Monday, January 11, 2010

IT SNOWED!!!!!

Yes you read that right. It snowed in Florida. The first time since '76! And I was able to experince it! It was amazing. We had heard that there was a chance of snow so we were looking all day for it. When it finally happened, we were at a members house having lunch. We were constantly looking outside to see if the weather was changing. Then we saw white coming down. We just about jumped up and ran outside. But we stayed in at the table to be polite. The members noticed and just laughed as they said, 'You can go.' And immediatly we were out the door. It was awesome. You may be able to sence some excitment in my voice on the video.

It was freaking awesome!

Other then that, this week was a pretty decent week. I was on exchanges in Lake Wales from Monday until Wednesday, which was zone conference. Zone conference was pretty good. Kind of the usual thing. The 2nd half of zone conference is always my favorite. President Colton usually talks a bit and so does Sister Colton. Then they have a testimony meeting. And that is always really good. I enjoyed it.

This Sunday, we actually had some people come to our Sunday night lessons we are having. It was our Ward mission leader and our assistant Ward mission leader. Then the Elder's quorum president showed up too. But it was still a good discussion that we had. We are going to continue to announce it and invite as many people as we can.

Monday, January 4, 2010

It's gettin' cold here...

This week was another average week. Just trying to find people to teach. It's still going kind of rough. We were called the other day from a member in California to give someone a blessing. It was kind of interesting. She spoke Haitien and very little English. But it worked out. As we were leaving some other people came in and were very confused at seeing us. We explained what we had done and such, but not sure how much they understood. So we called the guy in Cali back and had him call them and explain everything. None of the people were members including the lady we gave the blessing too.

We are starting to do the missionary lessons every Sunday night at our church for anyone that wants to come. We have announced it the past 2 weeks in Sacrament meeting and also in Priesthood. But then nobody came last night. But it's ok. We were, in a way, expecting there not to be a whole lot of people the first week. But we are going to be doing it every week. So we are expecting it to pick up quite a bit.

It has been pretty cold out here the past few weeks. Yesterday we got in the car to go to church and it said it was 36 degrees! I thought I was in Florida! Oh well. I enjoyed it. Reminded my of home. Everyone else here was freezing their butts off though. I thought it was quite funny.