Letter 3/11/2013

Familia!
Wow so another week passed.... Maybe it jsut dawned on me how every week i comment on how quick the past week went by... but its true... time is just flying by and i hope it is for you all as well...
I have gotten to this point where in this area i cant help but feel like it hits a super awesome high, then a super low.... sometimes weekly, but lately its been daily... However this past week i have seen some pretty awesome miracles...
On monday we went over to some eternal investigators house just to see how she was doing and when we knocked on the door (theres 4 rooms in the house), one of the other people that lives at the house came and answered the door... I asked "se encuentra Wendy" (shes an american, but has been living here for the past 12 years)... and he answered "ya bro, shes in the back lemme get her"... IN ENGLISH! Just to describe this guy, he has full sleeves of tatoos, a giant virgin mary tatoo on his chest and just looked like a super gangsta... I started talking to him though, and he told me he was deported because he got a felony for 12 counts of armed robery, hahaha so i kinda just left him alone...
After our lesson with wendy however we told her wed come back the next day and we did... On our way over to the house we saw him walking in the street, and he just said "hey guys, are you going to be with wendy for a bit"?.. i told him that we would and that we could wait 15 minutes to talk to him.... When he got there he asked us for a blessing to help get off of some serious drugs... I (in shock that hed ask for a blessing), explained what it included, and he really wanted one... After the blessing he left and the next day we went back to see him and taught him...
He loves the gospel.. He threw up when he walked into his house and smelled drugs so he threw them all out... Weve taught everything, and he wants to pay tithing really bad... He wants to go to church... After teaching the word of wisdom he threw all of his coffee and alcohol out, and now has 1 week clean of drugs...
Ive never taught someone like this, but he really has just changed around his whole life... IN ONE WEEK! He told us, that he thought he had fallen too far to get into the celestial kingdom and said if a baptism can really forgive him for all hes done he wants nothing more than to teach other people about how his life has changed...
So weve scheduled an interview for him with the president, and hes now reading the book of mormon... (on his phone, because i still havent gotten him a copy of it in english because he doesnt understand spanish when he reads it.... i know right)... but he is so awesome, honestly...
Well... apart from his... last night we met two girls who just seem like theyve had kind of a ruff life... A recently returned missionary introduced them to us last night and they were loving the first lesson... At the end we asked them if they wanted to be baptized and said yes... wow.... Well its kind of nice that were having a little bit more success, after we had a lot of people that feel through... but hopefully ill be able to see a big change in this area...
Well... this is the last week of this change and now my best friend in the mission Elder Mckie is going home, so... im kind of sad... but whats nice is Elder Tucker got moved into my zone again, so i still got a lot of friends... Its just kind of weird that all the missionaries ive ever really looked up too have now left... hahaha... IM OLD!!!
Well i love you all a ton and thanks for the letters!
Elder Smitheram

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