April 15, 2013

Dear Mum,

Okay crazy, let's see if I can answer all of your million questions.  Here goes.

Elder Lewis is the man, I love him to death already.

He's great, and 6'6" so yeah, he's huge.

I only live with him.

The flat is tiny, but we don't need much, so I don't really care.  It's kind of a piece of crap, but the beds are nice (and squeaky), and the showers are warm.  I don't need anything more than that.

I can't remember where Elder Eldredge was standing in the picture.  He's got blonde hair, he's a bit bigger, and a little bit shorter than me.  I think he was standing next to me though.

The weather is England.  It's raining but not too hard, Elder Lewis says it's gotten nice, right in time for me.  It's perpetually grey, but I don't really mind.

It's spring here.

The trees aren't blooming yet.

I got a sweeeeet new bike.  It's very nice, so i got some very nice locks, as well.  haha it cost me 300 quid (pounds) but Elder Lewis said he got a crappy bike from the get-go, and he's spent like 500 quid just fixing it, so he said it was worth getting a good new bike.

The money issue is fine.  I had to pull out money to buy my bike, because most places don't take swipe-cards, and it wouldn't let me pull out more than 100£ at a time, so that's why there were three charges.  Don't worry about it.  I may have to do it again if I get some other expensive stuff.

The $120 dollars was money that didn't make it to my bank.  It's yours/mine.

Thank you notes are a huge hassle.  I don't want to do them if I don't have to.  They'll take ages, and I don't have ages.  If you think I really should do them, I will.  But if there was an alternative way to thank people, I would absolutely love that.

I'm very sad about the Brintons and the Colemeres.  I love those two families, and I'm sad that they aren't in our ward anymore.

I appreciate you sending letters on to the family.  I'm trying to write them, and if they email me, it'll be a million times more likely that they'll get something back. 

Thanks for the post, especially at the MTC, it really helped me.  And I'll look forward to email every week from you.  Tell everyone that I love them.

We go to the library to write, and no.  I'll probably not print them off, unless you don't want me to respond to you in my email.  By the way, emailing me Sunday night would probably be the most effective because P day is Monday for me.

I almost am a spy, because this country is completely run by Satan himself.  Everyone smokes weed, I've already seen children as young as like ten smoking cigarettes, everyone gets drunk on the weekends and on Sunday and Monday there's barf all over the pavements, and there's porn... everywhere.  Oh and people don't believe in anything.  We talked to a man the other day that had lost his wife, and he told us no one can believe that God actually exists, because there is no proof, and that he would never see his wife again.  We testified that there is a God, he loves us, and told him about the Plan of Salvation, but he wouldn't have it.  What a sad life. I feel bad for the people here.  Oh well.  I guess that just means there's more for me to do.

Tell Aunt JoAnne, that I'm sorry and I love her.  Losing your dad sucks.  Even if it was for the best.

People are awesome at getting us dinner.  We have it made for us almost every night.

Church was great, I'm in a teeny tiny ward of like fifty people, but they're all wonderful and I love them, and we had an investigator show up, so my first day was good.  They made me bear my testimony, but for once, I was very happy to do just that.

I haven't gotten another suit, because we don't wear them, like, ever.  I usually wear trousers, a white shirt and tie, and then a rain jacket that I bought here.  I also had to buy water proof trousers.

Elder Lewis is the man, he's from Plain City, Utah, and he's been out for 15 ish months.

My interview with President was good, I like him, he's very to the point, and I really like his wife a lot.

Remy is the cutest. Even when she's naughty.

We look hot. Our family is beautiful.

I love you.  I think I answered all your questions, I'm sure there are loads more though.  I'll tell you more next week though. I hope Ange gets a hold of you when she gets home.

You're the best Mum.

I love and miss you.

-Elder Smart

PS I haven't figured out pictures on this end. But when I do, you'll be the first to see them.