4oHmmS5-sSi3JxCWFjlRdD8el_NAkjfBUB/s1600/IMG_0151.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxykwU_qLk9FUTOOF7XH8FIhN0eZ_HbpfeuNnImRNMNNjg5yC8z-aPn29ayOk_vE2J7Y5aXJgGqbd58HZb4Wid6PH4xQzoT_h41taBQqoXH4oHmmS5-sSi3JxCWFjlRdD8el_NAkjfBUB/s320/IMG_0151.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497953996228759698" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7_22Ekap_Y0snbbHyLkoiYqfHIE8K1BL3_vDHnJqb3JVrlirlibMRL1YGsj5kTLJrBiXjE00oVRrxQrGwHm3PH4vwnXHkndr32Dki9Ht-6q82Ifr2hQVrPwcT300F8jg2ws2rQ-0lUuQi/s1600/IMG_0154.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7_22Ekap_Y0snbbHyLkoiYqfHIE8K1BL3_vDHnJqb3JVrlirlibMRL1YGsj5kTLJrBiXjE00oVRrxQrGwHm3PH4vwnXHkndr32Dki9Ht-6q82Ifr2hQVrPwcT300F8jg2ws2rQ-0lUuQi/s320/IMG_0154.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497953990301669938" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuwvbUJucWb_pmxzkVjbHSq9vwzxcgqNkbAom0iaRjU31HODr1wKoKAy1RAd-0KFfiWZOS93Gj02lGfIKBO7eb6uCuJM5_Kywl8WyoauJjoHuzDQ3VxkaMGXTUQCG4b9t8k7xvkqm_uBBM/s1600/IMG_0157.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuwvbUJucWb_pmxzkVjbHSq9vwzxcgqNkbAom0iaRjU31HODr1wKoKAy1RAd-0KFfiWZOS93Gj02lGfIKBO7eb6uCuJM5_Kywl8WyoauJjoHuzDQ3VxkaMGXTUQCG4b9t8k7xvkqm_uBBM/s320/IMG_0157.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497953980366631458" border="0" /></a><br />some pictues and some of the sad argentine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-29994475328185092912010-07-25T14:03:00.000-07:002010-07-25T14:06:33.391-07:00June 28, 2010Dear Family,<br /><br /><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:6;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM AND DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />FELÍZ CUMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />That is so sad that the died in the ward. That has to be so hard to deal with. It is just a death trap having a pool with little kids. Good thing we know about the Plan of Salvation. It is still one of the hardest things I can imagine but atleast it makes it a little easier. We just found a lady that her kid committed suicide. She didn´t think she could ever be happy again. We taught her the plan of salvation and I hpe she feels a little better.<br /><br />So everyone here in <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_0">Argentina</span> is really happy today and yesterday. ARGENTINA BEAT MEXICO!!!!!!!! It was a really good game. Messi still hasn´t made a goal yet but he sure does help them out a lot. Tevez is on fire. The Mexicans were really mad on tv. Reading their mouths and seeing what they were saying I could tell. It was pretty funny. Sorry Irma that Argentina beat you 3 to 1. <img style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="http://f654.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f6463%5fACQJDUwAACnTTCjsKwDI%2fyKBO%2fo&pid=2&fid=Elder%2520Smeeth&inline=1" />. San Juan is a lot bigger city than Villa Mercedes. So the celebration was a lot better here. They but a huge tv screen in plaza and they had a ton of people watching the game. It was really cool. I like how they all get really into it. I hope they can beat <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_1">Germany</span>. They have a really good team. We´ll be crossing our fingers. Right now I am living with a Porteño or someone from <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_2">Buenos Aires</span>. He is such a prideful argentine. He wont stop telling me how much better argentina is in soccer than the united states. It was pretty sad to see that they got beat out. But it is ok. I am in argentina.<br /><br />Thanks for putting some money in my account. I needed it. I had to spend a lot of money this last week in traveling. My area is a pretty expensive area. Thanks for that.<br /><br />Alright, so about my new area and my new companion. So I got to come back to the promised land of the mission SAN JUAN. I love this place. But, I left Villa Mercedes at about 7 on wednesday morning. As I was traveling the bus broke down and it woke me up. A belt broke and they had to change it. But as we were waiting I looked out to the left and there was a huge cloud of smoke of something that just kept getting closer and closer. Then I could tell that it was dust. But it wasn´t windy at all. Well by the time we started up again the cloud got really close. It got so windy and so dusty that I could hardly see the side of the road. The bus driver was going so slow because he couldn´t see anything. I really don´t get how all the mud brick houses stayed standing up. It was crazy how strong the wind was. The wind is called Viento Zonda. It would be nice if someone could look that up for me. All argentines tell us a different story. But suposefully the wind comes from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_3">Chile</span> and when it come above the Andes it picks up a lot of speed. As it starts dropping from the Andes it starts gettin into a warm/hot wind. So as it comes into san <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_4">juan</span> it is just really hot. There was so much dust and hot wind. It is horrible. We are in winter right now too so it is weird. A lot of people get sick from it too. It always gives me a headache. So that was my first day in <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_5">San Juan</span>.<br /><br />So my area is called Zonda. I am the 6th missionary to be there. It was opened just recently. There are about 15 members and about 10 active. There is one priesthood holder there. He is so awesome. He was baptized in Febuary and has already read the whole triple and two book about the teaching of the prophets. He goes with us every saturday to help us teach. It is a really differnt area. There are not any members with a lot of experience, so everyone depends on the missionaries. It is about 45 minutes from the city and it is inbetween two mountains. We are in a vally that is why it is called Valle de Zonda. It is really small. Just a small city where everyone knows everyone. There are about a grand total of like 10 cars that pass us in the road in the whole day. So every morning we take a bus at 9 30 and come back at 930 pm. We have a lot of people to teach right now. A lot of people are interested in us because we are still new. And being Sanjuaninos or those of san juan they just let us right in. It is really easy to get into a house. The hard thing is to get them to progress. So we have to filter out the people we have. Something I have noticed is that for some reason there are a lot of problems with families here. Every person we are teaching has a problem with their family. Suicide, leaving children becuase they dont want them, abuse and a lot more. It is so sad. One family we are teaching just this last week came home and was beating her daughter and so the mom jumped in and he hit her too and gave her a concussion. He is in jail now and she says that he is not coming back (which is good because now she can get baptized, she wasnt married). But it is just really sad. So we meet in a members house 3 sundays out of the month and on fast sunday we have to go the the state center. It is part of that ward. I havnt gone to a meeting there yet, because it was stake conference yesterday but I can imaging it is going to be way different with only like 10 or 15 people there. I can´t imagine listening to the hymns. No one knows the melody because they are all new. I am excited.