Jan 3, 2017- The Year of the Missionary

Hey everyone! Wow I hope everyone had a great year and hopefully everyone made some great goals to start 2017 off right! Well like the title says this is my year as a missionary. It's so awesome to think that I will be out here in New York serving the Lord for this whole year! I love it! Next week on Tuesday I will be going to the Manhattan temple for my 6 month mark temple trip! Preparation day will also be on Tuesday next week! It's so weird to see time go by so fast. It felt like yesterday I was in the MTC trying to adjust and learn a language. 

My week was pretty great! On Wednesday we had exchanges with the Chinese zone leaders Elder Wu and Elder Switzer. Elder Ha and Elder Jarman went with Elder Wu. I went with Elder Switzer. He is so funny and such a great missionary. He is going home in 3 weeks and is still such a consecrated missionary. It was such a fun time and we ate some good food at a Chinese member's home. It was so good! They are such great leaders I love them! 

Also Saturday night we had to be in at 6pm! So we had some fun and I think my boys would know how it was! We played monopoly all night! Haha we had a lot of fun and just drank a ton of apple cider! 

Yesterday we had interviews with President Reynolds. He is such an amazing man! I look up to him so much! Honestly he is my role model. He is very spiritual and knows what to say and how to say it. It was great to be in a position where we got to talk to each other about the District.  It was a great! 

I learned this week and after talking to President, that I need to pray more intently and sincerely. So I challenge all of you to pray more intently this week! Really talk to our Father in Heaven this week!

I love all of you and hope everyone had a great New Years! 

Till next Tuesday!!!

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New Years Eve!!

Dec 26, 2016 Christmas!!

Hey everyone!!! Wow I feel like it's been a while! Sorry I'm not the best at emailing! Well first off my Christmas was amazing!!! It was so great to talk to and see my family!!! That was probably my best Christmas present! Love my family!

Shoutouts:

Ferre's

Burwell's 

Uncle & Aunt Rusty

Mom & Dad

The Howard's

The Brown's 

The Bailey's

The Hyers

Stephanie

Fesslers

Helen Dayton

Thank you all so much for the packages and letters! You are all so awesome! 

We had a huge mission Christmas devotional where we all did skits it was so much fun. Our ward Christmas party was great, we combined with the Chinese ward! We sang oh holy night as a musical number as a District and with a Chinese companionship. It was super good!

Well I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas! 

I love you all! Have a great week! And New Years! 

District

City Hall Service Project

Mission Christmas Devotional

Me in an elevator

Recent Convert William (Chinese Word)

Dec 19, 2016

No Letter, Pictures are worth 1,000 words

Dec 12, 2016- The New District (A Surprise!)

So this last week went by pretty quickly! The thing is I just got
smacked in the face today! I got some big news this morning :) Elder
Ha and I have just finished training this week and are heading into a
Transfers tomorrow. Elder Kim will be leaving us and Elder Ha just got
called to train a new Korean Elder! I just got called this morning and
will be the new District Leader.... I was shocked! We have two rookies
one is training and one is District Leader :) haha I will have a great
experience but I know it will be hard! I will have to work even harder
now to lead my District!

So that is the big news this week! I will tell you how it all goes
next week after we finish a week haha I hope I do alright :) this
preparation day was cut short because I will be going to the temple
Saturday with our Branch! So Saturday I will be able to email again :)

I learned a lot this Transfer. A lot about patience and diligence. We
are all given trials to test our faith. Always remember that God will
never give us a trial that we can not handle. I know sometimes it
might seem impossible that this one trial is too hard. Let me just
say, if we use Christ's Atonement he can help us overcome all. I know
I will need his strength and help these next few transfers as I am put
into a new assignment!

I love you all! Have a great week!

