The Smith Connection

FAMILY

Among other things, we have been busy packing up and cleaning in preperation for our up-coming home assignment

Tara spends a good amount of time with our dog, Cooky. They are going to miss each other!

Kendra has enjoyed her dance classes. Her final presentation is coming up on June 10.

Kendra, Tara, and Ben with friends from church, Fer, Luis, and Joshua

MINISTRY

The youth hanging out at a Christian coffee shop here in Queretaro

The National Leader's Conference was held May 4-6 with the theme of "Preparing the Mexican Missionary Force" It was a great conference with Gustavo Soto as the speaker. Five of us went to the conference from our church, and Bryan even got pushed into the equivalent of the "chubby bunny" marshmallow game, "fresno frondoso" in Spanish. Bryan won with seven marshmallows!

The youth put on a special program for the mothers at our home on May 9. We had about 20 mothers come for the evening.

While the kids were being cared for by Grandma & Grandpa Smith, Lori and Bryan went to some meetings in Pachuca.

On may 13 the church mothers and teachers were honored, and all enjoyed fellowship and tamales afterward

Stamping 11,000 World Cup tracts to hand out at two soccer games here in Queretaro. For more information on this evangelistic effort please see our journal entry titled Soccer Excitement!

On May 20, 13 ladies went with Lori to a Women's Conference in the city of Salamanca dealing with the theme of forgiveness

On May 26 we enjoyed a marriage supper with 5 couples from our church. We made pizzas and watched the movie "A Vow to Cherish"

On May 27 we attended Emilio and Christy's wedding celebration. Emilio has been in a leadership training program that Bryan has been involved in teaching, and Christy was a fellow CAM missionary. The Mariachi band at the reception was a special treat!

Our two Sunday school classes - Monica and Karla teaching the younger kids, and Rodrigo teaching the older kids