Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Chips on your shoulder



So Sister Clark and I were moving out of our apartment, and we were

carrying stuff out to our car. She had a big of chips leaning on her
shoulder. Of course, my response was, "Man, you sure have a lot of
chips on your shoulder."

Anyways, this week was kinda different with everything we had going
on. So we moved on Tuesday, and we moved into a member's home. It's
good, but different. There are definitely pros and cons to it all.
Pro: wifi, which means emailing while laying on a comfy couch. Con:
the thermostat is usually at 80°, but sometimes at 84°... I also feel
like I have 2 strikes right now because I apparently didn't shut the
front door all the way when we left one morning (because it is a
little harder to shut), and then I also put a canned drink in the
freezer and forgot about it and it exploded... So now I am on edge for
strike 3.

Wednesday, we had a Fall Festival for Mountain Vista Ward, which was
great. We had a less active member come, which is the first time she
has come to something in a long time. There were also lots of other
non members there too!

We had MLC on Thursday. We found out that sometime in November, our
mission is supposed to be getting smartphones! We will keep our iPads,
but it will start a transition to all missionaries having smartphones
instead of tablets. We don't know how immediately it will be though
before all missionaries just have smartphones. But I love going to MLC
because it is an extra opportunity to learn and grow. We also had
multiple lessons, and I think we finally figured out the trick to keep
the Wolf family focused and engaged in the lessons (we have had a hard
time the last few weeks focusing everyone).

On Friday, we had an STL meeting in the morning. It started off
talking about how God is always aware of us and knows what we need. It
made me reflect on how many times I have seen God's hand and known
that He is aware of me. I also like a statement that was made. It was:
"If you don't believe that you have a loving Heavenly Father, why
would anything else matter? If you don't believe that He loves you,
why would you want to return to live with Him?" This is so true. If He
doesn't love us and we don't love God, it wouldn't make sense to want
to go back to His presence. This is why as missionaries, the first
point in the first lesson, so the first things we usually teach, is
"God is Our Loving Heavenly Father." That's the basis, and because He
loves us, His Son, Jesus Christ, was sent to earth to atone for our
sins. Because He loves us, He wants us to have this knowledge, the
knowledge of the gospel. Everything is based off of those statements.

On Saturday, we helped with the Salt River Cleanup Project. It seems
like it wasn't too long ago that I was helping with this, but it was a
year ago... But it was fun. It was interesting. Sister Clark and I,
along with 2 other people we were with, went to pick up a blanket that
we thought was trash. As we were pulling it up, we saw a skeleton of
what we think was a dog 😐. So I guess we found someone's dog that had
been buried for some time. Later that night, we had Skyline's Trunk or
Treat. I think Skyline is my favorite ward that I have served in. I
just feel like I am home in that ward. There were lots of people that
came, including non members and investigators. They were playing music
though at the party, but it was kinda disappointing because it was
mostly kids singing the songs. Sister Clark called it, "Unsatisfying
Disobedience." If we were going to listen to music, it should have at
least been the real thing lol

Last night, we had a lesson with Maria where we went over the
baptismal interview questions. It's a good thing we did this though
because we found out there was a misunderstanding about the Word of
Wisdom. Unfortunately, it means we have to push her baptismal date
back a couple of weeks 😒 Everything else seems to be good for her
though. A small miracle was that her baptism wasn't announced over the
pulpit earlier yesterday. We had talked about doing it while in Ward
Council before sacrament meeting, but then when sacrament meeting came
around, it wasn't announced. Thank goodness!

Hope y'all all have a good week!
Love y'all!
Sister Smith



We acquired dry ice while at the fall festival

When it's 80 inside, you male it cooler yourself lol

Mission Leadership Council pic

Salt River Cleanup

Weekly dog pic?

Haha jk--real weekly dog pic

Face painting. Multiple members did a double take
(Sister Clark did this in about 5 minutes) #artdegree



I thought people only did this for Christmas

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