Hello family!
Thank you for the wonderful letter from Bear Lake! I will try to answer the many questions posed therein but I really enjoyed hearing from Jeff, Jacque, the Kozy's, and the girls. This is now September! I’ve been busy. Things have been pretty interesting this week. We were evacuated from Pensacola early Monday morning. I bet the question that happens to be on your mind is "what did you do in Tallahassee?" The answer is read. President Jensen challenged us to read the Book of Mormon all the way through while we were there. Many people tried – no one succeeded (we only had one day). I did get to Mosiah though. It was pretty cool. Today (Labor Day) is strange. Us missionaries don’t get holidays so it’s kind of messing things up but we’re dealing.
Spencer: It’s cool that you’re so talented as to your shotgun shooting skills. Elder B is pretty talented as well – but he’s from Utah. He can hit 23/25 or 24/25. (Now he tells me that was once). To answer your questions: My favorite area so far? My favorite is generally the one I’m in right then. I like Pensacola – or Alma. Both are good places with fantastic members. Has the past year gone slow or fast? Let me put it to you as it was put to me: “The days are like weeks and the weeks are like days”. It seems like a few weeks ago I went to Tally but it seems like just a little bit ago that I was riding in the van from Mobile to Pensacola.
Michael: Yay BYU! How are things? Write me a letter from your new address! How was button pushing? Are you sad it’s over? Any cool classes? I’m glad you sort of enjoyed the Super Mario Super Show. I saw that in a check-out aisle around March and it just screamed ‘Get me for Michael!” so I did. I felt a bit apostate buying a DVD but I got over it. Send me more pictures! Please?
Dad: Thanks for the letters! I noticed that my photo won the contest! What does that mean? Am I sort of famous now? Haha, just kidding. But to answer your question, “Do we get inspired to see members or less actives?” Yes. Particularly during weekly planning. There’s a part where we prayerfully identify families to go ask referrals from. We’ve had a couple of cool experiences – we were out tracting and I felt like knocking on a particular house. I noticed there was a plaque that said “The D's”. I thought “I wonder if that is the same D's who teach the Gospel Principles class during Sunday School?” It was. Hopefully we’ll be able to meet with some of their non-member extended family that recently moved to Pensacola. I’m hoping and praying. We’ve had a couple other experiences. We felt like knocking on another house and a small Asian lady stepped out and said “My Church!” It was funny. She moved here from Taiwan and didn’t know what the church is called in English.
Mom: Thank you for the letters and the sparkly stickers! My hand is doing quite well from the bike accident. The shirt is pretty ruined. The black stuff from our bike tires has this unique property of being almost absolutely permanent. I tried bleach, Tide, Spray-n-Wash, and other de-stain stuff but nada. It’s a suit only shirt now. I fell off a ladder – that left a small, nasty cut – but it’s healing up nicely. I was very lucky not to have been hurt much more. I’m quite convinced that something or someone slowed my fall. I liked the fact you mentioned the large quantities of smoothies on account of Mike’s wisdom tooth surgery. We used to have smoothies all the time. I say used to as there was an accident. I had washed the blender and set it on a towel to dry on account of the drying rack being full. I accidentally bumped it while turning myself and watched in slow motion horror as it tumbled to the ground and shattered. So did my smoothie based hopes and dreams. I got over it though. Thank you for the printed General Conference talks. I really enjoyed them.
Stephanie: Hello! What’s the new job like? Fun? mice related? I’ve told Elder B a bit about your research stuff. He said ‘Well, if mice die and save so many people – then good on mice.”
Auntie: I realized I hadn’t really written you a letter in a while. I just wanted to let you know I still think about you and miss you. I’m just a little busy and sometimes lazy and don’t pass the message on.
I love you all!
Elder Carlson
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
I'm All Sorts of Sore
Hello from Pensacola! =)
We're pretty sore right now as Elder B's bike had to go in the shop. He has no back tire tread and he lost a few spokes so we've been walking. As Dad and Grandpa like to talk about engine or suit-on time, I have had about 9 hours of feet moving time, which translates to about 16 miles in the past two days. Saturday we did 12. We both received a good singe from the sun. I'm not complaining, I'm pretty much recovered by now.
Anyway, I don't have too much to talk about as a good part of this week was in Tallahassee. We just sat around, read, and got fat. It wasn't really all that bad. I like hurricanes. =)
Lately, we've run into some interesting people. There is very little we can do. Usually we just smile genuinely, ask if they need help, and give them a mormon.org card. There just isn't a whole lot you can do.
