10 days left.. the end

Hey mom.. i gotta be quick cuz we are going to the zoo. hahaha yeah a zoo. but anyways this is gonna be my last email home. Im still doing great excited to come home and see you all.

Nothing really amazing happened this week. lots of traveling. some missionaries in our zone are being punks and we have to basically babysit them.. its sad.. but its ok...

Well im so excited to talk to you... i will just answer all your questions when i see you! haha Im fine with money thanks!!!!! your the best!

I love you so much

Love Elder Smith

17 days left

Well good day to ya mates! So highlight of the week... 

On wednesday, i had to go to Tacloban to get fingerprinted (dont ask why cuz i dont know) So while i was there, i was talking with a sister from Australia trying to nail my accent. As i was there i noticed a lot of new faces that i had never seen before... So....i tried it... i went around to two or so new people and talked to them in an australian accent. They believed it! THEN!!! another different sister walked up cuz she heard that i was from australia and wanted to talk She was all excited and really giddy and asked if i knew so and so ect..... hahahaha i told her that i wasnt really from australia but i just like the accent. We had a good laugh and she told me that she does that too sometimes..(speaks like an american) just for a chuckle.

Aside from that, its hard knowing that its winding down. the mission that is.. i really dont like it... I liked looking at it as two years more, 18 months more 6 months more... those numbers seemed like an eternity. now its just a few days... unreal...

This week we went on splitz and had some work in our area... Our ward is still really progressive and doing well.. We should have a bunch more baptisms this october..ill miss them by a week or two... but its ok...

Well i will see you in a little bit..

Love ya

Elder Smith

24 days left

Hey famz! Well the days are just flying by... its really unbelievable that im almost coming home... well we have been working so hard this last week. We went on exchanges with the assistants this week and took them tracting in our area... it was a really great time. We talked to tons of people this week. We had some really great lessons with our newly found investigators. You know, whenever you find someone really great, there is always something to make a mess of it just when the spirit come in.... For example.. we were teaching a family of about 15... sons daughters grandsons ect... then right when we were committing them to  pray about Joseph Smith, a man shows up pulls out his cigge and just starts puffin away.. then he randomly buts in and trys to throw the '''Prophets have to come from isreal" schpeal... we quickly shut him down, and tried to bring back the spirit and commit them.. this man looked just like Squidward... but black... he was samok! Well we have also made super progress in our super bukid area: talisay. its great.

Well i love you very much. Cant wait to see you all..

Love Elder Smith

31 days left

Hey Fam.

So this week was absolutely different. We have two new elders in our area so we had to split the area with them. We finally got our boundaries and kinda figured out how we are gonna work.

One of the areas had a dispute that almost made one of the elders walk out... like just get up and leave. So we ran up to their area and helped them fix the problem. I think its one of the deadliest problems in the world. Pride. When we can learn to just stop being a punk and making the problem worse by fighting, by not submitting to the commands of others, even though we are not in the wrong and apologize, we will be a whole lot better off. i really dont get some people sometimes.

So we didnt have much work this week seeing as we spent a bunch of time out of our area, but on sunday we had a good show of people that we didnt expect.

We are basically opening up our area right now cuz its very far from the old area we used to work in so we should see good success. we had a whole bunch of people show up to church from talisay. its a very far place from the church. it was a good show.

So to answer you questions:

I am staying here to die... meaning i wont/didnt transfer. Im still a ZL. 

(I asked more, he didn't answer them)

Well i love ya much...

Love Elder Smith