1.9.18 Siquijor

Hellloooo people this is Elder Smith coming to you again second time for 2018. Got a lot to report for this week so buckle up its gonna be a ride. hahah first of all about the subject ye got the call last night im staying in siquijor for one more transfer at least so im pumped, and even crazier news is that i have a new companion, and an old one? hahahh ye we got elder phippen comin in hes my provo batch and elder briones is staying also so we will be a trisome this transfer haha pretty wack i know. But yea had like the best week of the mission yet had a lot of good stuff go down. We went from no IBDs(investigator with a baptismal date), to 4 in just this week and all of them are pretty legit and two of them made it to church along with two other investigators. We also had 6 of our 8 recent converts to church and one LA who returned after not being to church for over 30 years. Lots of miracles in the work and we were so happy with our church attendance and we love teaching right now especially the girl i talked about last week, sister Liezl. Sister is 26 and has a 5 year old daughter. She will recieve a her doctrines degree this spring and is also teaching at the university here. We got punted from our last two appointments after the baptism of sam-sam on saturday and Sister Liezl was planning on coming but she couldnt make it so we went to her. The lesson was about fasting and it was awesome, and first off like every other of our lessons we asked if she had any questions because she reads everything we give her, and she asked us why Nephi killed laban... hahahah we havent even given her a BOM! my goodness she downloaded lds library and she had already read through chapter 5 of 1 nephi so awesome. she had also read about President Monson and watched some videos hahah she was really teaching us. But yea that was awesome and she fasted with us and went to church and took pictures of my lesson on the board hahah. another blessing was that we had a former ibd return to church and she came up to us with sister liezl after church and asked if they could have their baptisms togehter hahah. i love this work and we were so blessed this week and the pool of investigators we have is pretty legit and i cant wait to continue our work here. I love you all so much and sorry the email is really long but im super happy. heres some funny stuff so this whole transfer Elder Briones loves to be funny with everyone we talk to and after they make a confusing face probably wondering how i know how to say "hi" in bisaya, Elder briones confirms to them that i am an uging hahah (albino fillipino). almost err one knows its not true after i talk for awhile or they look at my face hjahah but last week we were talkin to a nay and we made it through the whole lesson and she still thought i was from Siquijor hahahahhahah. yea word of the week start calling your fellow work mates or freinds or even a random person on the street an "ugging"(OO-geeng) and see what they do ahahha. Thanks for you all love you all gihapon and press forward in faith

so one of these pics when the zone leaders came here last week, then me in front of the signnnnn, and me in Elder b's fav shirt. and oh my hand yesterday from my 5 hour laba marathon monday because i thought i was leaving hahah.

-Elder Smith