Letter #22

Hello everyone!

Its your ever adoring Elder Smart coming to you via email!

for starters I would like to just start with a big thank you to all of you that sent me letters, Cortnie Johnson,  Brother Nilsen, Sister Sneddon, Brother Case and my Aunt and Uncle, Becky and Travis and the kids.  I appreciate you remembering me and caring about me.  The words of encouragement and words of wisdom have helped me and I am trying to work harder and be happier.

alright, there is something you all need to know as far as letters go, 

last monday we had a mission picnic where I was approached by several of my comrades handing me letters!  so I JUST got a good chunk of them all!

We've had so much happen and I am sure that I won't remember everything. 

first I wanted to tell you about a play we got to see called, THE JUDGEMENT! dun dun dun.... -snrk-

here is my review,

the way they did the show, it was in a small church called the door a small place in town, it was rented space kinda place but that aside it was a lower budget product meant to 'inspire' spirituality into non believers.

it starts with a subpar explaination of the plan, where appearantly the devil got one over the heavenly father and he had to humble himself and become Christ so as to save us....   so they would put people in these situations  where two types of people would die, randomly normally at the same in various ways the first being two families, one of which was a father and son, who wouldn't go to church due to some normal silly reasons, his son asked him about it and his father gave him a silly excuse but h loved his dad  and said he wanted to be just like him and then they crashed into the 'righteous' family who were off to applebees on the sabbath....

they all end up in heaven and the righteous family got to go into heaven whilst the father and son who was totally ignorant of what was going on were banished by christ to and escorted into heck by the devil... (dressed as a member of kiss.) ... to sum it up it was an atrocious debatchery of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.   the son was sent to heck without any knowledge of good and evil, in the end it was simply a way of intimidation to force people to go to their church, on several occasions they called us out in obscure ways that I think were a pathetic attempt to convert us.

HOWEVER I was aproached by a guy who tried to talk to us about it.

Here are some of my other experiences, we have been doings ALOT of church tours with some success.

OH! we have a guy names tomas we're working with, he originally lived in vegas and wants to have faith so he came to us.  so far he's pretty much just jumped in without even looking so we are teaching him whenever we can!   he's a great guy with... a couple of issues.

Also, we talked to a guy named scotty.... he was probably the most bitter person I have ever met in my entire life like, he was okay, but he really clung on to the things in life that made life so hard for him.  I kept looking at myself and going '... is that me?'  I got to experience the home bubble again, I got a new hair cut and... she... she shaved my eyebrows.  okay she didn't SHAVE them but she cut them! she was a master hair stylist and... holy crap she did her job thoroughly! it was insane! she was LOOKING for hair to cut!

she also said that it was her calling and that she would be the one to do Christ's hair (so I don't know if she was all there), she also said that Heavenly Father made ME who I am and thats perfect!  I liked that!!   I wish I could enjoy that more minus the OCD. I'm working on getting it all together.

I look forward to hearing from home.  I am very busy in my new area and I am learning to like it.  I'm with a greenie, as well as the zone leaders and they are all pretty cool.  I'm okay, struggle here and there but heck I'm alive so thats good.

can't wait to see you all again but I'm doing my best here.

Love,

Elder J Smart