Where the Skies are Blue

 hello!


sorry everyone for an elongated email chain. benson and pomerene was such a great area! I love all the people and my heart is there forever! 

I am now in Lordsburg New Mexico along with some small towns called Animas, Rodeo, and Portal. This area is totally crazy. It is so heckin small. I literally thought Benson was small but I was way wrong. Like I'm in a town equivalent to something you drive past on a road trip and by the time you blink its behind you haha. 

I love it though! it's actually so fun because we spend like 3 days in lordsburg and then drive down to Animas and Rodeo and sleep at members houses. It's as close as I have been to no purse or script haha. I literally slept at our Bishops house one night and our Branch President's moble home the next night. It's crazy haha. We are on the road most of the week. It's as if I've gone mobile on the mission. Now go listen to 'Goin mobile' by The Who for me and my Dad. thank you much

the skies here are never ending. we can see so much when we drive down in the middle of nowhere. I dropped a few photos below of how beautiful it is!

a quick spiritual thought for you all! 

"But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." (1 John 2:5-6) 

by loving God we are perfected in him! as we walk the way he walked his love is perfected in us! 

"Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am." (3 Nephi 27:27)

keep it real and listen to the lumineers for me

elder smith










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