A Very Soggy Week Biking

Well hello everybody,

        This week was nice but also extremely exhausting. We had interviews
with our mission president and when we have interviews, his wife
Sister Lee and the assistants to the president are always there and we
have a district meeting. It's a little stressful to be running a
meeting with them all there but it went really well and we learned a
lot.

Fort Caroline District:  Sisters Gilbert and Hoffman, Elders Rodger, Marchant, McBride, District Leader McMullin, Elders Antares, Walker, Assistants to the President Ward and Botalla, President Lee.

      We found out that we will be singing at a devotional in Dunn
Avenue this Sunday! We'll be singing with a choir that our church runs
but anybody can come sing - it's called Genesis. It's a big southern
gospel choir that sings southern gospel hymns and so we're SUPER
EXCITED to go and get to sing there!

        It's been rainy in Jacksonville this week. Extremely rainy. Elder
McBride and I were on bikes from Monday- Thursday and it actually
rained every day that we biked. It didn't just rain, though. All three
days, it poured and poured and poured from 6-9 at night while we were
biking. We stayed out the whole time and kept on keepin' on, of
course, but when we got back to our apartments at night, we were just
totally soaked. It got to the point where we'd just bike through the
huge foot deep puddles because we couldn't get any more wet than we
already were. It was also pretty cold, and I guess that our bodies
don't like getting cold and wet all week, so I've had a pretty nasty
cold from Friday until now, but thankfully we haven't missed any time
out proselyting. Word of the week? DayQuil. It's my friend.

   This picture is right before we went home one night when we
were both already soaking wet and couldn't be any wetter. I think this
pictures explains it well. 10/10 would do again.

 This next picture is a beautiful day in Florida. I
love Florida. So much. And we thought that the clouds looked pretty.

        So here's a "Elizabethan Sonnet" I'll call it, even though I'm about
99.9% sure that the form is wrong. I'll email my wonderful English
major mother today and ask her for help.


"Service"

The Christ gave his life,
In service for us,
He did away strife,
He healed and build trust.

So what must we give,
In thanks for His gift?
Let's change how we live,
Let's change how we lift.

Our lives should be spent,
In doing God's work.
We should be hell-bent,
We never should shirk.

Our struggles God knows,
Let's serve him below.