Elder Smith in South Carolina

  Hey everyone! So this week was by far one of the most fun weeks Elder Christensen and I have had together. We started out our week at the park playing football with some locals who didn't think I could run, so they stuck me at qb.  After a short game, that mostly involved dropped passes to open receivers, I decided to remind them that sometimes white dudes in dress shoes and slacks can be fast too. After that, we focused our week on finding out which members of our ward are inactive and which ones have moved by knocking doors from the ward directory. My door approach has definitely improved since I got out here, hence the title of this week's email. We met a lot of cool people and even though it was pretty boring a lot of the time it was productive work. The majority of the rest of the week was spent inviting people to the ward fiesta that we had on Saturday night. Last minute I felt like we should invite a grey dot named Jamaal that I had only met o...

  Hey Everyone! This week has been intense! I'm leading the area and training for anyone that's behind.  Also I'm still in Augusta, Georgia and I'm convinced I'll probably just be here my whole mission, which wouldn't be too bad. Highlights from the week: -Sister Miller fed us again and gave us Cuban sandwiches that were so good. As a wise Elder McArthur would have said "these are so good imma smack ma grandma!" (Don't worry grandma I would never smack you over a sandwich) (sorry just reread that take 2: don't worry grandma I would never smack you over anything ever) (that applies to you too Nana). -We got to play ultimate frisbee with some new friends, and while my team did lose it was super fun, and I had some nice highlight plays. -It has rained so much recently that we are more surprised when it isn't raining.  At first, we hated it, but now Elder Christensen and I are loving the rain. -In order to increase positivity, Elder Christensen...

 Hey everyone! I'm so sorry this email is a week late!  It didn't send last week for some reason. I apologize sincerely and promise this week's email will make up for it probably. I promise there will be a spiritual aspect to this email but first we have to talk about pizza. Throughout my life there have been many debates about which restaurant makes the best pizza. I cannot say that I have ended that debate, but step aside Monty Python, because this Elder Christiansen and I found the Holy Grail of pizza. Sister Miller is the wife of Lyndon who was baptized a couple weeks back. We have kept in close contact with them ever since the baptism. Sister Miller believes strongly in feeding the missionaries and has had us over nearly as many times as the rest of the ward combined. This last time when we went over to her house, she promised us pizza. Now I consider myself a rather knowledgeable person when it comes to the field of pizza.  I have eaten my fair s...