Enjoy,
Wesley's Mom
A bird in the hand is worth 2 in a bush.... Go Wes!
A market place.
Look at this one REALLY closely! It is cool!
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Some Extra Pictures from Wesley's Mission
This week Wesley sent us a quick email letting us know that he is back in Merida and that his P-day (preparation day) has changed to Friday. That means that he will be able to email us on Fridays. I thought you might enjoy a few random pictures that he sent us on some cds. I don't think I repeated any that he had sent in his emails over the past 13 months. I hope you enjoy these. I may add more later.
Enjoy,
Wesley's Mom
A bird in the hand is worth 2 in a bush.... Go Wes!
A market place.
Look at this one REALLY closely! It is cool!
Enjoy,
Wesley's Mom
A bird in the hand is worth 2 in a bush.... Go Wes!
A market place.
Look at this one REALLY closely! It is cool!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Wesley's Letter 7-16-12
Sup FAM and friends what’s good wit it?
¿Baáx kaualiíc sokuúmó?
This weeks been pretty chill. We’ve been doing some work and things have been pretty good down here. These last few days have been way too hot, holy moly ...like REALLY HOT!
Ya, so this last week we’ve been working really hard with the civil registry to help people get married. It’s been tons of work and pretty annoying but in the end it’s been worth it. So this next week we should be marrying 2 more couples then one more the week that follows. Also this week we’ve got some baptisms all planned out. We’re baptizing a young family, and a girl, that we’re helping to get married. It’s pretty legit.
I’m totally in love with this area! It’s interesting, pretty much 4 out of every 5 people I’ve baptized have been people that I had dropped (stopped teaching) as investigators because they had stopped progressing. Then after a month of letting them rethink their lives without the missionaries they realize how much harder their lives became without God’s help. Then they come back wiser and get baptized. This family is no exception. They totally didn’t do any of the homework we were leaving them and stopped progressing. Then we dropped them for a week. As we came back they were more receptive and now are the most awesome investigators we have! Their names are Rigoberto and Ruth and they are the chillest.
So the other day I looked at a calendar and I noticed that Josh is going to arrive here in only 2 transfers then he’ll be a little greeny hehe. Tell him I have 2 more suggestions: 1. One jacket wouldn’t be a bad idea because as he gets used to the summer heat here, and then winter comes you do get a little chilly. But just make sure you bring like a bed sheet because that’s about the perfect thickness you’re going to want as your blanket, for the heat, and the biggest reason is to keep the mosquitoes off of you. Also, second suggestion, buy a strong camera that’s like waterproof and won’t break when you drop it because, you’re going to want it while you’re here. Josh listen to my suggestions and you’ll skip the first 2 transfers of being a little greeny wuss and it’ll make everything a lot less horrible when you get here. The only reason it was so hard for me in the beginning is because I was really prideful and didn’t listen to others, also I didn’t have anyone in the mission field to give me hinters before the mission, so use this ADVICE.
I hope I’m training the transfer that you get here but I wouldn’t count on me training you because in this mission it’s extremely rare for a gringo to train a different gringo. Hope we’re in the same zone or something. See you in October. Actually I’m pretty sure you’re going to be in a pretty big generation because the biggest generation in the field is leaving the transfer that you get here.
Oh yeah, I don’t know if I told you guys yet but Elder Higginson is the new assistant.
I miss all of you so much. WRITE ME YOU LAZY FRIENDS!
All right that’s all I’ve gotta say about that,
Smitty out.
Ps. Mom be sure to give those cards to Brian and Alec
¿Baáx kaualiíc sokuúmó?
This weeks been pretty chill. We’ve been doing some work and things have been pretty good down here. These last few days have been way too hot, holy moly ...like REALLY HOT!
Ya, so this last week we’ve been working really hard with the civil registry to help people get married. It’s been tons of work and pretty annoying but in the end it’s been worth it. So this next week we should be marrying 2 more couples then one more the week that follows. Also this week we’ve got some baptisms all planned out. We’re baptizing a young family, and a girl, that we’re helping to get married. It’s pretty legit.
