Wk 77 - 2019!!!

Companion: Elder Collier
Area: Dublin

Visit and dinner with Rich Jaynes!

Exchanges with Elder Johnson

Transfer board! 

thought I'd get a Pic with Elder Olsen and I together! 

Only pics I got! Elder Otteli being silly!

Little Skousen stealing my tablet! 

Elder Rawson right after exchanges!

Howdy howdy!

Well here it is, 2019!! Havent talked to any of you since last year! That's crazy! Haha It has been a great start to a big year! Well to start on new years eve it was great! He had a good night finishing off with pday!

Tuesday Elder Olsen finished up packing and we went out and found most of the day which was a good time! We had one lesson fall through but they had a pretty valid excuse because of being in the hospital all through the holidays! Felt pretty bad for her but we got to reschedule.

 Wednesday morning we had to wake up at 5 to take Elder Olsen to the Mission home and say good bye! That sucked, he's a great missionary and great example. At 9 we went back to the Mission home for Mission Leader Council which was pretty amazing. It was such a spiritual experience. One of the best things that came from it was that we have district activity back! It was sweet! That night was pretty dang awesome! We took Daylon to a lesson at the Dieders house. We taught the gospel of Jesus Christ and a couple of the commandments, we talked a lot about baptism and the importance of it, because they're on date we talked about what it means to them. They had a very good response and they just want to know it's true before they get baptized which is awesome! I respect that a lot. Daylon bore testimony on prayer, it was pretty awesome! At the end we got to give Mary a blessing because she's been pretty sick as of late. They seemed to really appreciate that. After the lesson we got to talk to Daylon for a bit. He during the lesson he told us he wasn't coming to church but he was going to the catholic. It kinda scared us at first but apperantly he just wants to see the difference and if it feels different because he's never really been to another church. So we told him to go to a different time and if he did we'd go with! Haha He liked that idea.... Haha so he ended up canceling on Sunday but we might go with next week but I'm pretty nervous! Haha It was a good way to end the night! 

Thursday we had exchanges with the Delaware Elder here in Dublin. That was so a party. I was with Elder Rawson, he's been out for three months and he's a stud! In the morning we planned in an area and felt like we should be doing service but didn't have any planned in... In the middle of personal Study our bishop texted saying to call him, so we called and there was a single sister member in the ward who's basement flooded in the area we planned in so we changed and ran over to help her out! There was about two inches and the sub pump all of sudden started working which helped but we had to move a bunch of stuff and vacuum up all the water we could! It was pretty fun though with all four of us! The rest of the day was sweet! We found two people and one was a huge miracle. It was a lady named Holly. She was walking a puppy around and was very frightened when we said hi but she slowly opened up and said she was actually looking for a church for her and her niece! She is now reading the Book of Mormon and tried to come to church but had a legit excuse not to come but hopefully next Sunday! That was a huge miracle! Great night!

Friday was actually a really productive day! Follow up calls went longer than expected but they were all just really solid! Weekly planning went good too. It was an awesome day and was weird how productive it was... Haha we also had ward coordination. That's was good but kinda hard sometimes when you just get corrected and how you do missionary by someone who apparently knows all. Haha Great intention though, I guess its the thought that counts.

Saturday we had exchanges with the Polaris Elders. I was here in Dublin with the one the only my homie Elder Johnson from Idaho! This guys a stud!! He rode bulls before the mission, played baseball and football. Needless to say we get along almost too good. Haha We got to ball up in the morning and even teach a man that we play with for a while! It was so cool! We also taught Melissa that night the plan of salvation and it was sweet. Don't know if I've ever been able to have so much unity just from one exchange! It was sweet.

Sunday! We had ward council which was good. Two hour church was awesome! We also had a sweet dinner with the Selphs. They gave us some way good enchiladas! After dinner we had three people to find in order to hit the standards of excellence and for the first couple of hours it sucked. Haha Rejection after rejection, but eventually we were blessed and met some awesome people! We had to go to two different neighborhoods! Hah But we found them! Then we went to the Nagys and talked with them for a bit! It was pretty fun.

Today we had our first district activity for a while in Delaware! It was sweet. We played volleyball basketball and chair soccer! It was awesome! That was a pretty fun time! We also didn't get water so I had to shower twice at the assistants today! Haha it was pretty weird but it worked out! Alright well love y'all! Hope you had a great week. 

Love Elder Smoot