<br /><br />So my companions name is Elder Vazquez. He was born in <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_6">Los Angeles</span> and now lives in <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_7">Provo, Utah</span>. His parents were born in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_8">san jose iturbide, guanajuato, mexico</span>. I don´t know where that is but that is where they are from. I don´t know if Irma would know where that is. We have about the same time in the mission. He has one less transfer than I do. That makes it nice and easy to have him. He is really cool. He worked at a car dealership giving trucks lifts and tuning them up. He was really sad that <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_9">mexico</span> lost yesterday. Every one in Zonda knows he is mexican and they are goint to be making fun of him like crazy tommorrow. I am excited!!!! :).<br /><br />So about some of our investigators. We have a girl that is going to be getting baptized on the <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_10">4th of July</span>. A great way to celebrate it in the mission. There are still more to baptize in that family so we are working really hard with them. The are the Morales Family. We are also going to baptize Mitilda and Soledad on the 10th. If the husband gives us permission. Then we have a lady and her son that went to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_11">church on sunday</span> that are sweet and that are going to get baptized.<br /><br />On saturday we went with Julio Luque (the priesthood holder) to teach our investigators. When we were walking down the road he was teaching us how the grape fines work. It is pretty interesting. He was been working with them his whole life. He is from Tucumán (another providence). He is such a stud. We were going by all the members and investigators to tell them that the church rented out like 4 taxis to take them all to stake confernce. So we have like 18 people going. Then we get a text message from his saturday night at 10 that the taxis couldnt go anymore. So we had to figure some thing out. So we called some of them and a lot of them couldnt go because it is expensive. They are really poor. So sunday morning we went to go get our investigators atleast. We got a partmember family and another lady and her kid. We paid for their bus tickets because we told them they didnt have to pay for the taxi and we felt bad telling them they had to pay. It wasnt too bad. Sunday mornings buses are really bad. They dont pass by that much. But we got on a bus and we started for the stake center. Everything was going good. We got three people that were investigators. We were on time and everything and then the bus broke down. It broke down right in the middle of the canyon. So we had to wait like an hour for the next bus. We got to stake confernce an hour and ten minutes late. We missed President Lindahls talk but we got there for Elder Ávilas talk. He was the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_12">old mission president</span> and now he is a seventy. it was such a great talk. He talked about Christ´s life and the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091787_13">Holy Ghost</span>. He had all the missionaries stand up. The then talked to all the people that were not members of the church to listen to us and do what we are teaching them and he talked about the blessing they will have. It was so awesome. He then ivited everyone of them to get baptized. It was good that he did it. There were 32 people that we not members. It was such a great confernce. There were so many people. There were not enough chairs for everyone so a lot of people were standing in the eilse and sitting in them too. It was amazing. It was really good for Mirta and her kid Romiro to see all those people too. President Lindahl then talked to all the people from Zonda. He talked to Mirta (not member) he took her hand and looked her in the eyes talking to her for like a minute about how she would be blessed by this church. He said to us. Call me when she gets baptized. After he left she asked us if we told him the problems she was having in her family. (she is the one that her husband is in jail for beating them). We told her no. She than said that she felt like he new about her problems and that she felt like he knew her. We talked to her about the Holy Ghost and how it works and who Presidnt is. It was so awesome. She for sure is getting baptized. It was so awesome. One of the best days that I have had in a long time.<br /><br />After church we went to the Family Millans house for an asadazo or bbq. It was so good. They are a really cool family. It was a really good week. I am really excited for the next coulple of months. I have to work really hard. I dont have many more weeks to baptize but I have to baptize some more people. Elder Vazquez and I are going to have a lot of success. But have a good week. I love you all.<br /><br />Con cariño<br /><br />Elder B. Smith<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmvyQOvcn_uLPkDSkSOtxGVn65xwA-y7fvCOqL71PXIFsm-_lVBcGpKw6w2SxamPKqk0pz5NrQI7dR56oLE3ewcZJ0lkHtatqZZXDQYYjA9Hh5K2kVkOkiSdWhGL6qnVmx1xg1q_tFzgo/s1600/IMG_0125.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmvyQOvcn_uLPkDSkSOtxGVn65xwA-y7fvCOqL71PXIFsm-_lVBcGpKw6w2SxamPKqk0pz5NrQI7dR56oLE3ewcZJ0lkHtatqZZXDQYYjA9Hh5K2kVkOkiSdWhGL6qnVmx1xg1q_tFzgo/s320/IMG_0125.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497952944863672210" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdSak8yyz_mYfvyuvnKoY8DvknqKc_FCq8SVH74T21Il2OQPAfBcicx2oSYek4FvY4U-L2v3ZqVHPhkXvftIs8OkXaPQTarIMyw8pOr4cA9uC2gJxUWDr1zpVb4vvLFyN_h6LR04aAHqB1/s1600/IMG_0126.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdSak8yyz_mYfvyuvnKoY8DvknqKc_FCq8SVH74T21Il2OQPAfBcicx2oSYek4FvY4U-L2v3ZqVHPhkXvftIs8OkXaPQTarIMyw8pOr4cA9uC2gJxUWDr1zpVb4vvLFyN_h6LR04aAHqB1/s320/IMG_0126.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497952936415624610" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-L1V44Yi84sUvsLVqCM17UiwqHI9IYekKqHesl_Kt0dokCrIgQz678LmDaGE46olbCdxpctYXB8byuKHAdS9zQTK9xSsbWV5nyCEE-aq0ocHH5BWBNcZxthdjp_elk5xIzjQ2uS6NTM1v/s1600/IMG_0137.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-L1V44Yi84sUvsLVqCM17UiwqHI9IYekKqHesl_Kt0dokCrIgQz678LmDaGE46olbCdxpctYXB8byuKHAdS9zQTK9xSsbWV5nyCEE-aq0ocHH5BWBNcZxthdjp_elk5xIzjQ2uS6NTM1v/s320/IMG_0137.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497952931857868882" border="0" /></a><br />these are of the valle family, when i make my cake and the villa mercedes zoneElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-12488272425271436622010-07-25T14:02:00.001-07:002010-07-25T14:02:59.194-07:00June 21, 2010Hey Family,<br /><br />So Bryce had to talk again on <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091759_0">Fathers Day</span>. