Your favorite email of the week from your favorite missionary in NYC!!!!!!! :)

FAMILY!

okay so i cannot believe that UTAH STATE BEAT BYU IN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT?! That is so sweet. Yeah, I tutored all of those players! Go aggies :)

Anyways, this week -- basically another week as a missionary which is another week that is really truly incredible. Let me just tell you family - when Elder Holland said that the blessings of serving the Lord full-time are sweet; well yeah. He is incredibly right. Now I just have to remember what actually happened this week.... First, I got a package from the fam! and i LOVED LOVED LOVED it! Because our apartment is new we don't actually have curtains so the skeleton tablecloth got put to really good use and it is now our curtains! :) I love it. and i just really loved my package.

Tamara took up a lot of our week again because we are preparing her for her baptism this Sunday. She let us meet her family which was a really big blessing and it is cool that she trusts us that much. REALLY good that she let us meet them because she hadn't quite told them that she was getting baptized. she told them that there was a baptism, but she didn't tell them that it was hers. soo - we gently persuaded her to tell her family. and her brother is interested in hearing more and her parents -- well, we haven't talked to them hardly at all but don't you worry - the spirit will tell them they should be baptized too.

Interviews with President Nelson were this week - I'm just always amazed. Heavenly Father has set EVERYTHING up so that we are taken care of. And He always puts inspired people in our lives to answer our prayers. I love President and Sister Nelson and they are such a blessing to me and all of the missionaries!

LITTLE CEASAR'S opened up in our area! and we took full advantage of the opportunity and got some this week. i never knew that little ceasar's could be so heavenly!!! we loved it.

I taught piano this week again -- yep. Miracles still happen if i can teach piano.

We had an investigator Rachel come to church with her son this week and she LOVED it! and i was so grateful to all of our members. they just welcomed her like she really was their sister and it made all the difference. the members in this ward are awesome - they always look for people that are new or people that are having a hard time or someone that they can help. love them. love midwood. love the mission.

Well, life is really really good. Missionary work is incredible. I am SO GLAD that we know that families can be together forever. SO GLAD that we know that there is a living prophet and that God hasn't just left us to do whatever. SO GLAD that we have the Book of Mormon and that we can read about the gospel so simply. SO GLAD that we know that our lives actually have meaning. SO GLAD that i have such an awesome family and friends.

love you all

sister mich smith