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 share of pizza, and I can tell what should be allowed on pizza and what should be considered a sin. A week ago, I would have told you that if you looked at a pizza and all you could see was peppers and mushrooms with an occasional piece of sausage that you are in fact sinning. Then if you had asked if it would be alright to cover a pizza with spinach so that it was the only thing that you could see, I probably would have reported you to the nearest authorities. I, Elder Andrew R. Smith, stand before you all to say I was wrong. Sister Miller fed us the greatest pizza that man may have ever tasted. If you are ever in Georgia at all, I recommend you hunt down Sister Miller and beg her for pizza!
General Conference was amazing! We watched the first session with Emma who is a young friend of ours. She is on date for October 21st and we are confident that she will be ready to be baptized on that day. She loved conference and said she will take notes during the next session. The rest of conference we watched at the Kotter's house in their home theatre. It was great. We loved the reclining seats, adjustable headrests and the middle seat table with a light for taking notes. They are also firm believers in being fed physically while you are being fed spiritually. I definitely agree with them.
My favorite talk was probably Elder Holland's talk about being all in. Yes Caden, you heard right. We need to go ALL IN. I also loved the talk about improving 1% every day. I have like 600 days left in my mission. I'm not sure how to do the math there to calculate how many times better I would be after 600 days. Taylor if you wanna figure that out for me, I'd appreciate it. (If you think its 600% you are adorable and are 100% right).
That's all I've got for this week, but remember I love you all! Keep on keeping on and moving the work of the Lord forward!
- Elder Smith
Elder Christiansen and I
Brother and Sister Miller
(a pic Sister Miller randomly send me during the week)
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