243 days left Transfer Week

well this week was another slow one. my comp is Elder Hinman and he has been out for 10 months now and is pretty cool. we still have to work out the kinks and how each other teaches but we are doing pretty well together. he teaches and talks a lot more than elder tekanene did. it's pretty weird to have to get used to. 

on saturday we got pretty sick with a cold and so we have been trying to recoup from that. saturday night it came on and just punched us in the face! it stinks! i think it is because we went to rake leaves that had been sitting and were wet on the bottom and so we raked them up and then got sick that night. lame sauce. so we are taking it easy and trying to get lots of fluids in us to fight this dang sickness. 

thanksgiving here in iowa city is hard cause everyone is leaving for the holidays and that includes most of our investigators. so we are really going back to the basics and going tracting and finding. we had a less active come to church yesterday who hadn't come to church since i have been here. he is a wrestler from utah and he must be pretty good to be wrestling for iowa. they are a pretty big school for that and so we talked to him and asked him when his meets are so we can come watch them. maybe that will be a way in to get him to start coming back to church. 

i did get a letter from gramma B and i plan on writing her back today. really now all i have to do to recieve some letters is to write people back so thats what i plan to do today. i don't really have much else to report on so i'll just answer some questions... :)

thats about it for me! i love you all and can't wait till next week! 

love 

Elder Jens Smith

What happened at transfers?  who's your companion?  where's he from? how long has he been out?   so transfers happened and yeah i got elder hinman from washington. he is pretty cool and loves cars. he has been out for ten months. he came out with elder tekanene. 

I'm hoping to get some more pictures...got any?  

mmmm...not today. sorry. 

Do you still have your pumper upper from your soccer calle ball?  

yeah i still have it. i thought i lost it a while ago but i found it.

What's the best thing this week?  

best thing this week was prolly having a few people show up to church that we weren't expecting. like that less active and also one of our old investigators with her member friend. 

What's the plan for thanksgiving?  You going anywhere?  

yeah our branch pres. is having us over so we are excited for that. he has a ping pong table that i plan to dominate! haha no i'll prolly get whooped!