Area: Marble Cliff 2
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| I just cut my hair..... I didn't realize how short an 8 was. I cut it myself I got his help on the back but his hair looks way good! Haha and yeah its way Short haha! |
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| Church next to us was leaning |
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| Brother Grimes and his car. Our ride to church. |
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| We ate well with bro Burchetand |
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| Alleys just hanging out on Sunday. Little kids saw us taking pics in this alley and were like mom look at those church people! Haha so we left! |
Solid week, thank goodness time is starting to pick up! Haha it's been real good though, I have definitely learned more in this short period of time than I have in a really long time! It's truly amazing!
This week Monday we had our mission activity and ate dinner with President and sister Stratford! They're amazing!
Tuesdays we do the normal morning studies and what not then we get the amazing opportunity to go serve at a place called Saint Vincent. We get to go and help distribute clothing to those who are in need. The people we get to work with are awesome! And the people that come in are usually pretty awesome too! But lots of good opportunities to talk to people about what we do! And it's cool to help people and see smiles come on their kids faces and their own! I look forward to it always. Then contacted and went to appointments the rest of the day.
Wednesday mornings we have district meeting! It's so cool to see and hear others experiences and insights and try to apply them in your mission. It's a good opportunity! Then it was pretty normal after that.
Oh Thursday we get to serve again usually but they weren't open this week so we had a lot of opportunity to find people! Haha and then the weekend came. Pretty much everything fell through Friday and then Saturday we only got to meet with one guy named Art. We had to drop him after wards, we had five appointments none of them happened, that's very discouraging one after another and that morning was very hard, we had our investigator Beth call us and tell us something happened and she couldn't get baptized this Saturday. She wouldn't tell us what but it was hard to hear, then she didn't want to come to church or really take lessons anymore. That was very hard! But honestly the Lord blessed us because for some reason we didn't even get down. We some how kept getting back up and trying harder and harder and we were blessed!
When elder Woodworth first got to this area he got a referral for this lady. They couldn't get a hold of her! Kept trying then they got it again, still couldn't get a hold of her so when I got here he decided that we needed to go to her house after the 3rd time getting her referral! So we rode all the way to the edge of our area to her house and knocked on the door, this lady answers and we asked if the lady that asked for a book of Mormon was there, she told us no and that she had just moved in. we then explained why we were there. We began to teach her the first lesson. She told us she knew it was true because she grew up in the r lds church but went away and now they have a different name, she then studied jws and knew it wasn't right. She's struggled with depression for a long time and went through very hard times and she smokes. She has 3 kids and a husband, but she's been taking lessons for 2 weeks now and we ended up taking her to another baptism Saturday. She loved it and felt the spirit. She told us she was gonna get baptized as soon as she quits smoking. She was gonna pray about a date and continue to read the scriptures. I'm so excited to see her change and grow in God's kingdom on this earth. She told us that we came at the perfect time when she needed it the most and she's so grateful for it. So even when things go down hill or not as planned just get up, keep walking and the Lord will bless you!
Hope everyone had a good week and is ready for another good one!
Love you guys so much. Tanner and Chelsea hurry up! I need to see some pictures of my nephew! Haha
anyways I love being on the Lord's time and it's amazing to see how many people appreciate us that aren't Mormon just appreciate who we represent!
Love you guys!
Love Elder Smoot!
ps. And question apparently someone sent me a package but they sent it to the mission home so I can't get it till the 8th of September at zone conference. You know who it would be?
We usually get fed about 3 to 4 times a week but sometimes it's nice to stay at home!
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| Elder Woodworth silly guy. |
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| His cute ear thingy. |
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