Hi Family,
Sounds like you guys are doing good! That's sweet that the Utes beat Stanford, and Whit that is crazy that you're touring Stanford!! You're way too smart haha!! Mom wanted to know about the food and stuff, for breakfast almost every day we eat cereal, but every once in a while I will cook cheesy eggs, for lunch we either eat corn dogs or leftovers that members gave us from dinners, and we do eat at people's homes for dinner almost every night. The food is good. Dad that's cool what you taught in mission prep! I remember when they would call me up to role play, haha I hated it and it was super awkward, but looking back on it now it helps sooo much! When I was in mission prep I had no idea how much it would help me on the mission. That was a cool story out of the Old Testament, I've never heard it before but I want to go and read it now! I want to thank everyone for all of the letters and e-mails! If you've sent me a letter and I haven't wrote back, don't be offended, I want to write everyone back so bad but I just don't have time. I love it when I get letters from all of you and I'm grateful for an awesome super supportive family! This week was pretty good! We had to teach the Word of Wisdom to Randy which we weren't very excited about. He smokes and he says he's trying to quit but it is definitely going to be hard... After we taught him the WoW we went back over a couple days later and you could just smell so much smoke in his house. That's how it is every single time we walk in there, it's like hard to breathe! But we taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that was probably the best most powerful lesson that me and Elder Harral have taught! The Spirit there was SO strong and you could just feel it working on Randy! After the lesson we asked him how the Word of Wisdom was going (Even though we already knew) and he said he was down to one cigarette a day instead of 5! That was awesome but we've still got a little bit to go! So what we did was we got all of the cigarette's that he had left and we numbered them from 7 to 1 because that's how many he had left, and on the last one we wrote "last one" So hopefully that works and after that last one he stops! He said it was a good idea and he thinks it's going to help. We are going to pray for him super hard and continue to check up on him! Quitting smoking is super hard and it's going to be a process but with the Lord nothing is impossible! We didn't get in with Alfreida and Shauna this week, and we had a couple other cancellations but Randy was the highlight of the week! I'm loving the mission! It's the best thing ever to wake up every morning and devote all your time to the Lord! I can't get enough of studying the Gospel, and the blessings of being obedient far outweigh the bad parts of the mission! I miss you all and hope you are all doing good! Keep doing the right things and know that I'm praying for all of you! Love you all!
Love Elder Summerhays
