I had an interesting experience a few days ago. Member of
Southend ward came out teaching with us during a immense storm, well at least I
thought it was a big storm. He said to me "its funny how the mission
presidents I have met call Southend, Windy Southend, but I don't really think
that its windy here. Usually its really nice." Biggest lie of his life.
The wind has been non stop here for the entire week. I do love Southend's
landscape and all, but wow, I've been blown day in and day out.
Actually he was right about one thing, when its not stormy,
its really lovely here :) Absolutely gorgeous. I wish it was more like
yesterday when it was just blue skies the entire day. THat needs to happen more
often.
Well as for me, everything is going pretty well. I've pretty
much gotten settled in here. I'm learning the ward, the people, the culture,
who to avoid... and where I can get great cheap food. If Elder Hansen is
reading this, I went around to the place where I was "Kebabtized"
back when we came here for a p day about 18 months ago. For those of you who do
not know what a "kebab" is, its pretty much the greasiest piece of
food you will ever eat. I think its an Arab thing but there are kebab joints
around here more than McDonalds. I'd say about twice or three times as many.
Funny enough, I hate McDonalds in the states, but here McDonald's is really
Posh, or expensive. So we avoid eating anywhere that is inherently American. It
just costs a fortune for a tiny hamburger that is not even the size that it
should be. Same with Burger King. Big Rip OFFS >_<
Well enough ranting. I enjoy the amount of people we
teaching, and drop in one week. We managed to pick up around 10 people to teach
this week and we lost about 8 of them after the first or second lesson. It led
to us racking up around 30 lessons again this week, but most of the people we
will probably not see again :P That's just life ain't it. SO... back to
building a teaching pool again. We still have two people set for Baptisms in
about a two weeks, so that's good. Pretty much the Elder here previous, one of
my good friends Elder Vogel from Germany... love those Germans :), has done a
great job rounding up about 7 baptisms last transfer and I'm just
baptizing the leftovers! So now the ward is putting a lot of pressure
on us to do about the same. Southend is estimating for about 60 new members
this year... about sixty times for than any other ward's goals I've seen. So
yeah, time to put out. Good and do work. Dun worry, I got this.
Well its been a fun week, I've got some awesome windswept
hair photo's I'll upload eventually. Its been a lot of fun so far in this area.
Crazy its almost been two weeks I've been here now. I feel like I got here
yesterday. Well love you all. Have a great week and stay alive people.
Love,
Elder Bradley Smith
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