Hi ya'll! What a fun and fantastic week it has been! Things are going great here in the land of Florida. I'm lovin' it. Great news of the week... P was baptized! As you already know thanks to the awesome people in the ward. It went great, we had it right after church, and there was tons of support there!
It was kind of crazy getting everything set up and ready to go in time (we planned on starting it 15 mins after church got out), but the ward helped out and we got things rolling. Another great thing - P's NM mom and sister came too to support him! They came for all of church as well =] I was just praying that they didn't get too worn out to never come back; by the time everyone was leaving after clean up they had been at the church from noon to about 5:30 or so! That's a lot of time to mingle with members and feel the Spirit! It was great. I think they really enjoyed it, and they said they'd be back. They'll join before you know it =]
The fellowship of P is the daughter of the B's, an AWESOME family in our ward. They are so missionary minded. Bro. B has general authority written all over him. Just wait. But seriously, they are a great family. Their son T is at BYU right now; he used to come out with us when he was here. They are from Brazil and speak Portuguese! I want to learn that language some day.
Things are going well in the zone; our numbers seem like they've been getting lower, but our baptisms have been staying fairly consistent which is good. I guess that means our quality is going up? Lol but now we just have to figure out how to continue to improve and reach even higher! We've kind of broke out of the rut that the zone has been stuck in for the past bit, and so we're hoping and praying that we can just continue onward and upward to where the Lord wants this zone. We are definitely seeing some miracles though and I love it! Right now our area is kind of struggling to find some solid investigators. Please pray for M (ready to be baptized, just needs the ok from mom), as well as that we can find some more solid people to work with. We are working with a guy named K who is great. He is progressing, but slowly. It's hard being a missionary because time is really one thing you don't have, yet we have to work with people at their pace and help them keep on going. We want to help them accept the gospel as fast as they can, but it doesn't always work out just perfectly.
So Allie. That is way funny that Mr. Richardson really told that story ha ha. I don't think I remember ALL of the details, so you should tell me what he said! I'd be excited to remember the good ol' days of Grantsville High! I love Mr. Richardson. Please tell him hi for me, and that me and James McClatchy are here in Orlando and both of us miss and remember him. We were talking about him the other day. Good things of course :)
Like you probably saw in the picture, I got to go on exchanges with Elder Chance Potter from Wyoming this past week! He is the man. He served in Sumterville, and was the VP for State Officers in FFA in Utah (he went to high school in UT). He is an amazing missionary and I learned a lot from him. I think the best part was reminiscing (sp?) about Sumterville and getting an update on everybody there! It was so much fun. He loved it there too, just as much as me! I will always remember those wonderful days there; we saw so many miracles and my faith really grew a lot.
Once upon a time, on a Saturday night, Elder Jensen and I were having our daily planning session. Suddenly, we hear a knock on the door. Huh? That's weird. We have only had one knock on the door, and that was the carpet cleaning guy - who we were expecting. Well, I got up to go answer it and I look through the peep-hole when suddenly I see someone outside that looks an awful lot like Uncle Paul. I look at his shirt, and it says, "Brigham Young University" on it. It IS Uncle Paul! Wow ha ha! Oh man it was so crazy. I was like, "What the? My uncle is outside!" And then I opened the door and greeted him and gave him a big hug and we talked for a bit and got a picture. It was great :) I definitely wasn't expecting that surprise! I think that now the only thing that could top all of the surprises on my mission are if you, my immediate family, were to visit lol. Ummm don't get any ideas ;) It was so fun to see him though.
Well, sorry the email is late today. We were in Ocoee cleaning out an old missionary apartment in the zone with President Hall. Man, that thing is clean. And it was SO dirty before. Disgusting. I don't know how all of the Elders were living there. So nasty... but that was way fun! We got to work side-by-side with President and Sister Hall and talk with them and it was just great. I love them a bunch, they are so fun to be with and really are great people!
Well, I love you all a ton! Thanks for your support and prayers. Thanks for who you are =] Congrats Nate on becoming a Teacher! That is so awesome. Please tell the Goodworths thank you so much for the invite and for the prayers! They are just the best neighbors anyone could ask for. I am way sad they will be moved! That's alright, they'll just be our "across-town" neighbors :)
HAve a great week 8]
love, Elder Andrew Beckett
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