I'll title this Shari, because this has been a stressful week!
First off, thank you so much everyone for the letters and emails, and for the plums Mom and jerky and pics. I loved them. Dad I love the letters you send, they always have the best advice. Elder Parker from Rigby is in my district, he's awesome!
As for Shari, we've been working with her every day this week to get her to stop smoking, fasting and praying, she has such a strong testimony and such a strong desire to get baptized, the only problem is she's been smoking since she was 11 and it's the hardest habit for her to kick. She stopped for a day or two and was doing good. We set everything up for baptism for Saturday. But a day went by and we went over there, she was so depressed because she just couldn't do it and had a smoke that same day. We had to postpone the baptism, she was beating herself up that she let herself down. And we were depressed too. We spent a lot of the day Friday talking with her and just hanging out at the house to help make things better. But we haven't seen her for 2 days now. We still go over and talk to her 3 sons, age 18, 13 and 3. But it's been so sad to see her go through this whole thing. We're continuing to do all we can to help her get baptized.
We got a brand new 2012 Ford Fusion on Saturday straight from the dealership in Salt Lake with 511 miles on it. It's nice! We might be way too spoiled! But we are having struggles finding investigators too. There is a lot of members here, but there's also 50% activity rate in both wards. Other than that we're moving along down here. I'm gonna make some milkshakes with the plums! I got the apt cleaned probably the cleanest its ever been! Here is a quote from Elder M. Russell Ballard--"My mission belongs to the Lord. With all my heart I will give my energy and my time to the Master because I love him. Therefore, I am going to look at everyday not as mine, but as His. I will treat each minute of His time with respect and focus and with the dedication that it deserves"
Thanks again to everyone for everything sent to me! Love Elder Smith
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