11/30/2015

The transfer is good. I will definitely miss the people down in sarasota and especially the ysa, and they'll miss me too, it was a hard goodbye. I got a lot of email addresses haha, but now i'm in Carrollwood (Tampa) and oh boy am I excited. The area is at least 2 times as busy as Sarasota and the people up here are much more receptive. My new companion is named Elder Dungan, he reminds me a lot of kyle, funny kid, we have our concerns we need to work out but considering we've been together for 5 days we are doing fantastic.

Elder Dungan, Detroit Michigan, 6 Months out

We taught a man named Walter, he went to mormon.org and requested us to come by. He ministers to others. We thought he was going to bash us but he was super sincere and excited to have the truth. He committed to baptism on the 19th and is bringing his congregation to our next meeting! It could be like Alma, baptising a whole congregation. I can't even imagine helping that many people come closer to christ that quickly, but it'd be awesome haha

Thanksgiving was different we were going to do a traditional one with members but they did it later than we planned, so we ended up going to our chinese investigators house and had chinese bbq. It was good and weird, the lamb was good, the chicken feet, not so much haha.

We bike a ton in this area 30-50 miles daily so I might be purchasing more supplies for my bike soon if that's ok, I'll need a new chain soon, maybe some grips and a new spare tube. I take great care of sideswipe, but he has been and will be well used. 

I love you, i hope you got the new address and such, pretty exciting stuff happening here, i love my mission, even in the hard times

-Elder Ellsworth