so to explain why i am happy...
we were out tracking and we were really tired and we both had to go to the bathroom really really bad and we were like lets do one more apartment and so we did and it turned out that we found a chinese man who had just come to know God and who he was and so we were like, "we're messengers from God" and then he says, "oh, i have a few questions for you and so we set up another time to come back and teach him. so we did and went home and went to the bathroom. :) haha so we were studying one morning and we finished our personal study and started our companion study and asked each other what we studied and we had both with out knowing it studied the plan of salvation. elder hinman reading 2 nephi 26 and me reading from alma 42...i think. i don't remember but it was way cool and so we were like ok so someone needs to hear the plan of salvation today and so we remembered our lesson today with our chinese friend and we taught him the plan of salvation and he said that we answered a lot of his questions! so that was awesome!
second would be that we were able to have our mission president come to a lesson with us and so we did that and it was super powerful! we had a member there who was studying in her same field which was law and so he was able to help us out a lot and it was awesome! we also extended a baptismal invite and she said yes!!! so that's two people who have accepted the invite. we also found her through tracting!
third is that we were yet again knocking on doors and it was butt cold and we were going to do this last building and then go walk somewhere else and the second door we knocked on was a chinese couple who had just started dinner and so they invited us to come in and eat with them. so we did and what they had was not the best thing i've had on my mission. we had pork feet, some sort of cold chicken, and some mushrooms that weren't even cooked all the way. and so we ate with them and they had also recently found God and they just ate up the restoration and loved it and asked for some copies of the book of mormon in chinese! pretty sweet. so after we left their apartment we walked home and were like, "we're still hungry and so we ordered some pizza! hahaha can't go wrong with some good old pizza! but the thing is is that i woke up the next morning feeling like i was going to puke!!! i got all ready and was just finishing up going to the bathroom when it just punched me in the face...or more like the stomach and so i kneeled down and tried to throw up and it just wasn't happening so all of sunday, yesterday i was in major doubt to whether or not i was going to throw up haha so needless to say we sat at the back of the chairs in case my stomach wanted to pull some sneaky moves on me. :) so i decided to say a little prayer and ask for my stomach to be ok for church and it was so there's a testimony that prayer works...but it worked for just that, church. so maybe i need to be a little more specific and ask for the whole day cause about 20 mins after church we were getting a ride home and it again punched me in the face and i was like "pull over quick!!!!" so we did and i got out and bent over but again nothing came out and so we called our mission presidents wife and she gave us permission to get some thing for my stomach so i could just keep going without feeling like i was going to throw up every 5 mins. so we got some pepto bismal and i took that and kept chuggin on. we also had dinner that night and it was so so so so good! haha unfortunately i couldn't eat very much cause every bite was just like oh man. so after i took a bite i had to breath in really deep. haha pretty funny. but pretty sucky at the same time.
ha that sounds like a pretty sweet deal with the missionaries there. nope there just aren't quite the number of mormons here in the great iowa as there is in the amazing provo, utah. :)
i love you so much and can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks!!! have fun! be safe!
love
Elder Jens Smith
how many people are in the mission president's family? and their ages?
i have no idea on any of those questions...he keeps those personal and if he doesn't he hasn't ever told me...
how are you feeling? after the nasty cold the other week...are you better?
im feeling better from the cold and am now feeling better from what ever it was that i got.
i know i'm wishful thinking...but did you get the package yet?
yes i have gotten them both and have opened them both...i hope thats ok.
got any questions for yo mama?
mmm...nope not right now!
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