18 months!

I am finally doing somewhat better. I now mostly just have a cough. But I still am getting pretty bad head aches. And cold symptoms off and on. But it's getting better.

Things are going pretty well here in Arcadia. I am actually currently on exchanges in the Sebring area from today until Thursday morning. We were able to teach a few people last week. Jose and Georgina. they would be baptized already but they aren't married. But they can't get married until Jose gets citizenship. But he is working on that. We haven't been able to teach that little girl yet. Neither her nor her grandma were at church this past week. And her grandma moved from where we thought she lived. But we are going to try to see them this week.

Yesterday, we went down to Port Charlotte for p-day. The sisters set up something for us to do. It was a lot of fun. We just played a bunch of games. We had musical chairs, a 3-legged race, a water balloon toss, and such. And we carved pumpkins! We all had a lot of fun.



Then today, we had interviews with President Colton. They went really well. We showed Sister Colton the pictures of the snake and she told President that she wanted one we they got home. Haha. It was pretty funny. She was joking though. President said it would be fine. We'll see if that happens.

And this past Friday was mine and Elder Schramm's 18 month mark! So we had a bon fire at a members house and burned our stuff. We were also able to teach a lesson out of it. It was awesome. So we had an actual 'fireside.' Haha. But the people are pretty much golden. We are excited. We are going to be teaching them again this Friday at the trunk-or-treat.

Still sick...

So, I am still feeling quite sick. The cough is still around. It doesn't hurt quite as bad anymore but is still very present. I think that I am starting to get a cold too. So, I don't think the sickness is going away just yet. Which sucks. But I am going to be calling Sister Colton after this and probably going to be setting up a doctors appointment.

We had Zone Conferance this week. It was pretty good. I enjoyed it. There were a lot of missionaries there that I didn't know. But the ones that I did, I was glad to see. It was fun.

Then on Sunday, we had a branch social after church. We were talking and decided to drop one of our investigators cause nothing was really happening with them. And right after we decided to do that, a little girl comes up to her grandma sitting by us and says, "I want to get baptized and my mom says it ok." Her mom isn't a member. And we were like, we can take care of that. So now we have someone else to teach that wants to get baptized! We were pretty stoked about it.

Then yesterday, for P-day, we went down to the North Port area to a members. The guy was awesome and had the biggest mullet I've ever seen. He has a ton of crazy animals like snakes, crocs, raccons, turtles, lizards, and such. I took a lot pictures that are in the slidshow thing to the right. But it was a lot of fun. I was able to hold some pretty huge snakes too. We took his biggest snake, 18 feet long, outside and all held it up together. Then took turns holding it by our selves. It was awesome. It just about choked me though. It had it's tail wrapped around my neck. And it was pretty tight. But it was cool. And we also got to hold an Australian Salt water crocodile that was about 4 feet long! It was awesome. He said that he used to have Siberian tigers too that would play with you. But he currently doesn't. But is working on getting some more soon. So if he does, we are definitley on our way back!

So that was our week. Hopefully I'll get better this week. We are still going to try to teach when we can. And as you may know, my 18th month mark is Friday. So Schramm and I are going to be going to a members house to burn our clothing. I will have pictures and video up next week. We are really excited.

Sick....

So, this week has been a very long and boring week. I have been sick since last Tuesday. It hasn't really gotten a whole lot better since then either. Near the middle of last week, it started out as a sore throat. And since has developed into a really bad cough and sore throat. We stayed home from church this Sunday because I felt horrible that morning then started to get better that morning. But then Monday rolled around and it was pretty bad again. I called Sister Colton yesterday to see what she thought I should do. She gave me some suggestions of medicine to take and so I went and got some. She told me to take some Nyquil along with other things so I would be able to sleep at night, cause the coughing was so bad it was keeping me up all night. Let me tell you, that stuff is amazing for getting to sleep quick and staying asleep. It was great. But this morning when I woke up, the cough is still here and it still hurts a lot. So we'll see what happens. I'll be seeing Sister Colton tomorrow at Zone Conferance. So I'll talk to her and see what she wants me to do. I'll probably be getting a doctors appointment sometime near the end of the week.

