Howdy Y'all,
Well I have about 18 minutes to try to update what is going on in Arkansas. First of all the weather has been pretty good. We have had at least 4 days in Feb. in the 70's. We are waiting for the tornado season to get into full swing and they keep telling us that we will have a snow storm but I think the one flake we saw in Jan. is going to be it. We have daffodills, crocus' and other things blooming. We are still teaching Floyd, Lovisa and Derrick. Derrick and his wife and daughter (Stephanie and Isabella) came to church yesterday. It was great. They only stayed for Sac. Meeting and S.S. because they thought that was all a 2 year old could take. I think Isabella was disappointed when they got her out of Primary to go home. I hope they come again next week. Lovisa is still progressing slowly. She really has started to feel the Spirit more and is wanting to read more and askes great questions. She has talked to her parents about the Church a little. She said she will be 18 soon and whatever she wants to do will be OK with them. She really is a neat young lady. We had a super strong spiritual lesson with Floyd on Thursday. We were all really feeling it. Then he told us he loves us and really enjoys talking with us and learning. He really is having a hard time with his wife and family and friends. His wife tells him we are not Christian and are a cult. He told her that is not true and that we love Christ just like they do. We gave him a Finding Faith in Christ DVD and asked him to show it to her so it might help her understand how we feel about the Savior. Other things are going great. We couldn't find a referral we had last week. Two days later we went back to try again and the Spirit sent us to a house with a little different address and a similar but different spelling last name. It was the place. The guy wasn't home but we had a great talk with his dad and he invited us back. On Wednesday we are having a mission conference. Elder Hinckley of the Seventy will be here. It will be awesome. Well, my time is about to expire. Hope I haven't bored you all. We love you and pray for the Lord to Bless you always.
Love Elder Dad and Sister Mom

I don't know why the bottom ones are all skeewompus but they are....oh well. ;0

Mom and Dad pictures!!!

Ok everyone mom and dad sent me some pictures! So here you go. They start back with mom's birthday til now. So enjoy!

Mom's B-day! Isn't dad so creative! he he he! 60 - 1. Very clever dad! :)

Whoops great minds think alike! me and dad got mom the same thing.

This is Elder Slichter, Elder Sheffer and Gracie Johnson at their christmas day dinner. Gracie is the one that plays the piano in church on sunday and kind of free styles it. :)

A baptism. Noemi Ultreras, Sarah Munn, Jackson and Jayme Munn and the missionaries.

Dad helping move someone in the branch. And look I sent him his Utah beanie!! looks good daddy!

The ties mom and dad bought the Elders for Christmas. They said the missionaries are really into ugly ties so they went to the DI and got them all a tie.

Mom making her Christmas eve dinner. Yummy!!!

Mom and Dad's Christmas eve dinner.

Christmas morning.

Christmas morning line up. he he he :)

you guys are silly!!

Mom with her new digital frame. (One of them)

Dad with their new lion house cookbook and CD.

All their presents combined.

I didn't show all the individual pics

with presents because that's to many.

But I promise they did it.

Mom looking through her

new cook book deciding

what to make next!

Just thought it was fitting

I just saw this background and thought of mom and dad, because dad said all the frogs are mating right now in Danville and that they are all over the place. So I just thought this background was fitting. I'll change it soon. I thought of you mom and dad!

I love you! It was was really good to talk to you and hear all about the awesome experiences you are having! Don't worry about us to much over here. You have 5 months left and I'm pretty sure we can handle it.

I hope things keep happenin' for you with the missionary work and that those people you're teaching will continue heading in the right direction. I'm the proudest and most thankful daughter in the world to have such awesome parents!!!

Love you!
Love always,
Kellie

Howdy everybody,
Well, it is Monday and here I am again. Since Kellie set this up for us it seems Jeni and I are the only ones that add anything to our blogs. I don't have much to give you today. I wrote a couple of other e-mails and things and now I am almost out of time. We are getting wet here today but this morning when we walked our 2.25 miles it was 65 degrees but the wind was blowing a little. I saw some little purple flowers in bloom this afternoon and the swamp next to the high school track had these sounds comming from it this morning. The best I could figure is that they were frogs and it is probably time to mate. We heard that last year in the spring, a little later than now, there was a rainstorm and then the Senior Missionaries went to the track to walk and it was covered with frogs. They could not really walk because of all the frogs. I'm looking forward to that experience but Sister Smith isn't. Between the Senior Center, Adult Ed., our 3 real investigators, our English reading and writing class, teaching and clerk work at church, teaching members to be missionaries and visiting and teaching and encouraging less actives, oh and various meetings we are trying to keep busy. We really would like more investigators though. Well my time here at the library is about up so I will quit for now.
Love and God Bless,
Elder Dad, etc.

Hey, y'all.
Sis. Smith is writing the official family letter again so I decided to try to add a new item for the week. We are doing awesome. We have 3 great investigators. Floyd is coming along nicely and we hope to get him to Church this next Sunday. Lovisa is doing real good. She has been to Church 3 times and has read some of the Book of Mormon stuff you asked her to read and is praying. Praying to a real Father in Heaven is much different than reciting a memorized prayer. This is a big step. She is also going to ask her parents if she can give us their address so that we can send missionaries to them to tell them what we are telling her so they won't worry about what is going on. We will teach the Orrell's again on Tuesday and I really feel good about what is going to happen there. Part of the reason is so good is because we got to go to the Temple this weekend and it was awesome. That always infuses the spirit and gets things moving in the right direction again. Well the computer is about to expire.
Love y'all and God Bless,
Elder Dad, etc.