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091759_1">Lucky duck</span>. I am sure he did really good. That is good that he is writing his own talk and everything. We had fathers day and they didn´t talk anything about fathers or the priesthood. They do things weird down here in <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091759_2">Argentina</span>. I am sure Bryce was mad about the Slovenia vs. US game. We watched the recaps in an investigators house. I was so mad. I am sure Bryce has already seen it and everything. The reff robbed a goal from us. We would have won and now we have to fight hard to make it to the next round. If we do better then <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091759_3">England</span> I will be happy. So we watched the Argentine, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091759_4">South Korea</span> game in the gas station by our apartment as a zone. It was really exciting. IN YOUR FACE BRADY!!!!!!! ARGENTINA CREAMED SOUTH KOREA!!!!!!!! Just thought I would say something about that. A little mission pride. But it was a really good game. We had to walk through downtown Villa Mercedes right after and there were a ton of people there honking horns. With their painted faces, flags and Argentine jerseys. It was really cool to watch. There were a ton of people. I am in just little old Villa Mercedes. If I was in <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091759_5">Buenos Aires</span> it probably would have been a lot more fun. I am still mad though about the reff that robbed us. But everyone is saying that the world cup is going to be a South America world cup. That would be cool. Everyone is so excited down here. I really hope that the US doesn`t have to go up against Argentina. People would not leave us in peace if we play eachother. If we lose they will rub it in our face, if we win they will kill us. (just kidding). Either way it would not be cool. <br /><br />Well, I am glad that you all had fun up in the mountains. Enjoy is Bryce!!!!!!! You need to send me some pictures of the new dog. I want to see what she looks like. Oh ya, Bryce you said that you were going to send me some pictures of you and your friends. What happened???? Send me some pictures. <br /><br />I liked your idea of the The purpose of Fasting is Fasting with a purpose. That is the one thing that so many people forget and one of the hardest thing to remember to do. In the mission we always have things to fast for and so it is easy but the members have a hard time with it. Just keep giving good lessons in church though. We have some interesting lessons here in this ward. I kind of like hearing them. They are sometimes funny. <br /><br />My shoes are doing good. Ya they are getting worn out and everything but they are doing good. They should last until I finish. I have one set of shoes that I don´t use that much that I only use on Sundays. So I should be good. They are going to last but they are going to be really used up too. <br /><br />Sounds like a whole lot of fun picking corn and working in the yards. I sure hope that it all turned out good this year. <br /><br />So this week we had a really awesome week. Elder <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091759_6">Mendoza</span> and I worked like crazy. We were just working really hard and a lot of people just started opening the doors. We got into 11 houses and taught 21 new people just this week. It was on of the best weeks we had together. We were really blessed. We found a lot of people and also an inactive family that has a kid to get baptized. We were trying to get the area really ready for the next transfer. They told us that we both might be leaving so we wanted to leave them with a lot of people. <br /><br />Well this morning they called about transfers and I am way excited. I AM GOING TO <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091759_7">SAN JUAN</span> AGAIN!!!!!!!! I was so happy when I got the phone call. I am going to be with Elder Vasquez. He is a Chicano (fake mexican from the states). He is sweet. We almost have the same time in the mission. I am going to Zonda. It is about a 40 minute bus ride everyday from the city of San Juan. I am so excited. It had only been an area for like 6 months and it is growing like crazy. I am going to die there and I will be able to see all the people that I met in San Juan becuase I think that Santa Lucía is in my district. So I am leaving Villa Mercedes and going to San Juan again. Elder Mendoza is staying here. So on wednesday I go to San Juan. <br /><br />We will see how everything goes. I have two transfers left and I want to make them really good. One thing that I forgot to tell Kylie. Tell her to try Mate before she goes on the mission. She doesn´t want to go the whole mission without trying it before. Everyone is going to ask her if she likes it. Tell her to try it. <br /><br />Well I don´t have much time left but I love you all. Have a good week. I will let you know how I am doing in my new area next week. Chau chau.<br /><br />Elder B. SmithElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-89018371531022224272010-07-25T13:52:00.002-07:002010-07-25T14:02:21.756-07:00June 15, 2010QQQUUUUEEEE TTTTAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!!<br /><br />Ya someone is actually going to be speaking spanish in their mission other than me. That is so awesome that she is going on a mission. She is going to love it. That is sweet she is going to Bahia Blanca. I don´t know a ton about that mission just becuase it is pretty far from me but she will love it. Tell her to get ready to eat some asados, milanesas, ñoquis, pastel de papas, pastas, facturas and some more good stuff. She is going to love it. The only bad thing is that SHE LEAVES THE SAME EXACT DAY I GET HOME!!!!!!! I get home on the 15th at about noon. So I wont see her for 3 and a half years. That is pretty sad but I am glad she is going. She is going to speak like those from <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091159_0">Buenos Aires</span> though. She is a lot closer to the capital then I am. She is going to be speaking with a porteño accent. Irma will love her accent (not). It just stinks that I will be missing her by hours. What a coincidence. Well tell her congradulations and to get ready for a hot christmas with fire works. Tell her to study the first three lessons for preach my gospel a ton and just practice teaching them with good easy examples. She will be great!!!! Tell her that is awesome that she is coming to <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091159_1">argentina</span> but she will just have to live with the fact that the best mission in argentina in La Misión Argentina Mendoza!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Ya I got the package. Everyone loves it. We had a baptism yesterday and when all the members left we were in the church playing with the helicopter. You would be amazed how fun a little helicopter can be for a group of missionaries that have been kept from technology for a couple of months. But we had a lot of fun. Thanks for everything in there. We are going to play some ultimate freesbie today. Thanks for all the awesome, delicious candy. Elder Mendoza is happy he was with me when I got the package.