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

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