this week I've been just down right burnt out - this whole deal with betty... well its kinda messed me up, a WHOLE lot of crap happened this week... so I might as well go in reverse order, last night we ran into a basher who was kinda a Jerk..... I tried so hard to answer things but he wouldn't let me talk and he pretty much tore stuff apart and really... just wasn't nice. if I had been feeling better from the prior experiences of this week I might have taken it better... writing about it makes me feel a little better... anyway, OH! I did get a letter savannah wrote me!! it was so short but I didn't care, I just know that I was SOOO happy. so, I've messed up a crap ton this week... Sunday after church a kid came in asking that we come in and give a blessing to his step brother... his name was Zachary... he had been hit when he hit some black ice and pulled over to the side of the road, the car after him hit it then hit him... I don't know if he's alive or not, but.... when I was finally able to give him the blessing, I couldn't.... I froze up, brother bennion and norby were there and they offered to do it but... I dunno I guess I let pride get in the way. that was a real bummer... I stumbled through it and did my best.
I had another anxiety attack, it wasn't AS bad as the last one I had a couple months ago but its left me a little messed up.
anyway, so up date on betty, its been kinda odd but she hasn't called me in the last couple of days... so we went to mow her lawn last Tuesday, we didn't have the car so we had to walk from the library ALL the way to her house, brother Danielle was meeting us there, well he went there early and was working on her door nobs... she talked to him for FOUR HOURS!!!!! he told us the job SHOULD have taken him an hour and thirty minutes.... on top of that she would continue to call us.. about her situation, she was doing really bad... she broke down at least 2 or three times... each time she called. but as we were mowing she left to go do things because she didn't feel safe leaving her home, brother daniels had ALOT of concerns about the situation (especially with the idea of possibly removing drugs from her home) we assured him we would NOT be touching any of that, but the situation was really sketchy on its own. so we're mowing and suddenly we get a call from brother Kirby who told us he was coming to pick us up due to the situation, it makes a lot more sense after talking to him about it, I'm just kinda worn out about all of it.
THEN we were in the sketchiest place yet during the thanksgiving church social a guy named david was given a heads up and put on date by the sisters... he lives in a homeless shelter... we go in there and... yeah that place was sketchy, we asked david when a good time to talk to him (AWAY FROM ALL THE CRAZY) and we scheduled a time at the church the next day.... one problem, we forgot that we had a scheduled meeting with an APOSTLE!!!!!! elder Anderson came, it was a pretty interesting meeting, he talked to the mission for about an hour, it was funny how comfortable he was with everything, he would just kinda sort things out and talk whenever to the whole of us. we got to shake his hand briefly. he answered a couple things as far as baptisms go, talking about how baptism is a step and how they should have a desire to repent as well as faith before being baptized. he was nice.
well this has been my longest email in AWHILE but I'll here from you all soon! CHRISTMAS IS COMING!
that's all I got now folks
Love,
Elder J Smart
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