Letter #29

hey momma!
... its weird I haven't heard anything from you this week.... odd. =/
WELL I have some pretty good news, I HAVE been doing better, ESPECIALLY last Tuesday, we started having loads of success, we ran into three people whom we have been trying to work with, my main target is mikey, a nice black dude who works at home.  at the capri we gave an AWESOME lesson but aside from that he actually didn't show up to church this week like we had been hoping, we taught him the first lesson which seemed to spark a little interest in him but he didn't answer for his appointment after church either.  Today we have a scheduled church tour for a guy named tomas Guy who actually met the guys back in Lakewood first!  he's got some kids but he was divorced (in fact I think the guy who took over as his wifes spouse pulled a gun on him...) anyway he seemed pretty cool.
unfortunately we are sure we got dropped by a lady named Jen'e.  we walked into her on Tuesday during knocking we talked too her.

I wish I was better at being a journal writer.  I've been so out of it that by the end of the day I just lay down in bed and wait to start all over again.  Also, I lost my gloves!!! I dunno where they went, the FIRST TIME I start wearing them they disappear! I was so P.o'ed!!!!

AND I've started working on boxing during our time in the YMCA, a guy taught me some cool stuff so I've been working at hitting hard... which brings me to my next statement... can you guys send me some punching gloves? not boxing gloves persay but those MMA ones maybe? I have a tendency of tearing my knuckles up also, my hair has been acting weird -.- I miss Ranee cutting it.

Williams and I have been working on staying sane.  He talks about movies a lot so that's kinda what keeps the silence away, he says the plot of lost will last us a good couple of weeks.

we went and visited the naftels last night... not gonna say I enjoyed it much they watched the seahawks game... an I sat in there kitchen petting there dogs... who one of which has flee's I believe XP. I struggle with standing up and saying things, and I've been holding in a whole lot of frustration towards my... well mostly the other companionship... okay mostly holt.  he has a tendency of getting on my nerves the most due to the fact he back bites and gets huffy and says mean things when he doesn't get what he wants... I don't exactly agree with a lot of his philosophies on the church either.

also about rough stone rolling, ask dad to read it so he can tell me whats true and whats not, I don't wanna read it cuz honestly I can only handle so much info at one time and I already have too much on my mind as it is.

OH! so I have some funny stories XD
first off we met MR. French, I've been working on talking to people on the street so when I saw this dude in a jacket and suspenders I was like 'alright!' so he was VERY eager to talk.... I originally thought it was for the sake of bashing... but I was WAAAAAY wrong. this guy talked about his injury that he was thrown from a car and had to be rehabilitated and left him with some issues that I won't share cuz they are kinda gruesome. but he cussed like a WHOLE LOT... I was actually kinda intimdated cuz he gave me most of the crazy looks... he reminded me a whole lot of what an EVIL person during the apocalypse would be like.... yeah. he was probably a nice guy with too many struggles.  he punched himself HARD in the face like three times.... it was scary.  but that's not the funny part, the FUNNY was when afterwards we were talking later (me and Williams) and he's like:

W:.... I kinda hoped he would have hit one of us... well . . . you, and that way I could get up and punch him.... is that bad?

Me: I was actually thinking about that!!!
so we got to laugh and talk about how crazy guys are normally a whole lot stronger that normal people.. but hopefully we still could have taken him !

on top of that this place is CREEPY!!!!  at least at night!

We talk about stratagise about how not to get snuck up on and When people warn us about being careful at night I normally tell them.
Its alright! I have a pen... cuz so help me if something tries to eat me I'm gonna shank the ever living... you get the idea.

SO I'm gonna tell ya'll my story about the creepy lady.

SO we are knocking this creepy neighborhood... okay it was actually a really nice neighborhood but something about that night was just plain creepy, so we knock into the one house, the ONLY not nice house.. okay maybe the second, anyway, I see this cat run under the porch and I had already been thinking about how spooky and sketchy everything was so I had my pen ready, but being the ever determined and crazy elders that we are, we knock it.

the door opens and this wide eyed wild looking woman walks out and stares at us.
later Williams tells me the first thing he thought was that this woman was POSSESSED.  and as we talked to her I was getting flash back of finy fin (Elder Finlayson) telling me about being cursed by a pagan woman, so before the door opens I had rested my hand on the railing ball thing on the fence using it for support, my pen in hand incase I needed to use it... for writing!
but we start talking to this lady and getting weirded out by her so as we're talking all that can be heard is this silent (click) as I cock my pen... just incase she lunged at us... or I needed to write down an address.

well I'll tell ya this has been fun week in someways... I wanna send a special thanks to the sampsons for their wonderful package I will be working on writing you all VERY SOON...

and one to my lovely savannah who I think is the most wonderfully lovely thing of sweetness I have the pleasure to know.

also to Aaron who I hope I will be able to see... sometime before the end of my life and to everyone else whom I will see sooner. ^^ also, has anyone heard from hayden?  has he gone out? and someone tell micheal to send a letter, we all know each others email so he has no excuse.

Well that's all for now!

Love,
Elder J Smart