Family!
Thanks for the great email, I'm glad things are good back home. Wow Dad, that was a great story, I'm super happy to hear about that. I have thought about the Muellers multiple times throughout my mission but still haven't had any contact with them. I hope they are all doing well and hope Tim's mom get better and that it can bring a missionary opportunity. Also congrats to Katlyn, I hope they do well together. And that's crazy that Michael will be home this week, I guess I am the next one, unfortunately.
So this week has been great! Pretty crazy too as you will see from the picture. We once again went out to Bundy's ranch and got talking to the security guys who stay on Clivens front lawn. There were some new guys this time and they are all ex military and super nice. They all have a Christian background, except for one named Buddah who believes in a lot of things. Well we were sitting there talking about military and things like that and then one of the girls that was there says, well you guys are like ministers right? So are you going to share something with us? We were like, perfect, you got it! So Elder Beddoes shared a scripture that brought up some good conversation, then I shared a different scripture that brought up some really good conversation. And they were just itching for more, so right there we taught the whole 1st lesson to 6 of the people there. We kind of felt like we were standing on a box preaching to a crowd haha. But they accepted it well and half of them took copies of the Book of Mormon and said they would read. It was a cool experience because they are feeling the spirit at Clivens house like they have never felt before. And they have literally seen the Bundys prayers answered as they have gone through this whole experience. I know there's a lot of bad talk about the Bundys and everything going on, but if there is anything good that's coming out of this event that's taking place, it is with the people who have came and seen how an LDS family handle hard situations and have faith in God. It's cool to see. They are also having a big BBQ tonight and invited everyone at church (half of Bunkerville ha) so we hope we can go to that if it doesn't conflict with our appointment.
One last thing, we are super sore today because crossfit was a really good workout this morning! We show up and had to do the following:
first off run 1 mile, 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, then finish with another mile. So as you can see, it keeps us in shape!!! Well I love you all and hope your week is great. Love Elder Smith