this week for us was super hectic at the end of it cause we again had mini missionaries and they came the day the new elder came to ankeny. also that day, (thursday) we were able to help a less active guy take care of his yard and do some other service for him and his wife who isn't a member. they have two sons one is 5 and one is 7 i think. the 7 year old has low functioning autism and is such a fun kid. he is very sweet and their 5 year old is just a rambunctious 5 year old. he wanted to show us every movie that he had made on his dads iphone and is was way fun to be there. they made us some burgers and had some chips and just talked about the church and it wasn't really in a threatening way! so awesome we were able to do that. we are going to try to get a lesson with the two of them at the church tomorrow.
so the mini missionaries were way cool! we saw and met them thursday night, got them fridaymorning and took off from there! our meal coordinator was just on fire with setting up meals for every set of elders with their mini missionaries. soooo fun! i wish they did that sort of thing for us in utah. they think that utah is chalk full of converted mormons who know all about missions and things like that but let me tell you i am living experience that it is not always true. :) haha i think ty would like to do that as well. it would be good for him too. the guys that we got were way cool and so they all thought that we were nerds so as we got to know each other and started teaching they finally started warming up to us and realized that it's a wee bit harder than they would have thought it would have been. this was their first time going on a mini mission so it was cool to be their first impression on this called to serve program thing.
so with this scottish boy...he doesn't have a place like at all? like he is homeless? im a bit confused as to why you didn't just say that he should stay there! maybe we could adopt him!!! haha no i don't know the situation but it would be kinda funny. kinda like the blind side but without the pro football part.
i got my trunky papers on friday!!!!! haha thats just my travel itenerary which is sooo super weird.
any ways thats about it for me.
i got my trunky papers on friday!!!!! haha thats just my travel itenerary which is sooo super weird.
any ways thats about it for me.
well thats it for me here!!! i love you all and can't wait to hear back from you guys!!!
love
Elder smith
questions:
new companion's name..where from...how long out?
my new comps name is elder Berthold. he is from kaysville Utah and he has been out for about 19 months now. he will get home when elder smith the younger gets home in october. he's a pretty awesome elder!!! really excited for the work. which makes me even more excited about it!
did you go around and say bye to all the members for elder blackburn?
sorta, he wasn't really that attached to a lot of the families but we did say goodbye to some families that he wanted to say goodbye to . wrote some thank you cards for them and we went to their houses and talked to them and took pics and said goodbye.
how long does President Jorgensen have left on his mission?
the Jergensens have i think only a couple weeks now. i think he goes home at the end of june so i'll have only like 2 weeks with the new mission president. kinda weird.
Wow! You will experience a "changing of the guard" with a new mission president. It is always neat to see what changes occur during that time.
ReplyDeleteTrunky papers - wow! I remember hearing that trunky was something that was used years ago with missionaries. They traveled with trunks - not suitcases. Trunk - with a key. Trunk key ... heading home with a locked trunk. That's what I heard; not sure how true it is.
Mini missionaries! I remember doing that at least 3 times. It was such a neat experience! I would go out on splits with the missionaries weekly after serving the mini mission. It was a a great thing to be busy with! Mini missions should be done more often. I am friends on facebook with a couple of the full-time missionaries I "served with" when I went on my mini-missions when I was a teenager. It wasn't easy finding each other either! Now days, they can send you a friend request and you accept them when you get home (in what ... 39 days?!? crazy!)