June 26, 2017

June 26, 2017 (Soaked!)

This has been a great week, had some cool stuff happen. First of all we met with that referral that came to church last week named Amel on Wednesday and he is super interested! He really wants to learn more and after we shared the restoration with him he told us he wants to be baptized! So we set a date for two weeks out. The spirit was pretty strong at the lesson. It's awesome when we get to see miracles like that. We also got another referral this week that has been taking the lessons in Tampa. His name is Evan. We met with him on Saturday and he expressed to us how much he loves the Book of Mormon. We read Alma 32 with him and talked about faith. We set a date with him as well for July. This will be a great month! It's crazy how much the Lord is blessing us here.

    The Oropeza's are doing great and are still really excited to be baptized. The ward is doing a great job at fellowshiping them too. Jessie is still doing good too, still progressing and reading the Book of Mormon. She is loving it! Those are our main people right now. We went on an exchange with the Highlands Elders this week too. Elder Sites came here with me and Elder Pruszynski went to Highlands with Elder Garcia. We had a good day! It was pretty much just a finding Day. We did a lot of tracting and stopping by former investigators.

Did a lot of biking. We found some cool people! We are stopping by a lot of them this week. We will see how it goes.

    Oh I almost forgot, so as my subject line says we got SOAKED this week. More than once too. You never know when it's going to rain here. So as we were biking this week it just decided to downpour on us a couple times. That's always fun haha. At first you want to take cover, but two seconds later you're already soaked so it doesn't even matter. Then we have to go home and change because mud flicks up onto our backs. Makes for some good memories. Anyways that's pretty much all for this week. It's been a good one! Have a great week everyone! Never forget who you are and what you're worth. Love y'all!

Pics- This is what we call a Florida earring haha!

Zone activity day today

Elder Hudson is on the ground under the person standing

June 19, 2017 (Temple Week)

 Hello everyone! This week has been a super good one. First things first, we got to go to the temple on Thursday with our zone and Sarasota zone. It was nice to be able to go there and feel the peace of the temple. We might be going again this Thursday actually with our recent convert Wilma since we got permission to do that now. That would be awesome. On our way to the temple on Thursday we stopped at McDonald's in Orlando for breakfast and it was a two story McDonald's! I couldn't believe it. Upstairs they had like a game room and tables. They even had an elevator. Coolest McDonald's I've ever been in.
      After the temple we had a zone conference meeting. We talked a lot about obedience and the importance of it. It was a good meeting, President Cooper is beginning to be more strict with everything, which is good because a lot of missionaries need it. Anyways our investigators are doing very well. The Oropeza's are still progressing towards baptism and last lesson they expressed to us how badly they want to be baptized. They sure do have a strong desire. Jessie is also doing really good. We had a lesson with her right after church and she basically taught the whole lesson herself! She understands a lot, she's solid. The Huffman's are doing good, they've had some trialsafter joining the church, but are pushing through it. They have a very strong testimony and said they will not let Satan win. Chris's brother Zack is not progressing as well as we had hoped. We are going to institute on Tuesday with him though. Hopefully he can feel the spirit and have a stronger desire. We have met a lot of new people this week as well. One of them just showed up at church! He went to the church in India and loved it so he found the church here and just walked into sacrament meeting. We are meeting with him on Wednesday. I love it when things like that happen. Good things are happening here. That's about it for this week though. Florida is still hot and humid just in case any of you were wondering. Have a great week everyone!

June 12, 2017 (Baptism week)

Hey everyone!

 Well this week has been great! It has been raining a lot here this
week. It has rained everyday for most of the day. It has made it hard
to go out finding because we were on bikes this week. We would try to
time it right and go out when the rain stops, but it always just
started up again and we got soaked haha! That's just what happens in
Florida. We were able to talk to a good amount of people though. Even
got some return appointments. It made for a good bike week.
 This week we were able to have the Huffman's baptism! Chris and
Sharon got baptized and they were so glad they did. There was a lot of
people that showed up, the spirit was very strong there. They have
come a long ways since we first met them, they've been blessed so much
since they have decided to follow this path. It has been pretty cool
to see the Lord work in their life. A member of the ward, Brother
Coleman, was able to baptize them and Elder Pruszynski and I confirmed
them in sacrament meeting on Sunday. We are still working with Chris'
brother Zack. He should be getting baptized in a week or two. We were
able to set a date with the Oropeza's as well for July 8th! We have a
good amount of people that are progressing towards baptism. The Lord
is blessing us here in Lakeland.
 Other than that, we are having a zone conference this week and we are
going to the temple! I don't know how President Cooper pulled it off,
but we get to go to the temple again! President Cooper is a beast! I'm
excited to go. That's about it for this week. Thanks everyone for your
prayers and support. You're awesome. I hope y'all have a great week.

June 6, 2017 (Gone Fishing)

Hey everyone!

     This week has been a good one! A lot has happened. To go over our
investigators, the Huffman's are getting baptized on the 10th. They
are super solid. They love church and everything we have taught. Chris
actually got up on Sunday and bore his testimony! It was pretty cool.
Jessie is still on track for the 22nd of July. We called some former
investigators this week to try and meet up with them, well they
answered and said we could come by. So we did and had a great lesson
with them! They came to church 7 times in the past and were taught
everything. They came to church Sunday and loved it. We are hoping to
set a date with them soon. Those are our most solid people right now.
We have a lot of potential investigators as well.
     Well I'm not sure what else to say. I went on an exchange this
week with Elder Garcia. Elder Pruszynski and I went fishing this
morning. I'll send pictures. Anyways that's about all. Sorry for the
short email this week. Love you all!