From Sunny Florida

We got settled into our new apartment and got a warm welcome at the Coral Springs ward yesterday. It is amazing how many people we met from Utah or who had attended BYU. We met the Stake Patriarch, Brother Grant and his wife, who has been serving for 15 years. We got to attend a baptism after church which was a special occasion. The Elders have another baptism scheduled for next week. We will be getting an assignment soon to visit and fellowship a number of families in the ward. Our plans to start up Daily Dose got a set-back this week when we could not find the printed material which we had brought with us from SLC and delivered to the Mission Office shortly after we arrived. It is no where to be found. We thought that it might have gotten delivered to a missionary apartment by mistake since the Zone Leaders deliver copies of the Book of Mormon and other supplies from time to time. The Assistants to the President sent out a text message to all of the missionaries asking them to search their apartments for the two missing boxes, but so far no positive response. A new missionary couple arrived this week from Centerville, Utah, Elder and Sister Holdstock. They are really nice and will be working in the Mission Office on finances, baptism records, referrals, etc. Last night, another couple, Elder and Sister Bean visited us in our new apartment. They were married about two years ago and together have about 22 children. One of the recent converts of two weeks form their Ward went to the temple to do Baptisms for the Dead on Saturday. She also bore her testimony to the Ward in English and Creole about her experience of being baptized and going to the temple. They are doing a wonderful job in the Coconut Creek ward. They been there for over 14 months and have observed that a number of people are coming back into the church who have been gone for a long time and they think it could be partly due to the humbling effects of the hard economic times. We have met a lot of people who have really been devastated by the economy. The weather is back to normal after a two or three day cold snap. Tomorrow we will be attending a Zone Conference in Boca Raton. Being with the missionaries is such a special thing. Mighty prayer has really made a difference in our mission. In January, thirty-one people joined the church (14 in one week which is a mission record). We appreciate your prayers for our mission, the missionaries and their investigators.