I’m totally in love with this area! It’s interesting, pretty much 4 out of every 5 people I’ve baptized have been people that I had dropped (stopped teaching) as investigators because they had stopped progressing. Then after a month of letting them rethink their lives without the missionaries they realize how much harder their lives became without God’s help. Then they come back wiser and get baptized. This family is no exception. They totally didn’t do any of the homework we were leaving them and stopped progressing. Then we dropped them for a week. As we came back they were more receptive and now are the most awesome investigators we have! Their names are Rigoberto and Ruth and they are the chillest.
So the other day I looked at a calendar and I noticed that Josh is going to arrive here in only 2 transfers then he’ll be a little greeny hehe. Tell him I have 2 more suggestions: 1. One jacket wouldn’t be a bad idea because as he gets used to the summer heat here, and then winter comes you do get a little chilly. But just make sure you bring like a bed sheet because that’s about the perfect thickness you’re going to want as your blanket, for the heat, and the biggest reason is to keep the mosquitoes off of you. Also, second suggestion, buy a strong camera that’s like waterproof and won’t break when you drop it because, you’re going to want it while you’re here. Josh listen to my suggestions and you’ll skip the first 2 transfers of being a little greeny wuss and it’ll make everything a lot less horrible when you get here. The only reason it was so hard for me in the beginning is because I was really prideful and didn’t listen to others, also I didn’t have anyone in the mission field to give me hinters before the mission, so use this ADVICE.
I hope I’m training the transfer that you get here but I wouldn’t count on me training you because in this mission it’s extremely rare for a gringo to train a different gringo. Hope we’re in the same zone or something. See you in October. Actually I’m pretty sure you’re going to be in a pretty big generation because the biggest generation in the field is leaving the transfer that you get here.
Oh yeah, I don’t know if I told you guys yet but Elder Higginson is the new assistant.
I miss all of you so much. WRITE ME YOU LAZY FRIENDS!
All right that’s all I’ve gotta say about that,
Smitty out.
Ps. Mom be sure to give those cards to Brian and Alec
Monday, July 9, 2012
Wesley's Letter 7-9-12
Sup fam and friends,
Just the same ol same ol here in Maya-land. This week we baptized Patricia and Ernesto, so that was real sweet. On Friday we went to the small pueblo of Sihochac to go see them get married. We left at like 10:30 am in a bus from like the fifties, after going down a small road and 40 minutes later, we got there.
Then when we got there they told us we were going to have to wait for a while because there wasn’t a single bus leaving from there until three. Ya pretty back-woods, anyway so they got married then after that at about 2:45 we went to the only bus stop in town and waited for an hour and a half. We gave up waiting and got a combi (its like a shuttle van) that was going to Campeche. Took that to the next closest bigger pueblo, then from there got a taxi that we took back to Champoton. We got back at like five.
Also this week there have been some heavy rainstorms rollin through. Last Monday I had just barely bought an umbrella and it only lasted one storm, before the wind broke it. Ha-ha so next package a new umbrella is what I want. But the sketchy part about the storms here is the lightning. From the same storm that broke my umbrella, lightning had apparently stuck a truck of some guys going home after work on the highway and it killed three of them. This being a small town, when some one dies it becomes big news. Two of the people we had talked to this week were either good friends with or cousins with one of the guys that had been killed. That’s some sad stuff.
Other news there’s been some recent civil unrest or something about some law, so now we missionaries were not allowed to go to any American stores, and if someone random starts to talk to us we have to keep walking because we don’t know if its some crazy weirdo or something. I have been noticing a lot more hostility recently towards us as gringos. Nothing too bad, but some guy came up to shake my hand the other day and as he shook it he called me some pretty bad words to my face as if I didn’t understand Spanish. I just kind of gave him a small glare then said bye in Spanish, but in a way to let him know I understood everything he told me.
Whelp out of time, don’t forget to write me. I haven’t gotten any letters from any friends in like some long while. Actually tell Matt Monahan I did get his card and that he’s awesome! Oh and that I would say hi to his comp if I was in Campeche, but I’m totally not. I’m in Champoton, it is a magical pueblo.
Write more,
Smith Out
Just the same ol same ol here in Maya-land. This week we baptized Patricia and Ernesto, so that was real sweet. On Friday we went to the small pueblo of Sihochac to go see them get married. We left at like 10:30 am in a bus from like the fifties, after going down a small road and 40 minutes later, we got there.
