"Men are that they might have joy" AKA Coca Cola

Hey Y'all,

How is everyone's holiday season starting out?  Great?  I hope so.  Well for us here in sunny Florida it is definitely warm.  It has been in the 70's or 80's all week.  I will start with Tuesday this week.  We had our zone training meeting and it went fairly well.  I was told that I was the weirdest missionary from our senior couple while we were taking our zone pictures....from my understanding weird means the star of the show.  haha So then we went out to try to contact a few referrals that we got to find that none of them were home or that they actually weren't interested.  Such is the life of a missionary.  Had a great dinner with a recently married couple who moved out here because of his military stationing.  They showed us a picture of when he proposed to her....yeah he tried to use fireworks and ended up setting a mountain on fire.  It was in Utah earlier this year.  hahaha made for a great story and picture.  

Wednesday we had a really productive day working with less active's.  We met with one woman, Sister Kupfer, who has been out of the church for a few years but is going to be coming back.  She always has a lot to say but has such a great spirit about her.  Thursday we went out biking to go try to contact some less active's and ended up on Joy street.  Guess where Joy street led to......The Coca Cola Factory!  So yeah Joy (street) comes from Coca Cola.  Other than that not a whole lot happened that day.  

Friday was just a day of trying people who weren't home and Saturday we had another super great spiritual lesson with brother Ramos.  Hopefully he will desire to come back to church this week with his family.  

Sunday was a wonderful day.  We had church and then after were able to take the sacrament to a couple in the hospital, give a blessing to one of the sisters investigators, and give another blessing to a woman in a different hospital.  It is days like that where our numbers don't show that we did anything but for those people we made all of the difference in the world.  I live for days like that.  It is one of the greatest parts about being a missionary.  So ya I hope y'all have a great week this week and if you haven't watched "Why we need a Savior" on Christmas.mormon.org.  I highly recommend that you do that this week.  Such a powerful video the church has put out.  BYE!