Week 1 in Sarasota

 Picture after MLC (Elder Menlove is front row on the right. He should look familiar since he was an Assistant when he first got here. Amazing missionary!)

 Cold stone with Dennis and Sarah before transfers 

Friday Morning

But this area is awesome!!! Elder Menlove is amazing like I already knew he would be. We've been kept very busy. We serve in two areas as well as serving as Zone Leaders in a Zone that covers almost half the mission. Our area is the Sarasota Ward and also the Sarasota YSA Branch. Both are amazing! We have a baptism this Saturday in the Sarasota Ward. His name is Justin. He has a good friend that's been sending him scriptures and getting him active. He has a huge testimony, I'm glad I have a chance to work with him! I got to attend my first MLC on Friday all the district leaders were invited so it was really good! We have been very busy with Zone Leader responsibilities. It's been good though. Times just flying by even faster now. Despite everything though we still get a lot of proselyting time. We got to do service on a local farm (yes there's farms here?!?). It was good, they do a huge berry fest so they had a news station come by as we were doing service. We have had several amazing miracles already. People are just as prepared here as they were in Tampa. Our ward mission leader is Brother Browder. He's awesome! He lives right off the gulf and owns a part of the beach so next Monday we are going fishing with him. Bishop Dekle is also amazing! Super Missionary minded. He works out at the gym we go to so we started working out with him. He's training for a half marathon so he might be doing similar things that dad is doing. But yes many good experiences already. Lots of miracles. Also weird experiences too. And yes I have seen Alligators now. They're everywhere here! We might go some place where they give you some food to feed them. Bishop was telling us about it. Not sure yet though. Anyways I won't be emailing as often as I was just because we will actually be doing things on Mondays now. Also we have the Orioles stadium in our area so we might go on a preparation day. Good opportunity to meet some people and still have some fun on preparation day. Elder Menlove went with his last companion's to a Yankees game. It all came down to a Home Run. So yes lots of things are happening. Sorry it's so long. We have zone Training this week so we have been preparing for that. I'm pumped!! Anyways hope things are going well especially after we lost an hour of sleep! I love this work!! Hope things are going well! Love you!!

Elder Hale