Dear Family
So, it's been a pretty normal week here in Slaughter. The highlight of the week was going to zone conference. At the zone conference we watched the new church produced movie called "Meet the Mormons" It was a really well done film and was a great break from the meeting. The rest of the week went pretty normal. Oh, another great part of the week was getting 9 letters from someone in Russia haha. That was quite surprising. The mail system over there must have been pretty blocked up. The weather over here has been cooling down a little bit and it usually is just about perfect. The hottest it gets is about 80 so its been really nice. It looks like its going to stay that way for a good couple of weeks so, fall is slowing coming here. The toughest part of the week was a lesson we had with a convert (about 4 years) he is a little over 90 years old and recently his wife's mental health has been deteriorating. It has been a real struggle for him and during our lesson he just let us know that he has been doubting whether God answers prayers since his wife's health hasn't gotten any better. All that we could do was try to explain to him that prayer is more about finding out God's will for us and acting on it and isn't an avenue to try to change his mind. Its quite humbling for a 90 year old man to turn to a couple of 20 year olds for the questions that have been bothering him most. It reminded me that its not my job to try to have all the answers for everyone but is more to have the Spirit with me so that He can answer their questions. Well hopefully the fall has been pretty good for yall!

Love Elder Smith