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
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
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
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
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
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