Crazy!!

Hey how is everyone doing? I hope all is good! sounds like everyone is busy and having a good time! I feel the exact same way! Well this weekend might have been the craziest weekend of my life! A lot really happened. Well i will tell a little more about that in a minute but i am glad the cougs won that's good to hear but its good to hear that all is going good for you guys and that everyone is safe at home. Well first off i want to tell you what happened on Friday night, don't worry mom i know you will freak out but we are alright and things are good now. But so to start off we had a big activity Friday night for our branch then had service in the morning, so we got permission for Elder Lindsley and Elder Tryon to stay the night at our house so we didn't waste miles. So we got all situated and me and Elder Lindsley slept on the floor out in the living room which is close to the door. So everything was normal so we went to sleep. Then at like 3 a.m. we heard our neighbors like drinking and partying and what not. Didn't think anything of it so we went back to bed about like 4 a.m. i was woken up to hearing loud moaning noises like some guy got beat up or something, didn't think anything of it because they were drinking so i just thought someone was messing around, so again so just fell back asleep. about 20-30 minutes later me and Elder Lindsley were woken up to the police coming in they were yelling and there was a lot of ruckus going on so we looked at each other like what the heck is going on. The police were talking loud to this guys saying " what did you hit him with?" and in his broken English said i don't know man! so we were like uhh oh doesn't look good. The we hear we got one stabbed! at that point we were freaked out, couldn't go back to sleep so we hear the paramedics get there i was at that point looking out the little peep hole i could see the guy just laying right there, they rolled him over and he had a bunch of stab wounds in his back and side. my stomach started to churn, so i went and laid down again we just layed there in shock basically. So we had service that morning at like 8 and they didn't let us leave till twelve because we had to talk to them and tell them what we heard and all this good stuff. then when we left all the blood and guts were still there it was nasty we had to basically step over a part of his insides when we left. The cops and the crimes investigators were there all day! I guess the guy died i just found that out this morning i asked his friend as he was leaving for work. So ya that's what happened! But other than that it was a good week. We found two new investigators that are really good and we look to give them a baptismal date, we had a really good activity that we set up on Friday that we got a pretty good turnout. I went on an exchange with the zone leaders this week man am i glad to be serving a Spanish speaking mission, white people are really mean and scary it is so much easier talking to Spanish people, they are a lot chiller. Then i went on a exchange with Elder Lindsley we did some work it was really good! We had some sweet contacts and had a good time, although we got lost and separated on our bikes in the middle of Wilmington at 9 p.m. it was really funny but kinda scary! Well i love the mission i am really so happy to be here and wouldn't trade it for anything i am so lucky to have the gospel in my life. Well i love you all hope you all have a good week. I am super excited to get to listen to conference this week i actually pay attention now, man i missed out on a lot of things all of those years. I am so grateful that we have a living prophet in these days to help lead and guide us in every aspect of life! I love Thomas S. Monson and pretty darn lucky to be called as a missionary from him. I know he is a true and living prophet. Listen to General Conference and pay attention to your feeling! Love you all! Elder Smart