I hit a new record this week

Hey guys what is going on? I am doing great and man the transfer is almost over and it went by way fast. It sounds like everything is going great back home, and it is about time that everything is going well in sports. It sounds like Dad has a lot going on at work and it sounds like some pretty important stuff. I am glad that y’all are enjoying the letters and pictures that I have sent home. This week has been chill pretty much missionary wise, we have done a lot of walking, and have had to keep in the house Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. This past week the carnaval was so freakin crazy, there were people from all around the world. And this week will be even crazier, all of the hottest singers will be in our area singing this week: Daddy Yankee, Wisin y yandel, Shakira and others it will be crazy.

This week I learned how to cook, my comp got fed up with having to cook so he taught me how to cook rice and all kind of different types of meat. So my first day of cooking he didn’t want to cook and I didn’t know how to cook anything so I went into brainstorming mode, and figured out that I could make quesadillas, so I made cheese quesadillas for lunch and they were the bomb.

Teaching wise in our area is going alright, we have to walk a ton but it is paying off. I hit a new record this week, we got 6 references from members in one day! That is more than I got my whole time in Cotui. We are finding a lot of new people, some of other investigators weren’t panning out, so unfortunately we had to drop them. But we have some families that are just golden, they are reading and praying and understand everything that we teach and the questions they ask are way intelligent. The only problem for us is that we can not get people to church for the world this month, because of the carnaval. I definitely want to stay here for the next transfer because we have some people that have fechas for baptism, and we have some way solid people. Yesterday we had another bad experience with a member, we had a situation perfect to teach and the member started arguing with the investigator and tried to be the missionary, and Elder Reyes had to step in and stop him. He was teaching apostasy, and just made it a bad situation.

Next week is transfers so we will see what happens to me next week. I hope to stay but we will find out. Take care guys and enjoy the good weather!

Love, Elder Smith

They had a baptism in their Branch

Elder Reyes studying

Sunday dinner with members

 Another lunch with members

 Cool Car

This is for Jacob.

 Jacob drew this picture during Matthew's farewell talk.

The backpack belongs to his companion, Elder Reyes