Okay so....... highlight of the week TAMARA GOT BAPTIZED! And yeah. More later. This week was great, it looks like everyone who was not in the airforce had a good halloween - cory... well, please keep all of my clothes locked away from him. good job at wrestling buddy! way to go. chaddy - i'm glad you got to judge for debate and thank you so much for all of your emails! court - learn from chad's example. write to your sister. more than two lines. dall - i'm so sorry you had to be on campus for so long.. i'm really glad i'm not in school right now! chels - you have the cutest kids in the world. i LOVE the pictures and i can't look at your blog :( so i'm really glad that you printed some off. thank you so so so so much!
okay. so last week feels like FOREVER ago, but i should probably start getting used to that. on monday sister smith and i went to go get some winter clothes and we got our boots for the winter -- they are apple bottom boots :) :) i love ny. so much. and that is all i have to say about that. so this week sister smith and i were walking to one of our appointments and we got stopped by some guy that started talking to us - he works as a barber in a place called the cocoa mane. well, as the name implies -- they mostly do hair for african american people. so this guy asked me if i would model for the cocoa mane. i told him thank you but i can't -- i laughed pretty hard though because i'm not the typical cocoa mane model -- maybe he just didn't put his glasses on though.
this week our zone started practicing our musical number for the mission wide christmas conference.... we all know how i seriously hate singing. WELL, we were practicing and i had to sing by myself for everyone and we had to sing forever and yeah. God is real to be able to give me the strength to do that :) and Tamara asked me to sing the musical number for her baptism. thankfully i worked it so that the hermanas, sister smith, AND the elders to sing with me. and it worked out!
so for some of the service we do we get to sing for a lady that is in a nursing home -- more singing!!!!!! but it was SO cute. we sang for her and she prayed for us like always and she WENT off about you all. she prayed for my nephews and my brothers and sisters and parents and she told me to make sure to take care of you. i told her i would :)
WELL, now for Tamara. She was so stressed and nervous on Sunday. it was quite the ride and we prayed A LOT for everything to go smoothly.... basically i didn't stop praying after sacrament meeting. but once again - God is real. He REALLY does answer our prayers in so many ways. Tamara was fine. she calmed down and her parents even came to her baptism (her dad is a deacon for some other church) and they were so happy and she was "ecstatic" she came out and just kept saying "did i do it? did i really do it?" and she said she felt like she was on top of the world. the best part was she said "WOW!!!!!!!!! i feel like micheal jackson!" haha. i guess micheal jackson and baptism now have something in common. little did i know. dad, you are SO right. getting investigators to baptisms is AWESOME. we had one investigator come yesterday and it was really good. we are meeting with her tonight and we are really really excited! i will let you know what happens next week!
Halloween was good. President had all of us come in at 5 - that happens on Halloween and New Year's Eve and that's it. So we are supposed to plan for the week and then kind of do whatever. that NEVER happens. ever. but yeah! so last night we finished planning and then went downstairs to the hermanas' apartment and had Hawaiian haystacks that Hermana Reed made for us and homemade idaho potato french fries (made by both sister smiths from idaho... it's kind of really funny to see us shop for potatoes. we're PICKY! we WILL NOT buy potatoes that aren't from idaho and it's just funny) and then we played a card game called "it came to pass" that is a Book of Mormon card game. the bad cards are called desolation and the good cards are charity and mercy. haha. but it was really fun to hang out with them -- i felt SO WEIRD just staying inside and not going out after dinner. but it was really really fun. we were thing one and thing two -- as you can see by the pictures. and yeah! it was good. as for NY, yeah no one cares that the holiday falls on a sunday -- everyone celebrates it on sunday. so not much controversy here -- people do what they want.
well family! i love you all! so so so much! thank you so much for your letters and your support - i can't even tell you how much i appreciate it. I LOVE YOU and i will talk to you next week! BAH! that's the day before transfers... we will see where the Lord needs me, but i'm hoping so bad that it is still in Midwood :)
love you!
sister michelle smith
Okay so here are the pictures of Halloween, yeah me and Sister Smith were Thing One and Thing Two ... how cute i know. And there are some of TAMARA'S BAPTISM!!!!!!!!! It was good :) and the email will follow! oh and there are some that i pulled off Sister Smith's camera, one of the laser lights for the twin towers on sept. 11 and the paint on our faces was making the welcome home banner for a kid from the ward
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