The following story was related by my brother, Michael Smith, with is currently serving in the Warsaw Poland mission. Meeting Jonas, Letter of 10-3-2011 We had about 20 minutes until a session of General Conference so we decided to contact right around the chapel while we waited. We met this super super cool guy named [...]
In April of 1997, I was serving in a city called Concordia, Argentina. This was a small city on the border of Uruguay, that I believe had three LDS Church branches. I was serving in the Universidad Branch. My companion there was Elder Sanchez, a native Argentine who spoke no English. This was in the [...]
The conversion of Augustín Zapata is a story about the power of the Book of Mormon and the way faith can be strengthened by associations with other members. I met Augustín Zapata after he had had his first discussion with the missionaries. I had just been transferred to the area, a city called Fray Luis [...]
I met the Laurino family, Luis, Susana, and their three kids, when I was serving in the heart of downtown Rosario, Argentina (check out this map of where the Laurino family lived). It was summertime (December) of 1996, when my companion, Elder Wasden, and I almost literally ran into Luis on the sidewalk outside his [...]
I met the Godoy family, when I was serving in the Godoy ward in the city of Rosario Argentina. Carlos and his wife, Beatriz, were at a photo shop, with their two children, Carlos Jr. and Angelica, getting a family photo made when my companion and I walked into the store. We commented on what [...]
I met German (pronounced Herman) Arrieta on one of my first days in the Godoy neighborhood of Rosario. The previous missionaries had found German and taught him and his wife, Sara, the first discussion. Then I was transferred to the area and arrived prior to the second discussion. When we went to German’s house and [...]
The conversion story of Aldo is perhaps the easiest conversion process and baptism of my whole mission. It was September 1996, and I met Aldo at Church my first Sunday serving in the city of Fray Luis Beltran, a little town north of Rosario. We were in Sunday School and there was a young man [...]
The following video is more lengthy than most of the ones I produce, but I think it’s inspiring and I hope you will spend the time to watch it or read the story below of the conversion of Juan Carlos Lopez. Juan Carlos Lopez was a man my companion, Elder Wasden, and I met in [...]
The story of the first family that I taught and baptized in Argentina, the Almada family, is a great example of the power of prayer. Meeting the Almada Family Within a week of my companion and I arriving in the city of Parana, Argentina, the Almada family moved into the home right behind our apartment. [...]
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