Week 31: Someone's On Date!!

Hey everyone!! This week has been fantastic! The beginning of it was a little bit of a struggle (mostly because we were on bike for the first half). However, yesterday Elder Salisbury and I put Parker on date for baptism on May 19th!!! He's a fifteen year old freshman that we've been working with for a couple of weeks now, and he's been steadily progressing through the lessons, and when we were teaching him yesterday, both me and Elder Salisbury got the prompting to invite him to be baptized. It was way awesome!!

Also for this week we've been doing a lot of service. We did some on Tuesday, Wednesday, double on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We were weeding, painting, working at the food bank, hauling rocks, so on and so forth. It was pretty great. And one of the people we did painting randomly brought up the church while we talked and said, "So what would I be called if I joined the church? Would I be called a convert?" It was so out of the blue, but he's really self motivated and he knows that he needs to go to a church at least for some grounding for his twin daughters (he's a single parent). We're way excited for him, and he loves talking with us.

Also, on Wednesday after doing service Elder Larsen had to take some prescribed medication for his terrible migraines that he sometimes gets. He calls them horse tranquilizers because once he takes it, he's out for 4-5 hours. So I stayed in with him while he slept and cleaned out the apartment and organized everything. It didn't stay that way for very long.....

But that's mostly everything for this week. Love you all!
-Elder Smith

Opening my birthday package with awesome socks from another sister and her husband and a nice suit and tie from my parents.

Cookies my sister sent for my birthday

One of the best sunsets we've had overlooking Puyallup, Tacoma, and the Sound

Shopping with one of my new ties that my other sister gave me