Making Good Use of ALL Opportunities:)

Hello friends.. It has been a while. I just haven't gotten the chance to share with you something new. Now is my time to update you though:-)

Here we are out in service with our friends from Apalachicola. (**Hint Hint** Apalachicola is a little historic town that we meet some friends in when we were checking out the congregation.) We stopped for lunch in Shell Point under the gazebo. We met a nice lady there but she only spoke french- so we couldn't really comunicate with her. Thank goodness... Kendall (service buddy) got out her Good News for all Nations book and let her read the message in french! She smiled and said what we think  was thank you.. Any ways just a little experience I thought you guys might enjoy:)

Planting Seeds of Truth

Hello Everybody. I wanted to update you on a couple of our calls. Some of them have even progressed into bible studies, which have been so AWESOME! Remember the call that the young brother offered the bible study to? He gave that study to us since he was going to be starting school. Since then we have been able to conduct three studies with the family. They have four kids, I got to read some of the bible story lessons with them, and the oldest one loved it! They have enjoyed their personal study out of the Bible Teach book so much. We have had a study with them almost every week. This past week the oldest kid had to go to the hospital because his jaw swelled up. We went and visited him and the first thing he said was "I watched the video you gave me!" We had given him a video for him and his brothers and sisters to watch about obedience. His mom said that they loved the video. We brought his mom some lunch and a few magazines. She said "Great, I am so glad you brought me some things to read!" They were very thankful for us coming by. The little boy got sent home yesterday. We are hoping we can get to visit with them more this week.

On another great note, Riley got a bible study (Yay!) George handed her a call on a woman that he had been calling on for a while. The next time Riley went up and offered her a study from the Bible Teach book. She agreed. Since then they have had multiple great studies. She asked great questions like: "Where are the dead?" " Do you guys celebrate Christmas?". They studied with her 2 times a week!!! Then she said "Do you think we could not study as often? Like maybe once a week?" So now they have gotten to study once a week with her. She said that she was already in chapter seven in the book! She even uses Jehovah's name! They invited her to meeting although she didn't get to come to the meeting that week.. She said that she would try to come to the Kingdom Hall next week! Isn't that awesome? She is doing great and we look forward to more studies with her.

So there are a couple of our new experiences. We will keep you updated on how the studies continue to progress!

Exploring the Springs

 This weekend we had tons of fun! We had some guests come down and visit us from Kentucky & we got to take them to the Spring in our county. We had a blast. First we started our journey with a boat ride, where we spotted lots of wild birds, alligators, turtles, and even manatees!

Manatees are most closely related to a elephant. They are such an interesting animal. Can you spot the manatee? :-)

This was such a cute little family of turtles. Your going to have to look really close at all these pictures!

Don't forget the 'gators! See him in the picture above?


After having a fun experience on the boat ride. We hit the water. It is super cold. It average around 66-71 degrees year round.. Brrrrr. Right? Didn't scare us off!

We had such a blast with our company. We can't wait to do it again!

What a Blessing!

Our convention was this weekend. We enjoyed it so much! It was such an encouragement to all & can't wait for everyone to hear the convention talks. We took a couple of pictures, so you could see a peek at what went on:-)

Riley read her talk to us at the hotel room! We enjoyed some pizza while listening to it:-)

This is interesting.. We were surprised Friday, while heading to the convention to see this banner. The city of  Gainesville hung this right before you turned into the convention center parking lot. Pretty cool..

Friday.. The first day of the "Safegaurd Your Heart Convention!" Yay!

We got the priviledge to help one of the congregations help with there cleaning assignment & we got to meet lots of new faces. The convention was such a gift from Jehovah. We enjoyed every single part of it and look forward to our next convention. 

Fiddling Crabs & Fishin'

We enjoyed an amazing journey this weekend. We went fishing, but, not with a boat. We walked out in the ocean about a mile when the tide had gone down. (Which was around 7:30) It was supposed to have been the best day to catch fish!

The crabs scurried around when we started walking, they were everywhere!

 Our friend that lives on the island told us that at certain times of the year, the road would look like it was moving because the fiddler crabs would be crossing the road. Why did the crabs cross the road?

Interestingly, they call them fiddler crabs because they look like they are playing the fiddle.

So Cute!!!

Turn your head- the pictures aren't flipping 

Where we were it wasn't really sand but kind of like mud. You have to shuffle your feet through the water so not to get stung by a sting ray. You'd think they'd be teasing. Not at all. Stingrays float right by you. That's why you shuffle your feet. If you step on a stingray they will come back and sting you! While shuffling your feet, if you bump in to one it will swim away. Another challenge is that you sink as you shuffle in to the mud. We were glad the water was only up to our knees at the most. One of the fishermen down here has gotten stung twice by a sting ray. 

Us shuffling our feet.

The professional fisher caught us some spotted sea trout, as for us we got bites but never got the fish to shore. We got some delicious fish the next dinner... 

We didn't get in to the house till 10:00pm. It was such a pretty site to see the sunset while in the water. 

Beautiful!!