Hola!
Things here have been speeding up. This week has definitely been the most busy. We taught more lessons and got more investigators this week than any other week, and we got someone to commit to a baptismal date. That was exciting! I hope everything works out with her, and she keeps that desire to be baptized. With the good, you also have the bad. We had to drop an investigator this week because she wasn't progressing. It was really sad. I hope I don't have to do that anymore on my mission. If they would just do what Moroni said (Moroni 10 verses 3-5), we wouldn't have to drop them. It's been raining a lot here. The rain is your worst nightmare when you have to bike everywhere you go, but biking has been a great blessing. I can already feel my left knee getting stronger. Our Heavenly Father definitely knows what's best for us and where we need to be. Slowly but surely my Spanish is getting better! I finished my first transfer and I'm staying with my companion and in the same area. I love Pomona. The ward is really nice and always willing to help. Where I'm serving is pretty poor, and it's not a super clean place, but there are some rich places. The rich part of Pomona is where the sister missionaries serve. Most families live in tiny apartments with 1 room and 1 bathroom but there are some that rent just a room out in someone's house. It just depends if they have a job or not. You always see people collecting plastic bottles out of trash cans because that's the only way they can get money. It's super hard for people to find jobs right now. We don't eat out a lot. I usually do my own cooking for lunch, and dinner we usually have somewhere to eat. Whenever I eat at member's houses or investigator's houses, you plan on beans, rice, tortillas, and eggs-that's definitely what I have eaten the most. Their beans and rice and tortillas are not the same as the ones we had at home. I don't know if I feel like I'm in a different country, but I have been thrown into a completely different culture. When you walk the street most the people on the street speak Spanish, but you still have a little English. It is definitely different. Dodge ball went well. We had 6 kids that weren't members and 3 of them are now getting taught by the missionaries. There was also a lot of youth in the ward that showed up. I wish I would have been better at inviting my friends to activities. It really does help. Just inviting your friend is an easy way to do missionary work and it can be effective. It's been a good week.
Love Elder Smith
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