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Dear family and friends!

To use missionary language, this week was flippin' fantastic! SO so so good. Where to start....OH! The beginning would be good. Tuesday: Skills and Interviews. Where we get together with our zone and learn skills while President Scott does interviews. Its the best. I love it. In my interviews with Pres. Scott we talked about my struggling area and what we have been trying and how we could see success. We talked and I got some great ideas and it was awesome. President also said that we had been laying the foundation for a great work and that it had been lain and that the time was soon that we would see the blessings. He is crazy inspired folks. The rest of the day went well and I remember none of it. :)

Wednesday: I don't know if I mentioned this but one of the members gave a a referral a while back and all we knew was what he looked like and that he hangs out at a particular Timmy's. So after weeks of camping out and trying to find him....WE DID!! We met him and his friend and both are interested and want to come to church to check things out! Two new investigators! Such a miracle. Great day.

Thursday: This day was good. We had two return appointments with people tracted into during the week and one bombed but the other went through. :D! But he just wanted to know what we believe and "wasn't interested in changing" :< Oh well. Still a good day.

Friday: Unforgettable. Seriously. I went on exchanges with the Farsi Elders and they cover the entire mission (technically the world) and I went to their area. It. Was. Awesome. We rode the subway to downtown Toronto. Skyscrapers, tons of people, the whole nine yards. We went and talked with people at University downtown and ate lunch in Dundas Square, which is essentially Toronto's Time's Square. So cool! So many people and so much fun. I was very overwhelmed but had a wonderful time. People are nice there. Weird. The rest of the day was spent going around and talking to people. They are everywhere down there. Every corner has someone to talk to. I'm so jealous. It was a super great day.

Saturday: Elder Hegemann was sick this day so the morning was spent helping him feel better. It was weird to not be out and going but it was needed. Once he was feeling better we went out tracting and found someone!! That never happens! Usually they say comeback and then bomb or aren't really interested but he said come in! His name is Andy and he is really awesome. He is from Trinidad and is looking for a church and accepted the invitation to be baptized!!!!! You can not imagine the weight that has been lifted off my shoulders. It makes all the difference to have really strong investigators. It gives you something to be excited about. I am so happy. We'll see how things go this week. The work has really picked up and things are getting exciting. Just in time for transfers. Next week. Already. Time goes so so so fast. It blows my mind. Hopefully because I am training I won't leave. I'm very much hoping to be in this area with Elder Hegemann for at least another transfer. Crossing my fingers. :)

Sunday: Uneventful but good. Ate dinner at a member's whose son is serving in the same mission as Scott Call. Small world.

I'm out of time. I love you all. Do good things!

Love,

Elder E. Smith

Canada Fact: They love green olives here. They are at subway and all the restaurants. You have to ask for black olives because they default reach for green. Interesting.

Luvs