Pretty awesome week over here in Florida!!
Just the Normal Missionary work for most of the week which is awesome.For the first part of the week I was mainly the Camera guy that took pictures of Holmstead and a lot of members and investigators.
We met a new guy that has been prepared as well. We haven't met with him too much but he is super cool and humble. He is only 19 and has a 3 year old kid. His girlfriend got pregnant when he was 16 and that changed the rest of his life. He moved out and started providing for his family. The first time we met him on the street we set his baptism date, hopefully we can continue to prepare him for baptism.
Thursday was transfers!!! We went to Tampa area and I got a new companion! His name is Elder Swallow from Clinton Utah. He has only been out for 7 months so not too much longer than I have. He was serving in Port Charlotte area which is an area with a lot of retired people haha so he was surprised to see young people when he came into the area lol!
The mission also sold the car that we have been driving around for the last while. We are now sharing a car with the other Elders in our area. We will be dusting off the bikes and putting them to use now!
We have been preparing Oliver who is going to get baptized this weekend! He is super solid! In Indiana the missionaries met with him and he came to church there about 4 times and loves the church. He works a ton so we meet with him like 8:30 some nights if he gets home in time. We had a bit to cover with him and he came home late last night so we couldn't meet with him last night so we went over this morning at 9! We biked over there in the rain! That is a lot of dedication if you ask me. We went over all the commandments and he is totally willing to live them all. He will be going out of town for a funeral this week till Friday so we had to cover a lot today.
We had Stake conference yesterday. Im not used to drive an hour to the stake center hahah just right down the road usually. We had Jason and his roommate Ryan come to the stake conference as well! He finally made it to church. We can now start working with him a little more, we have already gone through all the lessons with him so he just needs to attend church a couple more times and then he can be baptized.
One thing I have learned this last week is Life is full of ups and downs, it is up to us to either make more ups or more downs. Everything we have we can either look at it with a positive attitude or a negative attitude. As we encircle ourselves with the Gospel I promise there will be more ups than downs in life.
I love you all and hope you all have a great week!
Elder Gardner
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