Dear family,
CRAZY NEWS: There is a hurricane headed towards the city I am in! Which is Palatka by the way! I will give you my address in a second! It is Hurricane Irene and is supposed to be a 3! The church will take care of us though! If it is dangerous at all they will pull us out immediatly!! They have been sending us texts constantly updating us about the Hurricane! I am so excited!! I really want to be in a hurricane :)
Anyways, Business:
Address:
Elder Levi Wise
412 Mission Road Unit #2
Palatka, FL 32177
The bike I got is new! Just because I tried to get a bike from a missionary going home! But they were all 5' 6" NO JOKE!! And so I couldn't get one from them! And I tried to get a used bike at the Shop I went to but they said they didn't have any that had a big enough frame for me :P And that is the only one in the area! so I had to get a new bike! It is a hybrid bike like the one back home that is meant for road and trail! Because there are a lot of sand roads in our mission! I had to buy a helmet and reflectors and lights and a bike lock which costed me the rest! And also shipping cost! But the guy tried to get me to buy the same bike but one shocks and I said no because I personally don't think that is worth it! I thought you would be proud of me for that one dad :)
Anyways, my area is basically a hick town! It is awesome though! I like the area and my companion is Elder Dyerly and he is from Michigan! He is a good missionary and he is a genius! He is really smart and just basically knows a lot! haha! He is cool! And we have a car share so every other day I have a car and then the other days I am biking!
Advice for Mom (for Hood to Coast): On leg 6 it is really easy (especially for a stupid high school distance runner) to go out really hard on the second run because it is flat and not to long! And to take it pretty easy on the first run because it is longer than it seems! And the last run shows that it isnt too hilly and not to hard! But I am here to tell you that it is brutal and if you have burnt yourself out you will get passed by a girl with a pink tutu :P haha! GOOD LUCK :)
GATOR UPDATE:
Moses: Moses is an old guy who really wants to get baptized! He has been getting taught for awhile and hopefully we can get him baptized soon!
Willy: Willy is also an old guy who will take awhile but we are working with him and he is a super nice guy!
Cathy: She is an older lady who is on oxygen! She is interested religously! And we havent had the chance to really sit down with her! So we are hoping to be able to sit down with her soon!
Willy: This willy is an old blind man! We taught him the Restoration this week! And he accepted the invitation to be baptized but we dont have a specific date yet!
Mary: She is another old lady on oxygen and we met her this last week! We taught her the Restoration and she knows she needs to get back to church so our main focus is to get her to church and to be fellowshipped!
This area is a really old person area! And Elder Dyerly teaches different than I prefer to! But its okay! He teaches more socially. I think this area needs work though! It just needs to be more organized is the best way I can put it!
He is a great missionary though and I love him! We just have different styles of missionary work I would say! Anyways, I have a good story! We decided to go tracting in this area that is way out there and missionaries haven't been there in awhile! So we went and tracted this apartment! Throughout the apartment we got 2 new investigators and 6 return appointments!!! IT WAS SO AWESOME HAHA!!!
The area just hasn't been hit in a long time! So that was cool! And my companion is a facebook missionary so while he is on facebook! I get on Family History stuff and I have been working on some family history and trying to find people I can have you all take to the temple because we have no temple to go to here! So hopefully I cant get you some names :)
It is so depressing that we can't go to the temple! I really want to go to the temple and sit in the celestial room and just pray about where we should go and what we should do!! I feel like if I could do that we could get 100 NEW GATORS :O But we cant! :(
BIG NEWS: I called President Barry the other day and I asked him if my non member relative - Patrick, could come over and take me out to lunch! And I have got permisson from my mission president to do so! So if you could facebook Patrick and tell him that he can! And give him my number! MOM, do not call me! Just give it to patrick OKAY ;) I LOVE YOU THOUGH!! I wish you could call me!! (I wish I could too...but I won't! It would be too hard on BOTH of us!)
And just tell him to ask for Elder Wise and we can arrange something up for him to take us out to lunch or dinner or something!!
I hope you are all doing well and I love you very much!! Micah, go dominate that band :) And stockton! In the words of the Mexican Soccer Channel " GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! :) haha
I love you all very much! Thank you so much for supporting me! I LOVE YOU!!!!
Elder Wise
Elder Wise, good thing Irene is not heading your way any more. Being in a hurricane is no fun...you really don't want to be in one. While I was in high school, Hurricane Hugo hit South Carolina and I spent a terrifying night wondering if we were going to live, and then I spent months helping to clean up after it was over. Then on my mission I was serving in the Jacksonville Beaches Ward when Hurricane Andrew was coming and people (including my companion) were excited for the adventure of a hurricane. Having already been in one I was scared and really didn't want to be in another one. I was thankful it didn't hit the Jacksonville area, although it did significant damage to Miami (over $40 billion in damages), and killed 26 people.
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