Great week!

what is up family! how you all doin?

another week has come and gone already it is mind blowing to me. the transfer is already almost over! ive already been here 6 weeks....thats absolutely mind blowing.

so this week ....full of great things! tuesday we contacted a refferal that weve had for the past month and a half but are never home...so tuesday we thought what the heck lets give it another shot..knocked on the door... opened right away! the navarro familia. its a young family mom and pop and then they have to young kids! they are all from honduras! lots of latinos here are from honduras. they are great people. but anyways this family is awesome! they both had amazing questions that we were able to answer through a great lesson on the restoration. the spirit was there and powerful. i felt it and i know they did. we didnt set dates but taught toward baptism. they said once they know of course they will get baptized so we will see! they were both really excited about the book of mormon. we have a lesson tomorrow with them!

sorry these few experiences are short...i wanna get to the highlight of the week...but ive been so blessed this week in so many ways. ive received so many answers through so many different people and ways. doors getting slammed in your face can drag ya down sometimes...walking down the street just saying good afternoon to a family and then to see the mom staring at us and yelling at her kids to get inside ...haha sometimes situations happen like this..we are normal people i promise! we are just here to help...this week so many people came up to elder jimenez and i and said thank you and god bless you and things like that...it has been a tender mercie of the lord. its picked us both up to know that we are noticed and are seen as representatives of our savior and not scary guys in white shirts!

  lots of tender mercies this week. ill share one more then i gotta tell ya about mission conference! ...earlier this week we were headin over to west side to bike and contact some refferals from the sisters haha refferals from sister missionaries never really work out...the people are hopin to see nice smiling faces of sister missionaries again but are sad when they open the door to smiling faces ...but elders. anyways im sure some of you know what im alking about. so we were on the bus and i sat behind a man who had downs syndrom(sorry if i misspelt it) but as i sat down he was looking at his feet then a while passed and he looked back at me and said "god is up there" he said looking up. then quickly he looked back at his feet. i looked at him and said" ya he is! and i know he loves you so much" he started to nod his head then rubbing his eyes..then with tears in his eyes he looked back up at me and said 3 words that hit me really hard "i miss him". i dont know why but for me that was so powerful. the sincerity he had in his voice and with the fullness of his heart he spoke those three words while looking me strait in the eyes. dang ill be honest...bout cryed!! the spirit was so strong in that bus at that moment for me. and brought so much comfort. do we miss our heavenly father? cause i know he misses us. i miss him. he has done so much for me and i know he is there each and every step we take. dan (name of the guy) is simply the man. we may never know how we will receive answers to our prayers...we must always be aware and open. thats something ive come to know...most answers come through others thats why at all times we must be open to the spirit!

  alright so saturday june 15th was mission conference! president and sister jones last time seein all of us:( sad but we are excited and have been very blessed by them as a mission. the whole mission met in neenah we were all sitting in the chapel waiting...the chapel doors opened and we all stood as an apostle of god and 4 members of the seventy walked into the chapel. the spirit engulfed the room and the feeling of pure peace and joy as Dallin H. Oaks entered the room and elder clayton of the presidency of the 70, elder gifford nielsen, elder randy funk, and elder ward.

  it was an amazing meeting! we all got to meet elder oaks as well. the feeling of the spirit as i shook his hand and he said "well good morning elder harper-smith! how are you doing?" heres an apostle of god asking me how im doing? ha well freakin great! i didnt say it like that of course but thats what was going through my head haha. the meeting was amazing. i am out of computer time though:( sad day!

i love you all and hope all is amazing!!

Elder Harper-Smith