Enough about the bad stuff - on to the good stuff. We've been working with some fantastic people. It's nice to teach people and actually see a difference in them when you leave. It's a great feeling. Keeping that difference for one investigator in particular seems to be quite tricky.
While we were in Tallahassee, an interesting question was posed by one of the older missionaries. He got to Omni and asked "Where did the Urim and Thummim that Mosiah 1 had come from?" We discussed it, drew diagrams, and searched diligently. We found that the Urim and Thummim had been made and given to the Brother of Jared who passed it down and most likely fell into the hands of the Ether. Mosiah 1 used a Urim and Thummim to translate a stone which was mostly likely written either by Ether or Coriantumur. Mosiah 2 was given the 24 Jaredite plates which he translated by the aforementioned stones and later gave to Alma who gave it to Helaman. Moroni sealed up a Urim and Thummin for Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith had the same one the Brother of Jared was given. We determined that either Ether somehow got the Urim and Thummim to the Nephites or there were actually two Urim and Thummim. We sadly settled on it being unsolvable due to lack of data when Elder B had a breakthrough. He published a radical new finding which he called the "Multi-parallel-dimensional-portal/wormhole-type-thingy theory". It was an immediate success.
On to the pictures!
We were in Tallahassee and found the gym full of mattresses (see the first picture). We decided for privacy and A/C sake, we would move to the seminary room (see the second picture). We had a nice table set up in the middle of the room which I spent many many hours at (see the third picture).
Anyway, I'm doing good. I love and miss you all!
--
Elder Matthew Carlson
Pensacola, Florida
Florida Tallahassee Mission
We're pretty sore right now as Elder B's bike had to go in the shop. He has no back tire tread and he lost a few spokes so we've been walking. As Dad and Grandpa like to talk about engine or suit-on time, I have had about 9 hours of feet moving time, which translates to about 16 miles in the past two days. Saturday we did 12. We both received a good singe from the sun. I'm not complaining, I'm pretty much recovered by now.
Anyway, I don't have too much to talk about as a good part of this week was in Tallahassee. We just sat around, read, and got fat. It wasn't really all that bad. I like hurricanes. =)
Lately, we've run into some interesting people. There is very little we can do. Usually we just smile genuinely, ask if they need help, and give them a mormon.org card. There just isn't a whole lot you can do.
Enough about the bad stuff - on to the good stuff. We've been working with some fantastic people. It's nice to teach people and actually see a difference in them when you leave. It's a great feeling. Keeping that difference for one investigator in particular seems to be quite tricky.
While we were in Tallahassee, an interesting question was posed by one of the older missionaries. He got to Omni and asked "Where did the Urim and Thummim that Mosiah 1 had come from?" We discussed it, drew diagrams, and searched diligently. We found that the Urim and Thummim had been made and given to the Brother of Jared who passed it down and most likely fell into the hands of the Ether. Mosiah 1 used a Urim and Thummim to translate a stone which was mostly likely written either by Ether or Coriantumur. Mosiah 2 was given the 24 Jaredite plates which he translated by the aforementioned stones and later gave to Alma who gave it to Helaman. Moroni sealed up a Urim and Thummin for Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith had the same one the Brother of Jared was given. We determined that either Ether somehow got the Urim and Thummim to the Nephites or there were actually two Urim and Thummim. We sadly settled on it being unsolvable due to lack of data when Elder B had a breakthrough. He published a radical new finding which he called the "Multi-parallel-dimensional-portal/wormhole-type-thingy theory". It was an immediate success.
On to the pictures!
We were in Tallahassee and found the gym full of mattresses (see the first picture). We decided for privacy and A/C sake, we would move to the seminary room (see the second picture). We had a nice table set up in the middle of the room which I spent many many hours at (see the third picture).
Anyway, I'm doing good. I love and miss you all!
--
Elder Matthew Carlson
Pensacola, Florida
Florida Tallahassee Mission
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| Camping in the Gym |
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| Camping in the Seminary Room (with A/C) |
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| The Study Table |
Friday, August 31, 2012
A Hand-Written Letter!
Hello Family!
I’m doing well! Elder B and I continue to do and try to stay busy and dry. I didn’t have much time to email as Elder B needed the laptop. It was kinda cool to be laptoping it again.
