Sweet Experience

This week was busy with Transfers and saying bye to everyone. But with Elder Jackson we had a sweet experience. We were out visiting less active people last night, and we stopped by this one lady. She looked super sad or something. So we began talking with her, sharing a scripture with her. She looked up and said, I know you two have been sent by God to me right now. I have had a lot of things going on, I'm sick, and I had just sat down looking at a picture of Christ crying praying for something to help me. And you two showed up. She was so thankful and everything. It was sweet!

LOVING my NEW Area!

I'm with Elder Jackson now, and it is such a breathe of fresh air, wow. He is awesome. We live with two other Elders, so there is 4 of us in an apartment. It is so fun, its amazing. I love it. Probably one of the greatest times I have had on my mission. Were working our butts off, and having fun, and its amazing.

We have about 800 pounds of weights in our apartment, so every morning were are all up doing P-90X ( a workout routine) in this tiny room just pumping weight. It is awesome. I love it.

My District doing a Service Project

My District doing a service project. I like this pic for some reason it makes me laugh.
Must be the helmet??

Running Stadium Stairs at FSU

Some Elders and I running stadiums at FSU stadium.

Yea, I Love Playing Football!

What a GREAT Football Team! Not quite the Utes, but spiritual WINNERS!

Teaching Michael, Alan and Aakeem

We are still teaching Michael, Alan and Aakeem. They are doing well. We're teaching these other guys named Demitrious, Jerrell, and Teddy. They are tight. We set a baptismal date with a girl named Tiffany which was exciting. Um....not too much going on other than that. Were just working hard.

Getting Transfered Again!

Today was transfer day. I found out that I am being transferred again, going to Tallahassee 4th ward which is still the same area just not FAMU. I'm pretty excited. It will be fun I'm excited.

This week was good though, we had some good success. We taught a bunch of people. Nothing too exciting though. Sorry my emails are really lame now. We talk to so many people and its tough to name them all. We helped a lot of people move which is nice to do service.

My new address:
410 Victory Garden Dr #61
Tallahassee, FL 32309

Back in Tallahassee, Florida, on the campus of Florida A & M

Now I'm back in Tallahassee, Florida on the Florida A & M campus. I really enjoy it. It reminds me of being back at college. Ha! There are some awesome people. They are GREAT! We walk around campus all day and talk to people. Kind of weird at first, but not bad.

I have a new address:

1414 Hudsen St
Tallahasse, FL 32301

Transferred to Florida A & M-Prichard, Alabama in a Nut Shell!

Today was transfers. I am getting transferred to Florida A & M or otherwise called FAMU. It is an all black college campus. I'm going to be opening it up, so that will be exciting. We had another baptism this week and we also set another baptism date. The work is booming here. I'm bummed because we have 3 BCDS right now and I'm getting transferred. O well, it is good to see all the hard work pay off.

Okay Mom, so I'm going to send you a picture, because I am leaving Prichard I havent really told you everything about it because I didn't want to scare you, but I will send you a pic that will sum it up now that I'm leaving.

Elder Bednar an AMAZING Man!

Elder Bednar came up and gave our whole mission a 3 hour teaching. WOW! Is all I have to say. The man is amazing. I can't even begin to say the things he taught, there was so much. Unbelievable! We got to shake his hand. It was awesome. It was great seeing the whole mission too. Great Great Day!

Baptisms and Mississippi!

On Friday we drove to Mississippi, which was sweet. Then that night we had our baptisms. I baptized Leonard and Liesha and Elder Brinkerhoff baptized Aliesha. It was awesome!

Investigator was SHOT!

We got a phone call at 7 this morning. One of our prime investigators called us. He said he was in the hospital. He had been shot up, so we rushed over to the hospital and gave him a blessing. He was shot at 9 times by 3 guys and he got hit 3 times in a drive by at the gas station. Once in the belly and once in both legs. He is going to survive but it was still real sad.

We went down to the Prichard Community Center. We get there and we were the only white guys. Everybody was looking at me crazy. There was a half court basketball game being played, so I went to the other half and warmed up a little. No one would talk to me. I tried to get on tons of peoples team, but no one would let me. I saw all the people in the bleachers pointing and laughing at me. Ha! So then I finally got in and about two minutes in, a guy on my squad drives and kicked the ball to me. I took two steps and dunked it so so hard on this guy. The whole gym ERUPTED! They were going crazy! Then I hit 4 threes and they went even more crazy. It was so funny, cause after that everyone wanted me on their team. Afterwards it was so tight, everyone was asking me questions about Utah and the church. We are going back this week and teach some of them!

