One By One

It has been quite the week here at the MTC. We have received a new Elder who is going to Iceland. His name is Elder Ludwig. I am officially part of a tripanionship consisting of Vanhin Sisco, Oldungur Ludwig, and myself. We are a fun group of Elders.
So something funny that happened this week, all of us were in the Swedes room hanging out one night. Vanhin was in the bathroom brushing his teeth. He walks into the room with a worried look on his face. He then asks Elder Stapley if he is good at biology. He says sure. Then Vanhin says look at my tongue! Elder Stapley says what's wrong with it? Vanhin says there are little dots on it! They weren't there before! So Vanhin has now discovered that he has taste buds.

This week was fast sunday and a bore my testimony in Danish. I personally thought it was pretty cool. I went from speaking no Danish to 2.5 weeks later being able to share how I feel and what I know about this gospel in Danish. The gift of tongues is a real thing.

We had some amazing speakers this week. On Sunday we heard from Sheri Dew and from our MTC presidency for MTC conference. Tuesday we had the amazing privilege of hearing from Elder David A. Bednar. His talk was more amazing and spiritual than you would believe. He talked about a couple accounts in third Nephi when the Lord came to the Americas to teach. In all scripture when Christ teaches, we notice a special pattern. This pattern is that the Savior teaches, blesses, and knows each of them one by one. He took the time to bless and interact with each of them individually. I know that he knows each of us individually and he knows each of our trials and needs. He blesses each of us one by one because he knows and cares about us one by one. After Elder Bednar's talk we (the MTC choir) sang a song called "One By One" which was written by David A. Bednar. It will show up in the New Era in the next month.

Something else that Elder Bednar shared with us is that "there is no such thing as coincidences when you are on the Lord's errand." No matter what happens on my mission or in any of your lives it is meant to happen. Our Heavenly Father puts us in places and we may not know why, but it is for a reason. Always remember that. I love you all! I left my camera back at my room so I'll send my pictures later but I do have a few. Thank you all for the examples you are to me and thank you for all the help! Till next week! 

Love, Ældste Smith

This is a few pictures. One of my zone, one of my district, and one of my tripanionship. Love you all!

These are my new scriptures. I love them.

To Dad:

It has definitely gotten hot here as well. I do not like it. Especially being dressed up all the time. I can't wait to get to Denmark where hopefully it will be a perfect summer. I'm excited to hear how trek goes. I wish I could go with you. I'm glad Cooper had some friends over. I'm sure it's hard for him out of school. I'll keep writing him but tell him he better start answering my questions. I like our new companion. He's very nice and friendly. We haven't spent a lot of time with him yet because he has been doing first day stuff. But we'll be with him most of the time starting tomorrow. I wanted to share something cool with you. We gave two blessings this week, both were sick blessings. I gave one to sister player in my district and Vanhin gave one to sister Wilson from his. At the times of the blessings both of them were very sick and looked anything but okay. Sister player could barely stand up but withing a couple of hours she was up and walking around like normal doing her normal Sunday activities and she only seemed a bit tired. Sister Wilson was playing basketball with us at exercise time the morning after her blessing. It's amazing what a priesthood blessing can do. I miss you a lot! How are you doing with Hazel? I love you.

Love, Elder Smith