October 26

Y'all be trippin!

It be Monday y'all!  Wonderful day!  Well you are here so I will give you a quick replay of a week in the life of Elder Funk.  

Monday=P-day not much get done.  Tuesday=go out with President Smith and try to teach about family history and baptism.  Not go so well.  It okay though he still take us to dinner.  Wednesday=road trip to Niceville to see a doctor then go work with less active members.  

Thursday=Attempted bike time.  Flat tire means return home, repair and try again.  It work second time.  Friday=weekly plan and family history.  Saturday=More attempted bike time.  Flat tire means return home, repair and try again.  Second time the charm right?  Go out flat tire 4 miles from home makes for long walk of shame home only to get picked up by a stranger and taken home! yay!  

Sunday=two investigators to church and one (Miss Mamie [may me]) is going to come to the ward Halloween party and bring food.  Potential new member?  I think yes!  Then go meet some new less actives or at least meet the house where they used to live.  Still fun.  Now we have much rain fall from the sky and make everything wet.  Fun to drive through less fun to walk in.  

Well if you would like more information on a week in the life of Elder Funk either email him, write him, or most importantly join us next week for another brand new week!  Love y'all have a great week!

Burning Hot and Sacrament Talk

Sup Y'all,

Well this week was pretty good and fast.  Monday we went and played glow golf.  (glow in the dark mini golf)  I still have my skills as a putter.  They are still non existent.  hahaha.  Tuesday we had our usual meetings and went out and did some finding. 

 Wednesday was another fun finding day.  (Idiotic moment of the week:  I turned the stove top on to cook lunch and wasn't sure if I turned the right one on so without thinking I touched it and burned a few of my fingers.  You would think I'd learned that lesson as a kid.....)  So yeah that kind of sucked.  

Thursday we went out with Brother Foster and he took us to get Krispy Kreme to take to a lesson and then took us out to lunch.  Such an awesome member.  We then did a bunch of biking to people's houses and were coming home for dinner and stopped by a member's house to see how he was recovering from surgery and it turns out we were an answer to his prayers.  He isn't allowed to lift heavy objects so we helped him out and he got us dinner and frosties!  

Friday and Saturday were a lot more biking and trying to find people to teach.  As fun as that sounds when the temperature decides suddenly to spike up to almost 90 degrees again it isn't as fun.  

Sunday was a wonderful day though.  So Elder Ellsworth and I were to give talks about missionary work.  I decided to give mine as a rebuking of the ward into missionary work.  Well wouldn't you know it.  President and Sister Smith walk into the meeting 5 minutes before it starts.  The talk went super well and was received really well.  We had a couple on investigators there and are going to see one of them with President Smith on Tuesday so if any of you want to pray for that it sure would be appreciated.  We then had interviews with President Smith during the priesthood hour and got to spend a bit longer with him and Sister Smith than normal.  What a wonderful blessing that was.  The spirit and love that they have is incredible!  That short visit gave us so much motivation and desire to work and we are looking to run with that.  

I hope y'all have a great week!  Don't touch burners that are on!

High as a kite with a Frosty

Y'all Homies!

How is life everyone?  Wonderful!  Kind of a longer week here but a good week none the less.  Monday we played some volleyball with the zone.  Super fun stuff.  Tuesdaywas a lot less active finding and we ended up buying some pizza and taking it to a less active's for dinner.  That is one way to get into the door.  Not the cheapest but it tastes good.  Wednesday we had a good time working to find people to teach.  

Thursday we had a family history booth on the campus of Pensacola State College.  Not too successful and we had the wimpiest bash ever.  hahaha this guy came up and in such a nervous voice tried to bash six missionaries.  He walked away very quickly once he realized what he was up against.  hahaha.  Friday we helped a less active move and played some floorball (in door hockey).  Tiring day. 

Saturday we had a nice day.  We had a church tour with Cathy and then helped set up a wedding.  (quick side story: they had balloons and one of the women let a couple of them go and so I stood on a ladder and got a pole and got two of them down but the third was at the highest point in the building so naturally we put the ladder on a table and I got onto the second to top step and got the balloon down.  Smartest idea I've had? No.  Worst Idea I've had? definitely not.  sorry no picture of it though)  Then we biked to a less active's house to meet them and they invited us to meet the family and have some party food while they were watching football, baseball, and hockey.  I am not mad though.  

Sunday we found a lot of people who weren't home and visited a member who had surgery Monday. So here is how it all goes down.  We get there and he needs to go to the post office to drop some stuff off so he asks us to ride with him.  We get in the car and he says he wants a frosty.  Not thinking anything of it I say "you know brother Kimball the last time you wanted ice cream and we were with you on a Sunday we ended up getting ice cream (the ice cream was from a church function).  Now I am just waiting for a frosty to just magically appear in my hand"  His response, "Watch this".  He starts driving and before we realize what is happening he is in the Wendy's drive through buying three large frosties.....awkward....it tasted good though.  So yeah that was the high light reel of my week.  Push on everyone! Till I write again I bid you adu. (however you spell it.)

Elder Funk 

Companions with Snoopy and President Smith for Conference

Sup Y'all,

Pretty solid week this week.  Not a whole lot of teaching but a lot of spiritual experiences for sure.  So starting off the week we went bowling and had a blast.  After some specialized coaching from another elder I was able to kick the ball down the lane and get a gutter ball hahaha Other than that the next couple of days we just went out and worked. 

Thursday we had a specialized zone training on how to work with the ward council and use family history.  Super good and edumactional conference.  I got to be companions with President Smith and provide some training on how to find and work effectively as a companionship.  Talk about scary!  No practice or notice and then get called up to train on how to do it when I am  not qualified to teach on that.  I ended up pulling him aside and having to reprimand him for not teaching with me in unity.  Was that where it was supposed to go?  Probably not.  Was it funny.  

Friday we went to the church and played floorball (hockey in a gym).   Fun stuff but I am not coordinated enough to do that kind of stuff.  hahaha.  Saturday and Sunday was spent watching the amazing sessions of general conference.  Super great messages.  Some of my favorites were Elder Lawrence's "Our direction is more important than our speed" and President Uchtdorf's about simplifying our discipleship.  Watch, read, and rewatch them.  They are incredible!  Bonus part of my week is this morning I won a snoopy dog at the library we email at!  Boo ya!  

Well be good and quit making things complicated!