Hey, Guess what - this is my first attempt at blogging. I am so excited! It is so fun to read all of your blogs. We are experiencing spring weather in the South with all the rain storms and all the pollen. There is yellow pollen everywhere. We wash our windshield every day - sometimes three times a day - just to get the pollen off. Ther are also lots of flowers and weeds in bloom. There is red clover all along the roadways, and wild flowers in the fields. It really is pretty here in the spring.

We took a trip to the Memphis temple last weekend for our temple anniversary. It was wonderful. We left Friday morning. We got there about 1:00. Our first stop was "Graceland". It is the estate of the late Elvis Presley. It was fun to see all the memorabilia. His house was just normal sized, not huge. It was decorated 70's style. It was on a large parcel of ground though. He had horses and airplanes and lots of motorized toys. Elder Smith thought he was going to be bored but he actually found it kind of interesting. That night we went out to dinner at TGI Fridays and we went to the temple. We were the witnesses. The next morning we did another session at the temple. We had lunch and then started home. On the way home we ran into a huge rain storm. We couldn't hardly see. Luckily everyone slowed down on the freeway and we made it through just fine.

We have had a busy week this last week. We went out visiting and finding people. We finally found a woman that we had tried to find before and as luck would have it, she is a girl scout leader and she sold us some girl scout cookies! They have just about everything here in the South!

The Elders had another baptism this weekend. It was supposed to be on Saturday, but the girl's mother took her to help clean houses and didn't get her back on time. So we had it Sunday after Church. The Spanish people are accepting the Gospel very readily as opposed to the English speaking who are very non-commital. But we still love them. At this point all we have been doing is planting seeds. It would be fun to see some of them bloom but as yet, it hasn't happened.

All is Well!

Well, I thought maybe I had better let everyone know all is well here in Danville. Last night was an awesome storm. There were tornados around and we were on a tornado warning. The closest touch down was about 50 miles away. It killed 3 people and really messed up the town. We got some terrible wind and lots of rain and lightning and thunder. The thunder shook the whole apartment. Our neighbor came across the hall and made sure we were aware of the warning and said he would knock on the door on his way down stairs if we needed to go down. If it happens we will go down into the closet under the stairs but we will have to break the lock on the door. Sounds kind of like Harry Potter. Anyway, we got our emergency bag and pillows and scriptures and Easter candy and put it all by the door, just in case. Fortunately our 7:30 Reading class in Dardanelle was cancelled so we got to stay home or we would have been out in the middle of it at its worst. There are trees down even here in town. Beyond that all is going well. We are still teaching most of the time. Derrick Orrell has said he definately wants to be baptized but he wants to read a lot more of the Book of Mormon first. I hope we get it done before we leave. It is more important that he will be totally committed when he does it than that he get it done before we leave. We went and visited Floyd Avery's chicken farm on Monday. He has 3 chicken houses and each one holds 16,000 chickens. We took pictures and will try to get them to Kellie soon to post. His chickens are ready to send to the processing plant this weekend or the 1st of next week. Then he will have 3 weeks to clean up and get ready for 48,000 more chicks that are 1 day old and the cycle starts over again. It takes 9 weeks to get the day old ones ready for slaughter. We also found out that we are both alergic to chickens. For Sis. Smith it was a 3 pill night. Well, I think that is enough for now. We keep praying for y'all. Love and God Bless.