It's been a pretty crazy week - it's a Wednesday and I'm emailing. Like I said crazy. Let me splain. The library we email at is the local college library but it's in between terms right now and have reduced hours of operation. We arrived after a grueling and intense floorball session only to find the library was closing. We were planning to come back the next day but we had some business to take care of from Gulf Breeze (a baptismal interview for the senior couple down there) and due to a subsequent storm did not make it to the library before closing time. We arrived after a lovely lunch at Chick-fil-a with a member only to have the library tell Elder B that he needed a proof of address since he card was registered to an Elder G. We biked back to the apartment, got a letter, and came back. She still didn't want to accept it as the letter's address was hand written. She wanted a bill or something. We explained we receive no bills and therefore could not comply with her request. After some discussion and a phone call to a manager she let us slide in this once but next week we may not be so lucky. I don't know why they let us in for 7 weeks without any problem. Ah well. That's life =)
Other crazy stuff....
I hit a squirrel. On my bike. It was nuts.
I was biking along rather rapidly and trying to get back to the apartment to meet up with a member who came to pick us up and we were already late when a squirrel hanging out in the grass doing regular squirrely things decided to run at my bike tire. I'm not sure why squirrels instinctively run at large moving objects but they do. It happened so fast and so quick that I didn't have time to react. The squirrel dramatically threw itself underneath my tire, somehow escaping the crushing rubber tread, and decided life was not over and there were yet many more acorns and nuts on which to gnaw briefly and then bury. It then did a double or triple back flip and hurriedly ran up a tree. Elder B saw the whole thing and he said it was hilarious.
Finally some pictures!
This a picture of our district at the last transfer (see first picture).
We've recently began the practice of naming our weeks code names. This week is named "Buttered Turtle" (don't ask, it was Elder B's turn to decide this week). He drew a rather cute little picture which I thought might be fun to share (see second picture).
There's lots of pretty clouds here in Pensacola. I took a few more pictures. (see third and fourth pictures).
During our companion study we learned that the ancient Jews in Jerusalem around 40 AD had cars. The one recorded was a Honda Accord. It's Acts 7:57 (it's during the stoning of Stephen). "And they came on him in one accord". Elder B drew a picture in commemoration of this discovery (see fifth picture).
I'm having a pretty good time here in Pensacola. Elder B and I are continuing to have good fun and do our best. We're just going to keep chugging along. I love and miss you all!
Cheers!
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Elder Matthew Carlson
