April 19th, 2010

So... not a whole lot happened this week, it was pretty slow... we had Zone Conference and that was really good.

We went to do some work in the small towns around our area, we have a bunch of towns with populations under 200 in our area... Archer, Newberry, and a bunch of others that are so small I don't even know their names... we are looking for more humble people and are not having a lot of luck so far...

Tomorrow I am going on a trade off with Huff and we are just going to spend the whole day tracting Newberry and hopefully do the whole town.... it will be alot of work but it will be so rewarding to get the whole town done.

I talked with Daniel yesterday about getting baptized again, and he is really standoffish about the whole thing, so we will keep encouraging him for now and probably challenge him again in a couple of weeks....

On Saturday we went to Paine's Prairie for a ward picnic. It is a National Park that is full of alligators. We went to the wrong part of it to see the gators, though but we still saw a couple of small ones. But in a couple of P-days I want to go to the other end and see some of the big ones... but anywho, I love you all and I am excited to hear from y'all love ya bye.

Monday, June 7th, 2010

We had a really good week. Jerald got baptized yesterday. It was Elder Bezzant's first... and I talked with Jerald's wife and she wants to get baptized, too, but she wants to take her time, so we are going to have to change that! It shouldn't be too hard...

We set a baptismal date with Zed as well and he is supposed to be getting baptized on the beach this Sunday if everything goes to plan. He opened up to us a lot on Tuesday and told us that his only hold up was his passion to make and have tattoos. He was talking about the art and stuff of it and he doesn't understand why it is bad to have them. However, he knows that God commanded not to.. so that is what he is going to do... he has a lot of faith, he just needs to man up and do it.

So, I got my trunky papers and it hasn't made me too trunky. I am excited to come home and all. But the only time I think about it is at night when we are out working. I don't have any problems staying focused. But man! I get home at 10:45a.m.! What am I gonna do all day... ??

Anyways next P-day Huff, Porter, Shirts, and Blair are all hopefully going to be coming to my area and we are going to go play Lazer tag at this sweet place near the beach... Anyways I don't have a lot to say and it is hard to come up with things to say when I know that I will be talking to y'all in just a couple a weeks... So love ya tons and hope to hear from y'all soon.

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Shopping done--- we had a great time in St. Augustine.

We found a sweet man named Jerald who is getting baptized this Sunday and we are hopefully going to baptize Zed on Saturday so we are hoping for a real good week.... Sorry I can't say more-- we are emailing at the Apple Store because the library is closed.

Love y'all.

Monday, April 26th, 2010

So I got a nice surprise on Sunday.. Brother and Sister Mootz from Ocala are an old couple that would feed us all of the time... Brother Mootz is a recent convert and I was able to help him out a lot with some of the commandments and we got along really well... They came to our ward to see me on Sunday. It was awesome! They only stayed for Sacrament meeting, but we decided to come down to Ocala to see them. So right now I am at the Mootz house doing our laundary and emails... they are an awesome couple...

I got to go on a trade off with Huff this week and we pretty much tracted all of Newberry which is a small town outside of Gainesville we had a good time and set quite a few baptismal dates... but they all fell through...

Pascal brought his girlfriend to church on Sunday and she seemed to have a really good time... we are going to try and talk with her about getting taught and then baptized. Hopefully we can arrange that for next week...

Well sorry my letter is so short this week. We are going to go over to the Reids soon and visit... then play soccer or something... after the Mootz feed us of course..... love you all tons...

Monday, May 24th, 2010

It was a pretty long and tiring week. We met some cool people and dropped some lame people but we aren't any much better or worse off than last week. We had a good lesson with Zed on Tuesday and we are going to see him on Tuesday again and hopefully set up his baptism for this weekend... but for the highlight of the week I met Elder Nelson which was awesome. He is such a happy person... I learned a lot... it was really good... we also had Elder Anderson who is an area authority, Elder Laurence, who is a member of the second quorum of the 70, and Elder Rasband who is one of the presidents of the 70 and he talked in conference this last session about missionary work so it was really cool...

We learned a lot about callings and how long the 70's have been around and what it is that they actually do... so it was overall an exciting week... I couldn't get any pictures with the authorities but I got pictures with all of the missionaries that I probably won't see before I go home...

I have President interviews on Friday and I think I am more excited for this interview than any of the other ones I have had... I am going to get my temple recommend renewed and hopefully get permission to go to St. Augustine next week for P-day so I can buy souveneirs, as well as say bye to Don and Liz...

That would all be exciting! I hope I can go...

Anyways I love y'all and hope to hear from y'all soon.
P.S. I got Shannon's letter so y'all have the right address-- don't stop sending them... hahahaha

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Yes I'm in Jacksonville again... Jax Beaches is my new Ward. It used to be the highest baptizing English speaking Ward in the world... that will be sweet... my companion is Elder Bezzant. He has been out for 2 months... so he is at the opposite end as me... I am by far the oldest in my District.... everyone else is super green... but I love them all. We have an awesome district here... I am back on bike however.... which is a bummer but I am still looking for a place to sell mine. If I have to I'm sure I can borrow a members for the rest of my mission... I took a hard fall yesterday. We were going to an apartment complex to tract and the seat of my bike just snapped! And before I realized anything was wrong I was laying on the asphalt with a headache... and my bike was at the other end of the parking lot... I fell on my head so thank goodness for the helmet and I got some deep holes in my left hand which helped to stop my fall... It was good fun.

We are going to see a part member family tomorrow in which the husband knows its true, But he wants to take a million years to get baptized like his wife did... I hate it when that happens, but we will see what we can do...

Elder Bezzant is sweet, he is from Colorado. He has very little confidence in himself however and he gets really nervous a lot, so I am trying to help him relax... We get to meet Elder Russell M. Nelson on Saturday. I am so excited... anyways, I love y'all and hope to hear from ya soon.

3709 San Pablo Rd. S.. #402

Jacksonville, Fl, 32224