Area: Jackson
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| Saw Elder Kunz for the first time on the mission! Homie from back home I used to work with! It was awesome!! |
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| Can't believe I found a Smoot road on the way home from transfers!!! Made an illegal u turn for this pic! Haha! |
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| The other guys! |
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| Elder Porter from Springville! On the long crazy drive to Powell |
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| Goats! |
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| Fair time, mutin busting and hanging with the bulls |
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| The pretty lake we HAD to stop for! |
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It's buried!
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After a long walk!
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Howdy howdy, it feels like it's been for ev er since last pday! But it's only been one extra day! This last week has been one for the books that's for sure. One for the books in all kinds of ways! Well first starting after pday last Tuesday, we went and basically just visited all of the members we possibly could so Elder Blake could say peace out! Oh and we had to go to a stake mission coordination for the branch which took a lot of the night. It was good but I feel like a lot more things that needed to be said could have been discussed.
Wednesday we drove clear the heck up to Wooster, Ohio which is 3 hours and 20 minutes from here! We were supposed to find a member ride and we tried but couldn't find anyone of course because 7 hours of driving with missionaries is kind of a big hassle! I definitely can't blame them! So I drove all 7 hours leaving at 9:30 and not getting back until 6:15 basically took all day and I was POOPED at the end! So I guess nows a good time to tell ya'll about my companion Elder Nelson! Haha It's been WILD!! He is from Herrimann Utah, he's 20 and he has been out 9 months. Just came from Kirtland and feels like he's been just thrown down here! He's a "city boy raised indoors" as he tells everyone! So I'm not sure how he likes the country! It's been an adventure though, he has this nightly ritual that he calls "CHICKEN TIME" where he draws a cartoon chicken with some sort of character or theme every single night and puts it on the wall. Not gonna lie his art is very impressive. Needles to say we have complete opposite personalities and our idea of missionary work is completely foreign to each other because our two missions were merged! But some how, some way we are making it work! He's a great guy and wants to work so it'll be alright.
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| chicken time art! |
Thursday we had district council and I wasn't sure if I was gonna be a district leader again so I didn't plan one until the morning of but it turned out really good! After, we met this sweet guy at taco bell and added him on facebook! He seemed really interested and we sent him a video and never got a response! But that's just how the work goes.
Friday I had another district leadership training meeting clear up in Powell! We had a crazy travel itinerary to get there! We drove an hour to Greenfield then another hour to Westland then about 30 minutes to osu then osu to Powell! haha We went all over the place! We left at about 6:40 and didn't get home until 4:45! That night we went out to Welston to work and realized that the county fair was out there so we went and stopped by the Pariseau family. They have some goats and bunniesin the fair! It was a good time to go see some animals and visit with them for a while!
Saturday we ended up having to do some service for an elderly man named Ralph and we had to mow those lawns we mow every week. It was very hot!!! Then weekly planned and not much else happened after dinner.
Sunday, we had church and only about 37 were there! it's very noticeable when a family or two goes out of town! We had a member down from Chillicothe because he couldn't make it back to his ward on time so he came to ours! After he got invited by the Cruse family to dinner which is who we were gonna have dinner with so they were like well you can just hang out with the Elders until then! So basically we had to push lunch back and everything and go out and visit people with him! It was kinda crazy but all is well! Dinner was well worth it!
Monday, we did some service in the morning, did the usual stuff prepared for district council, then went down to Oak Hill to visit some of the people we've been trying to teach for the last while. We talked to two lady's that were pretty sweet! Carrie is pretty awesome! Me and Elder Michels found her on exchanges a while back and I've been back about 4 times now with different people every time!! haha Then we tried to get in with a former family but not sure if they'll go any where yet! Guess we'll have to see!
Tuesday we had exchanges, I was with Elder Coon and that's always a party! In the morning we went out and found two new people to teach right off the bat. It was sweet! Then stopped by the Cruse's and told Sister Cruse happy bday! After lunch and studies we headed up to interviews! Not realizing we had interviews the same day as exchanged which you aren't really supposed to do but oops! Interviews were great though! President and Sister Stratford are awesome! We basically just talked about how crazy the branch is and how we're getting a new senior couple in Jackson!! They come in today actually in about an hour or so!!! They'll be a big help for sure! We also just got to talk about the district and it was a good time!! Love those guys!! Afterwards the family at the fair wanted us to come back and watch the kids show their goats!! It was sweet! They also had a son do some muttin bustin! He's a little stud!
Finally Pday adventure! So me and Elder Coon first thing this morning gave Elder Brumfield a call and sang him happy birthday! So if he actually reads my emails like he says he does, Happy birthday big guy! haha! But anyways then we headed out to a district activity! On our way we were on a back road and we saw this beautiful lake! So of course we had to stop and get a picture! So we did and when we were leaving on the way out we came up on a mud hole that we had to go through that was a lot bigger than we anticipated! Yes we got stuck and there was no service what so ever!! Not until we walked a couple miles down the road where we stopped every person asking if they could help or knew someone that could and we only saw like four people, a couple of them told us there was no way without a tractor and that everyone gets stuck there. We had about 6 huge dogs try to kill us at one time or another and finally we got ahold of the other elders telling them we won't be able to make it. After about another hour we had our good samaritan drive by as we flagged him down and asked for help!! He was like yeah get in I've been there done that! We ended up breaking two of his ropes so he left and came back in a half an hour with chains to pull us out and we got right out! Then he asked us for gas money and we felt bad of course since we have Jesus on our chests we had to do it so we followed him and helped him out because he helped us!! Needles to say it was an adventure!! Were safe and everything is good! Just warning don't go "mudding" with bald street tires! You will get stuck!! So it's been a great day!!
Well hope ya'll have a great week! Keep it safe, but adventurous! haha!
Love you all!
Love Elder Smoot
PS: I actually got permission to watch Justin's funeral. I saw Linda's post of the link and called president. We started it an hour late but I saw most of Rulon's talk! He's awesome and it was an amazing talk! Justin was such a stud! We watched it in the Cruse's computer shop and they and a customer come in during it and she just sat down and started watching it and you could totally tell she felt the spirit! It was so cool! She told us how she lost her husband a year or two before and how hard it was. We just bore testimony on top of Justin's families and she was like that's awesome! So, a seed was definitely planted!
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