4th Letter from Joshua

HELLO mission fans! its your ever favorite elder of intelligence elder smart, reporting another week or mission-madness! today we'll start with the hater section - que in the boo's and hisses-

Today we had a rather arrogant fellow (kinda reminded me of Mr. Morrision) who told me that I and my companion (yes darcie I wrote it like that) are living our parents religion, and the reason that we do baptisms for the dead is for the sake of... something about a mind set.... in anycase I (of course) was frustrated and emotionally wrestling with myself (naturally.) over the matter, elder Anderson, being the hardened six monthing farmer man that he is (despite being younger then me in real life...) gave me info and reassured me. 

yes mother you are spared having to help me with that... for now.   I did enjoy the packages and will decorate those eggs when I find time, I gotta buy more milk first.  So, I am really good at saving my funds, I don't like buying expensive things... even though I most certainly can  I'm paranoid about not having enough cash for food for the month so I kinda limit myself.

did I tell you about Hugh?  We met him last week and had a blast talking to him.

so far he has come twice to church and we know its a miracle because second time he came the lesson was EXALTATION.... and he still wanted to talk to us and keep going.  He said he felt enlightened.  When we first met him all four of us were at jamies house. (Hugh is her room-mate, but not in a romantic fashion... so we'll see how that works out.) and hugh has kinda labeled me as 'the body guard' because...  I was standing back a bit and my arms were crossed so our first visit he calls me the goon - anyway, after the lesson I got teased cuz I fell asleep during the lesson (surprised?) he was like, "look at the body guard sleep'n over there."  of course I smiled... and felt rather flattered to be considered the body guard 

OH HEY! guess what! I've lost like 8 pounds! -squeee- ehm... ignore that.....

but yeah! I'm not as much a fatty no mores!    OH OH OH heres something cool!   For easter sunday we went back to our roots and had a PASS OVER DINNER!.... with REAL Jews!!!!... you know... not the artificial kind.... but yeah it was cool!   its so the rituals they do aren't so much religious as it is to remind past generations to not let the same mistakes happen that happened to their ancestors and to teach them the importance of traditions etc etc.

we were actually INVITED ... BY the jewish people!   I'm feeling all gentile here. We had matsa balls..... which is like a dumpling soaked in chicken broth... but it was edible.   Then we had briscute as well as some other stuff like veggies honey carrots etc.   I learned what a geti-gavilde-.... GA-VIL-DA fish.    its a real fish... but its also... like haggus... only with fish??   something like that.

hmmm what else happened.........  messed up my ankle so I was limping around 99% of the week, knocked a couple hundre- oh yeah... I think I went on bike this week.  Me no megusta bikes. 

OH! also, we had a zone conference which was fine cuz I wasn't doing anything wrong!

I HAVE been having a hard time sleeping - I wake up an feel like crap.

BUT more importantly after the conference sister weaver wanted to talk to me since we never schedualed a time and we only talked for like five minutes but it made me feel good.   She said she and weaver were proud and that I was doing an awesome job, which made me feel really good even though I was really worn out through the week.

... that might have been last week as well.... 

AARON!!!! You better get that butt of yours at mutual!

it won't kill you to be around the other younger kids, do you think I came out here purely for the sake of pleasure? newp, I did it because its what the lord asked, even if he makes it rougher for me. so you go and try and do your best when your over there alright?

Mariah.... I has no idea WHY mom would send me a pic of your mouth flap @.@

GAH! I'm running out of time!

I misses you all bunches!

that's all folks, till next time! peace off!! HUP

-falls over.-

OH!!!!! I forgot! we had a baptism too! we had Anthony Prichard, he was the kid whose mom had an epileptic attack and lost her memory and pretty much went back to a 6 year olds knowledge.

man, this week has been up down. twixt biking anxiety to freaking out that I may never imagine a good plot again . . . to wondering if I'm even a good elder or not.  

A good letter is nice to get.  So even a short something is better'n noth'n an if I get lots of them it annoys Sabin!!!!   but I shouldn't be too harsh, he's had... issues but he is trying hard to change. these are the times that make things worth it.

OH! and we've run into ALOT of really nice people this week.

a tongan/hawwian family had us come in and just sit and chat (we chatted with the husband.) it was nice . we also ran into a whole lot of other nice people.

 

well, I miss you all, hey, I only got one more April  left.  Keep pray'n for me, heaven knows I need it. if I could just talk to you guys all P-day I would love that!

All the guys talk about there lives and... I'm kinda glad I was alone, people seem so shallow and too complex which is why I'm grateful for savannah because for us its pretty open shut, we're honest with each other.

Love,

Elder Smart