8 months!!

Hey everyone! How is everything going? Hope all is going well! Man its crazy to think that Byu football is starting up again! Sad i don't get to watch any but i hope they do good! they sounds like they should be pretty good! I'm excited to see what happens! well anyways all is good out here in the plat land of Delaware! Summer is a really hard time for missionary work here we are figuring out! ha ha oh well what can we do! Just work harder and try our best right! That's one thing i have learned just gotta keep on trucking!
Well this week we really haven't much success with our investigators! But we do have this one family but the dad is starting to show a lot of interest! his name is Osvaldo. He has been reading the Book of Mormon and loves it. He told us this week that he just doesn't have a good day when he doesn't read, ha ha then he had all these questions and loved it. The wife Laura has a lot of doubts and we had a long lesson with her yesterday that i think went well she hasn't really read or asked so how is she going to to know without doing that. So we committed her to do that! We really do have some solid investigators the hard thing is getting them to church we haven't had someone in church for like 4 weeks and its been really upsetting cause we don't know what else we can do! but we are starting to see some success with soccer we had 5 less actives that we had never seen before! so we think if they keep coming one day they will come back to church. So we will see. We got a lot of advice from the Elders quorum president yesterday so we are going to try to implement those things into what we do!
I really thought this week about like what success is! Just because there are a lot of hard times on the missions and you feel like your not doing enough! Just cause I have seen a lot of people just baptize a lot! but i have been obedient and i have been working hard and have had 0 baptisms in 8 months. I asked Elder Dopp why that is. But he said the Lord knows what he is doing and maybe this is what he wants for me to learn through the tough and hard times and maybe not baptize a lot of people, but he is changing me! But also i feel we get caught up in the numbers here buts not about that its about the people. Because we are planting the seed. Every soul is great in the sight of God! So i am going to keep working hard doing all i can to help progress!
Love you all! Be safe!
Elder Smart