Area: Jackson
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| Exchanges with Elder Brumfield! |
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| Taco time! |
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| Was definitely a good throw back! |
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| The drive on exchanges |
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| This sweet member families kid! We blew up his 6 ft. Ball! It took a while! |
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| Chinese Buffet |
Hey ya'll! This past week has been pretty crazy!! An emotional roller Coaster with being transferred but it'll all be good because it's the Lord's plan and this is where he wants me! It was hard to say bye to the people I've been working with for the past 6 months but the nice thing is I'll get to go to their baptisms most likely! But I've been dreaming of coming to Jackson since I got here because I found out on the ride form the airport that there was one truck in the mission and it was a Tacoma! So desires and prayers are heard!! haha !I get to drive the taco!! We even get to off road because people live clear down dirt roads! It's the coolest area!!!
Elder Blake is my new comp!! He's a great guy! We definitely aren't the same and it was a little weird at first but we're starting to get along quite well and I gotta feeling it's gonna be a great transfer!!
Thursday we had dinner with our Branch President and his family and they're awesome! Amazing people that basically do everything for the branch as I've found out. He's President and she's the primary president. Awesome, very young couple.
Friday! We did a lot of Planning and administrative stuff for the day, than night time came around and we had a pretty cool experience! Sister and President Orton gave us a referral of a close friend and said to make sure they didn't know they sent us! So we showed up to the house and the Dad was outside and came up to us and was like gosh I thought you were JWs! hahah! But asked what he could do for us and so we started to share the message of the restoration. At first he was like nah, but then at the end he goes, "I'll ask my wife what she thinks and who knows maybe you'll see me at your church in a couple of weeks! It was sweet! But there's more!! We get a text from Sister Orton of a screen of the people we just met saying that we stopped by. We were like sweet! Well, at least they know how to find us again!!
So we kept going then we got a call from the zone leaders saying that we needed to come up to their apartment asap, which is an hour and a half away! I guess they had something come up the day we planned so we ran up there and when we got there we got like 12 screen shots of the people we just met asking Sister Orton about the gospel!! So now we have dinner at the Ortons tomorrow with the family!! It was so crazy what member missionary work can do!! We'll see how it goes tomorrow!
Saturday we had exchanges with the Zone leaders! Elder Brumfield and Elder Morse!! It was a party! I got to spend the day with Elder Brumfield and boy oh boy that was a blast from the past! It felt like we were the same people but we grew a lot and became better missionaries and it was so cool to feel and see the change in such a short time!! Love that guy, it was a great time!!
Sunday we drove back to Jackson early in the morning to go to church! Turns out there's only about 40 active members in the branch and they all branch out of about 4 families!! Great people! Should be a good time! We also gave a member the sacrament after who is in home health care. He was a sweet Ol man who has such a great spirit! That night we had an amazing dinner!!! There's a Phillipino family in the ward and they had us and some extended family over and we got to eat some amazing Phillipino food!! It was so good! The family is so awesome and it was so awesome to hang out with them for a little bit!
Monday, we worked our tails off trying to find people. We got to see Ralph again and helped him go and pick up a recliner and set it up for him and he was so happy! It was awesome!! That night I met the investigator who's on date but sadly it might have to be pushed back because she's going through some things!
Tuesday we continued to work hard and found a little success with one new investigator! Hopefully they will progress! Not much else just trying to go by a bunch a people!
Well all we did today was clean and shop eat and chilled at the church! The church is very small and doesn't even have a gym! So that's weird!
Well, things should hopefully be picking up! We'll stay busy and have a good time!
Love ya'll! Have a wonderful week!
Love Elder Smoot
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