Thank you for the packages Mom. I received the flag and the cassette player. I appreciate it. I feel really bad for Alex and I want his family to know I'm praying for them. Some things that happen in life are unexplainable, the Lord works in His own ways and all we can do is have faith and follow Him and it'll all work out. I'm also hoping that the doctors can find what is wrong with grandpa.
The ward is great her and we are able to be pretty involved in the things that go on. My first week here we were able to MC the ward talent show, that was fun haha. Yesterday we were able to teach the young women and it was a great lesson! Elder Wilkerson, that we live with, baptized a guy about a month ago name Shu. He's from China and here to go to school, about 26. One day he walked into church and just wanted to have a religion. So they taught and baptized him within a month. Now he is in our ward and we have the privilege of working with him. He just received a calling yesterday to be a stake translator for mandarin Chinese! It is an answer to prayers because we have a Chinese guy in our ward, not a member, who doesn't speak a word of English, but he comes to church every week. We were able to go to his home Saturday with Shu and get to know him a little bit. We are working on getting more things in Chinese because he wants to learn more. Once we get the things we need we will have Shu translate for us while we teach. It's an amazing thing to see the excitement and desire Shu has to be a part of this gospel and do everything he can to help, right after he was baptized. He has even mentioned the thought of going on a mission as well, after he finished school, before he goes back to China. Then last night we received a text from the Bishop and were told that there's a 10 year old girl from a less active family in the ward that wants to get baptized before she goes through surgery in a month. So we are very excited for that and looking forward to meeting with them this week.  I kow we are being blessed right now and I am so grateful for this time to have to be here as the Lords servant. Thanks again for the things you do for me and all the support. Oh and Janell thanks for the gift card for a smoothie, we have one of those pretty close and I'm excited to use it. I love you all. Elder Logan Smith
PS Our area is pretty close to the airport, so there are big jets taking off right over our apartment all day and all night....It's awesome! haha