Can I say this has been one of the hardest weeks of my life? Would that be accurate? Yes. But that's okay. I am serving in the Orlando south mission! Lake crescent ward. Pretty wealthy area. It's very pretty, although people aren't all too humble. That's hard. We are the only missionaries in the ward. And we are whitewashing the area. So that's a challenge. There hasn't been sisters there in a while. And it's been closed for a couple of weeks to elders too. Where to begin. The first day just felt like a dream. It wasn't real. Hahaha we just ate dinner at the mission home. And got to know each other. Then the next day I went off to meet my trainer. She is amazing. Seriously. God blessed me, he knew I needed it. Sister Bromley

The lord must really have some sort of trust in us to be in this area. Because there is a lot of opportunity, but it needs a lot of work. We have a car full time too. That's wonderful. Sister Bromleys bike broke, so we weren't able to ride the first couple of days. There's some members in our ward who are so kind and fixed her bike. My bike is perfect!! Thank you so much. I still feel like an absolute idiot in my helmet. Hahahaha but ya know, it must be. This week has been pretty challenging, I'm not going to lie. We have faced a lot of rejection. Seriously we had one day where just no one wanted to talk to us. They don't yell, some can just be super condescending. We are basically starting from scratch in this area. So we are trying to get the members more involved. But first the have to trust us. It's a big ward. Tons of kids. Never been in a more loud sacerment meeting in my life haha. But the ward missionaries are wonderful and they are really excited to get everything going again. We went to trunk or treat the other day and meet a lot of the members but it's going to take time. I need to get much better at remembering names. I need to get much better at a lot of things. I have a lot to work on, I pray nearly every second for strength. And I've been taking everything a minute at a time. We have one new investigator. We met him on the street and he was talking about how he is waiting for God to bring back a prophet and we were like oh boy do we got news for you. He is coming to church with us this week. We were suppose to meet with him last week, he canceled. One thing I've learned, being a missionary means to be persistent. So we are trying to find another time earlier. The weather has been great, it's not too hot thank goodness. I do miss my fall. We moved into an old elders apartment, so it needed a lot of cleansing, lots of expired food. And it's smells. Still smells. Other than that it's a nice apartment. Yesterday I believe we had a miracle. All our plans fell through. So we're trying to find this one old investigator and the address was wrong. So we looked at our maps and happened to be right next to a less active. When we knocked on the door, a lady came and seemed really angry to see us, said "we could have not come at a worse possible time." Her kids were trying to finish science projects and she was stressed out of her mind. But we calmly asked if we could help. Fully expecting her to scream at us. And It felt as if I saw the spirit literally soften her heart. She just goes "really?" And let's us in. I helped her son with his project. And then when we were leaning she just sits down and completely opens up to us about why she's not active. She just feels lost. I could feel my heart filling with love to her. I get too attached to people. I told her to promise to call us if she needs anything. And she told us to come back. So we will be checking up on her often. This is a great work. But yes, hard. In more ways that I thought it might be. It breaks my heart thinking that so many rejected our savior as he taught and reached out in our similar way. I get to stand shoulder to shoulder with him. And yet still. He experienced more pain than I could imagine. I don't know who I am going to make that difference for. I have a lot of I want to learn. I'm willing to learn it. The lord just might have to be patience with me. He already is. I love you all so much. I miss and think about you daily (unfortunately) Be missionaries on your own. I never realized how possible it is to be that daily, in our own lives, as it is here. God bless