Merritt Island, Florida

Mission President Darren and his wife Leticia Ashcraft 

Hey people it's been a while! I'm back in the game.

So I wasn't very good about announcing it to the world but I was reassigned and I am now in the Florida Orlando mission! At first I was reassigned to Vancouver Canada but it got switched to Orlando about a month ago because of travel restrictions. 

Missionary work has changed a bunch since I left the game. We sit at our apartment most of the day which gets pretty hard for me. The lack of real social interaction will take some getting used to. Pretty much all of the finding takes place online. But surpringly its effective! We have a man named Aimudo from Nigeria on date for baptism. I literally have nothing to do with it but it's cool to see the success happening.

We are in a trio which is really nice given the circumstances! I'm with Elder Checketts and Elder Fusselman (who's from Snowflake AZ). They're both great!

COOL/FUNNY STUFF:

-We were doing a come follow lesson with a less active older couple. They were some of the nicest people ever but asked some of the stupidest questions. They kept asking about the timeline of Book of Mormon history then the lady asked, "How long has the American continent been there?" Then her husband was like, "it had to have been something B.C." There was an awkward silence and I was like, "Well it's been there ever since God created it." Haha

-I've been messaging a lot of old investigators from Brazil. I talked with the old homies Ruy and Luan and they asked me questions such as "what was Joseph Smith's favorite color?" I love those guys. I'm gonna be calling them for portuguese language study, lessons, and to teach english.

-My area is called Merritt Island. It's an actual island but we don't have to go there by boat or anything because there's a couple of long bridges. The SpaceX launch that happened a few weeks ago was in our area and there's gonna be another launch next week! 

-I get to play a lot of basketball with other missionaries!

-And in terms of alligators, I haven't seen any alligators. :(

Wish I had more exciting stuff to report. Catch you guys on the flippity flip!

<3Elder MacLay