Hey yall,
This has been a rollercoaster week for us in Kenner. One highlight of the week was yesterday when the office Elders came by the apartment to give us our new truck. We were pretty excited and now we get to roll around in a 2015 Nissan Frontier. We are very lucky missionaries. Well this week we spent a good portion of time helping out members of the district with different things and also did quite a bit of service. Both Wednesday and Thursday were just full days of service. On Wednesday we helped a family clear a fence line and did a little bit of fencing to get things looking a bit better. The next day we helped an elderly man move into is new house and in the afternoon afterwards we helped a less active family do some yard work. They managed to load us up with bags of groceries before we left, which we were really grateful for, our funds usually seem to be pretty low at the end of the month. Well after those couple of days we spent some time with the less actives in the area. One elderly couple ended up getting in a car accident and we were able to give them a blessing. After that we were at the Berhnes home just giving them some company. They are both about 90 years old and their health is going downhill pretty fast. The husband has really been taking it hard because his wife's mental health has been getting worse. He struggles to take care of her and they don't have the finances to get any assistance. They are just in a rough spot for sure. The best thing about the visit with them was being able to have a prayer before we left. I could easily feel the Spirit and could tell that they both had been strengthened just enough to smile. I have really come to rely on prayer more and more as a missionary and even though sometimes we can get frustrated with the answers we seem to get or not get at first everything is always the better in the end. The most important thing is that God is perfect so when things are different than we want we just need to be patient and humble.
Love Elder Smith