Surprise! Saturday P-Day!

Surprise!  I know you all think that all missionaries have P-Day on Monday but we don't.  I got here on Tuesday after the worst day of traveling in my whole flippin life to like the most stereotypical southern home ever.  A road leading to one house that is just like the one in Forest Gump or Fletch 2.  Then I found out that I would be serving my first transfer or two on the campus of Florida State University!  (Saturday is our least productive day so that's why we have P-Day on Saturday)  I am again in a trio with Elder Milne, the one and only from North Logan Utah and Sky View graduate of 2013,  and Elder Rogers from the Salt Lake area who was serving in Sierra Leon, Africa but was evacuated and sent here because of some disease that was spreading there.  Anyway they are super fun and funny.  We are serving in the only YSA ward in the whole mission and are the only Elders in our district.  That's a bit weird and lame because we have no Elders to hang out with on P-Day.  I am staying in "The Compound"  which is pretty much the best housing area in the mission.  The owner will only rent it out to missionaries so that is really nice.  It's a lot different here.  A lot more poverty and homelessness.  No mountains or the grid system.  I miss that a lot.  We feed the homeless once a week so that's pretty cool.  The mission is nothing like the district.  We watch a part of it everyday during companionship study and make fun of it for how unrealistic it is (well at least how unrealistic it is to our area).  That always brightens our day.  I am super excited for the 7th of September because we have a man committed to baptism.  I don't want to say I'm that good at missionary service but you know ;)  haha he was already committed before I got here so I can't take any credit for that.  However I did place my first Book of Mormon on my first day here to a girl who had researched the church and really wanted to learn more so I am excited to teach her more about the restored gospel.  People here are really not too accepting of the gospel because they already have a religion and don't want to change.  It's too bad.  We could help them see the wonders of the gospel but it's their choice.  So yeah...it's fun, super hot and humid, tough on the feet, long, and sometimes a bit boring.  One thing I do need to work on is humility.  There have been points where I feel smarter or more capable at training than my trainer (Elder Milne) is but I know I need to go through this stuff and he knows what to do and I don't necessarily always know what to do.  Anyways here's pictures of stuff.  That's all I got...Have a great week!

Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!

FSU Stadium

Companions

Aparmtnet

Mission Home

Pictures from the MTC

The beauty of nature

Elder Funk and companions

District

Elder Funk and Elder Geddes

The ridiculously small cereal bowl...his bowl at home was a mixingbowl

Companions

Heading to Tallahassee

Elder Funk and Elder Compton friends and neighbors. 

Elder Hoyt (on left) Elder Funk

MTC Emails

 August 12, 2014

This is my first and only P-Day in the MTC so this will most likely be the only letter that I write from here.  The first few days have gone by so flipping slowly.  The minutes were like hours, the hours like days, and the days like weeks.  But since Sunday the days have gone by quicker and I can't be more grateful.  The worst part of the MTC is the stupid flipping alarm clock every morning.  (We say flip a lot down here.)  Another bad part is they don't allow music at the MTC!  What kind of rule is that!?!?!?  Anyway other than that it has gone pretty well.  I have gotten to see a lot of my friends down here including having Elder Jensen and Elder Hansen come to pick me up on Wednesday!  Elder Jensen got to be my host and that was awesome!  I have two companions, Elder Richardson (from California) and Elder Jones (from West Monroe Yeah like Duck Dynasty and then moved to Herriman)  They are great Elders and we mesh really well so that's nice.  We spend so much time in the classroom. It is so great and spiritual but its kind of a drag.  It took a couple days for us to get comfortable but there came a point when we all just felt comfortable with each other. 
Sincerely,
Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!


August 18, 2014

Hey everybody,

This week went by quickly.  Got to teach an awesome TRC investigator.  I don't know what TRC stands for I think it is like Tough Real Characters or at least it should be.  Some of these people are so mean and some are so sweet but everyone is real and they are difficult to teach.  Ours was amazing! She was so sweet.  We actually had dinner with her tonight before we left and apparently that's weird and unheard of but we really just hit it off.  Other than that the MTC is just learning and teaching.  We head out tomorrow morning at 3:30 AM what a joy....  So yeah that's about all I got this week... Nothing too exciting going on besides that but sleep will definitely be difficult to come by tonight.  Here are some pictures for the general amusement of everyone.  The cereal bowls here are tiny.  I miss my mixing bowl. I can't see the pictures any more so I have no idea what they are but I think I sent a picture of a flower that I took and thought was pretty so enjoy that.  There is beauty all around us.  We just don't take the time to see it.  Pause and look at the miracles God has given us!  So Yeah I hope you all have a great week.  Love everyone!

Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!