el 19 de Mayo

Hola familia!

I sure hope you are enjoying yourselves up where it is cold. Seroiusly. It is so darn hot I am melting. Like the forcast said, thursday was the worst. we have put comforters over our windows because it is the only way to keep our house relatively cool. We walked opened the door thursday morning and just got hit with a wall of hot air. It's getting out of control here. Well let's see, what happened this week..

On Tuesday I went to Buenos Aires to the Zone leaders' area for exchanges, and that was pretty fun. I had a very interesting story with the food there, but I think I will share it some other time haha. [Wow, thanks for sharing Joel!]

The funniest thing happened on wednesday. my companion got the giggles during a meeting that we had with the ward counsel. He could NOT stop laughing. it was the most challenging moment physically and emotionally of my life just not to burst out laughing as well. I am pretty proud of myself. That night we probably spent a good hour laughing about it. [Thanks for sharing AGAIN!]

Thursday morning the President's wife showed up at our house again. it wasn't for an inspection, but she said she was really proud of how clean our house was so that felt good. On friday we had our zone conference with the president. haha it was really embarrassing

Joel is facing north in this picture and his house is behind him.  
The green roof to the left is the chapel for the Casablanca ward. 

because the mission nurse asked me to read a slide with a bunch of medicine names on it in spanish and I failed pretty badly and everyone laughed.

As far as investigators and progress this week has been extremely rough. We are still seeing some pretty good progress, but it's just a lot easier to see the area's were we fall short I guess. As a companionship, we have set a lot of goals to improve this week which has made us really excited to try again this week!

Well I hope you all have a lovely day. I'm afraid that is all I can remember. Hope this week is amazing for you! 

Love you all so much!
Elder Smalley

Mother's Day Weekend!

Hola familia! 

So this will be a really short because I just talked to y'all yesterday. Basically it´s just really hot and that´s all that I can think about. But we finally have lots of good, progressing investigators! This week has made me so happy because it´s so fun to feel the spirit and help others recognize it! It´s just really hot. I still love the food! My six month anniversary was kinda surreal. I´m so sorry I really can´t think of anything except of how hot it is, but i´m really happy!

I´m sorry that it´s so short. I took a picture of my house so you could know for sure where it is!
I love you all so darn much and I can´t wait to see your beautiful faces in December!

mucho amor,
Elder Smalley

The First Quarter Is In The Books

Hola family.

Happy cinco de Mayo. That means nothing here, because it isn't celebrated in Mexico, only in the USA. I wouldn't have even remembered except I just read mom's email. 

OH MY GOODNESS TOMORROW I AM GOING TO HAVE 6 MONTHS!!!! this cannot be! how? I can't even handle this landmark. Acabo de llegar. Se ha ido bien rápido el tiempo.

Well adjusting to a brand new area has been a weird transition. I feel like I have been tacken away from my home all over again. I miss that ward so much! But casa blanca esta suave (is cool). It was the area of Elder Hesterman (MTC companion) right before I arrived. He had a lot of success there, and there are a TON of recent converts, but things have slowed down recently. We really need to focus on finding people. This sunday I asked for the lista de acción from the ward, so hopefully that's a good place to start. There is also a bishop! but not a ward mission leader. I asked the bishop to at least make a temporary assignment, and he seemed to like that idea.

Haha oh on tuesday, my 2nd day here, they cut the power. My companion served in Ensenada, and they pay the bills differently there and Elder Hesterman didn't know how to pay the electric either, so they just didn't haha. We finally got power on friday. haha funny story.

THIS WEEK HAS BEEN EXTREMELY HOT. that's all. Sorry it's another short one. The pictures are from last week! Take care and I love you all so much!
Elder Smalley