Hi Family!!!!!!
WELL, we got the call and both of us are staying in Midwood. yeah.... that was a HUGE suprise because companions never ever stay together for 3 transfers. soooo - we were preparing to say goodbye to everyone and told all of them to come to church to say goodbye -- and they all came! Winford came back to church again and he said he is coming back next week too -- which was a really good suprise! The mom of the little boy that I teach piano to came to church and it was SO GOOD to see her and several other people came to church just to see us off -- well funny joke! we got you to come to church AND we are both staying :) but yeah. it is really really fulfilling to go to church and the ENTIRE ward is freaking out because they think you are leaving. we had a lot of people say that they were praying that we would both stay -- it is very humbling to hear those prayers :)
SO this week -- we saw Sister Denniston and she cracks me up so much. She just barely had cataract surgery, but she told us that if we didn't come over to her house to eat then she would give us the belt. we told her that she was going to get the belt because she wasn't supposed to be cooking... it didn't go over very well. when we were checking on her the day that she had surgery she made another lady go and get us food and she got so mad because she didn't make the sandwiches "properly" :) they didn't have pickles and radishes and she served them with juice and sister denniston said that it is cold and so we did NOT need juice - we needed hot chocolate. we laughed our heads off as we heard this whole fight in the kitchen and them yelling "FRIDA SIT DOWN!!!!!" and "you are going to get a punch to the mouth if you keep going!" i LOVE the people here and i am so glad that i didn't have to say goodbye to them. Sister Denniston also started dancing in the kitchen - she is 80 and she was really dancing! it was so cute!
OH we had a lesson with Winford this week and we asked him what his favorite scripture was -- it was Proverbs 21 (read verse 9 and 19) we almost started laughing so hard when we read it together!!!!!! haha.
Highlight miracle of the week: lesson with Blaise.
Not sure if i told you about Blaise, but if i did here is a recap. met him on the train. talked to him. invited him to listen to us and come to church. he met with us and said he really didn't know why -- he never does this stuff. well, that was three weeks ago. ish. time gets incredibly warped out here. but yeah we met with him last week and he was really wary about saying yes to being baptized -- he didn't really have that drive or want to DO something about what we were saying. he just wanted to read the Book of Mormon to study and research it. well, he is now several chapters into second Nephi and when we met he asked all of these questions about baptism and told us how he thinks it is so important and now he is praying about a date to get baptized. yeah. THAT is how important the Book of Mormon is. I just never got it before and i don't understand why! Read the Book of Mormon and you WILL get a testimony or strengthen the one you have. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the time i have every day to read my scriptures. This week especially I have had so many answers to my prayers through the scriptures. Love it. Love the gospel. LOVE miracles :)
another miracle of the week:
sunday we got up at 6:30 and i was thinking you know, sometimes i wish that the alarm going off was a joke. maybe it will magically be 5 or something so i can go back to sleep..... YEAH! then i looked at the phone and it said 530 and i realized that i could sleep for an hour! it was a good morning :)
WELL family - i love you. Thank you SO much to everyone who looks at my blog and writes me -- your letters mean the world to me. and yeah - that is a guilt trip for all of you that are slacking :) :) kidding.
I LOVE YOU. Christ is real and His atonement is the most precious gift we can ever have. The gospel is absolutely incredible and it is the answer to all of life's problems. God is real and He DOES hear our prayers.
Love you
Sister Mich Smith
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