Hi Family!
Well, first off - HAPPY BIRTHDAY DALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you. Second, this week was so so good. Like always :) I always blank out when I think about the past week because it seriously seems like years since I have written last because so much happens during the week!!! So I will just start with Monday :)
We had zone activity and yep -- we played sports. Well, anyone who actually knows me knows that I DON'T play sports because every time I do I embarrass the family name! But I played ultimate frisbee and I even made a really good catch (as well as a few stupid ones) and we all had a lot of fun. Thankfully all the elders on my team didn't really care about winning (the other team did -- so I helped them out and they felt better about themselves... I know it was really sweet of me) And yeah. We had a good time. Tuesday we had flu shots and it was hilarious to see some of the "tough guy" elders turn a little squeamish when they got poked. But I was really brave and Sister Rasmussen gave me a Snickers bar for being brave :) We also got asked by the ward to make a banner for the bishop's son because he came home from his mission this week. little did i know that all my years of cheering and making signs would be put to use in the mission field. so we painted a sign way quick and the ward LOVED it and thought it was so cool and... now they want me to do several more.
this week we had a bunch of miracles -- i'll start with yesterday. we went to pick rachel up for church and she came to the door pretty chaotic. her life is just kind of crazy and she usually has a billion things going on at the same time (hmm sounds like a lot of other people i know) but she has come up with some lame excuses for church because of it and we told her that this week none of them were going to work. well, the excuse was that she couldn't find her husband's keys and they had both been looking for them all morning long and she couldn't leave without them because she couldn't lock the house. and well, that really isn't a problem in idaho we all know, but it is a legitimate concern in NY :) so anyways... she wasn't going to come to church. well, i told her we were going to pray to find the keys. (the spirit is awesome -- just listen to it and really cool things happen) so we say a prayer and i KNEW exactly where the keys were. so i asked if we could help look. rachel said yes and i went straight to the couch and got the keys from underneath the cushion. BAM!!! yeah. then she was really happy and said it was too late and she wasn't ready so she still couldn't go. i took both of her hands and said RACHEL. God wants you to be at church. He just found your keys. Now go get ready. so she did :) and she came to church and we had a lesson after and she committed to live the word of wisdom and tithing (even though she and her husband may lose their house and store this month) and it was really good.
i don't think i told you all about jean-emmanuel yet. well, he was some guy on the street that we said hello to (we say hello to everyone and we get the WEIRDEST looks because we are the ONLY people in NY that do that... i love it!) anyways, he stopped us and asked us in broken english if we were missionaries. yep! and he told us that he moved from Haiti to Boston and met with missionaries there. well, that was 3 or 4 weeks ago and we hadn't heard anything since. side note - communicating with him is pretty tough because he speaks creole and we don't -- so we had one of our members call him the other day. turns out he wasn't at church because he was lost and couldn't call us because we wouldn't understand him but he tried to come for three weeks in a row and just couldn't find it. he was in the earthquake in Haiti and was the only survivor out of the 13 people that were in the house he was in. his girlfriend/mother of his son died too. so he moved (his son is still in Haiti) and found the missionaries in Boston and they taught him EVERYTHING and he was preparing to be baptized and he wants to be baptized now. WOOT WOOT! yeah -- it was REALLY cool.
Tamara is back to her normal self and is going to be baptized on Sunday. I am SO excited for her. she is so sweet and we love her so much. not going to lie - i had a hard time truly loving her at first but i prayed really hard to love her and i tried really hard and now she is such a dear dear little friend :) she asked if we would write her when we left and we said of course! she was so excited that we would do that because she doesn't have a ton of friends that she is really close with. she is a trooper. anyways. so we are really excited for this week -- and it's HALLOWEEN!!!! Cory asked me what i am being for halloween - well, i'm thinking that i'm going to go with the "sister missionary" costume this year. original i know! everyone jokes that me and sister smith should switch name tags and be each other -- hah. hah. (we have only heard that one ONCE i'm sure)
well family - i LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope you all have an awesome halloween! and happy birthday again dallin! and i need you all to tell me what you would like for christmas (mom -- i haven't seen any nativities floating around because everyone i live around is either muslim or jewish... i'm sorry!!!!! :( ) and i love you and i love you and i love you!
love
sister michelle smith
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