The storm hit hard Saturday. We couldn't do anything, we still tried though. It rained hard for fifteen hours at least. We had a river in our backyard, and the ducks, or frogs, we haven't decided yet, were making a ton of noise. We called them howling ducks, they were really loud. We heard about the major storm in Alabama, a whole town was destroyed by a tornado, but no tornadoes hit here. The lightning and thunder were awesome, I sat in a chair behind our glass door and watched for a couple hours. We stayed inside the whole morning and studied and played checkers. Elder Blanchard didn't like it because he's horrible at checkers! :) We weren't called to help in any service cleanup, we only have the southern most part of Alabama, so the work was reserved for their elders most likely.
It's weird hearing about Coree's biological father dying, because we never talk about him. Who's all going to the funeral? I hope that Coree gets the message to change, too. We had a lesson yesterday with a woman who wants to give up smoking. We taught her about the principles of the gospel and what she can do to stop. We went through the bullet points in the Preach My Gospel about what you can do to stop addictions. She wrote down things she could do when she had the urge to smoke, and she said she was going to try hard. The first step to change is to have the desire to stop. We gave her a blessing and told her that she could call us anytime if she ever felt like giving in. I hope that she'll be able to do it. The main problem is that her brother smokes and they live together with their family. If Coree ever wants to, use the PMG, Jameson can teach her, he is good at that!
I can't believe that Casey is finally wearing church clothes! That is awesome, but the next step is trying to get him to pray without running around, unless he already changed that too. I really hope that it wasn't because of me that he refused to wear church clothes. But knowing him.... and me.... that's probably what did it! I just hope Casey is strong enough in the church to stay strong when Coree is back. I have faith that he will though.
That's awesome that the Jazz beat the Heat! I'm so proud of them! :) That will be awesome if they get far into the championships, which most likely won't happen though... I hope grandpa and grandma are doing ok! I always talk about them down here. I really hope they are both alive and healthy when I get back. I do miss their cross-cut sandwiches with the pickle, m&m's, and root beer. It was so good! We do get fed every day down here. We only have two days that aren't taken up. We even had somebody call to see if a day was taken, called the person who took it and had them reschedule for us! Basically they are fighting to feed us. :)
I have also learned to like cats. Whenever we are at the church, in Bonifay, there are two kittens that come out to us. We pick them up and pet them and it's awesome. We have some recent converts who got a cat from a lady who found her on the road. It is a beautiful cat too, is white with bright blue eyes. They named him Amos Moses, which means Man of the Cloth. The husband is a graduate of BBI, a school for people who want to learn about the Bible and religion. Most of the Bible bashers come from there.
It's funny how Sister Freeman is excited to receive my letters too! :) I'll have to send her a letter with Jackie's, haha. Yeah, I'm just writing to her as a friend. She did tell me she is sad that I'm not her partner, because of my skill! :) But no matter.
It's great to hear from you guys and keep strong in the gospel! Make sure if they still live in your house, that you have family scripture study and prayer. Also ask inspired questions, that makes it less boring! :)
I love you all so much!
Elder Smith
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