Beautiful Clouds in Florida

One of the impressive things about Florida are the beautiful clouds and sky. In the afternoon, huge thunderheads form and billow up high in the sky. Attached are two photos. We need to take more pictures of the clouds. We also went to an area today on our P-day where the cruise ships sail out of Ft. Lauderdale harbour and took a few pictures. The cruise ships are escorted out of the harbour by the Coast Guard in two rubber boats equipped with machine guns on the front. They sounded their sirens and the cruise ships sounded their horn and the people on the ship started to cheer. Also, a Coast Guard helicopter came and circled the cruise ship at one point. We believe it was heading for the Bahamas. It was quite impressive. Down by the water, we also saw a big bright green Iguana sunning himself.

We had a wonderful Zone Conference on Tuesday. As we mentioned, the mission is doing so well and the missionaries were treated to a steak fry after the Zone Conference meetings and then played volleyball afterward. We sat at a table with several Sister Missionaries. One of the Sisters said she wished she had her camera so she could photograph her steak to help her remember it. We baked the potatoes which were huge Idaho potatoes. We cooked two batches early that morning (starting at 4 am) and our oven heats up much more than it is set at. When we opened the oven door, all the smoke alarms in the apartment went off. I'm sure our neighbors got woken up. Surprising enough, the potatoes were excellent. We helped with the dinner and clean up and then Elder Black played a little volleyball. The rest of the week we were involved with Daily Dose and other projects and helped clean the church on Saturday. We will make two more visits to West Palm Beach this week and then will head for Miami the next three weeks. We had a good laugh this week. The Sister we have been helping out had worked one day for a man and when she asked for her pay, he refused to pay her. Her son heard about it through his wife and went down to visit the man. Her son is big, has a shaven head and is covered in tattoos. The next morning the man called her and said her check was ready and that her son was not welcome in their premises any more. We all laughed so hard.