<br /><br />Ya Chad already told me that he is getting married. He is getting married August 12th. A month before I get home. Este chavón. I was a little upset. I wanted him to be single when I got home but oh well. Hopefully he is happy. I still think that it is too soon.<br /><br />So this last week was an awesome week. We worked ´como negros´ (a lot argentines say it). And got blessed a lot. We got into a lot of houses and taught some really cool people. Lets hope they begin to progress.<br /><br />We had a baptism this friday. ROSA FINALLY GOT BAPTIZED. I swear that is why Elder Mendoza and I are still together. We had to see her get baptized. It was an interesting baptism. The water ran out in the church and it was cold water. But we were not giving up. There were two members there and we still started anyways. We got her into the water with her husband and Elder Mendoza so that she felt better. Well he tried to baptize her but she got to scared of going so low and going backwards and she wanted to get baptized another day. Elder Mendoza looked at me (i was one of the witnesses) and shook his head. We closed the door and he showed her other ways of getting under the water. Well after like <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091159_2">20 minutes</span> of trying and trying to make her calm. she did it. I think he said the prayer like 9 times. But she went in and got confirmed. She is happy and so are we.<br /><br />So on saturday we went to the bishops house and watched the game. I am so glad we got permission. It was an ok game. It was a sweet goal by Heinze but really I think the best player was the goalie from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091159_3">Nigeria</span>. He blocked shot after shot after shot. No one could get it in. There was a big parade going down the main street after the game but we stayed away from it. It was just a whole bunch of PIBES (teenage kids) blocking off traffic and blowing horns in the siesta. I bet a lot of people were bad, the ones who were trying to sleep. But it was pretty cool. There is blue and white all over the place. I really like the colors. The argentine jersaey the us jerseys are the coolest that I have seem yet. The US England game was better. A lot more exciting. They gave <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091159_4">England</span> a good fight. GO US!!!!.<br /><br />Elder Mendoza and I have one more week together. I am for sure leaving this area. We had interviews with president and he told me I was leaving. I hope I go to San Juan and die(end the mission). I want to die there. I want to see <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091159_5">Raúl</span> before I go home. This is my only chance I have. But were ever I need to go I will go.<br /><br />Well, I better get goin. That is so sweet that Kylie is going on a mission. Even better that she is going to Argentina. ¡AGUANTE ARGENTINA!!! I love you all so much. have a good week,<br /><br />Elder B. 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That is so sad that Daisy died. I never knew her but that is so sad. She sounded like a really good dog. I hope that this Masie will be just as good and hopefully she will last until I get home. Dogs just dont last very long where we live. Hopefully this one will. I think this is like the fouth dog that you have had sice I have been gone. You gave had the two dogs that look like the wolves, Daisy and now Masie. We just sound like a dog family. We knocked a door this last week and the guy had 25 dogs, 12 cats and a parot. I am now lieing either. I counted everyone. It was so gross. We are trying to get into his house and teach him. I want a picture with all those dogs. It would be sweet. I am glad that you had a good Fast and Testimony meeting. Ours was pretty quiet. Usually the missionaires don´t give their testimony. But there was so much silence that all four of us gave our testimony. It was pretty sad. I think there was more silence then testimonies. We are ready to tell the investigatores why. The bishop is trying so hard to get the ward moving, and so are we. It is just really hard when the auxilary leaders don´t do much. We will try to help him out. We are doing divisions every friday with the bishpric to try to help. <br /><br />So Colten is already home too. I sure hope he stays strong. It is so sad about Logan. I hope he can do better then him. Hopefully he will help Logan and his family get back into shape. It is just incredible what happened.<br /><br />That is a good goal about reading the <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091123_0">Book of Mormon</span>. We just barely finished reading the Book of Mormon as a mission. We read it in 66 days. The same amout of time it took for <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091123_1">Joseph Smith</span> to translate it. It was really nice. Reading it is 66 days it is about an average of 3 to 4 chapters a day. But it is possible. I put the goal of reading it one more time in spanish and also to read the <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280091123_2">New Testament</span> again. I have to get going. But it sure is helping me out. I like learning. I am really excited to keep on learning. Here in the mission you learn a lot in personal study and church. I am excited to keep on learing. I got a letter from Chad. He just talked about keeping the same habits that we learn in the mission. I have thought a lot about that. That scriptures, prayers and church come before everything. Getting ready Bryce. I am going to help you get into gear with all of that. You will love it.<br /><br />That is pretty scary that there was a scorpion in the bed with you and mac. I know how it feels and I hate it. To top it off he is a little kid. That is scary. I tell people here that there are scorpions and they freak out. There is like nothing here that is posioness.<br /><br />Elder Mendoza and I are doing good. We are pushing a long. We have 16 weeks together. I am going to be leaving this area in two weeks too. I think I already know where i am going and i am pretty excited. Elder Mendoza and i have done a lot but i am ready for more. <br /><br />we are going to be baptizing this friday. The lady that we have been working with a lot is finally getting baptized. I cant leave until that happens. She is looking really good. We have also been working with her husband. So that he could get the priesthood and baptize his wife. He is so excited. He got the priesthood yesterday and they are on the path of going to the temple. It is awesome.