Great Week!

It has been a good week for us. The zone had so many people in church yesterday it was crazy! In our ward we had somewhere around 10 to 12 in church investigators and less actives combined. It was awesome. 

On Monday we were able to go see Handels Messiah with Nicklas in vor frue kirke. It was way cool! I have never seen the whole thing. When Nicklas invited us he thought it was a shortened version that would go from around 7 to 8:30, but when we got there we found out it was the whole thing and that it would go until around 10:30, so we had to call our mission president in the middle and he said we could stay so we got home super late. It was different haha.

We had splits with Ballerup on Tuesday and I was with Elder Stephens. It was great. He is a great missionary and he rarely thinks of himself. I learned a lot from him when we were companions in Seden and I keep learning from him now. I will miss him a lot when he goes home. 

On Wednesday we had splits with Slagelse and I was with Elder Angerhoffer. He is doing well. I can tell he is a little nervous when it comes to talking to people, but he is also diligent in learning and has a lot of faith. He knows he can overcome his fears and he does!

We met with a couple of our less actives this week and that went well. We had 2 of them come to church yesterday. 

MaryAnn is unfortunately not progressing. We have tried a lot of different ways to teach her and it doesn't seem to get through. She is stuck on four things. Have faith, have hope, trust in God, and "all we can do is pray". Good things, but I don't think she understands faith in the way that she doesn't understand the repentance part of it all. She is so close to baptism, yet also far away because she is not moving forward at all. 

Well that is all for the week I think. I hope you all are doing well. I am super excited for Christmas. It is an amazing time of year and I love it as a missionary. I hope you all remember what Christmas is about this year. I hope you are lighting the world with service and the message of Christ. Have a great week and a merry Christmas!

Love, Elder Smith

Hey Mom!

Haha that is pretty funny. I'm glad we didn't have too many problems with you calling us Aubrey while she was gone  :)

I love Light the world as well. It is going well here and we have been challenging a lot of members to Light the World!

The shoes are black. The brown ones are still holding on for now haha. I really liked the nativity. I will send you a picture of it next week. I think I'm doing pretty good with clothes. I may need another pair of pants before the end of my mission. I think otherwise I'm doing pretty good. These shoes should last the rest of my mission. 

Messiah was so cool! We are going to Tivoli again today! I have really enjoyed just seeing a lot of Copenhagen. There is so much to see here! 

I'm glad Coop is doing good right now. I worry about him a lot. I was so sad when I got the email about him losing his job and getting kicked off swim team. Poor guy. I will pray for him.

I'm proud of dad for finishing his pathway program. That is exciting! I don't know what to do about college. As of now I'm not sure about going to SUU. I'm leaning a little more towards USU. BYU would be cool, but I don't think I could get in. BYU-I is also an option. I don't know if I want to go to school at home. Although it would be a lot cheaper. I guess I will ask my mission president if I can use some extra time on pdays to look at that kind of stuff.

Those Christmas parties sound like fun haha. Your family is crazy. I got a kick out of those two incidents. 

I hope the package will hurry. It is kind of Christmas stuff so it won't be quite as cool. There is a plate in there that is mine because it was a gift, but the other stuff is for everyone. No one specific. We are going to the mission presidents home for the 25th and I'm not sure exactly when we will call from. I will find out and email you later this week to let you know when.

Haha I love Elder Hunsaker. He seemed to be having a hard time in the beginning but has improved so much. It is hard with all these new missionaries around. That I would love to be companions with, but probably never will. He is a good missionary.

I'll see you soon! Love you mommy! Have a good week!

Love, Son

Hey Dad!

I am doing well. It was a good week and we had a lot going on. We hopefully will be able to keep it up. I'm tired of being fat. Christmas is hard. I will have from January to may to get skinny before coming home. I just need a companion that will be strict with me haha.

Good job getting As! At least you have a litte break before January. Just work hard and keep getting As.

I bet you loved those family parties haha. Good you could handle two in one week :) 

I am excited for Christmas. I am not sure about skyping yet, I will find out and send you an email later this week of when.

I'm not sure about college yet. I will probably want to go in the fall. I just don't know where. I will probably work all summer. I will ask President if I can look into it a little more.

Thanks for everything you do dad. I love you lots and lots and lots. Have a good week. See you on Christmas!

Love, Elder Smith