Heyyyyyy guys! I have some crazy news. I am writing you guys from Obregon! I am not in Hermosillo anymore! I was in the office in Hermosillo the other day and President told me "Hey can we talk for a second?" I was like NOOOO WHAT DID I DO. He later told me that we had cambios especiales (special transfers) and that they needed me in Obregon. He called me to be ZONE LEADER. Guys I havent even been out for a year and he called me to be zone leader. i was so honored for the opportunity but I am dead scared at the same time. I am always having changes in the mission and I would ask you all to continue to pray for me it would help a lot. Well, I am here in Obregon AGAIN and the truth is, it feels good to be back. I started here and I have always like Obregon. My area is called Haciendas and we have BIKES. I have never had bikes in my mission so I am stoked. Well this area is pretty close to where I was before so I am already kind of familiar with my sorroundings. Its super crazy because we have 2 weeks in the transfer left and I was transfered out of no where. The truth is it was very hard to leave from Hermosillo because I loved it a lot. But, if Heavenly Father needs me here, I am completely willing to go. I am pretty nervous because I have been put in a leadership position that is pretty hardcore and I could definitely use the prayers.
Other than that, we had a killer week. i have some crazy experiences to share. One of them was that we played soccer as a zone and when we were leaving, we saw one of our old invesitigators that was walking around the park with his son. He stoppped us and he was super stoked to see us. We set up a time to visit them and we went the next day. We had a very beautiful lesson with them and we invited them to be baptized the 27th of October and they accepted. It was super amazing because they were already ready and spiritually humble. Their names are Armando and Guadualupe. the sad thing is that I was leaving but I was so happy that they had accepted to take that important step in their life.
Another story was a couple weeks ago. My companion and I literally had NO money left. I had to take some mony out of my own pocket to pay the rent and power bills and we literally had a couple coins left. One night we were walking home and we were super hungry. I know God knew that we were hungry that night and he blessed us. We looked in our pocket and we had a total of 6 pesos. Thats about 37 cents folks. Thats how poor we were! We walked into the store and looked for what we could buy for 6 pesos (basically nothing). My companion grabbed a bag a rice that was about the size of my fist. We are talking a bowlful. I was thinking it was going to cost 20 pesos or something and we asked the man at the counter how much it costed. He sat thinking for about 5 seconds about the price he was going to put and he said "6 pesos." We left the store surprised and grateful that Heavenly Father let us eat that night. He thinks even about the little things.
The last experience was really cool. We had a baptism yesterday and this one was a fighter. Literally satan did not want this dude to be baptized. His name is Enrique Fierros. He is one man that is very special. He loves to help others and has his own business helping others in need. He met a member of the church in idaho and gave his name to our President who gave the reference to us. At first he was very interested in how the church helps people with tithing. He was baptized and I know he is going to be a bishop someday. He is SUPER big and super cool. We had a great week. I am so grateful for the opportunity that God gave me to baptize him because i almost didnt. With all these changes, I thought I was going to miss my chance. I thank him for the opportunity. I love you guys and keep doing the little things that matter.
Giddy Up
Elder Braedoñ Smith
1/2. Enrique and family
3. Elder Coronado, Enrique, y yo al templo
(no entramos tuvimos una conferencia de estaca)
4/5. Armando y Guadalupe
6. Ya no hace color (finally its not hot)
7. Jaime (an investigator from Hermosillo)
8. Hermana Mauricio y Arias
9. Hermana Vakapuna y Rubio
9 months as a missionary!! With Elder Morgan and Elder Saunders (CCM buddies)
