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was super busy elder stevens and elder cuellar who are in la campiña were teaching this mom and her two daughters so they had been teaching them for a few months mostly the daughters because the mom didn t want to get married to her boyfriend because he was treating her poorly but he supported them financially so like a month ago the elders taught the law of chastity and the mom was there and heard the lesson so it turns out that the next day she kicked her boyfriend out who actually turned out to be a married guy who was just using her so this is where i enter in when i did divisions with elder stevens and we went to her home for an appointment she explained to us that she had not been living right and felt awful she said that the missionaries had brought peace into her house and that she wanted her daughters to be baptized she told us that she was condemned because of what she had done but nothing would make her happier than to see her daughters baptized so we talked to her about the repentance process and that if she had the desire and the determination she too could get baptized with her daughters then we went and bought them a bunch of food because she was in the process of finding a job well like a week or two later she had a falling out with a church member and didn t want anything to do with the church but she would still give her daughters permission to get baptized i m kind of jumping all over the place so two weeks ago i was on divisions with elder johnson and we went to do the interviews for the two daughters who by the way are ages 18 and 10 and they passed the baptismal interview just as we finished their interviews the mother returned home when she got there i just felt super weird i couldn t even look at her i just had this feeling like we had to get out of there like right then so we said a quick prayer with them and left afterwards the other elders told me that they had felt something really weird too we told elders stevens and cuellar that the next day they might want to bless the house and also give the mother a blessing because we were pretty certain that there was an evil spirit in that house so the next night we get a call from elder stevens telling us that they had gone over to the house with a member of the bishopric and they blessed the house and i think they also gave a blessing to mother don t exactly remember right now because it was like 2 weeks ago after they finished the blessings they felt that the whole spirit of the home changed completely then the elders left to go buy some more food for the family since the mom had still not found a job as they were coming back the member of the bishopric told them that they should invite the mom to be baptized with her daughters that same saturday she had heard all the lessons and was reading the book of mormon so they invited her to be baptized and when they did she just smiled and said she would love to so the next day i had to go back to la campíña to do the interview and i was pretty nervous because the last time i was there that whole weird feeling had kinda scared me as we were traveling there i said a prayer and when we walked in their home there was a definite change in the spirit i did the baptismal interview with the mom and to make this long story just a little shorter she passed we were pretty happy about that but then on saturday which was my birthday i get a call in the morning from elder stevens telling me that he had just gotten a call from the mom and she said she couldn t be baptized that day elder stevens tried to ask her why but she said that she couldn t say why until that night just before the baptism so that night i talked again to elder stevens and apparently what had happened is that the day before friday the mom had gone to some work agency so that they could help her find a job as she was talking to a employee who was in charge he made some inappropriate advances well she immediately got out of there and felt so bad afterwards she told the missionaries that she felt like she couldn t get baptized because she felt as if she had broken the law of chastity when elder stevens told me this i felt happy i knew that meant that she now understood the importance of that commandment because in the past she had a lot of problems with it so she talked with the bishop and he helped her work things out and she got baptized that night with her two daughters so yeah that was pretty cool okay i know that i m not going to be home for two more week and that i need to stay focused but honestly i m super excited to get home and i just want to tell you of some things i would like so that you have time to get everything prepared i would love to have a nice fresh batch of scotch a roos waiting in the refrigerator right now just remembering the fact that i haven t had one in almost two years is trunking me out of my mind also if you would be so kind as to order a pepperoni pizza from papa murphy s if they don t exist anymore i think i will ask president for an extension waiting in the fridge so that i can cook it and eat it i think those two things right there will make this whole two year mission thing worth it haha also i will also be bringing home some of my favorite snacks from the mission unless they get taken away from me i don t really remember what they do and don t let you bring on a plane but just to be safe i ll put them all in my checked baggage also i have learned how to make some pretty good costa rican dishes in my time here so we can do that when i get back basically all we need is rice and beans and maybe a few other things we can do that after thanksgiving though because the last thing that i want to see sitting on the table thursday november 24 is a plate of rice and beans and i m not being sarcastic here so yah i m pretty excited to get home the mission is and has been the coolest and most fulfilling experience that i ve had so far in my life i think it will rank in third right behind marrying the hottest girl ever and becoming very successful and even though i kinda wish it wouldn t end i kinda realize it is time to end so that i can focus on other things that are very important to the eternal welfare of my soul aka getting married haha i would like to say something to spencer and landon too i would like to invite both of you to serve a mission spencer you only have three years and landon you have 7 years to prepare yourselves basically you only need to do 3 things read the scriptures every day pray every day and go to church every sunday oh and go to seminary and actually pay attention i promise you that if you just do these things then when the time comes you will be ready to serve a mission also i will help you with whatever you need and nick you got to keep going strong the first 6 months of the mission are the slowest because you re still getting used to it but now that you have passed that it will go by super super super fast i know that s super cliché but it s the truth it does go by super fast so work hard every day in order to find those people who are searching for the gospel i promise you that if you just focus on your missionary purpose than before you know it you will be writing a letter like mine getting ready to come home wow i think this is like one of the longest letters that i ve written to you in my whole entire mission i love you all and i am super excited that the next time that i write you will be my last love elder anthony kent