Just a quick update on what’s going on: my biggest problem right now is that the gyms are now banned. The treadmill was really nice and really helped me actually move in the morning. Elders get hurt trying to get ‘buff’ so now it’s off-limits. Back to running in the parking lot I guess. I know it’s for the best and I’m gonna do it. I shouldn’t complain. The other problem is rain. It’s rained here almost every day. It’s just frustrating. You can’t really fight it. We tried – but it wasn’t very effective. [Matthew drew a cute picture of a missionary battling a raincloud with a sword and a piece of paper. The angry faced rain cloud says “Your sword cannot hurt me!” and the missionary says “Aw man”]. But we’ve been trying to/staying busy.
We painted a shed! It was really nice to just have something to do that was very mentally relaxing and simple. It was a light red with white trim. It was pink when we painted it on . We got to talk with G, a young man who’s preparing to go to college and then on a mission. We have been going out with him and really encouraging him. The B’s (whose shed we painted) were really grateful for our service. They gave us brownies . We got a whole plate – each! I’ve eaten many a brownie and have found they’re quite delicious chilled. I did fall off a ladder; that was kinda scary. I only got one cut. It was kind of a miracle. It felt like I was being lowered to the ground. Maybe it was the whole time-goes-slower thing but it seemed like I should have been falling faster. I’m pretty protected.
We had a fantastic lesson with S. She’s wonderfully spiritual and very charitable. You can tell she really does have that relationship with God. A lot of people say they do – she does. She was very receptive and loved our message. She’s excited about reading the Book of Mormon. We’ll see how it turns out. I’m very hopeful. She’s dealing with a few medical challenges which is no bueno.
We have a few people on the back burner. The P’s (a family in the ward) have a friend interested in learning – she just has medical problems and is very busy at the moment. J is still working on reading the Book of Mormon. She’s really intelligent and has been very busy lately. She’s stuck in the Isaiah chapters. She wants to, it’s just hard sometimes. She recognizes her church has no authority and is looking for the true church. So we’re hoping. I think we just need to sit down with her again and discuss it – but she still isn’t really open to that. We’re praying for her. I really have hopes for her and really care about her.
We’ve been really well fed lately. The members seem determined to give us all the food. We have a freezer full of hot pockets and a pantry full of stuff. I’m not complaining.
Sorry but I forgot to mention this in my email. President has started doing a conference call once a week in district meeting. It’s really neat but the tiny speakers on the phone aren’t all that great. Could you poke around online for a 3mm to 1/8" aux adapter? I think it would help the senior missionaries as well.
Speaking of senior missionaries, Elder and Sister C kind of remind me of you except older. I can just imagine you both with name tags and hanging out with us younger folk. They’re really nice.
Now if you’ll excuse me – the J’s have some Finnish chocolate they want me to eat :-). I love ya’ll.
Love,
Elder Matthew Carlson
I’m doing well! Elder B and I continue to do and try to stay busy and dry. I didn’t have much time to email as Elder B needed the laptop. It was kinda cool to be laptoping it again.
Just a quick update on what’s going on: my biggest problem right now is that the gyms are now banned. The treadmill was really nice and really helped me actually move in the morning. Elders get hurt trying to get ‘buff’ so now it’s off-limits. Back to running in the parking lot I guess. I know it’s for the best and I’m gonna do it. I shouldn’t complain. The other problem is rain. It’s rained here almost every day. It’s just frustrating. You can’t really fight it. We tried – but it wasn’t very effective. [Matthew drew a cute picture of a missionary battling a raincloud with a sword and a piece of paper. The angry faced rain cloud says “Your sword cannot hurt me!” and the missionary says “Aw man”]. But we’ve been trying to/staying busy.
We painted a shed! It was really nice to just have something to do that was very mentally relaxing and simple. It was a light red with white trim. It was pink when we painted it on . We got to talk with G, a young man who’s preparing to go to college and then on a mission. We have been going out with him and really encouraging him. The B’s (whose shed we painted) were really grateful for our service. They gave us brownies . We got a whole plate – each! I’ve eaten many a brownie and have found they’re quite delicious chilled. I did fall off a ladder; that was kinda scary. I only got one cut. It was kind of a miracle. It felt like I was being lowered to the ground. Maybe it was the whole time-goes-slower thing but it seemed like I should have been falling faster. I’m pretty protected.
