"Trade offs, and Lots of Biking"

Hi everyone!
       
     Just a quick email about how this week was. My companion is
the "district leader" which means that we go on "trade off's" twice a
week. A trade off is where my companion and I swap companions for a
day and go with a different companionship from around our area. So for
example, what happened this Wednesday was that I went with Elder
Kautai to High Springs and then my companion stayed with Elder
Kautai's companion in Gainesville where I usually am.

Here is some country land from when we were biking around on Wednesday. For a second I felt like I was in Montana or something!

      Neither Elder Kautai or I can drive so we biked all day long. We had a lot of places to go so we ended up biking 30 miles between noon and 9PM.  It was a good time! It's really helpful to see how missionary work is done in other places. We had some great lessons!

That face when you just spent ten hours biking 30 miles and teaching. (Elder Kautai in background.)  We slept well that night.

        

    We've been teaching a man named Abraham this week - he's
really amazing!  He's going to be baptized on the 21st of this month.
It's amazing to see how people's hearts can be prepared for our
message before we meet them. Very few people we've taught are as
excited about the gospel as he is.

                                   

Here is what we spend a lot of time doing - knocking in apartments like this. We try to spend more time on campus and on the street because we can talk to more people that way.

          These next few weeks are rough because the University of
Florida is out until fall, and everybody has left their apartments, so
we are really going to have trouble finding people to teach. That's ok
though! I know that something good will come up as long as we have
faith and work our hardest.

Here we are at Campus Plaza where we spend most of our time.   We get to teach a lot of lessons here. It's amazing to get to talk to other people my age and see how the gospel can bless their lives.

          Well that's  about all this week. Not too much. Some
little storms the past few days have bee fun but that's been about it.

Here is my current address, I can receive snail mail or packages at it for the next couple months (until I transfer).

Elder Asher McMullin
2330 S.W.  Williston Rd
Apt 1116
Gainesville FL 32608