December

The first week of December is already gone!

So I had no real P day last week which kinda sucked but its all good. This week went by pretty fast. The days just keep getting faster and faster here. 

We have a mission Christmas party this wednesday and im super pumped for that. We are having it on the beach and its going to be all day. Yes you did read that right CHRISTMAS ON THE BEACH! haha there is always a first for everything. 

Me and my comp had the Idea of setting up chirstmas lights so I sent a pic of what we did with them. It stands for Florida Tampa Mission or Full Time Missionary.

We have this family that we are teaching and we werent sure about them at first because the wife has work every sunday so they wouldnt be able to come to church. And she is a big smoker, she has tried to quit multiple times but has never succeded. But we have been praying for her and guess what! She is pregnant and so that means she is cutting down on her hours and she is quitting smoking because her baby hahah so crazy. The Lord truely does work in mysterious ways. 

We gave a church tour to an investigator that we are teaching and he is really progressing. His name is Ruben. He has a baptism date for the 27th. He has a hard time coming to church because he normally doesnt wake up til about 2 or 3 so we are working with that. But we got told in our District Meeting by our Zone Leaders to set up the expectations with the Investigators that we meet with to see them every day. Just for like 10 or 15 minutes and read with them in the Book of Mormon. We have been doing that and seeing Fenominal success. It has been awesome.

We got a referral from a guy in our ward we are in and we met him a week or 2 ago and set up a baptism date for January 3rd. We are doing the same thing about reading with him as well. He is a black guy from Haiti and has been trying to find God for a while and then we showed up. He loves meeting with us. We introduced the Book of Mormon to him and then the next day we came back to read with him and he was saying a guy at his work has been giving him anti material. We cleared all that up with him so we are definitely glad he brought that up or else that would be bad.
We watched the christmas devotional last night at the church! did anyone else? It was great! I wish it could have been longer! Its so crazy its already christmas!!! 

If anyone hasnt seen the video He is the Gift I encourage all of you to watch it. It is amazing. He is truely the meaning of christmas. HE IS THE GIFT! Share the gift to everyone you know!

Also to anyone who dont do missionary work, DO IT! The best way to find people as missionaries is through the members! All the missionaries need to do is shake someones hand. A neighbor or a friend it doesnt matter! We have been getting a lot of success with referrals and the missionaries are here to HELP THE MEMBERS DO MISSIONARY WORK!! That is why we are here. As part of being baptized into the church you have a responsibility to do missionary work. Have the missionaries help you do your work.

Anywho. Love you all.

Elder Gardner