Then when we got there they told us we were going to have to wait for a while because there wasn’t a single bus leaving from there until three. Ya pretty back-woods, anyway so they got married then after that at about 2:45 we went to the only bus stop in town and waited for an hour and a half. We gave up waiting and got a combi (its like a shuttle van) that was going to Campeche. Took that to the next closest bigger pueblo, then from there got a taxi that we took back to Champoton. We got back at like five.
Also this week there have been some heavy rainstorms rollin through. Last Monday I had just barely bought an umbrella and it only lasted one storm, before the wind broke it. Ha-ha so next package a new umbrella is what I want. But the sketchy part about the storms here is the lightning. From the same storm that broke my umbrella, lightning had apparently stuck a truck of some guys going home after work on the highway and it killed three of them. This being a small town, when some one dies it becomes big news. Two of the people we had talked to this week were either good friends with or cousins with one of the guys that had been killed. That’s some sad stuff.
Other news there’s been some recent civil unrest or something about some law, so now we missionaries were not allowed to go to any American stores, and if someone random starts to talk to us we have to keep walking because we don’t know if its some crazy weirdo or something. I have been noticing a lot more hostility recently towards us as gringos. Nothing too bad, but some guy came up to shake my hand the other day and as he shook it he called me some pretty bad words to my face as if I didn’t understand Spanish. I just kind of gave him a small glare then said bye in Spanish, but in a way to let him know I understood everything he told me.
Whelp out of time, don’t forget to write me. I haven’t gotten any letters from any friends in like some long while. Actually tell Matt Monahan I did get his card and that he’s awesome! Oh and that I would say hi to his comp if I was in Campeche, but I’m totally not. I’m in Champoton, it is a magical pueblo.
Write more,
Smith Out
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Wesley's Letter July 2, 2012
Sup FAM and Friends,
Another week, another bunch of miracles, pretty legit. This week we didn’t baptize, but tomorrow were going to baptize a newly wed couple named Patricia and Ernesto and believe it or not were going to marry them the same day. They’re getting married in the morning and then baptized at like 4:00 in the afternoon. That’ll be a sweet baptism.
Here are some more picks of Yadira’s baptism and she got confirmed yesterday.
Everything was nuts this last week. Yesterday was election-day here. On election-day the entire city shuts down and no one goes outside and here’s the reason why. The high interest groups here pay guys to go around in trucks and destroy stuff from the other parties. It was pretty sketch. They throw rocks through windows. Yesterday as we were walking around and were literally the only people outside. Except for the people who would go to the voting office real fast, vote, and go home and lock their doors. I totally did see some of the gangs that everyone was talking about. They were in big ol’ trucks with about 12 guys in the bed with ski masks on. They didn’t do anything to us but it was still sketch.
The other pics are from Escarsega, and some from when we married Maria and Jerardo.
Sorry once again I’m all out of time but write me tons. Love you all.
Tell brain and Alec I think their cards got lost in the super efficient Mexican mailing system. So, I’m sorry.
Miss and love you all,
E. Smith
Wesley's shoes that have a 2 year warranty. They didn't quite make it to a year with all of the walking he has done!
Worn out socks.
Another week, another bunch of miracles, pretty legit. This week we didn’t baptize, but tomorrow were going to baptize a newly wed couple named Patricia and Ernesto and believe it or not were going to marry them the same day. They’re getting married in the morning and then baptized at like 4:00 in the afternoon. That’ll be a sweet baptism.
Here are some more picks of Yadira’s baptism and she got confirmed yesterday.
Everything was nuts this last week. Yesterday was election-day here. On election-day the entire city shuts down and no one goes outside and here’s the reason why. The high interest groups here pay guys to go around in trucks and destroy stuff from the other parties. It was pretty sketch. They throw rocks through windows. Yesterday as we were walking around and were literally the only people outside. Except for the people who would go to the voting office real fast, vote, and go home and lock their doors. I totally did see some of the gangs that everyone was talking about. They were in big ol’ trucks with about 12 guys in the bed with ski masks on. They didn’t do anything to us but it was still sketch.
The other pics are from Escarsega, and some from when we married Maria and Jerardo.
Sorry once again I’m all out of time but write me tons. Love you all.
Tell brain and Alec I think their cards got lost in the super efficient Mexican mailing system. So, I’m sorry.
Miss and love you all,
E. Smith
Wesley's shoes that have a 2 year warranty. They didn't quite make it to a year with all of the walking he has done!
Worn out socks.
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