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| My favorite sign in Tuscaloosa ;) Thanks for the dress Mom! |
Hmm.. I wish I had something great to say, but honestly it was a pretty rough week! Hhaa.
We
had this crazy situation with an investigator, who wasn't really an
investigator. This guy reached out to us via phone to learn more about
the church. He had this whole elaborate story, and we ended up teaching
him quite a bit over the course of three days. Well, our phone stopped
working all of the sudden mid week, so we barrowed the Hermanas phone
for our 4th lesson with this guy. When we started typing in his number,
it came up as a saved contact in their phone. Same last name, different
first name. Long story short, we found out that this guy calls different
missionaries every few months and comes up with a new story, and
totally puts on this act (like tears and everything) while we teach him
the Restored Gospel.
Ugh. So horrible.
Here's
the cool thing about this. We had interviews this week, and during our
time with Sister Saisbury she trained us on some technology that our
mission is expected to receive soon. During the training she shared
Elder Boyd K. Packer's quote: "you will not make a major mistake without first being warned by the promptings of the Spirit."
Like
I mentioned, our phone had stopped working. We had several messages we
needed to check, but couldn't get to them because the touch screen went
out. Which is why we had to borrow the Hermanas phone for our
appointment with this guy. It's honestly a good thing he didn't answer
this time, because in the mean time we had discovered his fraud. That
would not have been a pretty conversation.
Well,
once we had been "warned" our phone started working again!! Haha.. just
long enough for us to check the messages we needed to!
It
was pretty amazing. I'm so grateful for Heavenly Father's love and care
for us. He knows how much of ourselves we put into loving and teaching
people about the Gospel. He was not going to let this guy and his
ill-intentions take up any more of our time. I know the spirit is with
us in this work. We couldn't do it without Him!
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| We needed a little retail therapy after our disappointment. We bought this puzzle I've had my eye on in one of the boutiques downtown, and did the whole thing that night. Livin' on the wild side ya'll. |
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| Nothing a little Oscar Wilde can't fix. |
It seems like everything is changing too fast now! The leaves, the students, the YSA branch.
President
and Sister Sally (Branch pres.) announced yesterday that they will be
moving back to UT. I'll miss them! They've become family over these past
(almost) 6 months. The students all seem to be super busy with the end
of the semester coming up, and everyone going home for the Holidays. The
changing of the season seems to be bringing in the last chapter of my
mission.
We
had a sweet lesson with some of Sis. Tunuufi's relatives, the
Lavatai's. They are the sweetest people ever. They moved here from
Hawaii about 5 years ago. Brother Lavatai is the only one not baptized.
We have a feeling that is why Sister T is here for her last transfer.
The Lavatai's have a daughter out on a mission, and they really want to
be sealed as a family when she gets home. We're going to see what we can
do to help them prepare, and help Brother Lavatai make the changes he
needs in order to enter the waters of baptism. Oh, I love this sweet
family. Brother Lavatai has a beautiful Samoan accent, but is a pretty
reserved guy. He doesn't speak too much. We were taking a picture with
them, and Elder Johnson was like "I don't want to be in it, pictures
make me look old." And all of the sudden we hear Brother Lavatai pipe in
"You ARE old..." Hahaha, we were all dying.
Well
I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!! I love you and am so
thankful for the gift of laughter and happiness we find in our families
and friends.
Love Sister Smith
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