Monday, March 9, 2009

Alligator Adventures



We have had a good week visiting missionaries, feeding the missionaries, making a few member visits and today we went on an air boat ride out into the Everglades and our unfortunately our camera battery was dead so we didn't take any pictures of the alligators (one big and two smaller) we saw out in the wild. We will try to get some on the other missionaries pictures. The attached are two pictures that were taken by Elder and Sister Holdstock of Sister Black on the air boat and Elder and Sister Black at the alligator show afterwards. Brother Torsok from the Hollywood ward is a convert to the church and for the past three years he have been paying 1/2 the cost for the missionaries to take an hour air boat ride and to see the alligator show. He was the person who arranged for us to speak at the Hollywood Ward the week after Christmas. There were 3 couple missionaries and about 24 Elders and Sisters who participated. It was a lot of fun. We saw a 12 to 15 foot alligator cruising around in some water lily type plants. It was very fat in the middle and they think it had just eaten something big. We also saw a large iguana sunning itself in a tree. At the alligator show the alligator wrestler put his head inside of the jaws of a medium size alligator. Because the missionaries are regular visitors, they let everyone hold the small alligator for free as pictures were taken.

We will be starting up the Daily Dose English soon. We will also be doing a project of preparing chapel pass along cards for investigators. It will have a picture of the chapel on the front and on the back the name and address of the Ward or Branch, a map and a meeting schedule. As we are traveling around the mission, we will take pictures of all the chapels and Elder Black will do the back of the card using AutoCad.

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