Y'alright Mum.

 

I'm glad you made it to San Clemente!  I'm really jealous that you're there right now!  That sounds like heaven!  But, speaking of heaven, I'm a little busy in England.  Sucks about your car.  But I'm glad it wasn't in Beaver or the Moon.  Also sucks about Brooke, the Remslice, and Phil.  I would have been cross.  (A word they actually use here. Stockton might be from Tamworth.)  That's because mad means mentally insane, and pissed is a swear word meaning hammered drunk. So you have to say angry or cross, or ticked off.  Laura does California right.  Sounds like Aunt Marti's family and i are on the same wavelength when it comes to furniture.  It makes sense.  I miss movies.  A lot.  I am going to watch like 48 straight hours of them when I get home.  Birth fortnight is wonderful.

 

The name of the Sister is Sister Bertha.  She's got really long red hair and she's way cool.  She's serving in Lichfield right now, so she's in our zone, so I see her from time to time. 

 

I'm sad that Granddad is back in the hospital.  He needs to get out of there.  Nobody likes being in the hospital.  They say in hospital here.  Not the.  He/She is in hospital.  It's odd.  I'll definitely keep him, Uncle Alan and Brother Shumway in my prayers, and I've been meaning to send Granddad a letter, I'll get one sent this week.

 

School sucks.  I'm glad you're done.

 

I will be anxiously awaiting the package, cheers Mummy!

 

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures.. We're bad at pictures, Elder Okuonghae and I don't take many, and the ones we do take are generally not of the two of us.  I'll try to find an occasion to take one of us this week.

 

My baptism ladies.  Haha, well Kirsty and her little sister Lucy are on holiday in Wales this week, but unfortunately she's with her family.  That wouldn't be an unfortunate thing for many people, but I guess there's a lot of strife coming from her parents.  But Kirsty is absolutely solid, she's received her answer that the church is true and she's doing everything in her power to keep all the commandments and hold firm to the iron rod.  She's getting stressed out by her parents though.  I think Satan will let up a little after she gets baptized.  I hope so, for Kirsty's sake.  I don't have much to report on Lucy, she's heard lessons on the Restoration, and the Gospel of Christ, and also the Word of Wisdom.  She's fifteen in a not-so-morally great country, so she may have some trouble with never drinking or not getting a ton of tattoos and piercings.  I think she'll come around to it though.  She does have a great example (Kirsty) to look to.  This week we had a couple new investigators.  One being our neighbor Ivan, who we never thought would come around to the Gospel, and a former investigator called Frasier.  Ivan will take ages to come around to it though, and Frasier went out of town for four weeks today, so... I may never see him again.  That's a bummer.  Whatever.  I think he'll be baptized sometime.  I have a feeling that this will be my last transfer in Tamworth.  I don't know why, it just seems like everything is wrapping up here for me.  I hope I stay another transfer after this, but.. I wouldn't mind going either.  It's kind of exciting thinking about going to a new area.  I want to go to Merthyr Tydfil or Cwmbran.  One of my best mates from the MTC is in Cwmbran, his name is Elder Battles, and he's the man.  I want to serve with him for sure.  Other than that.. there really isn't much to report on this week.  Kind of a boring week.  A guy from my ward and stake presidency will be in Salt Lake this coming two weeks, so if you run into a Barry Jones that sounds like he's from England, and is bald, say hi.  He knows me.

 

The scripture of the week is Matthew 10:16.  It's a really cool one.  Look it up.

 

I love you all, and hope you have a great time in California!

 

Love,

Elder Smart

 

PS Angela is within a few hours of me right now.  It's pretty crazy, and I try not to think about it too hard, haha.