Happy Halloweeeen!!!
Hope everyone's been soaking up the festivities for me!! My companion and I will be shutting ourselves in around 7 o'clock tonight (President's orders), to watch church videos and eat ice cream till we pass out.. party hard ya'll! Stay safe ya hear??
Sometimes we'll be out walking along the sides of dusty weedy roads, looking for people to teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and my thoughts will go back to my life in SLC, with friends and family close, and all the free time in the world, and I'll think to myself, "SELF, you have really lost your mind haven't you??? Get back to the double wide, pack your bags and go home to reality!!" I think about my friends and siblings who remember what my life was like before, and I'm sure they must also think I've lost my mind ;) and I don't blame them! I would think the exact same thing, had I not experienced the things I have over the past year for myself.. It's a very bizarre thing to me, to be thinking and talking about "religion" so much. But the reality is there is no other force in existence by which the deepest of sorrows can be turned to joy. He truly is the Master Healer.
I'm so grateful for the personal witness I've been given, which the Holy Ghost brings back to me every time I start to doubt the reality of the Plan this work is helping to fulfill. I'm learning SO much, all the time. The scriptures are powerful you guys. (incase you didn't already know this). When we read, we show faith, which allows the Holy Ghost to teach us.
So we've been looking for this one family since I got here. About ten years ago missionaries taught the whole family, and the three siblings ended up getting baptized with the permission of the parents. Eventually though, the father decided he didn't want the missionaries over anymore, and the kids stopped coming to church a few months later. BUT the few members that live in Red Bay have stayed really close to all of them, so when Sisters were put in the area they asked us to try again. Sister Baird and I never did find them, and Sister Nielsen and I weren't having any luck until one day we decided to try calling the number we'd already tried many times. They answered! Turns out two of the siblings (with their husbands and kids) are all living together now, and said we could come see them later that evening, but to call and get the address on the way.. We were pretty sure they were going to back out. I understand how impossible and crazy it feels, when truth and peace from long ago starts seeking you out again.. We continued with our daily tracting, this time in some projects we hadn't covered yet. The third door we knocked on happen to be THIS FAMILY!! and it was just 20 minutes before our scheduled appointment :) such a blessing and miracle.
The skies here are out of this world. Seriously, almost every sunset is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Reminds me of one of my favorite scriptures. Alma 30:44 "..all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator."
We didn't take many pictures this week.. BUT I attached some pics of the inside of our lovely trailer. Have I already shown you?? None of the lights work, so we live by candle light.. Just kidding, we have lamps and I bought some string lights to liven up the cave. Cute right??
Ah, I just love you. I'm so grateful for my family and friends. Remember to pray ok?? Even if just for a desire to believe. Know that I know there truly is a Heavenly Father listening, and that Jesus Christ, our brother, is always pleading our case. They love us, and everyone deserves to understand that kind of love.
Sister Smith
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