kohkonen smith posted by elder anthony smith at 3 44 pm monday october 31 2011 my favorite time of year celebrating my birthday i ate a whole pizza dear family hey i m glad to hear that you are all doing well and that you had fun eating cake on my birthday oh and mom thanks for the picture of you and dad making out that really helps me stay focused on my missionary purpose julia now that volleyball is over you have a full year to train and get ready for the next year sorry that your coaches weren t the best you need to play a sport that has no school funding like lacrosse so the coaches just play the people who are actually good anyway the highlight of this week was turning 21 yay the night before my birthday i couldn t sleep at all which is weird cause i never have trouble falling asleep well i decided to listen to that tape you guys sent me where you all talked and i listened to it like 4 times in a row haha i miss you all a ton and am so excited to see you all in 3 weeks for diego and mayela and their kids threw a little birthday party for me we ate dinner and they had a cake it was super awesome of them to do that on wednesday it s mayela s birthday and so we are going to buy her flowers or something also happy birthday grandpa kohkonen i know it s coming up soon on like the 6th or close by that so right now i don t have a lot of time to write you guys cause i have to go to the zone council leadership training meeting that s going to be today and tomorrow yay it s going to be my last one and i m excited but afterwards i m going to write you again with more stuff that happened this week and i m going to upload more pictures i took a ton more bowling pictures and i have pictures of my birthday love you all elder smith posted by elder anthony smith at 10 03 pm monday october 24 2011 i m almost 21 thought i d take photos with cool cars for landon dear family hey so this letter is going to be super super super short cause i have to go do two baptismal interviews right now and than meet with my ward mission leader so this week was really good on sunday i saw sunshine for the first time in like 3 weeks it lasted for about 15 minutes it has been raining here everysingle day and i m kinda getting sick of it but hey in 4 weeks i wont have to deal with rain anymore just snow on saturday we had a super awesome ward activity it was a cultural activity and there was food from a bunch of different contries like mexico nicaragua and costa rica also members sang songs and danced also there is a mariachi group from our ward and they performed some songs the investigators that came loved it also this week luis diego s grandmother died and so to cheer them up i made cookies and then we showed them some mormon messages one that talked about hope by president uchdorf one by pres monson called what matters most and another one by the prophet where he shared a story of visiting a lady whose son died in the military and he shared his testimony with her of how he knew that she would see her son again they loved it also i helped them set up skype on their computer so they could talk to family that live in nicaragua so ya this week was good so today for p day we had a super fun activity we went bowling i did pretty good and i took a ton of pictures afterwards we went to price smart and ate pizza and i basically ate a whole pizza myself so i think that i m going to count bowling and pizza as my birthday present i m doing really good and just trying to finish the mission strong this week i m going to be doing divisions with elder johnson and that s going to be really fun so i hope you are all doing well and i hope you all have a good week love elder anthony smith posted by elder anthony smith at 10 03 pm monday october 17 2011 keepin busy i can still pound it dear family and friends wow thanks for all the letters this week it took me about 30 minutes just to read them all thank you aunt paulina and caroline and grandma for the letters i m also really excited to see everything this coming holiday season speaking of holidays mom in one of your letters you asked about halloween well here in costa rica there are a lot of super suspicious people and so basically halloween is considered to be a holiday celebrating satan which is totally different from how we view it at home halloween was one of my favorites growing up anyway i hope you all had a lovely week i m glad to hear that you are all keeping busy the best way that i ve learned to not get lazy is to just stay busy busy busy landon i m glad to hear that your playing jr jazz and i know that your not the most aggressive kid out there but just keep practicing and you ll get better start watching more basketball i don t know when basketball season starts but watch it julia don t worry that your coach got mad at you for going for the ball at least you re trying hard and that s all that counts i think that the christlike attribute that i have developed the best in my mission had been patience because there have been some times where i have wanted to get after people especially when i was a zone leader and missionaries didn t want to do anything but be lazy and not try to help the zone out but in those moments i would calm myself down listening to stormlight by precious waters and thinking of an effective solution that didn t include losing my cool dad keep up the great work and thank you so much for the sacrifices you have made for our family and even though i didn t always make it easy i m very grateful for all that you have and keep doing for us mom i think that i need to thank you the most cause you are basically the only person who has written me every single week for the last two years and i love you letters mostly cause they are very detailed and tell me what is going on back at home and with the family thank you very much oh and thanks for that picture cause it was very funny btw lax training begins soon and i can t wait so yesterday was a very good dia de reposo in church there were a lot of foreigners in attendance and actually i got to translate the whole sacrament meeting for an older gentleman translating is a very mind boggling experience because you have to pay close attention to what is being said process and translate it in your brain and then say it out loud all as it is happening so when you screw up you just have to keep going on kind of like you just keep going on if you screw up playing the piano during sacrament meeting it was a fun experience though one of the people who talked was an foreigner who is on the high council and he gave a great talk he talked a little of how we can gain more faith through constant scripture study and prayer fyi it is a lot easier to translate from spanish to english when a foreigner is speaking also president and sister canga who are part of the temple presidency came to our ward and bore their testimonies because they are going to be finishing up their temple service here they are really amazing people and actually after church we ate lunch with them every sunday we eat lunch with the familia fernandez and they are temple workers and so they also invited pres and sister canga to eat also and so it was fun to chat with them for a while they are from argentina so this next week is going to be really fun because i m going to be going to la campiña to do a few baptismal interviews and then elder jessop one of my zls is going to be coming to my area to do divisions with me divisions 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