Elder Braden Smoot

 Yo this week been alright so I'll add some cool stuff But I may have forgot to talk about some other stuff from last week that I'll put in rq My companion had surgery because he got an infection on his neck. He ain't get no anesthesia so he was in total pain the whole time.  Next day we were driving home from another village and almost hit a taxi.  The taxis here are not like normal taxis.  They are regular people who put stickers on their car that say how many seats they have. They drive around and just pick up people on the road. They drive pretty crazy and pull over randomly to drop people off. We were driving and had to change lanes. That's when we almost hit Quincy Austin.  He is a crazy guy holy. He was yelling at us and following bumper to bumper and honking for like 3 miles straight. We didn't even hit the guy. Like go away.  Anyways he started to get even crazier and went in the other lane into oncoming traffic to yell at us. And i tell you what i...

  Hey finally writing an email sheesh I've been busy(not really) The mtc was way cool became really good friends w everyone in my district. My companion Elder Johnson was a total dog.  My teachers were super awesome and really helped me prepare for the field where I was lacking. My whole district decided to do the MTC choir and the speaker we later found out was going to be Elder Uchtdorf. That devotional was way cool and he gave us some really good things to think about. Crazy thing is we got really lucky after and we met him and got to shake his hand!! That was really cool actually. I could feel the spirit going through my hand and througout My body. We went to the temple 4 times total which was awesome. Me and my comp finally got our travel stuff like a day before we had to leave. We became good friends w the only other elders going to our mission throughout the mtc. We left the mtc to the airport around 11:30 AM and arrived in guyana at around 12 AM the next day. Sheesh th...