Hello family and friends,
Roswell is amazing and promising. I love Sister Andrus. She's a solid missionary and super chill. We teach really well together and everything just flows. I love it. I can feel that we're going to be on fire this transfer.
On Wednesday we taught this sweet lady named Josie. She is from Haiti and can hardly speak any English. There is this wonderful, wonderful member in our ward that can speak french and he came to the lesson to translate. The lesson was straightforward, simple and filled with the spirit. It was an awesome experience. And it was beautiful to hear the words we would say in French.
For service on Wednesday we do this thing called fancy fingers. It's where we go to the nursing home and paint the old ladies' nails. It's hilarious. The women are either not there or extremely sassy. There was one lady from El Salvador whose nails I did and she was not satisfied with my work. Hahah I'm not a professional. It's great though because every one is so nice and it's fun work.
We did a lot of tracting this week because most of their previous appointments fell through. The good thing is we picked up a lot of new investigators. Yesterday we had a family from Iran come to church, we haven't had a lesson with them yet and SIster Andrus and her old companion contacted them a while back. Well, they came and the husband can only really speak farsi. The wife can speak broken english and the son was trying to interpret what was going on during church, but he doesn't know too many religious words. They are such a lovely family and I know they will be baptized. They believe in Jesus Christ and they want to find a church. We just need to find someone that speaks farsi to come with us while we teach. Haha I may not have gone foreign, but I'm teaching foreigners. Also, on Saturday we tracted into this lovely couple from India who want to meet with us again and we have an appointment with them this Saturday.
And we also taught this lovely lady Kim yesterday. She is a referral from the elders and has two young children. She hasn't been to church in 12 years but she wants to raise her children in a good environment. She used to be a part of this non denom Christian church years ago, but the church just crumbled and turned sour. She's been afraid of that happening so she hasn't gone. She has excellent morals and tons of questions. The wonderful thing is, we have the most perfect answer for all of her questions. She seems really concerned about the well-being of the church, which is perfect. She does understand that there are imperfect people in churches, so she gets that there are sometimes issues. SHe just wants to find something that answers her questions and puts her on solid ground. She's really fun and really sassy. I love her. She has a good light about her.
We also had a sweet contact last night. We were trying to contact a referral and she couldn't talk to us because she was about to go to bed (it was about 8:00 then) and outside of her house was this man smoking and talking on the phone. We approached him and asked if he had a second. He told the person he was on the phone with that he would call them back. About a minute or so of us talking to him he said "Oh I'm sorry, let me get rid of this cigarette" (imagine a southern black guy saying it because that's how it sounded) and he let us talk to him. Turns out his manager or something is LDS and had shown him a video of a church activity and he's been wanting to go. He wants to check out our church because he wants to find a home. ANd he thought the Joseph Smith experience made sense. It was an overall really good contact and I think we were meant to meet him. I hope it all works out.
We're also meeting with two other contacts this week and potentially one other. I'm excited. I feel really good about this area and Sister Andrus as my companion.
That's it for this week,
Love y'all!
Sister Smith
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