Hey family!
Thanks for the email and the love and support. It was great to see you on Mothers Day and I hope it was a good day. I'm so glad that Dad is feeling better. I'm also glad that Grandpa didn't hurt himself while cutting down a tree. Janell, no stress, and Alex get better with your broken arm.
So this week we have been doing the usual teaching members and things like that. But we have also been introducing a program that Sister Ahlander has been teaching us, and getting all the members familiar with it. It's called the "Willing and Brief", and it's meant to help us do missionary work a lot easier. Simply, the members need to start using the term, "Will you be willing to listen to a brief message about-------------- (something pertaining to the Gospel)?" "There's two missionaries that can come by and talk to you about it". That's the basic gist of it, but we've already seen success from it since we've been teaching the members about it and we are talking about it in Sacrament next Sunday. The guy that we taught a couple of times that's here for Bundy came back after leaving for awhile, so we will start teaching him again. And we went out to talk to a guy nick named 'little dog' that we gave a Book of Mormon to a couple weeks ago. He's been reading it so that's exciting. We're still trying to meet with some of the security team that lives in Brother Bundy's front yard, who are interested, we just need to catch them at a good time. So the work is going well here and progressing.
We had zone conference last week and it was probably the best one I have had on my mission, along with my last one: (the training's really hit us and taught us a lot of things). I also had to give my departing testimony, which was not something I wanted to do, because I don't really want to leave ha. But life goes on right!
Well thanks again for all you do for me and I hope things go well this week for all of you. I love you.
 Elder Smith