292 days left Transfer Week (staying)

this week has been another good one. you could prolly say it was same ole same ole but it wasn't really that way. we had some more lessons this week which has brought the branch to grow in their trust in us and so i am excited about that cause i fasted for help in gaining the trust of the members and so now i know that was an answer to my fast and prayer. i love this work cause i am able to see the lords hand in everything i do. there truly is opposition in all things. 2 nephi 2:15 the last half of it. and in fine, all things which are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition; even the dforbidden efruit in fopposition to the gtree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter. so yeah i can see when the Lord or the Holy Ghost is in this work and when They are not. 

we had another lesson with our investigator and she is doing really well. i am soooo excited for her. i really wish she would just reconsider and get baptized here. december couldn't come any sooner!! that's when she wanted to get baptized. anyway we had a lesson with her yesterday on the plan of salvation. i think i have told you this but i think that lesson is the hardest to teach cause there is so much stuff in there that you think you need to pack it all into one lesson but you really don't. our branch mission leader said that there are easy ways to condense things in a way to make them easier to understand and to teach. so i am excited to hear about this. i guess i can tell you her first name. her name is kaitlin. 

we also had another lesson with some investigators. they are from Liberia and are pretty interested in the book of mormon and the fact that we have a living prophet today. we just read the book of mormon with them and answered questions they had during that lesson. so it was just a chill lesson but i don't think it went as well as i thought it could have. 

that's about it for our investigators. we are still working with the less actives in our branch but we are not making them a focus cause they just don't really respond the way we need them to. so here's the answers to the questions. 

well sorry for the short letter this time but i love you all and can't wait to hear from you again!. 

love 

Elder Jens Smith

p.s. yeah i remember getting a letter from kelly but i haven't written her back yet. kinda need to get on that. thought she would be too busy with married life for that. :) haha naaa im just kidding but really i need to write her back.
 
  
Questions:
When are transfers?  What're your feelings about this? You going? staying?  

transfers are this week on the 4th. and we are both staying together for another transfer! woohoo! :)

What's been your favorite part of this week?  

favorite part of this week would have to be having kaitlin come to church and being able to see the members fellowship her.

Are you excited for conference?  Are you setting up a showing at the church like you did last time?  with elder excell?   

haha no we will have the broadcast at the stake center which is like 5 mins away from the institute building. hopefully we will have all of our investigators there watching at least a little bit of general conference, if not all of it. :)

Are you having tons of rain storms now?  Christian said that he was in an earthquake.  Do you think you've ever felt one of those?  

mmm not so many rainstorms but pretty chilly weather. at least in the mornings when i run. haha elder tekanene is now just sitting in the car as i run around the track. :) funny guy. and no i prolly will never feel one of those. the only thing close that will hit us is a tornado. and that not very likely.