We had a fantastic lesson with S. She’s wonderfully spiritual and very charitable. You can tell she really does have that relationship with God. A lot of people say they do – she does. She was very receptive and loved our message. She’s excited about reading the Book of Mormon. We’ll see how it turns out. I’m very hopeful. She’s dealing with a few medical challenges which is no bueno.
We have a few people on the back burner. The P’s (a family in the ward) have a friend interested in learning – she just has medical problems and is very busy at the moment. J is still working on reading the Book of Mormon. She’s really intelligent and has been very busy lately. She’s stuck in the Isaiah chapters. She wants to, it’s just hard sometimes. She recognizes her church has no authority and is looking for the true church. So we’re hoping. I think we just need to sit down with her again and discuss it – but she still isn’t really open to that. We’re praying for her. I really have hopes for her and really care about her.
We’ve been really well fed lately. The members seem determined to give us all the food. We have a freezer full of hot pockets and a pantry full of stuff. I’m not complaining.
Sorry but I forgot to mention this in my email. President has started doing a conference call once a week in district meeting. It’s really neat but the tiny speakers on the phone aren’t all that great. Could you poke around online for a 3mm to 1/8" aux adapter? I think it would help the senior missionaries as well.
Speaking of senior missionaries, Elder and Sister C kind of remind me of you except older. I can just imagine you both with name tags and hanging out with us younger folk. They’re really nice.
Now if you’ll excuse me – the J’s have some Finnish chocolate they want me to eat :-). I love ya’ll.
Love,
Elder Matthew Carlson
Sunday, August 26, 2012
I Am Fine
Hello Family. I'm alive and stuff. It's getting crazy down here, all the peoples are really hyping up this hurricane thing. We'll see what happens but I'm pretty excited. We're been taken care of very well and everything is very well planned out. We have special permission to email you today to let you know that I'm fine. =) Just let y'all (especially mom) know that things are going to be okay. We're going to be staying in the church building for a day or two which are quite safe. I'm kind of looking forward to being able to spend some time catching up in my journal and in the scriptures but I think I'll be singing a different tune after 6 or 7 hours. Luckily Elder B and other missionaries will be there to keep sane. =)
Anyway, we're going to eat some lunch and then go help someone fix up a roof and take down a satellite dish (those things become missiles during hurricanes).
See picture to see how fine I'm doing. =)
I love y'all and hope you are all doing well.
Love,
Elder Matthew Carlson
Anyway, we're going to eat some lunch and then go help someone fix up a roof and take down a satellite dish (those things become missiles during hurricanes).
See picture to see how fine I'm doing. =)
I love y'all and hope you are all doing well.
Love,
Elder Matthew Carlson
Monday, August 20, 2012
All is well
I'm still alive here in Pensacola. This email is coming to you from the lovely laptop of Brother J! The library decided to close an extra two hours early today! But all is well. =)
I'm still doing fine and am enjoying my time with Elder B. It sounds like things are going well at home so that's pretty exciting. I wish Michael good luck at college and stuff. Remember, HOMEWORK FIRST! Mom and Dad tried to teach me that for years and I think I'm only now starting to get it.
Sorry I don't have many pictures but I do happen to have one lovely picture of my (previously) ridiculously long hair. I got a hair cut today and now it's much much shorter. I'll have some fun pictures and videos soon.
Remember that I love y'all. And try not to get ru'rnt. =)
--
Elder Matthew Carlson
I'm still doing fine and am enjoying my time with Elder B. It sounds like things are going well at home so that's pretty exciting. I wish Michael good luck at college and stuff. Remember, HOMEWORK FIRST! Mom and Dad tried to teach me that for years and I think I'm only now starting to get it.
Sorry I don't have many pictures but I do happen to have one lovely picture of my (previously) ridiculously long hair. I got a hair cut today and now it's much much shorter. I'll have some fun pictures and videos soon.
Remember that I love y'all. And try not to get ru'rnt. =)
--
Elder Matthew Carlson
Monday, August 13, 2012
Rather Stormy
Greetings!
