Lake City life, lots of pictures

Hello Everybody!

This week has been a blessed one. We spent a lot of time biking this week! You will see that highlighted in Elder Jenkins’ face and my face. Very red... It’s been really fun though to be able to bike in such beautiful Florida weather. It just builds my testimony that God is there, that he loves us, and that he cares! It will be hard going back to Wisconsin when two years is up. Florida has my heart.

But the people here are even more amazing. One person we are teaching right now is Jerry. He has had a pretty rough past and a crazy life. His wife is a member of the church and they have an ADORABLE one year old redhead son. He has come to church for the past few weeks and it makes my day to see his face light up when he’s at church. He, like many other people here in Lake City, is naturally just filled with charity. He spends hours helping his older neighbors and making sure they’re safe and ok. We stopped by one hot day, and he made us peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, gave us ice cream and bottled water, and sent us on our, now much merrier, way.

General Conference - a biannual church broadcast was this last weekend. The new prophet, President Nelson, gave an amazing talk about revelation. (Read it or watch it here) It’s something that I feel really strongly about! We are entitled to have God speak to us, usually through feelings like love, joy, and peace. What a blessing to be able to learn from Him, in times we need him most.

  Here are pictures from this week:

Trade-offs:  Elder Jenson and I! He’s amazing, has an incredible sense of humor, loves the Book of Mormon, and can connect with anybody.

There are a lot of goats here in Lake City. Some of them are even in yards or fences. 

Yes, we were being 100% safe taking this picture.

Here’s us + the sisters in our ward. In the sun at 7 at night. I’m not actually that sunburnt, the sun just makes it look like that. The Robinsons, a member family, fed on us Easter. They are really loving and hospitable! They’re really Christlike people.

Us and sister smith! A recent convert. Such a Christlike lady.

Zone preparation day! Lots of frisbee, lots of baseball, it was a fun day. I love our district - so good. Transfers are in a week, and I think that the district will get shaken up. I’m pretty sure I’ll finish my mission here... we will see. 

        What else this week - oh, karate! It was really good - we mostly did a strength and endurance workout that left us sore the next morning. We practiced basic punches, and will be doing lots more tomorrow morning. The Sisters were exhausted but said they’ll still come. It was so fun!!!

       We are going to try to work up to the certification test thing that you need to take before you get your first belt. Apparently it takes about an hour, so we will have to get up extra early that morning. The lady who does it, Sister Lindboe, is like a drill sergeant. We started out with jumping jacks, and she said, in her commanding voice, “Everybody count with me! 1...1...1...1...1...1...” Then we realized that she wasn’t moving on from one until every person in the room was counting with her. So we did! “2...3...3...4....5...5...5...” It was fun. I love Sister Lindboe - we are trying hard to get them back to church. 

Love you all! I hope you have an amazing week.