🇰🇷Elder Smith🇺🇸

Dec 5, 2016- Last Week of Transfers

So as it says in the title, it is the last week of the Transfer! Wow
time does fly by! This next Transfer we will be getting a new Korean
missionary. So that means either Elder Kim, Ha, or I could be
training! So it will be interesting to see what happens!

This week was the start of December, so that means we got to start our
Christmas initiative!! "Light the World" you can find the video we
show on Mormon.org! We made a sweet poster that we would walk around
with on the street!! It actually worked very well and a lot of people
just stared at it haha. It kind of looked like little kids made it,
but hey it was effective! :)

It was a fun week! And tomorrow..... we have a baptism in the Korean
Branch!!! It is the sisters investigator her name is 김동화. She is
honestly so amazing! She speaks perfect Korean and Chinese. She is a
person that has totally committed herself into following Christ and
his example! She is so amazing! I'll send pictures of it next week!

I hope everyone's week is a great one! I invite all of you to go check
out that video! Remember the true meaning of Christmas this year!

I love you all!!!!
🇰🇷Elder Smith🇺🇸

Nov 28, 2016 Thanksgiving, Cool Pics, and Views

This week has been a good one! Thanksgiving was such a good day! We
had a big Thanksgiving party with out Branch! Lots of food!!! I love
Korean food so much now. Before I left on the mission it was alright,
but now I am just addicted to kimchi!!! It was my first time really
having some real American food here :) also.....We now actually have a
new investigator, Roy!!!!! The sisters just invited him off the
street, and he showed up! He is really interested in learning more!
That was a really great moment from this week! He came to church
yesterday which was so great to see. We had a lesson with him and he
wants to read the Book of Mormon for himself. He has a lot of
potential right now!

Also we totally took some cool pics this week! :D
So I'm sorry for the short email but I hope all the pictures make up for it!
Love you all!!!

Nov 22, 2016 Fast Week!

Well I'm just going to apologize now, but I don't have much to talk
about! This week flew by so quickly! Elder Kim had a birthday on
Saturday and that was really fun! The sisters bought 2 big pizza's and
a really nice cake! Honestly this week just went by so fast I don't
even know what happened haha :)

I am having a lot of fun on my mission! I have learned a lot at this
point being in a trio! I have learned that obedience is key! Not only
obedience but exact obedience! You can still do things by being
obedient, but it's when you are exactly obedient that the blessings
come! If you are exactly obedient in life to your covenants with God,
to the commandments, in a church calling, or for me in missionary
work. Then you are showing God that he can trust you.  And once you
show that will and obedience he will bless you with so many
opportunities.  So I challenge all of you to do your best, to work
hard and be obedient!

So I have learned a lot about the scriptures as I have been out on the
mission and I've also learned some mind blowing things (but that will
be saved for later discussions ;) ).  Maybe some deep doctrine things
that aren't so great but hey it's all fun ;) but no, I was reading in
the scriptures today and I read in 3 Nephi 26:

6 And now there cannot be written in this book even a hundredth part
of the things which Jesus did truly teach unto the people;
11 Behold, I was about to write them, all which were engraven upon the
plates of Nephi, but the Lord forbade it, saying: I will try the faith
of my people.

People ask I need more or there are more things that I can know.  I
mean shoot everyone here in New York literally just worships the
Bible.  They worship the Bible more than they do their Savior Jesus
Christ.  We ask them, who are you actually reading and studying about
as you read the Bible? They honestly love their Bible more than they
do the Savior.

And as I have been here I wanted to know more, learn more, and for my
language know everything... this Korean language is honestly my
biggest trial right now. But of course as the Lord said in 3 Nephi "I
will try the faith of my people."

He is for sure trying me! I would do anything to know this language
right now!!!!! Wow it's frustrating at points, but I know it is all
for a reason!!

I love you all and I love your support and words of encouragement!
Have a great week!!!!

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Elder Brenkman is Chinese speaking, but ordered a Korean name tag. LOL!!



Elder Kim's birthday



SUPER MOON!!!

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