<br /><br />The Valle Family that we have been working with are doing awesome. They are the coolest family ever. They are progressng so well. They are even studying the lessons before sunday (NO ONE DOES THAT. NO ONE!!!!!!) But they are. He bore his testimony and it was the best one all day yesterday. I taugh Priciple of the Gospel but he was the real teacher. He is really getting a big testimony and he is going to be a great leader in this ward. I love it. <br /><br />We had a special zone conference with Elder Zivic, the area seventy. It was really good. He really helped us out with the way that we are teaching and making commitments. it was a great conference. <br /><br />Well i hope that you all have a great week. i love you all. <br /><br />Elder B. SmithElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-13478110276717164832010-07-25T13:47:00.000-07:002010-07-25T13:51:55.277-07:00May 31, 2010<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Hey family,<br /><br /></span> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">So you are finally up in the mountains. That sounds so good. It has to be so nice up there. I keep forgetting that you have a dog. So it is pretty cold up there. It has been pretty cold here too. It has rained almost all week. The roads get so muddy and our shoes and pants get so dirty. It is more fun like that though. We helped an old lady cross a muddy street and I got filthy. Oh well. When it gets cold and rainy that means that all Argentines just stay in the house. So that helps with getting into houses and teaching lessons, but not for church. Good thing that it cleared up on Sunday. It cleared up and was just cold on Sunday so that helped a lot. Elder Mendoza and I had a pretty good week. We brought a couple of our investigators to church. We were really happy. We had some hard weeks but it is changing now. We have one investigator that has had more baptismal dates than anyone I know. But she is finally ready. Now we are just waiting so that her husband can get the <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280090818_0">Priesthood</span> and baptize his wife. We just have to push the bishop to have an interview with him. Hopefully everything goes well with it. We also brought someone to church that are living in a barn while they build their house. So you can imagine how their clothes look. It was fun though. They walked in a little late and it was right in the middle of Sacrament Meeting and he said with a loud voice. <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280090818_1">Good Morning</span> to all. We didn´t have time to teach him about being quiet. He learned pretty fast though. So Elder Mendoza and I are going on 16 weeks together. That is a long time. We are getting a long OK for this long together. I have not been sleeping well though. I now know that I can not have a wife that snores. I can´t sleep at all. I bought some ear bluggs the other day and we bought some of those breath right strips for Elder Mendoza. You just can´t stop him. He really is like a train every night. But I can fight through it. Last night we stayed at the other Zone Leaders apartment so I slept in a different room then him. So I slept pretty well last night. </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">So this week Elder Zivic is coming. He is in the area presidency. We are all really excited. The last conference with Elder Bowen was amazing and we are all waiting for another one like that. Hope if goes well. There are going to be a lot of strikes this week with the buses. All the buses come in from <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280090818_2">Buenos Aires</span>. If they catch a strike in any other providence we are going to have problems. We just have to hope that everything goes well. </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">So my birthday was pretty good. It was really slow with <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280090818_3">missionary work</span>. Everyone was with family or hung over. We went to a couple of families houses and visited less active members. The Valle Family gave me a mate cup and straw which was way nice of them. They have a little 6 year old named Joselyn or nickname Pupi. She was so excited to give me my present. I have never seen her so happy. It was really nice. Rosa's family made me a cake and also we have some other cakes coming this week. So all in all it was as good as a birthday as you can have on the mission. It was a normal day so we had to work. But that is how it is going to be for the rest of my life. </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I just have to get used to that. </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">So my MTC group is getting smaller and smaller. We were supposed to be 4 missionaries going home together. Two are going home earlier for school. I would rather just finish my full two years. I can wait a little bit. I am getting nervous though for school. We were in a converts house helping them all with their English homework and they showed me their math homework. I am dead. I don´t remember anything. I am going to have to do some major studying when it comes to going back to school. </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">We are going to see what will happen in the next couple of weeks. I have three more weeks with Elder Mendoza and we are going to finish off strong. Keep praying for us. I hope you all have a great week. I love you all so much. </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">PS. i have not gotten the package yet but maybe on Thursday. If not Thursday it will be in like a couple of weeks. Also mom, could you tell me every week how much i have in my account. I guess every time I check here in charges me. So you know i have spent about 400 pesos. If you could put a little more in there just so I am safe that would be nice. I will pay all this back. I love you so much</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">So I have bought some stuff. I bought Bryce and I a jersey. It is pretty nice. It isn´t real but it is in between real and fake. I will send a picture home today of it. I am going to buy some mates today and some other stuff here in the capital of San Luis.</span><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;" class="yiv1334026682MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKHqLyeOvUt93k2OEZPt7FDI0S_aYtfCoYCKrxSQPdj_86tWfbHdeAKbD1ePbsdK7TbQEjJ1VMb-AgjvNSHWdXfErz_7pA1ST4H3Vgdr20ZPQ19ii2yc5PNPoF6dbUV9UwOwR4TR18hju0/s1600/IMG_0034.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKHqLyeOvUt93k2OEZPt7FDI0S_aYtfCoYCKrxSQPdj_86tWfbHdeAKbD1ePbsdK7TbQEjJ1VMb-AgjvNSHWdXfErz_7pA1ST4H3Vgdr20ZPQ19ii2yc5PNPoF6dbUV9UwOwR4TR18hju0/s320/IMG_0034.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497949250713251970" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ARR2ehjhYhjXlMvPStN0aYailQAyx2wYkVL5WYJWRmBuSyFntV59T_gz5tolXo83RWlYFEaPLBVGKUpsPKJ9zR_5NLH7vA_bL5G47C3HU2dhNRybNoluXWPljig3T-8e8HtbKDLF5c3C/s1600/IMG_0008+%283%29.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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SO GOOD!!!!</div> <div>4. these are all the elders that went to mission counsel.</div> <div>5. this is the bus we went in. it is like first class everything. REALLY FUN.</div> <div>6. elder mendoza and i</div> <div>7. this is when they gave me the wine and we didnt know what to do.</div> <div>8. elder mendoza and his wine.</div> <div>9. this is the tie and the medallions that elder and i won from president lindahl.</div> <div>10. here is some of the grave cites. it is really weird how they do it.