A Day in the Life of Elder Smith

Written October 6, 2009


Hello Mother and family,

Well from your email I got that you would like more details, so here they are.

Usually for general conference we listen to it at the ward building. We get to see most of the sessions live. The first one on Saturday we see at about 6 pm at night, then on Sunday morning we watch the Priesthood session, then we see the Saturday afternoon session. Then we have a break for about 2 hours until the Sunday morning session starts, but we do not get to see the Sunday afternoon session until we get our Liahona. That is why I would like the iPod. We listen to it in our native language unless we have an investigator with us.

How is my german coming? That is a very good question. I have very few struggles with it. It feels like it is second nature. Now about my companion he is from Washington. He is about a year and a half out. I really do not know much more about him that I could tell you.

Elder Crump is in the southern most tip of our mission in Karlsruhe. So yes, he is still out. He trained me when he was very young on the mission.

Well about Köln, it is is the biggest city in our mission. I think it has close to 3 million people in it. The ward is a very small one. The ward used to be pretty big, but something happed and a lot of members fell away. So the majority of work that we have to do is reactivation along with finding our own investigators. I can not tell you much more about this city because I have only been here a little while.

Something interesting happened to me and my comapnion last week. Basically we were robbed by some turkish punks and we were threatened to be killed if we did not give up our cell phone. We gave up our cell phone.


Elder Smith