As the subject suggests, it has been rather stormy here in Pensacola as of late. It's rained about every day. I've only gotten stuck in it once. I got absolutely soaked. My planner used to be beautiful. Now it's all crinkly and twice as thick. We were actually on our way to lunch at Firehouse (a local sandwich shop which is really good - we had a gift card) and it started to sprinkle. It then just came down. The roads quickly filled up and it got crazy. We made the final turn and started going against the rain. Man it stung! Those little rain drops stung. We finally made it there and went inside. We ordered our food and proceeded to leave a large trail of water and a puddle around our table. They have this cool machine called a Coke freestyle. It basically had twenty or so different sodas in it that you can select by a touch screen. But they also have flavors that you can add. If you want vanilla root beer, raspberry diet coke, or orange sprite so be it (I didn't like the orange sprite). I like to try several different flavors so I kept getting up and dispensing a little bit of a new flavor, leaving a trail of water in my wake. It was a good sandwich and the rain finally let up and we were about to make our way back to the apartment to get dry clothes on.
On a spiritual note, it was rather neat as we were able to give a blessing to one of the member's neighbors. They have been working with her for 6 years. The D's are wonderful, and their neighbor S happened to be having some medical problems. They saw the opportunity and invited her over for dinner. They also invited us over. We had a good conversation and the spirit was very strong during the blessing. She was very open and receptive to it. It was a wonderful thing. I really do love to give people blessings. I'm a little nervous of saying the wrong thing but I suppose I just need to trust in the Spirit.
I don't mean to alarm anyone but I did get scrapped up this week (it was actually miraculously much less worse that I thought). We were biking along and someone put their trash can out right in the middle of the sidewalk. I didn't maneuver correctly or did not have adequate space to do so because my handlebar clipped the trash can resulting in my bike taking a sudden hard right and the rest of me continuing on. I actually fell into Elder B's back tire and got my shirt pretty good (see first picture). I stopped my fall with my hand and got pretty dirty and scratched (see second picture) but that was all that really happened. I had a few chuckles after I had hit the ground because it must have looked rather comical. We rode to a nearby Walgreen's and I washed up. We then both got cool Pensacola t-shirts since they were on sale (see third picture).
Well, that's all I have time for today! Hope y'all are well and safe and stuff. Remember that I love you all!
-Elder Matthew Carlson
As the subject suggests, it has been rather stormy here in Pensacola as of late. It's rained about every day. I've only gotten stuck in it once. I got absolutely soaked. My planner used to be beautiful. Now it's all crinkly and twice as thick. We were actually on our way to lunch at Firehouse (a local sandwich shop which is really good - we had a gift card) and it started to sprinkle. It then just came down. The roads quickly filled up and it got crazy. We made the final turn and started going against the rain. Man it stung! Those little rain drops stung. We finally made it there and went inside. We ordered our food and proceeded to leave a large trail of water and a puddle around our table. They have this cool machine called a Coke freestyle. It basically had twenty or so different sodas in it that you can select by a touch screen. But they also have flavors that you can add. If you want vanilla root beer, raspberry diet coke, or orange sprite so be it (I didn't like the orange sprite). I like to try several different flavors so I kept getting up and dispensing a little bit of a new flavor, leaving a trail of water in my wake. It was a good sandwich and the rain finally let up and we were about to make our way back to the apartment to get dry clothes on.
On a spiritual note, it was rather neat as we were able to give a blessing to one of the member's neighbors. They have been working with her for 6 years. The D's are wonderful, and their neighbor S happened to be having some medical problems. They saw the opportunity and invited her over for dinner. They also invited us over. We had a good conversation and the spirit was very strong during the blessing. She was very open and receptive to it. It was a wonderful thing. I really do love to give people blessings. I'm a little nervous of saying the wrong thing but I suppose I just need to trust in the Spirit.
I don't mean to alarm anyone but I did get scrapped up this week (it was actually miraculously much less worse that I thought). We were biking along and someone put their trash can out right in the middle of the sidewalk. I didn't maneuver correctly or did not have adequate space to do so because my handlebar clipped the trash can resulting in my bike taking a sudden hard right and the rest of me continuing on. I actually fell into Elder B's back tire and got my shirt pretty good (see first picture). I stopped my fall with my hand and got pretty dirty and scratched (see second picture) but that was all that really happened. I had a few chuckles after I had hit the ground because it must have looked rather comical. We rode to a nearby Walgreen's and I washed up. We then both got cool Pensacola t-shirts since they were on sale (see third picture).
Well, that's all I have time for today! Hope y'all are well and safe and stuff. Remember that I love you all!
-Elder Matthew Carlson
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.
Hello y'all!
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!
--
Elder Matthew Carlson
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!
--
Elder Matthew Carlson
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