I'm Talking to WHO?!

 Welp. I'm going to start by telling y'all about yesterday because it pretty much sums up how my week has been going.

We got a call in the morning from some random lady asking what time church was and she ended up coming!! We also had a family come, so we had 6 friends at church which was crazy!! We were trying to talk to all of them at once which was rough, and then some lady walked by and made a rude comment right in front of our friends and made my companion really upset. We said bye to our friends and got them situated in their classes and then my companion started crying. So while I was comforting her, this couple walked up to us and the lady gave her a hug and the man started talking to me. He was saying how he used to be a mission president and that he wanted to get the missionary work going in our ward. This was my first week in the ward, so I just assumed that he was in the ward, but then I told him that I just got done serving in Coral Springs and he told me he was speaking at a devotional there that night and that's when I realized that I was speaking to ELDER GAYE. A GENERAL AUTHORITY!!!!!!!!! I low-key panicked and got really excited and he told us that we were great missionaries and that everything would be okay. SO COOL. It was a very crazy day after that, but we had some good lessons, and it was great. 

Some highlights of the week:

All of the missionaries in my zone went and played ultimate frisbee with the youth for a devotional and it was so fun! The elders got a bit competitive 😳 😂 no one died though, so that's good. My new zone is definitely not as friendly as my last one, but that's okay. I'm sure it will get better.

My new companion is a hoot. Her laugh sounds more like a growl and she laughs for like 30 minutes before she goes to sleep, so it's interesting in our house. 😂 

I saw my first alligator!!!!! And more huge iguanas! So cool!!! 

The members don't know what they are getting into when they say, "call me for anything..." We weren't sure if our ground beef was good to eat and we couldn't call our parents, so we called a family in the ward and described it to them. 😂 Don't worry everyone, it was fine to eat. That beef caused us a lot of trouble from the moment we picked it up... and dropped it in the grocery store. 😬😂 The next one we picked up was leaking all over, so we decided it was a curse. 

I loved seeing everyone at transfers!! It was so fun!!! 

Also the ward members here are so funny! One of them just gave us a ton of random cans of food 😂 it was so funny. She included other stuff as well. Some of it was rotten, but that's okay.

We left some sticky notes with uplifting messages on cars at the mall and it was so fun! We actually got a lot of calls back and we are now teaching one of them!! We also ran into a JW missionary while we were doing that and she started bashing. My comp and her started going at it, so I just diffused it and walked away 😂 so awkward.

Anyways. I know that God provides. When we are struggling he's always there and He will always help us as long as we are giving our sincere effort. I love you all and hope you have a great week!! ❤️