Jeffrey has been called to serve in the Baton Rouge Louisiana Mission. We are so excited for him to serve the people of Louisiana. He entered the MTC on September 4th 2013, we are proud of him and his decision to serve. We love you Elder Smith!!!
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Rainy, busy, and hoping for more investigators.
Dear family,
This week has been wonderful. When I first got into my area I had made a comment to my companion that I've never seen so much water in my life! The first week it rained almost everyday which made riding a bike very dirty. We have eaten a few meals with members. Two with active members and one with a less active family. Our assignment for the week was to find all of the young people who could serve missions in our area and see what their situation was. This kept us very busy and wasn't very productive. About seventy five percent of the people we attempted to visited had moved and the most of the rest didn't want anything to do with the church. The one we did meet with is a girl that doesn't know much of anything about the church but wants to learn more. She has been baptized, and hopefully we can help her learn about the church. After that we went to a mans house that previous missionaries had taught. This man had already known that the Book of Mormon was true and wants to get baptized. We have tried to meet with him but he is very busy with work. Last night we went to a ladies house who had fed my companion a month ago. She is from Vietnam and really loves Christ. She thinks Christ was a great man but doesn't know exactly what he did and who he is. She has a Book of Mormon that she struggles to read since its in English. I noticed in the material room in the church they have copies of Book of Mormon in lots of different languages, so I hope to get one in Vietnamese for her. We did some service for members, painting some rooms in their house with a member named Morris Reynolds. He goes by Mo and is quite the character. Mo is a recent convert of about a year or two. While we were painting he would periodically stick his finger in the paint and lick it calling it either milk or chocolate milk depending on the color. Yesterday we did service for an older couple that are building a shed. The "shed" is taller than most of the houses in the area and has two stories. The less active family that fed us is an elderly lady, her brother, and her son. She loves having us over and makes sure we put down a day each week to come over. Other than that this week has been lots of bike riding to houses where people have moved out of. Not too exciting! I'm hoping next week we can actually teach and get some investigators.
Love Elder Smith
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