Week 6: Florida Doesn't Know How to Fall

Hello, people who I adore! I hope each of your past week has been one for the ages. And it's Halloween on Wednesday!! What?!

To explain the subject line, Florida indeed doesn't know how to fall. In fact, I'm convinced that half of these people don't know what seasons are. The leaves are still on their trees and green as ever, the grass is still thriving (it's not real grass.. I'm pretty sure it's a weed called crab grass, but since it's green, I guess Floridians are okay with it), and I haven't smelled Pumpkin Spice yet, except for the smelly thing I bought for our apartment because it reeks in there. Our dishwasher started leaking and our sink was full of brown water for a few days because our disposal broke. 😂 oh well.

We set another one of our friends, Dave, with a baptismal date! The only thing is that, even though we taught him from beginning to end, we don't get to take credit for it because he moved south a block and now he's in the Elder's area 🙃 darnit.

We got yelled at by just a few more people this week while knocking which was just fantastic. I wish they'd just let me help them! I know the Gospel can make them happy. Even just going to stores and driving on the roads here is a lot different than Utah. Utah is like a bubble, because most people are generally pretty happy with life (not to draw conclusions, but there are lots of members in Utah if you know what I mean). Here, it seems as if they are all just content being unhappy and spreading unhappiness. But there are always those people at doors who give us water or tell us they appreciate what we're doing, so that's coolio.

We had a zone activity in Boynton Beach and our household dressed up as Monster's Inc. characters! We thought we were cute, but it's the best us missionaries can do 😂

I hope you all have an amazing week, and a Happy Halloween!!

Love,
Sister Sydney Gibbons

2 Nephi 31:20
"Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life."