Visiting a Swamp with Alligators

Hi everybody,

     

   We were able to go to an amazing walk called Payne's Prairie today.  It

was a strange mix of swamp and prairie It's a place just outside of Gainesville.

It reminded me of some places in Wisconsin, just with alligators and some different

plants. 

     There weren't very many alligators though, apparently the water is too low right now for them to be really up and close. But, we got to watch an alligator sneak up on a heron, and that was exciting! The heron was just standing by the water and the alligator was swimming slowly towards it, and slowly moved its head under the water. It was pretty creepy! The bird moved away from the water so it didn't get eaten.

The Gainesville YSA Elders at a swamp place called Payne's Prairie. 

The swamp! It's really beautiful in its own special way.

Elder Pacella and I at the swamp

Just another picture of the prairie and swamp being amazing.

     And  now for some goofy pictures from this week, on campus at The University of Florida.

People ask to take pictures with us a lot for campus things... Here is one more interesting one.

Me, John, and Elder Foust. John is amazing and he is a recent convert who is super nice to us missionaries and brings us Gatorade daily while we are on campus. 

I'll write more next week!