Elder Taylor Clue Smith: October 2010

This week has been so good and so hard at the same time! so we have been teaching this lady named Gina Stucki and her husband is a member but inactive since college and very anti mormon and we got permission to teach her and she has no relgious background. she didnt even know about the the Garden of Gestheme where christ paid for our sins. but she wouldnt let us teach her out of the book of mormon so we had to teach her out of the bible and we taught her since i got here so like 4 times then last tuesday we were teaching her and everything was going good we talked about christ and his baptism and the Gospel of Chist and shes looks up with this huge smile!!!! and was like i need to get baptized and i just felt like a child in a candy store i got so exited. Elder Eames is like easy Elder Smith and were like yeahh you do! but we dont want you to just run in to this amazing thing so the Member that was teaching with us was like Lets us come back thursday and we will teach you the Book Of Mormon and she agreed and it was great. so we went back and started talking about like the basics how we are gods childeren and like Nephi and how they got to the Americas and then i got this prompting to just go straight into the the First Vision so i just started talking about Jospeh and how needed to find a church and i set up my compaion so he could share the first vision which is so powerful and he shared and she started crying the spirit was so strong!! and she felt the spirit and it bore witness to her that it was true and she couldnt decribe the feeling but she loved it and so we commited her to be baptized on Nov 13th and were helping work towards that date. the devil is working on her though thats what always happens as soon as they get that date is when it gets hard so we just pray that her husband will let her and her kids will support her. were trying to get the kids involved in the lessons and sometimes they do. but it will be a good experince.

But then the next day after this spirt high we were on the devil decides to work on me and try to get me not focus so i really struggled this weekend saturday was horrible and sunday was my breaking point i just felt so missierable i missed home i missed my old life cause before i came out her i had the perfect life i thought i had a job school scholorships for baseball never been closer to my family and i really missed all that but i just read the scriptures and prayed harder than ever and talked to Elder Eames and he helped and the Atonement is so real no matter what your going through! its the most amazing thing ever it brings so much peace! really try to relay on the Atonement it is for all saddnes and pain and even JOY. were teaching a husband and wife that just got baptized before i got her and he was struggleing with some stuff he cant forgive himself of his past and so i told him to pray for joy thats what the atonement is for and you will come to forgive yourself and i didnt know i made an impact on him till last night when i came home from doing and Exchange is Edler Nelson ( tell you more later) Elder eames was like you helped out Darin so much i guess he was about to relaspe the other night with pain killers and he remember some words i said to him that he has to pray always for joy and it help and so he did and he put the pills down and didnt do it. so its amazing the affect we have on people and you dont even know it.

So yesterday and sunday we did an exchange i went to another area for a day and another elder came to my area it was really fun to see the othersides of missionary work how each missionary has there own style it was a good experince. and tomorrow i get to go on another with Elder Price my comp from the MTC i cant wait we have so much fun. and today for our District activty were playing dodgeball so that will be so fun!

The ward here is so AMAZING!.. they feed us like rockstars for real they feed us like fillet mijon sometimes or mahi mahi but sometimes is pizza or chicken but its always amazing. and sometimes we get lunch to! k so whos sister feed me lunch? sister jenkins or ellis? and what is there name? so i know haha.

we have another family were teaching and there progressing were hoping to get the baptized before december there kinda slow but so into the gospel and we did yard work for them saturday and they feed us pizza and stuff after people love the missionaries here. we run into army and mariens here and they say what we do is harder than what they do cause we get rejection 98 percent of the time if not more. and that is hard to get doors slammed literally in your face but its all good you just have to keep moving right? cause one day some one will be ready for us and will welcome us in.

My foot is alright somedays it kills and cant walk but then i feel the prays from you guys and i get the strength to keep going! without prayers i would be so dead tierd but some how we have unlimted strength its amazing.

The hardest thing is talking to people who have read the Book of mormon and deny it i just dont get how you could say its not true its just i dont know hard to see people reject it.

Yeah i think im getting your letter from dear elder i love letters they bring so much joy and happiness you have no idea how much they mean.

This one baptist guy loves us he is an old guy and he gives the missionaries pens he makes so he gave me one and it was fun to see his smile when we come around. and the best is the kids in ward look up to us so much! they always yell MISSIONARIES!!! its funny and brightens your day.

Obidence is the Price

Faith is the Power

Love is the Motive

The Spirit is the Key

Christ is the Reason.

thats basically missionary work for yeah in the qoute.