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Week 7 - Frisbees and Free Food

Hey guys!

This week was pretty uneventful for the most part. I got to meet a bunch of new Elders, two of which are just starting their training. It's weird to think that I'm not the new guy anymore. Lyndon has been progressing well and will probably be baptized this transfer if he continues to recover from his stroke. The climax of this week was probably Saturday when I got to play frisbee with some friends. They were pretty good, but nowhere near as fast or athletic as the kids at BYU, which made things a lot more fun for me. It felt good to get back on the field and win some games cause I had just gotten smoked by my D1 recruit companion in volleyball. 
My companion is the new DL which means I'm gonna get to go on exchanges weekly, which will be a total blast, especially with all the new missionaries. I also got several opportunities to mend relationships with the other Elders in my district which was great. Little backstory: all the other Elders hated me all of the first transfer. It all started when they invited me and my companion to a sleepover which is a big no no especially with our mission President. I almost could've been fine with that, but then they specifically told me that if I chose not to come, don't tell the mission president. So at this point I'm an accomplice if I don't do anything, because I know it's wrong and they know it's wrong, and they told me not to do anything about it. So the next week when the Mission President came and interviewed all the Elders, I told him what was up. He confronted the other Elders and they knew it was the "new guy" that snitched, so they all pretty much hated my guts. Fortunately, with the area being nuked and half of everyone leaving, the other Elders started to accept me as one of the guys that had been there a little while and through kindness and some well placed gifts, I was able to establish some friendships.
In my ward down here, they use an online schedule to plan member meals, but a lot of members don't know what it is or how it works so we don't get fed much. This week we decided to take matters into our own hands by printing off a calendar and passing it around. We now have several more meals and we intend to guilt everyone else into feeding us too. Just kidding, but seriously there are like 5 families that are signed up to feed us 20 times and no one else signed up. 
Lyndon gets to come home this next week! We are going to help his wife pack up his wheelchair and bring him home for what I think is the first time since his stroke. He is progressing very well. We read him Alma 31-32, then he had us read Helaman 5:12 and 3 Nephi 10-11. He is such a brilliant guy even though he can't really talk.  He can still teach us as much if not more than we are teaching him. On a side note, it is a little weird teaching him, because he has had 25ish years of missionaries teaching him and we have no clue what all they've taught him. 
We also got to meet with Miss Luke and talk about church. She was so impressed!  She told us that her church isn't like it used to be, so she will definitely look into the church. She agreed to come to church with us this next week and I know she is gonna love it. Miss Luke is Tina's aunt by the way. We haven't met with Tina since she turned down our baptismal invitation and we told her to pray and see if what we are saying is true and if God wants her to join the church. We aren't sure how her prayer went, but we are going to err on the side of optimism.
Sorry this weeks email has been short and kinda different but it was a short week and not a lot happened. Thank you everyone that has emailed me.  I love getting emails and if anyone wanted to write me I'd love that too. My address is 100 Bon Air Dr Apartment 508 Augusta GA 30907 

-Elder Smith

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The snapping booth at a park we found


A hi ing booth I found also at the park


A joke I found that actually helped in a lesson




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