So that was our week. Me being sick. We are both pretty bored and are sick of being in the apartment all day. So hopefully I'll start to get better soon.

Fishing, Transfers, and GC!

So, I wasn't able to update last week because we had a pretty busy day. I found out last week that I was being transfered. So I had to pack and such. Which takes me a while because of 2 things, 1 I have a lot of stuff, and 2 I get distracted quite easily.

But last week for P-day we went fishing. Didn't catch anything but had a lot of fun. We were able to see a dolphin swimming right by where we were fishing. That was pretty awesome.

Now, I am in the Arcadia area. Serving with my other MTC companion Elder Schramm. Yes I had 2 MTC companions. And yes it is awesome to have served with both of them out here. We are having a lot of fun so far. Except for the current time, I am a bit sick and am not enjoying it. But it will pass. Hopefully soon. Last night was not a good night. But I'll get over it.

Yesterday, we were able to go fishing again. It was a blast again as well. And again, we saw a dolphin! Crazy! But out of the 9 of us there, we only caught 2 fish. We had a grill there with us and cooked hamburgers and hotdogs. We also cooked one of the fish we caught and all had a little bit of it. But we all had a lot of fun. And we'll probably be going again this transfer.

And this weekend was General Conferance. I absolutely loved it. I especially loved Elder Hollands talk and also Elder Callisters. Those were 2 of my favorites. I can't wait until next months Ensign comes out to read and study them all.

Old People Home

So this week was an alright week. We were able to teach a few lessons and such. On Saturdays, we are now going to be doing a weekly 'lesson' type thing at an old people home. This past week, we got there and we were supposed to find a member that works there. At first we couldn't find her, so we went to the main desk. They asked us if we were the missionaries that were going to be teaching. We told them we were so they led us to a room with a bunch of old people in there that were all kind of out of it. It was interesting. But we started by reading out of the Bible. Then watched a movie on Christ.

As we were watching the movie, the member found us and told us we were actually in the wrong room. So Elder Garner went with her to the other room where they were reading out of the Book of Mormon. I finished the movie and then went into the other room. It was going really good in there. They were having a Q&A type discussion. We are excited to go back next week.

Jello, anyone?

Things are going well here. We have kind of run out of people to teach here, though. This past week we went over to Scott's to teach him a little bit. He made it to church yesterday was able to get confirmed. So that was good. But now that that has happened, we are a little low in the teaching pool. There is one guy that has come to church twice, but we can never get a hold of him or set up a time to teach him. But we are still trying. He knows a lot already and is basically ready to be baptized. We just need to be able to teach him.

Other then that, not a whole lot has gone on. We had a few lessons set up that fell through. But we are still trying to find more people and working a lot with the members. So things are still going good.

Throughout the transfer, we have been having this prank war with a member in our ward. The Bishops daughter. It all started when she toilet papered our car. Then we incased all of her hair elastics in jello. Then she thought she was clever in taking Elder Canfields scriptures. But, she also mistakingly left her's behind. 25 boxes of jello, a few ziplock bags to protect the scriptures, and 4 missionaries later, we finally returned them. The container weighed about 25 to 30 pounds. We attempted to extract the jello from the container, but as you can see from the video, it didn't work as well as we had hoped. But it was still funny.

After this, she gave Elder Canfield his scriptures back. Although, they were in side a big, huge bowl of macaroni and cheese. It was interesting. But all had fun.

Labor Day

So the libraries were closed yesterday so we weren't able to get to some computers. But with it being Labor Day, the stake had a big party down in Clearwater. It was a lot of fun. The whole zone was there. I played volleyball most of the day. Then we played a bit of tennis. Which I am not very good at. Then we played a little softball. It was a lot of fun and there were a lot of people there.

So, last week we baptized Scott and he was going to be confirmed this week at church. We called a few people to be able to get him a ride. But couldn't find anyone that could. When we finally found someone to get him, they went to pick him up and he said the he had something to do and couldn't come to church. So we're not sure what's up with that. But we are going to go visit him and talk to him.

Other then that, our week was pretty slow. But things are going to be picking up pretty soon. Hopefully