25 days left

hey, this week was ok. we had a young lady who is friends with some members in the laurals group and they invited her to learn and so we had a first lesson and it was the most spiritual lesson of my mission. it was amazing! we were all crying and laughing too and it was just awesome!! and then we had the second lesson which  she learned about how God loves us and how He has shown that love through the Plan of Salvation! haha it was just as powerful and spiritual! so we fasted for her and her parents yesterday, that her parents will be accepting and that she will have confidence in telling her parents. so we are getting ready to break our fast and eat right before the work of salvation we get a text from one of the girls that invited her saying that she wants to hold off on the lessons for now. she now knows who God is and is very thankful for us in helping her to see that but she doesn't see religion in her life in the future. 

can i just say.............AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SATAN IS GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!  

thats me venting to you. :`(  

Well people still have their agency.

Thats about it for me here! 

well i love you so much!!!

love, 

Elder Smith

questions:

how is that 14 yo boy?  Progressing?  

no not anymore. he had to go to school and he lives there. i don't know the details. thats just what he said. 

you mentioned in your last letter that you prayed to find someone or have someone find you...don't you always pray for that?  

yeah but this time it just seemed like we had been saying it and so we said it with some meaning and he found us. 

do you know who your new mission president will be?   

yeah his name is President and Sister Jensen. they will be here on friday! crazy!

are you trying to get to the temple one last time?   

no i can't since im more than three hours away. i will go with the group that i came out with and the sisters who will be going home and that will be on the 9th of july. so i can just wait. :)

what're you doing for pday today?   

well prolly nothing really. we just had a huge rain storm hit us as we were here in the library. it shut down the library for a few mins. kinda scary watching the rain try and break through the windows and get in here. 

have you noticed any tender mercies lately?  I love those.  I have had sooo many but I forget about them. I should write them down.  

well a tender mercy could be that young lady and us teaching her and feeling the spirit so strongly. ha but we'll just keep it at that. :) another one is that we were able to send out a mass text saying hey it's the missionaries, could we come by some time and share a message with you. and a lot of people responded! so we have lots of appointments this week.