7 months!

holy cow another week! crazy. it just continues to blow my mind on how fast time is goin. elder gibbs and i are really workin hard out here. we are finding true joy in this amazing journey of a mission. havin so much fun and working hard at the same time. we have seen miracles because of it! we are having so much fun. but i promise we are working working and working ...and working. its the only way to do missionary work...to work. thats when your the happiest and thats when miracles happen. thats the secret to missionary work...its to work. if your not happy work harder eh?
 elder gibbs and i teach really good together. my teaching skills have really increased and i enjoy teaching so much! especially spanish!!! dang i love this language. i drempt? dreamed..i dunno how to say it but i had a dream in spanish this week pretty sick. spanish is really coming along. probably about 6 weeks ago or maybe less i dont remember perfectly i realized that i cant do it on my own... so i asked for help and heavenly father has blessed me in so many ways since! tuesday was zone training. and i received alot of revelation from it. while president and sister jones served here they lifted the mission. and boy has it come a long way (so ive heard) now with president cutler he is gonna take it to even a higher level. hes an awesome president and the spirit is so powerful in his presence. you know hes a servent of god. his main focus is of course pmg but also on the book of mormon. so thats what the zone leaders focus was on. president cutler wants us to help others have "soul changing" experiences like hes had. he wants us all to have them for ourselves and help others to really feel the power of the book of mormon.  so hes challenged all of us to begin a serious study of the book of mormon... a sacred study. the book of mormon is the word of god i know it is. i know it is because ive got down on my knees and prayed to our heavenly father and asked him. recently thats something ive really learned questions always arise as i read and the best way to find the answer is to pray. even with the smallest questions. ive started to really study the book of mormon. i have before..well my whole mission...but there is also room for improvement. when your anxiously engaged in the word of god its amazing what things you learn.
  weve been pretty busy over here! its been nice to have our planners full of things to do besides TRACKTING.our teching pool is pretty great and is getting better each week. wednesday we had breakfast with orvalina (waiting to be married) we taught after she fed us some dang good pancakes, repentance. every lesson we have with orvalina a member comes with us ..its always brother rowley! the funniest most spiritual old man ive ever met. the guy is a crackup! served his mission in argentina back in the day when that mission was just starting! hes got some amazing stories. and has been there since the begining with orvalina! after our morning lesson we came home and headed out to the west side. after 2 hours of buses we got to the ramirez's casa. the lesson went great taught the story of enos, about repentance, did a killer analogy that blew their minds. it was a very strong spiritual lesson. elder gibbs and i really focused in on the spirit as we taught. we could definently feel its guidance as we spoke. long story short the ramirez family will be being baptized onthe 3rd of august!!! the elders before that taught them...well the ramirez family didnt feel ready or prepared... right when we asked them the mom laticia and her two kids victor and julio looked at eachother and then told us they felt really good about august third! they come to church more then thier father who is a member...so through this we hope to re activate him and get them all on the path to the temple where they can be sealed for all eternity! awsm family!!on our way home from the ramirez we stoped at a couple different transportation centers to catch and wait for different buses. at one point we had to wait for a while and there was a nice airconditioned sears right across the parking lot so we thought.."why not?" we were in sears esperando por the bus and a worker comes up to us and starts talking to us asking all these great questions...real humble guy thats searching for true happiness and knows that none of that can be found in the things of the world. we ended up talking to him for 30+ minutes... about so many things. it was sick. he wants us to come over and teach him! but he doesnt speak spanish...soooo we have to give him to the sisters probably:( we meet amazing people on the daily over here in green bay...and alot of crazies to. people really think us latter day saints are crazy. so many people have so many misconseptions about our religion its crazy. and honestly annoying! so ... something i learned...even if your not wearin white shirts a tie and slacks and a name tag...people should still know who you are by how you act. be an example in all tht you do and opportunities to bring this true joy into others lives will come. heck it brings so much joy into your life as you share what you know and live it...so do it!
 went through almost the whole area book loading formers into the gps this week. weve contacted quite a bit and have received alot of success through it! things take time alot of the time. some people just need the right missionaries and the right timing. everyday elder gibbs and i pray to be those missionarys. weve been working hard with the members also to try and get them goin...its working!! members are really starting to talk to us about prospects and people they have been talking too. we have one solid refferal from a member rightnow who we should be meeting with soon! almost all of our 13 refferals are contacted finally... its been a process. out of the 13 refferals we have met great people...awesome familys!! but none really interested. but have found a few!ive never had 13 refferals before haha. thats more then ive had my whole mission! OH FLIP i gotta tell ya about george! hes a refferal from the sisters... works 14 hours everyday at a chinese resturaunt and some other place so at his lunch break he trys to visit with us... i dont know if i told you about the refferal that wants to be baptized..but george is him. so we have been tryin for the past month to meet with him during his 30 minute break time... finally worked out this week. he is the man thats all i gotta say. he was so excited about the book of mormon we didnt have much time to teach but we really got to know him. busy busy but wants this in his life.
  its crazy that ive already been in green bay almost 3 months!things are really starting to unfold for elder gibbs and i in this work! we are so stoked! i hit my 7 month mark this week!!!!! holy dang. im loving my mission more and more everyday! love ya all!!

Elder Harper-Smith
 the mission home address changed... sorry i didnt tellyall that earlier! anddd i dont know it rightnow but will get it to you all next week or sometime soon:)