An Inventor, a Cook, and a Preacher

GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ah man that is the best news I have heard all week! Still not as good as last year!!!!! So they announced Dad on the radio as honorable mention in the biggest loser hahahaha. Yeah I sent back some things to Dillon telling him to always look for the positive in everything and some other stuff trying to calm him haha. I did hear about the appendix scare from Chan and Payt. Im glad everything is okay!

So this week was pretty good it started on Tuesday as a walking day where we walked until 5:00 without using cars. But the cool part was our dinner. It was with this family, the Hodsons, who are pretty well off. haha Anyway Sister Hodson fed us and the food was amazing! Her husband was out of town because he goes to Hong Kong for work all the time. He invents new things like a self sustaining house. But the cool part is that their daughter is actually serving her mission in Hong Kong which is pretty cool. They told us one of her stories when she was asked to play the piano for an executive meeting for a bunch of the Chinese executives I guess. After the meeting was over, she left them with a message of the Restoration and every one of the Chinese Executives wanted to learn more, or wanted a Book of Mormon. It was a cool story! 

After that Wednesday thru Saturday were filled with teaching. We picked up a new investigator named Amir. He is super cool but is kind of distracted easily. Anyway we asked him to come to church and he said he would. He actually came with his Mom which was a surprise, so we are gonna plan on teaching her too. Her name is Maria.

Sunday was great, we had the usual things happen. Amir and Maria showed up which was great. But the totally cool part was our dinner. Brother Spackman, had us over and fed us like Kings! He cooked a full chicken and gave us like half of the chicken each, then he had baked beans and potatoes that were glazed in garlic and parmesan! It was amazing. He ended with a pie that tasted like heaven! He was literally male version of Betty Crocker.

Sunday night we were going by Potentials and ran into this guy named Rigo, who literally gave us a sermon. haha We were standing on his porch for about 30 minutes with him just talking to us about grace and all the things he believes in but he doesn't have a religion and funny enough most the things he told us were in harmony with what we know to be true. 

Anyway, Santa Barbara is pretty awesome! I am loving the weather and the ocean! I love you all, Stay Safe!

-Elder Smith