8.10.17 - Aayo Pamilya!!!

Hoy! Good morning yall its been quite the semana here at the mtc and probably the funniest ones yet. My kauban elder hassle hoff (hoffman) has been sick for almost two weeks now with a soar throat and he lost his voice for a couple of days but much to the dismay of our teachers, hes gotten it back. But anyway frickin love that kid im learning so much from him and he has many admirable traits that makes everyone happy when they are around him, and he says the craziest stuff lollll. One of our co-teachers sister anderson frickin has a quote book for the kid! like unsa?????!!!!! one day hoff came out of the bathroom and was like "magbati ka sa bago lalaki" hahahah that went in the quote book imma make yall translate that one lol. But things are good we are teaching every day and even though i dont feel like im progressing as much any more in the language my testimony has been growing stronger. So we were just chillin in the sunday devo four days ago you know and they had asked us all to watch character of christ again even though id seen it like three times. anway i sat down and i felt somethin was up and then near the end of the video this dude asked for some help so my boy hoff stood up and he broke the news to them what they would be doing. Lol his face when he came back to sit down was unreal. So of course i made the kid tell me what was going on and he did after some convincing and i straight up was like "MAO BA!!!!!!!?????"  hahah but anyway the movie ended and it went straight to a camera feed of the overflow room WE WERE IN. and guess who walks in, flippin Elder Bednar and his wife i was fli[ppin out holy cow i had never been that close to an apostle like that. that was pretty neato and he answered some questions and got on his way but he always has something inspirational to say. We taught some more TRCs this week with the same girls from last week and they love us nbd. they mostly love my kauban i think because they always say he is cute and bis dak. (but you know they cant get away with calling me cute cuz im a grown boy up in here). hahah but they said that my language had improved so much and that made me happpy. also s/o to my mom for getting me my mp3 cuz me and my roomies have been jammin to some moana hahah so fun. Im so grateful for the scriptures and i have felt something special from Our Heavenly Father and its reassuring to know that he is always there, on our left and on our right. anway hope you all have a good week and make an effort to change another persons day for the better. Also i forgot to talk about how this illongo district just left yesterday and they were all zone leaders and stuff so they had to call new peeps to fill the spots. hoff got taken out by one of the branch presidency so i thought he might be a DL or something but hahahah he was called to be the music director! straight cashhhh hahah and he let me know after his little intro meeting with the old director that he call a chorister for every week and guess who that is, yup me. hahah its chill tho im just going to wave my arm around make some hymns pretty bumping and others slower lol. also these sisters straight up came up to me and hoff last week and showed us this pic that she drew of us. We didnt ask her or anything but she really likes us i think and they all called us the dynamic duo(or maybe hoffie is just telling everyone that to get the word around). But yea that was pretty legit and also i have loved the weather here lately, we had a lightning storm last night during class it was awesome. It really made me happy and i realized that if we take advantage to those little things God has given us, our acknowledgement of our blessings will increase and we will understand what it means to be grateful. hope yall have a good week and i love you all so much.

press forward in faith

-Elder Smith

 

 

So idk what hoff is doing in the first pic honesty but the hes reppin byu so i dont really care. in the video hes trying to look like me lol(he wishes he looks this good). the drawing is what i talked about from before and those are the sisters that did it. Then i finally got a pic with my boy kolly(and boren again ughhh). Then that group pic at the temple is our district, love those boys so much!

 

NS - Having trouble with the pictures again.  To follow....