Turning 65 in Florida

This has been an eventful week for us. Elder Black turned 65 years old today. On Friday, we went to the Sawgrass Mall and he was able to find three new ties, Sister Black baked a cake and later on this evening we are going to a members home in the Oakland Park area for Family Home Evening. Elder Dawson and Elder Hansen, two Spanish speaking Elders, will be going with us. They recently taught and baptized their son and the mother, father and son are all students in the Daily Dose English classes. We are taking them a picture of Christ that we got and mounted from the Reflections of Christ program a few weeks ago. We now have about 20 students and 4 more from Brazil will be coming tomorrow evening. We had some wonderful experiences being with the missionaries this week. When we visited the Sister Missionaries in the Hollywood Zone, there were three Spanish speaking sisters and two American Sign Language (ASL) sisters. We got to see one of the ASL missionaries, Sister Moore, offer Mighty Prayer in sign language. It was a remarkably spiritual experience and the sincerity and outpouring of the Spirit was very strong and brought tears to our eyes. It was an experience we will never forget. We have some special missionaries who are very spiritually mature. We have the Coral Spring Elders over on Thursday for lunch and enjoyed visiting and laughing with them.

We were not sure what the fate of our Chapel Pass-Along Cards would be because of the tight budget in the mission. The missionaries love them and a few wards asked if they could use them. Today, in Presidency Meeting, we got the go ahead to expand it by providing all the wards and branches in the mission with the computer files so they can print out their own cards for use in their missionary and reactivation efforts. Elder Black taught the Gospel Principles class Sunday and there was a new investigator, Dean, who was quite interested and very well read on the Bible who contributed to the discussion. We are happy and doing well and appreciate all the love and support we receive from you. We acknowledge the Lord's hand and His tender mercies to us. Have a wonderful week.