</div> <div>11. graves.</div> <div>12 graves. </div> <div>13.graves </div> <div>14. graves (about to put someone in)</div> <div>15. a grave house.</div> <div>16. inside a grave house. </div> <div>17. inside a grave house.</div> <div>18. inside another grave house. this one was way weird. </div> <div>19. one of the pathways in the grave yard.</div> <div>20. 21 22. some more grave stuff. i liked this little statue thing.</div> <div>23.this is the main walkway.</div> <div>24. this is a huge grave house for people from <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280089888_0">spain</span>. i guess that is how they did it back in the day.</div> <div>25. this is a statue on one of the grave houses.</div> <div>26. i am giving a sermon to elder mendoza and rodriguez.</div> <div>27. 28. more grave stuff.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>so here were the pictures. i hope you liked them. it was really cool to see how it is in a catholic country. love you all.</div> <div> </div> <div>blake</div>Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-14908137465137735562010-07-25T13:31:00.001-07:002010-07-25T13:31:17.175-07:00May 24, 2010Dear Family,<br /><br />¡SOY VIEJO!! I AM SO OLD!!! I can´t believe that tomorrow I turn 21 years old!!!! Time is going so fast. A year ago I was in San Juan with Elder Alfonso. So much has happened since then. It is amazing what can happen in one year. I should be getting a couple of cakes tomorrow and through out the week. We are going to have tacos tomorrow with the sister that teaches Principles of the Gospel class. I am going to bring my last bottle of hot sauce from Mattas. I am pretty excited. We will see how my birthday goes. Today is a holidy also. They just decided to make monday and tuesday holidays. So it is really boring in the streets. <br /><br />So things are not looking to good in <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280089859_0">Arizona</span> right now. I know don´t know hardly nothing but it should be intersting. Things here with the government are not to great either. The buses are going on strike again this week. Wednesday throu friday. It really makes it a lot harder for the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280089859_1">missionary work</span>. Our area needs buses. Oh well, what can we do?<br /><br />I sure hope Grandma is ok. That is really scary. I will keep her in my prayers. Hopefully she gets better soon. Take it easy Grandma!!!!! I am really glad that we have really good medical help where we live and also good police. It is just so different here. <br /><br />That has to be pretty nice to have that in the mountains just waiting to go up there. It sounds so relaxing. Just to be outside and take a nap(siesta) on the cot. Hope you all have a ton of fun.<br /><br />So the Gila Valley Temple is ready. I really want to go see it. I can´t believe that she gave 500,000 dollars to the temple. Atleast she used it for a good cause. It has to look awesome. I wish the people would just stop complaining about the temple. They will be such a good thing to have next to your house or your buisness. Oh well. <br /><br />Alright, so this week was really good. We found a lot of really cool people. We found a family of 12. they all see really interested too. we will see tomorrow. we are working really hard and trying to be obedient and just leave the rest in the Lords hands. we are seeing some of the fruit. <br /><br />yesteryday i spoke in church about testimonies. it wasnt to bad because no one came. it was so cold and rainy yestereday. it was horrible. but i think i did a good job. <br /><br />we went to mendoza on monday and it was an aweomse meeting. president talked about james 1:5. it was so good. he talked about how it is the key to save your life. praying to God. He also talked about setting goals now and after the mission. it was so nice. the sister lindahl talked about the keys we have in the priesthood and how we need to use it. she gave us a key to help remind us of our power. we are supposed to carry it with us on our scriptures that we use in the street. it really helps. it is a good idea.<br /><br />when we were on our way home we were in the bus. i asked to have a bottle of wine to take home with me but instead of giving me a bottle she gave me a glass of wine. elder mendoza and i were laught pretty hard. we just hid it in the cup holder. it was so funny. i just wanted the bottle. oh well. <br /><br />so today we went to a cemetary. next week i will send you some pictures. it is so interesting. nothing like the states. you can see on there coffins. it would be so scary at night. you will see next week. well i have to send some stuff to the office so i got to go. i love you all. <br /><br /><br />blakeElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-66505833990564397232010-07-25T13:22:00.000-07:002010-07-25T13:29:48.434-07:00May 17, 2010Hola familia,<br /><br /><div> </div> <div>Wow, first off i want to say. Josh i love the beard!!!!!<img style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="http://f654.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f16088%5fABsJDUwAAN13S%2fFnSAYabxu07BU&pid=2&fid=Elder%2520Smeeth&inline=1" width="12" height="15" /> I´ve never seen him with a beard. So they went to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280089399_0">Atlanta</span> for a concert. That sounds really fun. So Chad had his homecoming already. Time is going to fast. I can´t believe it. The weeks and days are just going like crazy. I always am asking Elder Mendoza where the time is going. We have been together for a long time. We are going for 13 weeks. It is my record with one companion. We are getting along really well. We are excited to keep working together. We know each other really well so we can teach really well together right now. Chad right now seems even better than before because he chose a really good meal to eat. HAYSTACKS!!!!! yuuummmm that sounds good. So it sounded like you had a pretty successful yard sale. It is a smart way to get some money for camping. When are you going to go up there??? Will this be the first year with the new trailer??? I bet you are so excited to go up there. I wouldn´t want to be in the heat either. Hopefully you can go up soon. </div> <div> </div> <div>That is awesome that there are 3 temples in Arizona now. It will be nice to go and do a session there. Have you heard anything about the other two temples?? The last I heard the one in Phoenix was having problems. How is it now?? Hopefully they can start it soon. </div> <div> </div> <div>I am glad that Grandpa has some help in the garden. I wish I would have helped more then I did before the mission. I bet it will be a great garden. </div> <div> </div> <div>So we had a pretty crazy week. It was transfer week. Everyone got comfortable in their areas and now we are starting to work like normal again. We have a pretty good zone. Like always there are some problems but I am used to those now. It wouldn´t be normal if there wasn´t any problems. But I am loving it. We are seeing a lot of progress in our area. The families that we are working with are doing great. It was pretty hard