Week 1 in Brooksville

 Sandhill crane!!! They're close to 4ft tall!

The last week in Sarasota was good. Transfers happened Wednesday so we

said goodbye to Patrick Xibos, the Jacques, Jamali and several others

before then. I've been up in Brooksville since then. My companions

name is Elder Carter. He is awesome! He was also trained in South

Tampa, he only has a couple transfers left and he's been serving in

this area as long as I was in Brooksville so no idea how long we will

get to serve together. The Zone is almost half the size of Sarasota.

It's crazy! There are some great missionaries here and the work is

going crazy up here! There's a couple families we are working with in

Brooksville. One is the Browns, they're a family of four. We will be

seeing them tonight. One of the others we met with yesterday, we spoke

with the father. He's awesome! During our lesson we read from the Book

of Mormon. He was explaining during it that he's set on being baptized

and really wants to make sure his family understands too. His wife was

ill so I haven't had a chance to meet her quite yet. There's several

others who are progressing. It's crazy! I went on exchange here

earlier on the mission and got to meet an investigator some

missionaries were working with. Since then he was baptized and we got

to stop by earlier this past week. It was awesome to see him again!

There are a lot of priest age young men here. We got one of them out

to a lesson this past week. We are excited to work with the priests.

There's a lot wanting to be involved with the work.

This week we had Zone Conference on Monday. Elder Claudio R.M. Costa

and his wife came. They are awesome!!! He shared a lot of stories that

have given me a greater desire to go out and work! There's so many out

there just waiting for the gospel! After Zone Conference we had a

brief leadership training meeting. The spirit was just as strong if

not stronger as Elder and sister Costa testified and shared their love

with us. It was such a huge blessing to have them here. I hope we can

apply the things we heard and as a result see more enter the waters of

baptism.

 The address here in Brooksville is 14295 Herring Hollow, Spring Hill,

FL 34609.

Next weeks schedule will be back to normal with preparation day on

Monday. I hope you have a great week!! Love you!!!