Asher gets into the arts: Graffiti and Viola

     Hello everybody! Just a quick note this week because there are some
pictures that better sum up the exciting things!

       This week was great! I've been so happy lately, it's great!
Waking up is a struggle sometimes... I literally roll out of bed,
kneel down at my bedside and "pray" AKA fall asleep for another 10
minutes. It's a little rough. Ok, so after the first 10 minutes of the
day I'm happy and everything is great.

        Abraham is doing so well! I love him! We've really come to be
just great friends with him and our other investigators, they're all
so nice. I really love the south - people are just kind here. We ran
into a few very anti-Mormon people while we were knocking apartments
and it was pretty interesting.

         I'm so excited for University of Florida to start next
Monday! Without people here for us to find and teach, we've just been
focusing on teaching Abraham and then doing service as well as talking
to the members. We don't have a lot that we can do since nobody is
here, but when school starts next week we'll be really busy!

When you're caught a mile away from the apartment and there's a Florida thunderstorm.

We got to paint a graffiti wall as a district and it was amazing!

The 34th Street Wall is a 1,120-foot-long retaining wall along SW 34th Street.  The wall is most famous for being covered with layers of graffiti - up to as many as 250 layers of paint thick in some areas.   The wall has been accepted as a Gainesville landmark and is considered a "community bulletin board".

We sketched out a simple "plan of salvation" picture, which sums up our course and purpose as sons and daughters of God.

MY VIOLA IS HERE!!! I get to be part of a mission orchestra and play on Sundays and it's so amazing! I feel so blessed to have a mission president, and his wife, who let me bring my viola. SO lucky, it's a miracle. Very, very few missionaries are able to bring their instruments.

Love you all! Enjoy the rest of the summer!