Well, good and bad news, I'm transferring to another area. I'm leaving Eufaula and going to Ozark! My new companion is Elder Helmundollar. I do know who he is, and it's going to be quite a trip... I hope all will be well up here. At least I will have the opportunity to say bye to the members, unlike when I left Chipley. I welcome change though, gives me another change to improve, and to see how much I learned to help the new area.

The trip sounded fun! I'm sure looking out the bottom was pretty scary. (He is referring to the Educator's Airlift and looking out the bottom of the tanker:)  How did y'all get invited to that? How many other people were there taking the tour? And y'all got to eat the mash that the soldiers get, that sounds good! And if it was a real good meal, they did that so you wouldn't think they were torturing the soldiers! :) I don't know about Air traffic controlling, I don't know if I could handle the stress, and being gone a lot. But who knows? I could end up doing it.

That's a bummer not being accepted, I don't know how it's like, but it must be rough. (Jameson didn't get accepted to BYU and Coree didn't get accepted to WSU's nursing school:( I know that I'm going to make it into Harvard anyhow so I don't have to worry about those low class schools! :) just kidding.

This past week was good, we confirmed our baptisee, and it was a close one too, she didn't show until right after the sacrament song started, I thought she wasn't going to make it. We think that she was trying to get her family to come to church and wasn't able, that's why she was late. But it's alright. It was the Primary program as well, so it was funny to see. I wish I could take pictures to show you all the funny stuff happening. Saturday I was finally able to use my knowledge of building. We took down a porch of one of our members, and rebuilt a section of it. I was in charge of bulling out the nails on the good boards to reuse them.... it was lame. I did at one point have to hammer in nails, but the hammer I used had a small head, and I missed the small nails many times. They now have circular imprints on their porch! Afterwards, we drove past the chicken festival, didn't have time to go in sadly, and went to another home to help them put up drywall in their home. I got to do some mudding! That was pretty fun, and they were very appreciative.

Elton Owens is the man with the dog in the video. He helps us out a ton, and is super friendly. We see him practically every day. He is always willing to drive us places.

I haven't heard about Romney's stand up comedy, you'd think it'd be something I'd hear about out here. Well, I did send in my ballot, and I voted for lots of people that I didn't know, I hope that there are many more people in their right mind to overpower all my bad votes. Many people come up to us and ask us if we are voting for Romney, even the people who reject us at the door when tracting say, I'm voting for Romney! It's pretty funny. "No, I'm not interested and I don't believe in what you're talking about, but I'm voting for Romney...." I should record some of them.

Haven't sent the card, I'm waiting to get into my new area to send it. This will be an interesting week! We'll see what happens.

Love ya'll and be safe! Elder Smith