Body Building Competition

An investigator invited us to go to a body building competition. When we were working out in the gym, the owner, was competing in it. These guys were huge! Tony Freeman is 6'2", 300 pounds, with a 31 inch waist and 3 percent body fat. This dude is HUGE! He is competing for Mr. Olympian this year. His bicep is bigger than my head. No lie, we measured it! CRAZY!

DVD's, Pit Bulls & Basketball!

Diane Curtis ordered a DVD. So we delivered it to her. We watched it with her and her daughter Portia and Portia's kids. They loved it. We challenged them to read from the Book of Mormon. We came back two days later and Diane and Portia had read the first chapter, but didn't understand one thing they read. So we sat down and read with all of them and explained what it meant. As we read they understood. Then the grandson D'anthony and I went outside and played some basketball in the dirt cause that is what they have. It was funny, we were playing, but they had 2 HUGE pit bulls right behind us. Diane and Portia were trying to hold the pit bulls back. It was so funny!

Staying in Shape! The Missionary Way!

This week we received a bench press from a member. HA! It is so small. We went around to the other Elders Appt. and jacked their weights so we could have some. Then we found some concrete blocks and brought those, so we have some weights! Pretty funny, but it Works!

Bellingraf Gardens

This morning we went to Bellingraf Gardens. They were awesome!

Our Youngest Investigator In Prichard, Alabama!

Soon to be Missionary!

Chillin on Daughin Island

Me and my fellow missionaries taking some time to chill on the beach.

Commitment to be Baptized!

We had a lesson with a woman in Prichard. Her name is, Arllinda. We taught her the plan of salvation and she absolutely loved it! She said, "this sounds so familiar, it makes sense." We were like YEAH! and so I asked her to be baptized, and she said she WOULD, so that is AWESOME! She has about eight kids. They are so funny. We are teaching the kids now. They are great. It's crazy tho, when we get to Prichard, usually kids ask us for candy, money or something, but these kids ask for water. They say I just want some water. It is sad. Their water is so nasty in Prichard. It is like yellow. It is so interesting to see the difference in cultures in our area; southern redneck and ghetto.

Bluegrass!

We got invited to a backyard Bluegrass concert. WOW, talk about redneck southern hillbilly. We had sausage dogs and hamburgers, and these guys played Bluegrass music for about 2 hours. Then all of a sudden the daughter of one of the guitar players gets up in front of everybody and begins clogging to the Bluegrass music. HaHa. It was crazy, but cool. It fit the sterotype of the south perfect.

Dying Fish

This was a great week. 5/4/09

We got a call from a less active member and non-member who said they needed some help at 7:30 at night. They have this pond in their backyard. It was so dirty, the fish were coming up to the top to get air. The fish are expensive and they were dying. So I got these old nasty purple shorts that barley fit and an old nasty white Florida Marlins shirt on that the member had and I got in the pond and used a fish net to catch about 85 fish from 3 1/2 feet to 1/2 inch. HaHaHa it was soo funny. I was like throwing up it smelt so bad, but it was actually really fun. I ended up catching them all!

Life Is Different In Prichard, Alabama.

We went out to eat with an investigator and member. On the way back the investigator wanted to see some of Prichard. So we went to Africa Town, then we went to the Ray Williams Projects or otherwise known as Africa Village. They were freaking out. When we were leaving a cop pulled us over. He wanted to make sure we weren't selling crack or anything. He said, "I pulled you over because you were white." It was crazy.

Missionaries in Mobile, Alabama

Here is a picture of me and my fellow missionaries in Mobile, Alabama.

Utah Fooball Fans In Alabama!

This week was hilarious. We were in Prichard at this little kids b-day party. There were about fifteen 8-13 year old kids playing football outside with us. It was a blast! All of them wanted my autograph and stuff. It was funny.
The next day we had a day of service in Prichard. So all the wards in the Mobile, Al stake came down and walked around the streets and picked up trash. We found about 10 bullet shells, shotgun shells, shotgun handles, dead fish. Just crazy stuff! It was real fun. I got one of the yellow, "Mormon Helping Hands" shirts. I was so stoked! We met the Mayor of Prichard. It was real cool, people from the city saw us and started helping us pick up trash and stuff. Really Fun!