for some of them to get to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280089399_1">church on Sunday</span> just because it was a pretty cold morning. It was like 36 degrees in the morning going to church. For an Argentine that is just like walking out into a blizzard. it was 2 degrees Celsius. they see that and they just don't go anywhere. there weren't that many people in the church. but that is ok. just testing everyone. we are pretty lucky where we live that if it is raining, cold, hot or anything we can just get in the car and go. here you either have to wait at a bus stop, take a taxi, ride a bike or walk. there is one member with a car. we are all tested in different ways. </div> <div> </div> <div>this week we ate some interesting things with the Valle family. they cooked us cow tongue and cow liver. Lengua and Hígado. it was actually not that bad. it was kind of gross only because i knew what i was eating. this member works at a butchering place and meat processing place. he took some videos of his job. he took only three and is going to take more. but he took a video of when the kill them. they knock the cow out and then hang them upside down and put a huge knife through the heart. it was a lot of blood. he is going to put it on a DVD so i can take it home. i am pretty excited. </div> <div> </div> <div>this Wednesday we are gong to Mendoza for consejo or mission counsel. i am pretty excited. i am mostly excited for the tacos. they are SO GOOD. we leave Wednesday morning at about 3 and get back at 11 at night. it is a really long day but it is pretty fun also. </div> <div> </div> <div>we are working with some pretty good people right now. last night we were in a members house and a friend came over. so we were talking getting to know him. he was getting to know us. he had never talked to Mormon missionaries before. but he was asking questions like how long are we here and normal questions. he then asked how old we were. i told him to guess. he told me 25!!!!! i do not look that old. ha ha. but it was funny. he was 20 too. i queasy i look a lot older then him. i don't see it. but that was about it for the week. i will try to send some pictures. i love you all so much. have a good week. les quiero un montón.</div> <div> </div> elder smith<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAZuhZsqbv9PXYvgDgqw5hbsuroE9fM4vUSVVRkUaHa4j4hYFfTnwPGDh-ArNVLVUERhds1ah04rj5R7P_qjVvHLteD3lwYsB-y5CguFjuWU_8Yazb0rYCxhKAFQMUxpd8dknB014hn8l/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij29DlNSeBSu76H1aX4T8vYdBiT352E5aLCJ1B1DBZ-cJ5-yhVyOxyHxUnZWPntqSTzNbOVhYMT31ddFDvwd33hkkRVUYriiXkTzSNTQufOwEaRNezv0Gj6WedLKvspYNLac-ti_z7M-B0/s320/IMG_0089.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497942739190130754" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV-Ve7V84ChEUc9TpCFZgsrQKzsnI1r311xnuiu7qzneudcT5BP18jRNqTaIttLE7jzeM88_YOf6417jBS_Ppit8jN5E1N1ut5Yl7zigdoiRwybNw7CkSumkW0fI9H7c-3hfeZrywNzpvp/s1600/IMG_0090.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV-Ve7V84ChEUc9TpCFZgsrQKzsnI1r311xnuiu7qzneudcT5BP18jRNqTaIttLE7jzeM88_YOf6417jBS_Ppit8jN5E1N1ut5Yl7zigdoiRwybNw7CkSumkW0fI9H7c-3hfeZrywNzpvp/s320/IMG_0090.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497942730874139810" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmK95fv92nxOIZCKgFLWDSwgPY4HHeG12Yn3nVyOvFeResjdC4C4hBJZSK2u1VLgBNSyqOZRC1lR0FpC8poAPP6cgODp8oyBVJfnz1CbmwGyqXwiOw2V0Jy7dyeiPEeuwv505Q6iyxI3p/s1600/IMG_0095+%282%29.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmK95fv92nxOIZCKgFLWDSwgPY4HHeG12Yn3nVyOvFeResjdC4C4hBJZSK2u1VLgBNSyqOZRC1lR0FpC8poAPP6cgODp8oyBVJfnz1CbmwGyqXwiOw2V0Jy7dyeiPEeuwv505Q6iyxI3p/s320/IMG_0095+%282%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497942725429855970" border="0" /></a>here are some of the pictures of the last little bit. i hope you like them. love you all chau chauElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-90586796848535578962010-07-24T18:01:00.001-07:002010-07-24T18:01:48.934-07:00May 10, 2010<div>Hey family, </div><div><br /></div><div>well it was great talking to you all last night. i can´t believe that it was the last time. but it was really nice. it was nice to here that everyone is doing good. that bryce broke his bed and he is sleeping on the floor like good old times. i have gotten over the habbit of sleeping on the ground. They just dont have comfortable carpet here. oh well. i just hope that there arent any scorpions. that´s awesome that weston has opened himself up and that he is now talking with a lot of people. he has got to be so much happier now. so what kind of plans do they have waiting for me??? that will be interesting. i hope that he gets his job back at lehi valley so that we can work together again. i think it would be nice to work at lehi valley again. i would really like too. </div> <div><br /></div><div>i hope the surgery for grandpa goes well. i heard it was a pretty easy surgery. a lot of people have catarats here too. i never even knew what it was until i came here. i wouldnt trust any doctor here to do it though. the hospitals are pretty scarry. i remember when i got my hernia. i was so scared to go into the hospitals. i was even more scared when i was in there. it is way depressing. i should have taken pictures. oh well. </div> <div><br /></div><div>i will be excited to here about chads homecoming. i cant believe his dad bought him all of that. that is so much money. a brand new car and that cell phone. oh by the way, bryce what is that new cell phones name???? i forgot. tell chad that i say hi. </div> <div><br /></div><div>So brett is eating intestines. i have gotten really lucky. i cant believe how i have not eatin intestines or stomach. they eat it all the time but i just have never eaten it with a family yet. they have all kind of weird stuff. the thing that i have tried and i just dont like is the blood sausage. it is called morcilla. it is so gross. i cant believe they eat it here. my companion likes to eat intestines they are called hígado. he just likes eating it because it is cheap but i think it is discusting looking. i am so glad we dont eat that in the states. yuck. ¡Que asqueroso! hopefully i get lucky and dont ever have to eat it. </div> <div><br /></div><div>so the assistants called us last night to tell us about transfers. want to hear something funny? elder mendoza and i are staying together. THREE TRANSFERS TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!! i am going to be with him for 4 1/2 months. that is so long. oh well. he is a cool kid. so i am staying here is villa mercedes, hipólito irigoyen for another 6 weeks. i am really glad that i am staying though. i really wanted to stay because there is a lot that can still be done and ha ha all the members know about my birthday. hopefully i get some cake :) <img src="http://f654.