So this week was SICK!!!!!!!! I don't know why I thought conference was boring before -- yeah it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously. incredible! but that was the END of the week so those stories have to be at the end of the email :) sorry.
Well, today has been crazy. It seems like Pdays are ALWAYS crazy and never go how you plan them. Eh, whatever. That's life! We almost didn't get to e-mail today because the place that we normally do it wasn't open and none of us have library cards and yeah. it was a little bit of a mess. BUT it turned out just great! I'm typing to you all and yeah. Life is good.
Okay as I think of the week -- well, I can't really remember cool stuff happening until conference so -- so much for the last of the week being the last of the email :)
First I want to say thank you. When Elder Holland was talking about his parents supporting him on his mission -- well I must admit I started crying like a little girl. I cannot imagine being a missionary without the support system I have. And the incredible family I have. And the parents that sacrifice SO much for me to be out here and completely worry free. So... mom and dad THANK YOU! I can't even tell you how much I love you and how much you mean to me. Family - THANK YOU! Your letters keep me going. I am so lucky. SO blessed. And I love you SOOOOOOOOOO much.
Second - we visited a less-active lady who just had her grand-nephew come from Haiti and oh dear. Her poor little nephew can only speak Creole and she is just this funny old lady that is very loud and doesn't care what she says and it cracks us all up. she came to conference with us (after telling us to get her cane so she could beat people with it) and we all went together. she ended up falling in the street on the way which scared the living daylights out of me and i can't describe this story. hopefully one day you will all be able to meet sister e. pierre. she's a hoot.
at conference, we had tamara come to the second saturday session! tamara is supposed to be getting baptized this sunday -- the mission president has to interview her tomorrow though so we will see if she passes or not. not going to lie - working with tamara has been quite the experience. i don't think i told you all but the first sunday she came to church she ended up leaving right during sacrament meeting. she didn't like me at all at first but hey. now we are good friends. she has made some of the lessons pretty interesting and awkward but she is SO sweet. she really has a sincere desire to follow Christ and is working really hard to do so. so we are really hoping that she will be able to be baptized on sunday! we have been working really hard to find her some of the members to be friends with -- she doesn't like hardly anyone and she doesn't open up to people at all. BUT our relief society pres. is incredible and they have become good friends. we're excited.
one of our members that was at conference called me and sis. smith over and almost started to cry as she apologized up and down for not being able to feed us because of her arthritis. she gave us some money to go out to eat and i was so humbled. she said she loves taking care of the missionaries because this gospel means EVERYTHING to her and she is so grateful for the missionaries that brought it to her. there are so many people that would give their last dime to help us. SO humbling. i love these people so much and they are so dear to me :)
okay. this was the highlight of my week. WINFORD CAME TO CONFERENCE!!!!!!!!!! AND LOVED IT! he came to priesthood session and right before we met with him and brother giammusso - a member that he has gotten really close with - and we talked about prophets again and we had winford pray to know if the prophet was true and if the book of mormon is true and if he should be baptized. oh family. it was so good. and winford says that he hasn't looked up anti crap and won't anymore because he doesn't feel like it is what the church is and he came to the first session on sunday too and i seriously almost cried when i saw him walk through the door. we called him later last (sunday) night to see what he thought and he just thanked us over and over again. he said that he is never going to forget 2010 because it has been such a good year because he met us. it was a really cool reminder of what we are doing out here and the lives that we are changing.
okay. conference really was awesome. it was SO GOOD to have such a boost!!!!!!!!!! i LOVED Pres. Uchtdorf's talk about how we need to focus on the important things in our lives. being away from school and work and social life and everything that stresses me out has been absolutely incredible. DEFINITELY eye-opening. honestly, there really is more to life than making it go faster. :) like our FAMILY!!!!!!!!!! and i love mine :) yep. i WAS just that cheesy. and you loved it.
Court - I'm way proud of you for getting that job! Way to be you little champ! Mom - thank you for making sure my clothes didn't go to provo with the wrong daughter :) it will be okay. I'm way proud of you court for everything - you are going to LOVE it! and the family just has all the more reason to make it to provo every so often.
OH! one more miracle story. last night we were just about to go home - we were looking some people up and talking to people and doing the usual. well, we had the option of going to one more house or going home. it was a less active member's home and we decided to go -- her future daughter-in-law was there who isn't a member and we got to teach her -- she is only here for three days. and we came at just the right time to catch them both and teach her. i love the spirit!!!!!!!!!! okay fam. i love you SO much. so much. i am so grateful for all of you (including all my friends that are reading this!) and i want to let you know that each of you has been an incredible influence on me. love you :)
God is real. He loves us so much!
sister mich smith
PICTURES OF THE WEEK...
-- there are 6 missionaries that work in our ward alone and then four that work in the spanish ward (that meets in our building so we get to see them all the time) the only missionaries that are in our zone that aren't in this picture are 2 elders in park slope and the 2 ASL elders! the other pics are from staten island ferry and coney island beach. not sure what all i have sent you of those so if they are duplicates -- sorry!
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