Kirk's last testimony to his brothers still in the mission field.

So, just FYI, Kirk will coming home on June 19, in the evening.  He will be speaking on June 24 at 10:50 a.m.   We can't wait to see him.  Perhaps his next post in here will be pictures of him in SLC!   Yeah for us, perhaps not so great for Kirk, but he says he is excited to see us.  Just sad to leave Africa.  As it should be.

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Well this is my last newsletter, the funny thing is I will be home, before this could ever reach me. Mission is no joke, and yet its a funny thing. 2 very long/short/happy/sad/joyful/frustrating/funny/tiresome years. You get it all on mission. I am still not really believing that my time is up. So my only advice that i can give is no regrets. Work hard, be obedient, and most important enjoy the moments (As my mom always always says) If your not enjoying it, the spirit leaves. For me i know this is Gods work and we are all called to do it, forever, not just two years. I know this work is true, the church is true. And i know Jesus Christ is my Savior. D&C 76: 22 22 And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!
I know he lives and that he loves us so much more than we can ever explain to anyone. Love you all! Elder Smed

 

Miracles continue

May 25--You know what it is? Today is monday. And I am going mini golfing in about 40 minutes. So i'm excited. Well we had a good week this week. Bad start but good week. Obvious i was sick. I stayed down for tuesday. Wednesday i was feeling a bit better, went to district meeting, then one appointment (Which was way powerful) Then i was down again. So only half day wednesday but from there i am doing good. Lets see so Saturday we had what might have been (probably is) My last baptism on my mission. It was really good. We baptized Michael the one from Sudan. It was just a nice day. He had been waiting a long time for that. Then saturday, night i decided to fast, for a couple things, one of which was that we could have our investigators show up to church and feel the spirit. So then at church imagine we had 10 investigators there, it was so awesome. Like all of them, even 1 we had stopped teaching came. It was so cool to se the Lord answer my prayer. I had been praying a lot for some more miracles before i go home. And i am seeing the lords hand every time. But i think that is all i have for this time. Love you all so much.

Some more recent pictures!

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May 7--Kirk's Birthday!

We had an awesome week at church. 8 investigators were there and i want to tell you about one in particular. His name is steve we had never met him before, but he found a testimony of the prophet joseph smith pamphlet, in the trash, (he showed it to us and it was trashed) and a teachings of the prophet wilford woodruff (Also in bad shape, not really sure where he got it) Well he came with his son to church because he had read the teachings and he was so impressed with what was inside of it. So he came, it was fast and testimony meeting and he gave a testimony, saying the church was right. It was so cool. So i am excited to teach him. On the back of the joseph smith pamphlet it had the name of 2 sister missionaries who i have never even heard of. So probably they served here up to 3 or 4 years ago. God really does prepare people. It was cool seeing you never know what can come of anything.
Otherwise thank you everyone for remembering my birthday i appreciate it a lot. It was wonderful. It still is wonderful actually. Yesterday it poured. It has rained about everyday this entire week. Not even exaggerating. Yesterday we were on our way home from an appointment it was dark like 7 and it just started pouring. We took refuge inside of a small salon that two mrembos were kind enough to let us in. And it just poured, rain the likes of which, are very rare, so the rain stopped and we continued trekkin our way home. Well right before we get to our compound where our flat is, the road that was there had become a river. Completely there was no way around it. We were stuck. We sat there about 10 minutes trying to decide what to do. Finally my comp when around, this way, thinking he made it. Well i didn't see much hope in the way he went (He ended up getting soaked.) So i just took my shoes off, and went in my socks. It was about a foot deep, just nuts. Anyway that was our adventure and the power was out all night, till around 12 30 this afternoon. So i am happy it came back so we could email.

Kirk Speaks

Here is the video that Kirk sent! Love it! He looks and sounds so good!

Conference, color code author visits, last interview with Pres. B.

April 3, 2012--So Whats up everyone? This is elder kirk b smedley? Mom did you get the video I sent you?  I sent it from elder Hartmans ipad. Do you know who taylor hartman is? Mom i know you do. Is the the guy that came up with the personality colors. Red blue white yellow, you know. So he gave us a training for zone conference and it was just awesome. I think i took it before, but i am blue white. But the best part was this... I got to talk to him one on one. It was way sweet. He said I need to be more confident. And some other things but he is just a way sweet guy. I really enjoyed it a lot. It was a powerful meeting. I also got to see both morning sessions of conference, it was way sweet. Just sitting there and knowing, you guys were also just sitting there watching. We were in the same place, yet opposite places if that makes sense. The baptism was this week of maria. It was so awesome. I baptized her and it was just such a good thing. She was so happy, and i was so happy. It was a good day. Lets see what else has happened in the past? I am out of things to say. Oh ya my new companion. Like i said he is elder ndwandwe he is a way cool missionary.  I really like him. He is very humble. He is hard working and just a way cool guy. Man he is one of my favorite companions. We are getting along well. I also had my last zone conference interview with president broadbent. It was great. He is an awesome guy. I am going to miss him a lot. Me and him we've been through a lot. He is the most positive happy guy. Anyway i think thats all i have this week. Love you all so much. Elder Smedley.

Kirk has a baby and car named after him!

This is an email i got from elder munatsi who is home now. Just a funny awesome story. But anyway he pretty much named his nephew after me.  Here is his e-mail.  (A note from mom here--Elder Munatsi was one of kirk's favorites and an awesome missionary:))

"thrice in one l find myself in a bewilderment..see l really dont know how to explain wat u are seeing ryt now but suffice me to say it was totally worth it.dude that car is my aunt's car.she jus gave birth to a bouncing baby boy.so dude l named him.how cool is tht?ya it is ha.wait till u hear his fetchin name."kirk malone mengich."hahahaha.she loved it.so thts not the climax of the story tho.her husband....flipn loaded myt l say......bought her a mercds ya tht car ryt there..she later put a plate on it n guess what she writes kirk on it.l told her wre the name came from n she digs it.showed her the pics of one kirk b smedley who loves to walk on the beach barefooted with his dog mica....she still digs it so u in hommie...she likes u lol.so thts the car l roll in to work everdy hommie.half the time l dnt bliv myself.its not mine but still rocks....u said u wantd details man..[gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="2"]

.hommie l miss you.l think its a man crash n no..fetch no l'm not gay.lol.dunno man.how goes u man?  its the mission of missions hope u know tht.l miss tht place....