Elder Beard

  Transfers tomorrow! Hey Y'all, I hope everyone is doing pretty well with the new school year starting up. I know that y'all will have a good time no matter where you are at. This week was a little slower week. We were not able to meet with a lot of the people that are interested in the church this week. One of the greatest miracles that Elder Arima and I saw was that Giuseppe was able to come to the ward party with his family and they all had a good time. The ward members down here in North Port were able to fellowship him a lot so that was a great time. We were also able to meet with Billy and Ashley this week. They are getting ready to move so it was a bit hectic when we went over there. They are feeding us dinner tonight so that will be a good time. Giovannie also had us do some service for him. We went over to his house since he was having a lot of family over there. We helped him clean out his garage and pool area which took 5 hours. It was  a long time. He also had us ...

Transfers next week Hey Y'all   How are you all doing? I hope everything is going well for y'all wherever you are. Also, good luck at school.   This week was pretty good. I got to go on exchange with Elder Eisele this week. We went to the Port Charlotte area. It was a good time. We were able to come up with a couple more ideas for finding so those should be good. I also got to try a tropical smoothie cafe for the first time which was really good.   I also got to go on my first split away from my companion. I went with Brother Bragg to visit our friend Giuseppe. Brother Bragg was amazing. He served his mission in Italy which is where Giuseppe is from so they got along very well. We were able to read 3 Nephi 11 with them and Brother Bragg invited him to church. Sadly he didn't make it this week, but hopefully this next week we can get him to come to church.   We also got to teach Shernesa again. She had been up in Sarasota for the past week so that is why we were not a...

2 Months in Florida Hello everyone,   I hope that your last week of summer for some of you has been great. I also hope that those of you who have to go to school will enjoy it when you start that again.   This last week was a slower week here in the North Port Area. We had a lot of lessons fall through on us. It is tough when that happens. I know that the Lord knows everything though and that as we strive to follow Him with "an eye single to his glory", that he will bless our efforts for our good.   We were able to meet with our friend Guisseppe again. He is a great man and is very kind . He and his wife are both open to us teaching the Gospel and we have a lesson planned for tomorrow with them. I am excited to teach them and see how the Gospel can help bless their lives.   We also met with Jedediah again this week. He is still in a rough situation, but he has been able to have a much better outlook on life because he is studying the Book of Mormon and what he says i...

  Another week in North Port Hello Everyone.   I hope you are doing well. I hope you enjoy the rest of your summer as well.   Well, things are going pretty well here in the North Port area. This week we stopped by a man named Billy. We met him a couple weeks ago standing by his truck. He was very nice and said that if we saw his truck that we could stop by and teach him. He is a really nice man. We were able to teach him and Ashley the Restoration. It seemed to go very well and I look forward to meeting with him again this next week.   I also got to go on exchange with Elder Dickey this week. He is a really great missionary and he taught me a lot on this exchange. He is really good at listening which is something that I need to work on. We went and taught Rocky the Gospel of Jesus Christ which went pretty well.   Elder Dickey and I also stopped by Jedediah. He is going through a lot emotionally right now so we went and just listened to his situation. We were abl...