Dear Family,
Things are FANTASTIC here in Windsor!! It was a long week
but extremely worth it. Due to the 5-week transfer we are once again on the
threshold of transfer day. :( I do not want to leave Windsor. Which probably
means I will. Sigh. Good things are happening here and I wish very much to be a
part of them. D&C 4:3 (kind of) "Therefore, if ye have desires to
serve God (in one area) ye are called to (another);" Such is life. No
sense fretting about something that hasn't even happened yet, right? Right.
This week has definitely strengthened my testimony of obedience and God
answering prayers. It is incredible. I love being a missionary. So much.
Monday was good. We had dinner with Al and then had a good
lesson with him and overall it was just a regular, old preparation day.
Tuesday is where things get exciting. We had district meeting in
Leamington and then we started an exchange with the Leamington elders. It was
such a fun exchange. I got to be with Elder Gummow. He was in my MTC district
and so it was fun to be with someone who has been out the same amount of time
as me. It was super neat to see how much we had grown and matured since we left
in June. We taught good lessons and just had a grand time of things. Tuesday
night we got a call from the Chatham Elders saying that their investigator Lisa
agreed to be baptized on Thursday. MIRACLE!! She has been investigating
for a long time so when she commited they jumped on it. Because I am the
District leader, I needed to interview her and we didn't have much time. I
spent a good hour on the phone trying to juggle schedules and to get everything
together so that Lisa could be baptized. Stress. I finally got things worked
out and if everything went perfectly it would have worked. Ha.
Wednesday was CRAZY. Elder Gummow and I spent the morning
talking to people downtown and tracting. It went okay. Nothing stunning. I
spent it wishing I could take all this time we had and add it to the evening.
No such luck :) So at 4:30 ish we met at a carpool lot along the highway and I
got in the car with one of the Chatham elders and Elder Binford took the other
back to Windsor to teach our two lessons back there and the Leamington Elders
went back to their area. Step one went well. Almost. Somehow in the switch both
phones went to Windsor and we were left without a cell phone going to Chatham.
Ugh. Long story short we ended up missing our last lesson of the night because
we couldn't communicate...I would have died if I was born in a time without
cell phones. Truth. Everything else went alright but I was really stressed and
frustrated and mad for the first time in a long time. I don't like being mad.
But, Lisa got baptized so its all good.
Thursday was good. Nothing special.
Friday was really slow. We had planning and pretty much nothing
else. These days stink. I started feeling sick and so the whole day was just a
drag. I got over it though. All is well.
Saturday was slow too. We spent a good hour and a half walking
around in the snow. It was fun but we didn't get much done. We need to conserve
our kilometers so that we stay within our limit for this month so if we can
walk, we walk.
Sunday was awesome. We had a great time at church took
ten minutes for lunch then got right to teaching. Three lessons in a row
in four hours, all with Chinese investigators. First was Cedric. He is awesome.
When he was picking his English name, by the time he got to the C's he was
tired to he just picked Cedric and moved on. Haha. He asked really good
questions and even recorded the lesson so that he could go back and listen
later. Pressure. It went very well and he is really excited to learn more. Then
was David. He was really close to baptism a month ago but he found a Chinese
Church that he likes better. He is getting baptized there...I don't like
dropping investigators. He is really nice and we'll see him once a month maybe
but for now he is no longer interested. Sigh. Then we met with Devon and he is
also great. He asked PERFECT questions for the plan of salvation and we are
teaching him that next week. Then we had dinner with a member which was really
fun then headed out to go talk to people downtown. This is where mom should
stop reading. :) We didn't get mugged but we saw it happen. We were walking
down the street and saw a man steal a woman's purse. I stopped the guy and
asked him if that was his and, obviously, it wasn't. Miracles of miracles a
police officer drove past right then and we flagged him down and they took care
of it. We spent the rest of the night in the back of cruisers giving our
statements. It was crazy. I love Windsor.
You are going to have to wait for next week to hear the real
miracle because we are getting kicked out so that they can use the family
history center for...family history. Tell you then!!
Work hard, Study hard,
Pray hard! do good things!
Love,
Elder E. Smith
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