Letter #19

Dear Friends & Family: I'm feeling better LOADS better for some reason today. I spent time to look over some art I got and its helped me get over things. I got your letter an it made me feel better in someways, I'm working on loving it out here. Things have kinda slowed down, but I don't normally get too discouraged by slow work, what happens happens (k sera sera). This week has been hard but I learned I wasn't the only one having a hard time. Mosbrucker has been struggling as well and it really had him down for awhile. I had a pretty spiritual experience! I'll hopefully remember to mention it in the home letter... I gotta gather all these things up for my journal. that would be nice. I feel uber energetic today an I don't know why. In someways its good in others I'm kinda like whats the deal here. Also HOLY CRAP MOM! All I needed was some stuff to help me sleep! I didn't need a pharmacy of pills! I made a joke about brother Larsen about it. I was like, "dang! when Larsen turns 80 I'll STILL be taking more pills than he does!!!!" Brother Larsen was pretty sad when Mosbrucker said he might be leaving. Then he keeps telling me that I'M gonna take over the area!''' noooooooooooo thank you! or training! I don't think so! well let's see . . . OH! you know whats funny? how people act around here. We just finished tracting Oakville and we had some relatively funny experiences. for starters MY favorite and really the only one I can remember right now aside from Jack is we were knocking on this door, it had little Christian stepping stones talking about god and two angels on either side of the door, we walk up and knock on the door and this little girl about jessah's age opens. we say high in a friendly manner, introduce ourselves etc etc. She looks at us with wide eyes like we were gonna eat her and says. "w-we're jewish!" we stand there for a moment and are like. .... oooookay? well have a nice day! then another kid from the backyard yells 'we're jewish!' I thought it was funny! its so wonderful to be able to write you all today! I sent Orange, Aaron and savannah a letter today and we are rather busy... okay maybe not - but we're changing gears and going for reactivation efforts!! also, we are running out of tracting room! this town's too small to just tract a year... so everyone is pretty familiar with us. We also ran into an old friend... during my first week here we had a guy who was rather miffed at us because we told him 6 o'clock we had an appointment which got in the way of his having us 'follow his lead' he immediately hung up, of course not waiting to hear WHY but we heard him yell WOOOOW, and his WIFE hung up. so guess what happened. not only that, but he told HIS missionaries that we could burn in HECK for all he cared... such a lovely guy right? Well guess what. HE CAME TO OUR WARD! brought his guy to our ward since he's in OUR area despite the fact that he's getting bapised in Olympia.... he was kidna rude at first and honestly he was rather Arrogant. asking me if our gospel essentials was NORMALLY a set thing or not. he wasn't even wearing church clothes!!!!! Then close to the end of our lesson the topic being work the investigator asked why we hadn't said a prayer to open, we had forgotten especially since he and that other guy were the only ones there for the first fifteen minutes of the lesson. we explained that it had been forgotten and the guy who had called us turned to me and said 'aren't you glad your not the one teaching him.' and I promptly told him we LIKED it when we had questions asked and such. it kinda ruined mosbruckers day even though I kept wanting to talk to him and let him know that we WEREN'T going to go to heck despite his wishes and that we were SUPPOSED to go tracting at that time and that he should LISTEN before hanging up! ..... -.- anyway yeah. SO that's about it this week! jean fell off date but Natalie is still going to be baptized! =D yay! well folks I gots ta go! I'll see you soon! FIVE MONTHS DOWN! BOOYA! I've gotten everyones packages! Tell Grandma Greene I LOV ED my package - it was great! and its been a GREAT DAY! Love, Elder J Smart