Week 60 In Ft. Lauderdale....

That's Elder Park on the bottom right side.

Here's the scoop.... 

Elder H***:

Good kid from Plain City, out by Ogden

taller than me, he's been out 6 months

He likes Basketball...

We get along pretty good.

The Area:

NORTH.... I was at the southern tip of Florida... now, I only have 1 area that is north of me in the mission... 2 1/2 hours North of Ft. Laud... THERE IS NOTHING HERE... People wear camo here.

The ward: 

English... Only English with a few Spanish people that kinda do their own thing. We are going to change that by trying to start a Spanish branch. Our area is rather small compared to the ward, we go south of Okeechobee rd and north of Midway, look it up on my LDS.org account.

We opened the area. it didn't exist before now, it was nothing...

That means we had nothing, no area book people, no member contacts in our phone, actually no contacts in our phone. We were given a Google Maps print off of our area and a good luck and were sent off. We are living in the apartment that the Old 2 Fort Pierce Elders lived in but with the 2 Zone-Leaders and us 2, that means 4 this apartment was not set up for 4, so that means that Elder Hunt and I have been sleeping on the couches for the last week and tomorrow we will get mattresses form the mission office. There was also not enough food in the apartment, we changed that. So Elder Hunt and I started Tuesday with NO Key Indicators, We knew Nobody and the Zone-Leaders didn't either, they were whitewashing as well. So we just went out and started knocking, we thought that we had found a pretty populated area, but it turned out to be the boonies, we were knocking doors with Dixie Flags and old fashioned porches with crappy fences and beat up trucks, like classic Southern Nowhere. (We keep looking for more but its a small place, kinda ghetto in parts not too much Spanish) We found some cool people, not the most intelligent, but definitely hard working, most people try to leave this place when they grow up but for some reason just keep getting sucked back in! But so far we have been received GREAT the people here are incredibly nice and very hospitable, this is definitely the south! Finally went north enough to be in the South. We ended the week with no one at church but some promising individuals for the coming week that will help us really get this area started.

Not sure what else to say its too early to tell what is really going on here... 

But I will keep you updated.

Stay Strong Push on!

ELDER PARK