Family!
It's been a great week and I want to thank Mom for the cookies, you send too many things!! haha but they were good. I'm so happy to hear Payton is already a zone leader, he's a champ! I knew he would get far quick. And I just heard from Ryan that he's going to be training next transfer! I'm so proud of him! As for me, the work is progressing and we started teaching the same family again. It was Stake conference yesterday and we got Bishop Rose to drive her and the kids to church, they loved it!  I was so happy to have them there. We had to explain to her in the last lesson why she needed to be baptized again even though she was already baptized as a child. She was a little standoff-ish at first but then understood why the proper authority is needed for baptizm. Her children want to be baptized also. I look forward to the future with them.
We had a mission tour last Wednesday and Larry Echo Hawk from the first quorum of the seventy came to talk and give us a training. It was amazing, him and his wife told about their conversion stories to the church and the spirit was strong. President and Sister Black also gave a training which was just as good. I love them, they are amazing people and they make us all feel like their sons and daughters. I'm glad you could see some of my pictures on Sister Blacks blog, she said she puts a lot on there but I haven't checked yet.
For Thanksgiving we were invited to Bishop Rose's house and I'm excited! It is a lot different being away from home but this already feels like home as well. Bishop Rose is so awesome, he's a young bishop much like Bishop Westwood back home, and I look up to him a lot. His son is preparing for a mission and has come with us a few times to teaching appointments, he's a good kid.
I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving with family and friends and I want you to know how thankful I am for the household I came from and how much all of you do for me. I'm so blessed to be here serving the Lord and wouldn't change it for anything. I have learned much and will continue to learn so much more that will bless my life and my families lives in the futures. I have a strong testimony of the Gospel or 'good news' of Jesus Christ that allows all of us to be cleansed from sin and gain salvation in the life to come. I have been given so many things in my life because of the gospel and want to share this with everyone I meet. I love you all,   Elder Smith