i continue to work for cheese, apparently #95
Hej människor! welcome back to the semi-half-monthly email of ya boi elder smith, who has had a lot of doctor pepper this week, almost got hit by a car, fixed many a bike, and realllllly wants you to read the Jesus Moment and challenge for this week.
pwease?
uncsecrated songs for this week! i was too lazy to look up the titles, artists, or correct spelling of things. but enjoy anyway
you make my dreams come true - dan harrell and john oats
eye of the tiger - u know it
This week's summary! (for my TLDR folks)
☆ i forgot to talk about some of the banjo stuff. my b haha
☆ almost got hit by a few cars!!
☆ much many snow and rain
☆ i am borderline prophetic maybe?
☆ lottttts and lots and lots and lots and lots of bike maintenance this week. hmnrg.
☆ the best member????????
☆ happy new year! woah.... 2023. dang. whacko. anywho,
☆ many cherry vanilla doctor peppers
☆ banjo.... just left??? what????
☆ pleaseeeeeeee pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease pleaseeeeeeee read the challenge and Jesus moment this week. it is so good, i promise i worked hard and i love it
Stories
- so we were biking, and saw a motorcycle fly by us. then, it just crashed???? we just heard it first, then looked up and saw sparks fly. biked very fast and asked if he was okay. and then, almost got hit by car??? 4 or 5 flew by. big truck was 5 feet away from me. i twas not scared in the slightest. now,,,,, yeah fs. scary. it was close bro. many more were close to hitting him and his bike. i had two cars almost hit me tho hehehe the truck and the one from behind who ran over the seat. had to run away from cars and not pick up the stuff. they were just blasting by tho, didn't see the crashed motorcycle on the ground or the 3 people around on the street hahaha SO many people had to stop
- bike in many rain and snow. yeet. elder paulk had wet butt. i got fenders doe
- we had a real good ZLC, elder reyes gave me much love and it was good. the hermanas and them gave a great training that i may have accidentally read almost all of what they had prepared without realizing hahaha. it was real good and revelatory tho. much consecrating, good sacrifice.
- got a ride from durrant and stanley home, twas frikin lit. heck yeah. AND I GOT TO DRIVE PACO WOOHOOOOOOO
- after that we met this stud named isaac, just this kid walking from the store carrying straight up fruit of the loom underwear. he was prolly like 12 or 13 but he was dope. had a hoodie that said cookie on it and a cross necklace. started up a convo and gave him a fist bump. he wasn't interested, but he was a dope kiddo. we were all bundled up in our jackets and stuff, but he "had gloves so he wasn't cold". whatta stud
- met this ladie, sallie, while just biking around:) a sweetheart! told us about her neighbor so we had tried to get in contact with and didn't need help shoveling her walk. she was already a member as it turns out, but still got good info from her!
Lil' Spiritual Space
declare the gospel to every creature. when i talk about that i feel peace. i really do. but only then. 3 possible outcomes of talking to everyone:
- they reject us. whether friendly or not.
- they accept it, and are receptive!
- we don't do it, and neither of those things happen. hm. seems like i need to talk to more people!
that is all 
thank
- the rest of a day: we had big bike problems. many flat.
- the elders came and got us to get elder paulks phone fixed, and take us to walmart for slime and whatnot. then we went to b-dubs! man i love b-dubs. reyes, hatch, and durrant were there too hahaha it was great. lessgo
- came home, fix bike more. but actually not. frikin rip bro. jeesh.
- met with the schwinns, love them! felt the Spirit a lot during that one. sister schwinn was.... herself hahah but was listening intently. it was great. bro schwinn got sum going on with him. idk what it is. i love them tho
- bro stephenson.... during our weekly planning session, while actively discussing the point on how to receive more referrals from members and others, one of our member calls us and asks if he can tract for us with his brother. yo, what?? we went over and told him about the best ways he can share the gospel, introduced him to PMG, and said he can come tracting and street contacting with us next saturday!
- started exchanges with elder vowles! i love elder bubba. he's, as the kids say, pretty awesome. we had some fun times!
visited their friend cecil. interesting guy. i invited him to read 3 verses. just 3. and he did not. charlie also said they was going out for a beer haha. so, that's fun. guag. hmrng
visited George, what a sweetheart.
tried to visit some super fancy homes, had impression to turn down a random street so we did. then a specific house stuck out. so we left a pamphlet, of which we both had the impression of gospel of Jesus Christ. yeet
woke up, helped move. orchard mesa bishop funny. elder tetris strikes again. their members are awesome
re-exchanged, went to subway and sonic haha. we love them cherry vanilla DP's. prolly got them like four times in the past week haha
- there's this cool family that's sorta in our ward, their 11 year old daughter is baptized but neither of the parents are? interesantè! they invited us over for new years, and we watched some little fountain fireworks n stuff with them. very awesome people. want to teach them.
- pday! ate brekky with the district, that was fun. finally, an almost district activity! good food too:)
Teaching Updates
- tikaboo: what she wants and needs. don't come to choich tho. frik. bought clothes tho! in utah for a vet app rn?? apparently GJ vets are the big succ
- we got a self referral, who when called, asked us to come over immediately! we got it set up for tomorrow, wish us luck!
- banjo.... things were going so well. but he was MIA as of Christmas Eve, then apparently just got on a bus to oklahoma?????? he gone. not coming back. what
- but hey, we got's some cool peeps. promising potentials. yeet
Spotlight
- padre! have fun in thailand. frikin nerd
- JULIA AND KEAWEKANE!!! UR MARRIED YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HAPY CHRIMIS
- ur mom. tell her i says hi
- sophiaaaaaaa good luck at college. have fun out there dood
My challenges for you
- cast the beam out of thine own eye
in 3rd Nephi 14, it says:
"1 ...Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me pull the mote out of thine eye—and behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother’s eye."
so, therefore, the challenge for this week:
what can you do to work on yourself? improve you? forget about everyone else, and this week choose 1 thing to work on yourself:)) why? because you cannot judge others if you yourself have been forgiven. aaaaaaand now the Jesus moment to finish this off!
Every minute, every moment...there was Jesus.
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