88 days left

alrighty, well it is transfer week and it turns out i am getting transferred. im not too happy about it but, what can ya do? .....i don't like it but i will have to deal with it cause, i mean it is God who does this work and who am i to object when i am in His service. so yeah...getting transfered.

well this last week was a doozy cause we got a ton of rain and so the rock river flooded and is now flooding homes and so many people are out of their houses. it is sooooooo incredible the amount of water that has come up from the river. i mean, like people were in their canous...thats not spelled right, and, oh man it was devisating! so we spent a couple days in our house cause of flash floods and things like that but we were able to get a little bit more work done with a little more determination. :) i am so grateful for this work that i am in and i am so glad that i accepted to serve a mission. :)

haha yeah i would rather see earth wind and fire! (speaking of brian's business trip entertainment...flo-rida) right now they have better music and lirics than all the other groups that we have been hearing in stores and things like that. oh man i bet he'll enjoy florida weather though. nice and warm...i miss warm so much. not a big fan of the cold.

well thats about it for me here!!! i love you so much!

love

Elder Smith

 questions:

Anyone write you an email that doesn't normally?  

mmm, i was able to get katie w. email address. :) we have been emailing. :) also i am snail mailing a girl from spokane washington. she is the sister of a sister missionary out here. her name is sarah t. it's been pretty fun writing her. :) haha

What made you laugh this week?  

hahahahaha ok well you had to be there but we were weekly planning and i had some beef jerky from another elder and i was eating it and all of a sudden it gave me the hiccups!! so i was laughing really hard while hiccupping at the same time and so it just made us laugh for a while and then my hiccups went away cause the food went down to my stomach and then we stopped laughing. pretty funny in the moment. :)

do you have a favorite hymn?  

my favorite hymn would be........"let zion in her beauty rise" pg. 41. they sang it at the nauvoo pagent and i loved it!!!!

what was your service opportunity this week?   

well we were able to put on some waiters and wade through some water to a members house that was flooded and help pump and suck out the water from their house with a shop vac. it was pretty cool to see the power of the river but also sad to see so many houses that were being affected by the flood.

Thank you Judy for sending this photos.  LOVE them.