Hey Y'all,

Sorry about the lack of an email last week.  I forgot about it until they kicked me off so I am making sure to get on and send this one today.  So this week was pretty good.  Tuesday we were able to teach almost all day so that was wonderful.  We set a BCD with an investigator, Mamie.  Super great spiritual lesson with her at the church about the Plan of Salvation.  Wednesday was another day full of teaching and another super spiritual Plan of Salvation lesson.  We taught from 2 Nephi 2 about the Fall of Adam and Eve and how it was necessary and Miss Hill told us that she knew that that was true but could never find where it said that in the Bible.  So we were able to help her realize the importance of the Book of Mormon.  Wonderful!

Thursday we helped a member work on his house.  Super great member and he really needed it so we had no problem spending a good amount of time over there.  Fridaywe did a lot of finding and weekly planning.  Saturday we were on the bikes a lot more and able to go see several people and get a lot of work done.

Sunday was a wonderful day.  Went to church and then came home for some work and went out to see all of our plans fall through so we were going to local members in the area that we hadn't really met and had two really great spiritual experiences with them.  One is a less active member who hasn't been to church in years but was more than happy to welcome us in and right before we were about to leave she opened up to us about everything for 40 minutes.  So grateful that we were able to stay a few minutes more than we thought and have that experience with her.  Ended the night with transfer calls......(drum roll please).........I will be staying in Pensacola and will be training a new missionary!  I am going to be a father!  I am interested to see how that is going to work out hahaha but it will be a great experience.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I will end with a line from President Smith that hit me hard these past couple of weeks:

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

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Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!

​FA-18 Hornet (Blue Angel) in a bottle a member made for me.​

​I found Gossner's Milk!  ​

Genealogy and Ping Pong

Hey y'all,

Pretty good week here in Florida.  Tuesday we went on trade offs.  I got to hang out with our District Leader, Elder Hildebrandt.  Super great time!  We picked up the Bishop's son and went out to help this elderly woman fix a security camera on her house.  We found out the problem and told her we would come back the next day to finish fixing it.  We went out to lunch and then saw a couple other people.  Had dinner and then dropped some paperwork off to the sisters at the church where they were having institute and there was a ping pong table so naturally we played a couple games.  Wednesday we finished fixing that camera and went and saw a few less actives and got them working on coming back to church.  One, Dorothy Lee, was able to come to church!  So exciting!

Thursday we went out with Brother Forster to see a couple of people and had a good time with him and got some giant slices of pizza.  Friday we did some family history at the college genealogy library.  We were able to find some records for a woman who was looking for her great grandmothers death date.  We found the article in the paper about it and it was such a great experience.  Saturday was a rough day.  We had great plans for the day and then everything fell through.  Oh well it makes for good stories right? 

Sunday was a pretty good day.  Church is always such a great blessing.  I love when the speakers are able to give wonderful personal experiences and testimonies on the subject that they are speaking on.  It makes the meetings so much better!  Well as always I bid you farewell until we meet again.  Live long and prosper!

Stuck in a Halloween night fort

Sup Y'all,

This week be pretty good.  Super quick but good. Tuesday the sisters had a baptism for their investigator which was great!  Baptisms are always fun to be apart of.  Prior to that we had our plans fell through and we heard of a cool 1500's replica ship that was docked in the bay so we went and looked at that for a while.  Super cool.  I'll try to send a picture of it. Wednesday we went out and did a lot of less active work and finding.  Got some good work done there.  Thursday was a very fattening day.  We had a member take us to a buffet and then an hour later we had a potential investigator, Robbin, take us out to eat.  He wanted to go to Golden Corral.... So we settled on Whataburger.  Then we had a member drop of Pizza to us an hour later.  So yeah.

Friday we went to go help a member clean out his gutters and fix a whole in his roof.  So he started by taking us to a buffet.  Then I got up on the roof and cleaned out the gutters and started to repair his roof.  The rubber tar stuff that he gave me started to get on my hands and I ended up stuck to the roof.  I may or may not have pulled of some of his shingling things.  So after cleaning up from that we went to the ward Halloween party.  Chili for days!

Saturday we biked out to go see a couple of people and got some solid work done for a couple of hours but then my bike decided to give up on me.  Flat tire again so we walked the 3 miles home.  Then we went to the mall to contact people and I got some peanut butter cups in case any children came to our door.  (They didn't so I got to eat them all hahahaha)  We were in at 6:00 so naturally the right thing to do with all of that time is to take all of my companions and my mattress's and box springs and build a giant fort.  Good times.

Sunday we had church and a giant meal with a less active.  Went out to try to see some more less active's who apparently moved.  Oh well.  We will find them sooner or later.  So yeah that be my week.  Have a great week!  Live long and prosper!

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Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!