Letter #11

Hello loved ones!  elder smart here for this weeks belated news!

for starters I am being transferred again and I feel pretty sad about it.  I'm going to Rochester WA.

at first I was gonna go to silverdale, but oddly enough after church, President had left a message on our phone, of course our first thought was that he was gonna talk to to me.

I apologise ahead of time if I do not sound as chipper, I'm kinda sad since I'm leaving, I didn't think I would actually be leaving this transfer.  Jones has been very nice to me lately.  my stress levels have been rather high and he has been kinda worried for me, but he has said some very kind things.

at one point I was telling him how I had prayed to the Lord that if he was gonna send me home... he was gonna have to make it something big, cuz I wasn't gonna just wimp out I would rather just suffer for 2 years and he said

"smart.... your so noble!" he said it kinda laughing but yeah.

I am NOT happy with you momma!  you didn't send a letter!!!

its a drag because all of the libraries were closed on monday!!!!

well, lemme tell ya about mnonday anyway, it was possibly the BEST p-day I have had.  we woke up and drove over to the gig harbor house to have our studies with Platero and svedin, which was nice.  Then we planned out how ZOMBIES was gonna work!   We had 4 nerf guns and like 11 non-zombies to begin.  however I had to wait awhile before platero and svedin came back from a lunch with the holdaways (craziest family EVER) anyway, I got to set up the whole stake building for it!  I put tables in the way, spread out the bullets and guns it was PERFECT!  It took a couple tries to get it down perfectly but it all worked out in the end!   Jones was even saying in passing that it was the best P-day ever!   I felt so good because of all the things I have planned NONE of them have ever been really successful, so you can imagine how happy I was!

 I hate changing and moving around, I like stability and not having to go change things around too terribly, but I will live.

I got to go say goodbye to all of the families I meet whilst being here, two of which I gave moms number.   I'm really really really gonna miss gig harbor even though it was technically ALOT harder than my last area.

honestly I don't know if I really have the capacity to be an elder somedays, at least not when theres really no one to teach.

so, I have a problem, I need to work on my packing a bit more, cuz I kinda filled the car with 95% my stuff ^^''' think I will be sending some stuff back and possibly learning to actually FOLD my clothes instead of just cramming them in there.

Love,

Elder Smart