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f17538%5fAB4JDUwAAXzeS%2bgwAw2NHX1naps&pid=2&fid=Elder%2520Smeeth&inline=1" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /> we are still not quite sure what is going to happen with the zone. i know they are taking a couple of the elders out. they are taking two really good elders out. hopefully they send us some really good elders too. </div> <div><br /></div><div>i am going to send you some pictures of the baptism we had on saturday night. we activated a family and baptized her little girl. they are such a great family. i am glad i can stay and help them some more. </div> <div><br /></div><div>well i dont have a ton more to say. but i love you all so much. dont forget to ask irma about the mexican slang. and tell her this. irma usted sabe que los argentinos hablan mejor que los mexicanos. ya va a ver. soy muy orgulloso con castellano. jaja. pero la verdad es que nunca voy a hablar con argentinos otra vez asi que voy a estar hablando como usted con tiempo. asi que tiene que ayudarme con las palabras que ustedes usan. gracias irma. aguante <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280019667_0">argentina</span>. <img src="http://f654.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f17538%5fAB4JDUwAAXzeS%2bgwAw2NHX1naps&pid=3&fid=Elder%2520Smeeth&inline=1" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /></div> <div><br /></div><div>i love you all so much. tell brady and weston i say hola. have a good week. talk to you next week. chao chao</div><div><br /></div>elder smithElder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-72656023124034466292010-07-24T17:58:00.002-07:002010-07-24T18:00:32.502-07:00May 7, 2010<div>(my cell phone) (other elders cell phone, elder sanchez and quebbeman)</div> <div>011-54-9-2657-321-690 011--54-9-2657-321783<br /></div> <div>hey mom,</div> <div> </div> <div>sorry that it didnt work. i have checked the number and it should have worked. try this second number. it is the other cell phone of the apartment. but try the first one first again. it is my cell phone. i will have the phone until about 3 here so about 11 at home. so you can keep trying with that. try the second phone inbetween 9-11 to try to get a hold of me. elder sanchez with answer the phone but his companion is a gringo so he will pass it to him. good luck. if i dont get anything today in the afternoon i will go to the internet place again and i will email you again. hopefully it will work. sorry that it didnt work. i will be waiting for you call. </div> <div>if you get this email right away just email me back. we can try it right now. </div> <div> </div> <div>te quiero</div> <div> </div> <div>blake</div>Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2752745815826310643.post-66941454103097926322010-07-24T17:58:00.001-07:002010-07-24T17:58:52.816-07:00May 3, 2010<div>IT IS ALREADY MAY!!!!!!!!!</div> <div> </div> <div>time is going really fast. it is already may and we will be talking again this sunday. crazy!!!! before i forget i will give you the number real quick. so i want you to call on thursday night at like 6 30 your time. i am pretty sure that will be 10 30 here. we will give it a test call. and if i dont get a call thursday night i will send you another email. ok so here is the number. 011549-2657-321-690 so i will be waiting for the call on thursday night to make sure it will work and we will give you the time on thursday. </div> <div> </div> <div>ok so sounds like you had a really busy week. which cat had kittens????? floyd??? mrs. cat??? or is there a new one??? but that is pretty cool. six new kittens there is the house. that should be pretty fun. do we still have that dog daisy??? man it is hard to keep track of things. oh well. </div> <div> </div> <div>so it sounded like it was fun to go to Gila Valley Temple didication. i sure do miss the temple. that is something that i want to do right when i get home. i miss it a ton. we are so blessed to have a temple. my companion has to travel a day to get to the temple. we have fifteen minutes. we are so blessed. i can see that more and more each day. oh does el rey and the buger house sound good. i love argentine food but it just doesnt match mexican food. that is something that just cant be topped. aunt katies story about the bus sounds like what happened to us in febuary. when we get a flat too. it was pretty scary but we were just on a flat road. it is pretty scary. there are a lot of people on those buses. </div> <div> </div> <div>so brein is dating. that is good. she deserves a good boy. she is a good girl. do you know his name??? so chad got home last week. he sent me an email. it is really weird that i am the last of the group. i am the only one in the field right now. but i am loving it. transfers are coming up. i will know what will happen next week. i dont know what is going to happen. i dont know if i will stay here or go somewhere else. i am up for anything. i am pretty sure that i will have one area more. i want to go back to san juan. i love san <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280019507_0">juan</span>. we will just see waht happens. </div> <div> </div> <div>so tylers old girlfriend is getting married. ha ha that happened to a missionary here too. his old girlfriend got married on his birthday. how does that happen?? oh well who cares. i know he is ok. he will find some one better. a prophet promised it. so you just have to trust it. ha ha. so you got pulled over mom. it is ok. it happens to the best of us. i got pulled over in utah too for the same reason. oh well. at least you didnt get a ticket. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280019507_1">lucky duck</span>. it is for keeping the commandments and going to the temple. cant wait to do a sesson there. so what is the new s on the other two??? anything good. </div> <div> </div> <div>so this week was really good. i had to go to mendoza to get new cell phones. the mission got new cell phones so me and the other zone leader from san luis went and got them. president bought us mcdonalds and everytihg. we came back to san luis in a royal suite bus. it was amazing. it is like first class on the airplane. they give you all the pop you want. the seat folds all they back and they gave us a bottle of wine. BUT I LEFT IF IN THE BUS. i was so mad. i wanted it for a souvenier. oh well. right now we are working with the Valle family. there are doing so good. he is going to baptize his daughter this weekened. he bore his testimony for the first time in ten years. it was so nice. he really animated the members to help us too. he put our names in there for us. ha ha. hoepfully it will kick the members into gear. when he got down from bearing his testimony his two daughters gave him a huge hug. it was so amazing. there were so happy. i loved it. there is so much to do it this ward. i dont want to go. hopefully i stay. there are some more people to baptize and more families to help. i love it. </div> <div> </div> <div>a lot happened this week i just cant think of it all right now. but everything is doing really good. i sure hope grandma is ok. i will be praying for her a lot. tell her to be careful and to use lights. i love you all so much. have a good week. chau.</div> <div> </div> <div>elder blake smith</div> <div> </div> <div>oh before i forget. bryce tell me about iron man 2. is it good? i saw on a news paper that it came out. </div>Elder Blake Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847403922247514545noreply@blogger.com0