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
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
Hi Everybody,
So, there hasn't been anything too exciting going on over here. It looks like we might be getting some pretty crazy weather today, so hopefully its not too bad. It has been quite a while since we have gotten a good rain storm. This weekend was pretty good and we had a meeting with all of the missionaries in our zone. It was about an hour and a half drive to the meeting and then after the meeting we all went to Cane's for lunch and it was pretty fun.I got to see Elder Mills and the Elder that he is training. It's good to have a familiar face in the zone. One of my good friends out here is heading to Brazil tomorrow and has been waiting here to get his visa. This coming weekend we have a zone conference with the mission President and we will be watching the new movie "Meet the Mormons" they told us it's going to be a 7 hour long meeting so some of us are expecting to get ipads. I myself am a little dubious but I wouldn't be surprised either way. This week we are planning on helping a guy do some fencing on his property, so its a good thing I have had a little bit of experience with that haha. Well I hope everyone is enjoying the hunting season I know that I have been getting pretty jealous lately.
Love Elder Smith
So, there hasn't been anything too exciting going on over here. It looks like we might be getting some pretty crazy weather today, so hopefully its not too bad. It has been quite a while since we have gotten a good rain storm. This weekend was pretty good and we had a meeting with all of the missionaries in our zone. It was about an hour and a half drive to the meeting and then after the meeting we all went to Cane's for lunch and it was pretty fun.I got to see Elder Mills and the Elder that he is training. It's good to have a familiar face in the zone. One of my good friends out here is heading to Brazil tomorrow and has been waiting here to get his visa. This coming weekend we have a zone conference with the mission President and we will be watching the new movie "Meet the Mormons" they told us it's going to be a 7 hour long meeting so some of us are expecting to get ipads. I myself am a little dubious but I wouldn't be surprised either way. This week we are planning on helping a guy do some fencing on his property, so its a good thing I have had a little bit of experience with that haha. Well I hope everyone is enjoying the hunting season I know that I have been getting pretty jealous lately.
Love Elder Smith
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Dear Family,
So, this week was pretty good. I was on exchanges with an Elder in Zachary and was able to meet a lot of people that I have only heard stories of. My first companion Elder Porter started his mission in Zachary and had lots of stories to tell me about the people here. Its always great to go on exchanges and meet new people and spend some time with a new companion for a little bit. The transfer was pretty normal and nothing too exciting happened, On Tuesday we had a district meeting which was pretty fun. To begin our transfers we had been asking everyone questions to get to know each other better, and for the last district meeting we played a game of Jeopardy, to see how many of them remembered, along with questions about church history, mission rules, and Preach My Gospel. The rest of the week flew by until Friday evening. That's when we got a call from the missionaries in Zachary telling us they had been in an accident. We spent the rest of the night with them in the ER. Thank goodness they weren't hurt, just banged up.. The car on the other hand didn't fare as well. All of Saturday we were driving them to the pharmacist, tow yard, etc and it felt like all over the Parish. Yesterday was pretty much the same as well. One of the missionaries in Zachary was supposed to be going to Brazil today and instead he has to wait another 2 weeks. He is being transferred tomorrow which means that we will be going to transfers with them. It should be fun to be able to go to transfers to see what happens and not have to worry about any changes for me! Well yall have a good week and watch out for bears!
Love Elder Smith
So, this week was pretty good. I was on exchanges with an Elder in Zachary and was able to meet a lot of people that I have only heard stories of. My first companion Elder Porter started his mission in Zachary and had lots of stories to tell me about the people here. Its always great to go on exchanges and meet new people and spend some time with a new companion for a little bit. The transfer was pretty normal and nothing too exciting happened, On Tuesday we had a district meeting which was pretty fun. To begin our transfers we had been asking everyone questions to get to know each other better, and for the last district meeting we played a game of Jeopardy, to see how many of them remembered, along with questions about church history, mission rules, and Preach My Gospel. The rest of the week flew by until Friday evening. That's when we got a call from the missionaries in Zachary telling us they had been in an accident. We spent the rest of the night with them in the ER. Thank goodness they weren't hurt, just banged up.. The car on the other hand didn't fare as well. All of Saturday we were driving them to the pharmacist, tow yard, etc and it felt like all over the Parish. Yesterday was pretty much the same as well. One of the missionaries in Zachary was supposed to be going to Brazil today and instead he has to wait another 2 weeks. He is being transferred tomorrow which means that we will be going to transfers with them. It should be fun to be able to go to transfers to see what happens and not have to worry about any changes for me! Well yall have a good week and watch out for bears!
Love Elder Smith
Monday, September 22, 2014
Hey Yall,
Well another week has flown by and there isn't too much to report on. Last week for Pday was a ton of fun though. We went to a member in Zachary (which is about 10 minutes from Slaughter) and fished in their stocked pond. We all managed to catch like 5 fish while we were there and were able to take quite a few home to cook. Me and my companion were the last ones to leave which meant that we had to be the ones to clean and cook the fish for everyone else. After that we started exchanges with other missionaries in our district and that was pretty average. The best part of the week was that we helped a nonmember move into her new house. She is a friend of one of the members that is in our Branch and it was just a fun move. On my mission I have moved quite a few people and so we all pretty much can get things done super fast. The only bad thing is that some people are a little too careless with all of the stuff. The only misshap we had this time was as I was trying to jump into the moving truck. I was a little too confident and ended up missing it by just an inch and so I got my shins a little bruised up. Yup I'm betting this next week something crazy will happen so don't forget to read my letter to find out!
Love Elder Smith
PS Happy Birthday Grandma Smith!
Well another week has flown by and there isn't too much to report on. Last week for Pday was a ton of fun though. We went to a member in Zachary (which is about 10 minutes from Slaughter) and fished in their stocked pond. We all managed to catch like 5 fish while we were there and were able to take quite a few home to cook. Me and my companion were the last ones to leave which meant that we had to be the ones to clean and cook the fish for everyone else. After that we started exchanges with other missionaries in our district and that was pretty average. The best part of the week was that we helped a nonmember move into her new house. She is a friend of one of the members that is in our Branch and it was just a fun move. On my mission I have moved quite a few people and so we all pretty much can get things done super fast. The only bad thing is that some people are a little too careless with all of the stuff. The only misshap we had this time was as I was trying to jump into the moving truck. I was a little too confident and ended up missing it by just an inch and so I got my shins a little bruised up. Yup I'm betting this next week something crazy will happen so don't forget to read my letter to find out!
Love Elder Smith
PS Happy Birthday Grandma Smith!
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