Cops Bringing in Good Memories

Sup y'all!

Short on time so I will be brief.  Lots of finding time this week.  Got the cops called on us.  Story time!  We went to see a less active and he was doing some yard work for his neighbor and told us to follow him and talk.  So we go into their backyard and a neighbor calls the cops on us.  Five cop cars pull up and they see us and just say hi and turn around and leave.  hahahaha.  Earlier that morning we had a government investigator come to our house asking questions about our neighbor.  Weird. 

Kristy is doing great!  She has a baptismal date on the sixth of August and her mother is finally on board with her being baptized!  Super spiritual lesson with them Thursdaynight.  Saturday had interviews with President Smith.  Good guy.  Spiritual giant.  I like him.

Sunday was incredible!  We went to the YSA group in Niceville and I turn around to see a member from the Bonifay ward walk in!  Andrew Finch!  It was so awesome to see him again.  When I first met him he was inactive and then he started coming every week.  It was great to see him and how his life has improved so much.  The gratitude he showed me for "resurrecting" him was amazing.  Truly made me recognize the blessings and importance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Don't let it go. 

Here are some pictures from our week.

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Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!

A little friend I found right before putting on my shoe....

​The DropALoad Inn.  hahahaha oh the stuff you find while tracting.

​my companion....it says it all....

Recent Convert to Missionary!

Hey y'all!

It's super weird to hear of everyone getting home cause it means I am down to the tail end of it all.  However there is still work to be done and miracles to be wrought.  

​Tuesday we had a zone training meeting​ and had some great discussions.  Then I went over to Destin for the day.  Great place.  Found a mexican store and got some very nice coke's.  ;)  Wednesday we went to see a less active member and he decided he wanted to help fix my flat bike tire so he took us to Walmart.....freaking 45 minutes later.....we got out of there and were able to do some more family history with Harry. 

Thursday we got our investigator into his new apartment!  He is so relieved to be out of his mother-in-law's house.  It was great to see him so happy and cheerful.  That night I got to go out with Harry and teach a couple of people.  He is such a stud.  He was whipping out scriptures from the Book of 

Mormon to investigators and less active members already.  Now he is preparing to serve a mission next year! 

Friday we did a lot of service....leaves and raking for days......then had to bike about 7 miles to get to dinner....we worked out a lot that day hahaha

Saturday was just full of meeting with people and their crazy situations.  It makes me so grateful to have the gospel in my life and keeps me want to keep living it.   Sunday we had a great Niceville ward and then in the YSA group we were passing the sacrament and we ran out of water cause there was so many people there!  It was incredible!  So nice to see the group growing so much so quickly!  In the end though I love Jesus and life is great even when it doesn't appear great.  Have a great week!

Also shout out to Dusty (convert from Tallahassee) who is leaving on his mission wendesday to go to Pocatello,  Idaho spanish speaking!

Baptist Pastor to Mormon Priest

Crazy week here in the FTM

Taught a lot of lessons and had a lot of success.  

I guess the main thing we did besides teaching was a ton of service.  Friday we spent a good chunk of the day helping one of our investigators move out of their trailer into a new apartment.  Super glad they moved cause that trailer was so disgusting.

Saturday we were able to have Harry Mitchell get baptized!  So awesome and Sunday he got confirmed and became a priest in the Aaronic Priesthood!  He has been changed from a Baptist pastor to a Mormon priest!  He also got his younger brother, who is a pastor for the baptist church where he was before, to start teaching from the book of mormon.  That church is now a nondenominational church hahaha.  The younger brother preached a whole sermon last week just from the Book of Mormon.   We are getting churches converted over here!

So here is a little more on Saturday.  After the baptism I looked at my bike and found I had a flat tire so we had to walk from the church home.  Along the way we got stopped by the investigator that we helped move out the other day so we went over and helped them move things into their new apartment.  Then another one of our investigators asked us while we were moving the first people in to come and help him move out.  So right after moving in we turned around and helped him move out.  He now lives in his car by our apartment complex until Thursday when he can move into a new apartment.  Interesting situation but we are trying to help him just as Christ would and it has turned into a wonderful experience for Elder Millard and myself.

Just want to leave you with a wonderful thought.  Friday and Saturday we had dinner with different members and both fed us Brinner!  Completely different brinners too.  hahahaha Best dinner appointments ever!

​There are two types of people who work at the family history class.   Those who help people do it and those who are taking selfies about it.  I, I took the path less traveled and it made little difference in the end.  But now we have documentation of it.​

Harry's baptism​. The one on the end is Dan.

President and Sister Smith (Round 2)

Hey Ya'll!

Pretty solid week this week.  Had a lot of great moments though!  I hit a few special moments.  Tuesday I went to Destin to go on a tradeoff with Elder Tate.  He is the bomb!  Love that guy.  We had a great tradeoff and were able to get a lot of work done down in his area despite getting lost a couple of times.  (not my fault)

Wednesday night we had a disagreement with a member over our car exchanges with the sisters.  The member has had a really  rough week and just errupted on Elder Millard.  Really unfortunate.  All over walking a block at night.  I understand her concern but I don't think she understands that we do that all of the time in much worse places than between our apartment and the Sister's apartment.  Hopefully we can help her be comforted with the information that our Mission President has given us that we are fine to walk at night.....nothing worse than going to your brand new mission president and having to ask a super stupid question because you told a member you would....oh well.  I'm over it.  

Friday we got to meet President and Sister Smith (II).  They are an awesome couple and just want to see everything go well.  Very relaxed couple.  I love it!  I got to bear my testimony at zone conference....it's weird how real it is getting that I am going home soon....well fairly soon...I still have plenty of time and work to do.  Anyway we had Thomas Kibler take us to Waffle House before Zone conference and then Chick-fil-a so Elder Larsen (guy I came out with) and  I could talk for a bit.  Thomas is such a stud!

Saturday was awesome!  The sister's had 3 baptisms in the morning and then our investigator got married that evening!  Awesome day!  So spiritual!  Sunday we had a great day as well.  I got the blessing of confirming the Sister's investigators into the Church.  Such an incredible spirit was there.  It was super cool to be able to do three confirmations right in a row.  I felt they were semi-repetitive and then I had several people, including a member of the Stake Presidency, tell me how impressed they were with the blessings.  I truly was able to see that the blessings were not from me but from the Lord and even though I hadn't asked God if the blessings were repetitive he calmed my mind and brought peace to my heart.  What a wonderful God we have!  Have a great week everyone!