Hello everyone! I made it to Florida! It was kind of a rough transition, but I'm doing great now! My apartment is super nice! I even have a dishwasher!! The first day I got here, we got in super late and President Pingree had me read and interpret a scripture. At that point I was basically asleep and I couldn't tell you what I said. Oops.
The next day after I got picked up, my companion who is 22 and speaks Russian (she was originally called to Russia) was driving when an iguana ran into the road. She yelled "IGUANA!!!!" and we almost ran it over! Don't worry. The iguana is okay.
Apparently when they were switching the SIM cards they lost ours. Thats really bad. We all got a prompting to go back to the church a couple hours later and we found it after 30 seconds! It was in the dirt!
The next day we did a service project in the middle of the afternoon and it was sooooo hot, we picked up trash for hours, but I found a fancy mailbox and a lot of drugs, so that's cool. Don't worry. I threw all the drugs away. ðĪŠ
There are so many cool plants and creatures in Florida! I feel like I'm in the jungle! So, funny story. I pulled one of my shirts off the rack and dad... you were right. GINORMOUS COCKROACH!! We trapped him in a jar and named him Gary. I'll include pictures haha.
Next funny story is that we were looking for a friend's apartment, so we were walking and saw these people in the same complex. They were throwing seashells at each other and karate chopping them. It smelled like weed sooooo bad. We asked them what they were doing and they told us that they were playing kung fu. You had to hit the seashell before it hit the ground. They then threw a seashell at my companion and she did it! Well done Sister King. We started talking to them and they wanted to show us their cool salamander thingy. She kindly moved all of her drugs off of the counter before we walked in. We went and looked at it and it was awesome!! Then it wasn't so awesome. She started lecturing us about how "young and beautiful" we were and that we shouldn't go into people's houses and how Florida is sketchy etc. Her quote that she said at least three times was Florida is a sunny place for shady people. Remember that!!! Awkward... then she said, "get out, I want to smoke my weed" so we all went outside while all three of them blew weed smoke in our faces and we talked about Christ. We said a prayer with them and they wanted to hold hands. They had all been playing in the dirt and smoking weed, so my germophobia was going insane, but you will all be proud to know that I held it in. I prayed that they could feel peace in their lives and when the prayer was over all they could say was wow... they were stunned! The spirit was so strong weed and all!! Later that night they texted and invited us over for dinner lol! Too bad we already ate a fancy dinner at a rich member's house! After we left the weed smokers we said another prayer with a lady that lived in the house that was supposed to be our friends' she added all the amens and praises in the middle and instead of us sharing a message with her, she tried to convert us to her church. So funny. Then as we were walking out of the complex we got cat called by a bunch of drunk 40 year olds in a pool. I don't know that we'll be visiting that complex anytime soon. So funny!!
While we were riding our bikes my companion tried to give a guy a pass along card and she fell off her bike! She handed it to him and said Jesus loves you and then we drove away. It was hilarious.
