August 1, 2016 Email

Well everyone,

I have some news!!  I'm being transferred!!!!!  I'm going to Odoben and my new companion is going to be Elder Lokutsu!!!  He's from Congo and he sounds cool!  So I will leave for my new area tomorrow!  The major bummer is that its the Bush.  Or, at least the nice Bush haha!  So it may be difficult for me to send out as many emails as I can now, like with pictures and stuff like that.

So as far as this week has gone, it's been pretty chill.  Lambson and I have been working hard with some of our investigators and we have decided to let some of them take a break.  WE have been Seeing Foster and Linda a lot and we hope to get them baptized soon.

Speaking of baptism, Nana Akua was baptized this last Saturday!!!!  So anyway, the other days of the week have just been hard.  We have had to do a lot of work for Nana Akua's baptism and it's just kind of been a pain to get everything ready without the ward's help.  We have fortunately had a lot of fun with the other missionaries around us haha!!!  It's going to be hard leaving Chantan, but luckily Elder Ben is coming with me to Winaba, and we have Elder Scogg coming with us as well.  He's pretty weird, but he's pretty cool to talk to haha!!!  We have been working pretty hard with some of the members, but they aren't too excited to come out with us sometimes.

We also had a stake center dedication this last Saturday!!!  We literally did Nana Akua's baptism and had to run over there to help our with the missionary activity.  We took a lot of the youth around Ofankor and that was pretty fun haha!!!  We also had the chance to meet a lot of the missionaries in the zone haha!!!!

Well a fun fact that we have is freaky!!!  Yesterday Lambson and I were int he apartment getting ready to head out when the cops come into the compound.  We thought that she called the cops on us!!!  we literally sat in the apartment most of the day and when they finally left, we could go out.  We saw some people and told them that I was leaving.  Telling them that I was leaving was hard!!!!  I hate saying goodbye and especially hate leaving an area that I'm really enjoying!

I think the hardest part about leaving Chantan will be leaving Lambson. . .he's helped me a lot when I first came on mission.  Having him in the MTC and now in Chantan has helped me in keeping strong on mission!  You all have helped me out so much, and Lambson helped me in ways I know he could only help.  Talking about things back home, having a good time, just an amazing companion!  I hate to leave!!!!!!!

Well that sums us this week, and hopefully things will work out for this next transfer!  I'm gonna need as much help as I can get if this goes south, but I hear Lokutsu's a cool guy, hopefully I'll keep strong haha!!!!

Love you all!!!  Hope you're safe!!!  Also, I hope all of you are enjoying back home haha!!!!

Elder Stockton Smith