Happy August #bestmonthever

Another good week in Georgia. I'm gettin' my southern accent down here in the Corn Hole. It's coming along swimmingly. Transfers are here and there's a big change in our ward/district/zone. Hence the reason I'm not be transferred. That's okay though. I can do this! But we're getting a new set of Elders and our old District Leader went home last Friday to go be a missionary in the MTC because he has a terrible knee and can't do any of the physical labor us missionaries do. So that's sad, but the cool thing is that he's serving a mission still! And so we're getting another Elder, he was my zone leader in Roswell so that's exciting. And then another Elder coming in was in my MTC district and he's hilarious. Also, we're getting a new STL and a new zone leader and a new Sister in the other pair in our district. Like I said, the most changes. It's exciting though because all the missionaries coming are awesome!

This week was crazy. We got 10 new investigators. And a new investigator is someone we've made a return appointment with. I can't believe we got that many. The standard in our mission is 5, we doubled a standard! Woo hooo! 

Really I think it's because we're trying to do everything the right way. We biked twice this week to save miles and that just increases the amount of people you meet and talk to. I did not realize how fun biking is. It's so much fun! However, my gear shift broke because my bike fell and I'm stuck on one gear, which is fine, until I go uphill, and there's a lot of hills here in Georgia. 

Sadly, Amber dropped us. I think some people showed her anti stuff because it was kind of out of the blue :/ 

on Tuesday we went to the Bible Study and they just spent 90% of the time asking us questions. It was really cool. They want us to come tomorrow and they'll have more questions. Pray for us! The Spirit is really what's most important to be honest. I think something good will come out of all this though. There's only one who seems like she kind of wants to prove us wrong, but the other ones are just purely curious about our faith. It's really cool. 

Thursday we had a really successful day. We got two new investigators and we met with a lot of less actives and got to everything basically on time. Also, we got to play games with the elderly at the Retreat they have in Habersham county, they're hysterical! They're so sad when we can't make it. 

Friday was cool because a less active family made us dinner and I played "I Am His Daughter" for them and the wife said she got chills. She's a bit of a feminist so she loved how empowering the song was. I felt good about that. Also, they had a family friend over there for dinner and she's was super sweet and nice and we were just talking to her like we would anyone really interesting. Well later, the wife text us and thanked us because the girl comes from a horrible living situation and she said that she hasn't seen that girl smile that much in a while. It felt good to be used as an instrument in the Lord's hands. Also, before dinner we had a few minutes to knock doors and we met the nicest lady and get this, her name was Carolyn. Shout out to mi madre. She was so open to reading the Book of Mormon and researching all of it, she couldn't set up a set appointment, but we're calling her later this week to get one set up and when her schedule is cleared. 

Saturday we had dinner with another less active family and they're just the best. Unfortunately they couldn't come to church yesterday, he works for Delta in Atlanta and so he's always gone. It's sad, but they totally believe in the church, it's just about getting that fire back in them. 

Yesterday we also got another two new investigators (we obviously had more throughout the week, but I just didn't write about them sorry!) and one of them seems really promising. Wish us luck. 

This week was just really good. Hopefully we can keep it up. 

love y'all!

Sister Smith