Garth Smith - Navajo Arizona, Holbrook - 1979-1981 - Ep. 8 - Latter-day Saint Artist
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Hello everyone! On today’s show, we get to meet Garth Smith. Now I imagine that most of the time when Garth is invited to speak on a podcast, he is there to talk about his music. He is the recipient of the 2019 “Inspirational Artist of the Year” award, he has released five studio albums and is working on another one, he’s had reviews in the Deseret News and LDS Living, and has had collaborations with several LDS artists and has done arrangements for LightTheWorld. I’m probably not doing him justice with all the work that he’s done, but a quick search on YouTube for Garth Smith Music and you’ll find tons of videos. You can make some really nice playlists with his music for Sundays. We didn’t even really get to any of that in the interview! What we did talk about is his service as a full-time missionary in the Arizona Holbrook Navajo speaking mission from 1979 to 1981. And in my missionary minute, I talk about having a little fun on the mission.
So let’s get to it!
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A special thanks to Garth Smith and my friend Shawn Rapier from the Latter-day Lives Podcast for connecting us. If you want to hear more about Garth’s story, you can check out the Latter-day Lives episode 20. Also, stick around to the end. Garth blesses a lot of people with his music and he has allowed me to share a couple of my favorite arrangements of his which you’ll be able to hear right here on the podcast. I think you’ll love them too.
In today’s missionary minute Garth mentioned speaking to a young child while he was tracting who answered and said “nobody is home”. That would happen to us in France every now and then and someone would say after we knocked, “personne est la” and we would say, “Uh who are you then?” We would get a good laugh because I don’t think they expected us to respond to “nobody’s home” It just reminded me that through the long days where we walked all day, biked all day, knocked on doors all day, that we managed to laugh and have fun. I had fun on my mission. We followed the rules, but we also just had a blast. I made life-long friends with my companions and other missionaries I served with. For the most part, it really was a happy time of my life.
Well, that’s about it for today’s show.
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