Week 7 in Sarasota

 Morning work out at the Beach with the Beneva Elders.

The Ringling

art museum

The weather has been heating up recently. It's already going into the

90's. Luckily the humidity isn't as bad as it will be. The mosquitoes

are all back though. Its crazy how much wildlife is here in Florida.

Sadly I still don't have a picture of an Alligator. We were going to

go to Jungle Gardens but saw how expensive it was and it was about to

close. Instead we went to the Ringling Art Museum. It's free on

Mondays so perfect for Missionaries. We were with the Beneva Elders

and the University Park Elders. It was interesting but still fun! We

got to meet several nice people there.

This week was crazy! Time is just flying by! We had a Zone Service

Activity for the local Habitat for Humanity. We layed sod at a home

they were going to be giving to a family. It was great! Immediately

following that we had our last Zone Training. The missionary

department felt there wasn't a need for Zone Training so now we will

just be sticking to Zone Conference and District Meetings. So now

that's one less thing we will need to worry about preparing. It was a

great Zone Training though! The missionaries are awesome!!! I was

going to send a picture of the Zone Service but don't have he

pictures...I'll definitely send them next week!!

We have been finding a lot recently. A lot of our progressing

investigators have stopped keeping their commitments. It's been a

blessing though because with the added time to find we've come in

contact with some amazing people. One such instance we were tracting

and came to an intersection. We felt a prompting to go left and found

a really, really kind woman and a family who is amazing!!! You can't

ever take credit for being at the right place at the right time

because every single time I can point out how the spirit influenced us

to go a certain way to help a brother or sister in need. It's been a

huge testimony builder. The people here in Sarasota are so amazing.

We've been getting more involved with the members and hope to start

working more closely with them to help them with their own missionary

efforts. We have stake conference this week and have a General

Authority coming. Not sure who it is quite yet. We're hoping as we can

get as many people possible to attend.

I've been loving serving. Thank you so much for that package!! Lots of

goodies, very good! Elder Menlove says "thank you!!!". He's such an

amazing missionary. He's just like Elder Barclay. Now that it's coming

toward the end of his mission he's working even harder then he did

before. He's been such a great help and I've learned so much from him.

I'm glad things are going so well!!! I hope y'all have a great week!!!

Love you!!

Elder Hale