Dear Family and Friends,

We're finally all moved into our new apartment! It's apartment #149, just so you know in case you were going to send a letter. It was a ton of work, but so worth it. We now how two bathrooms and bigger kitchen space to work in, not to mention we actually have a study now. We were very fortunate to have the help of our ward mission leader and his younger brother to help us move all the furniture. I think we chose one of the coldest days of the year in Florida to move though, haha, typical. Plus that night we accidentally left the window open because the new apartment smells like cat, so it got really cold. I woke up feeling like they had changed my mission call to Antarctica! 

Tuesday we taught one of our newest members who had just moved here from New York! He's awesome! He totally made our day; already he has been a help to us. We also taught our date set about the family, we're still trying to get them married, overall though the day was really great.

Wednesday was also one of the coldest days of my mission so far. We did car checks outside at 9 in the morning and it was so cold we could see our breath, yes! in Florida! We passed our car check with flying colors. I think it helps that our car is brand new and still looks perfect. (We drive a 2013 Chevy Cruise.) After car checks, we had our Zone meeting. I think it was the best Zone meeting I've ever been to! We talked about using the Book of Mormon in lessons and being the most enthusiastic missionary you know. I took several notes and am feeling that greeny fire all over again! I also gave a member a haircut on Wednesday too! So much fun! It gave us the chance to talk with her about missionary work and to calm her fears.

Thursday we just taught all day, we were pooped when we got home. The miracle of the day was that we were able to teach Meyra for the first time. She is that girl who I talked about earlier who may or may not be a member. We taught her about the Book of Mormon and she said she felt something she hasn't felt in a long time. We could feel it too, the spirit was so strong! Later that night we saw Cindy and Cornelio and we taught them. They are so good to us. I could never leave this area because of them, I love them so much they just have the cutest family! Cindy is really close to baptism, once again, they just need to get married!

Friday was a very long day as well. We taught a lot of lessons. We also contacted this guy who is completely crazy! When we called him to confirm he said, "I saw you in your house, it was nice! Are you going to get the vegetables?" He's really cooky! We couldn't teach him at all because he wouldn't let us, he had his clothes on inside out and his bird tied to his shoulder by a string. He kept telling us how he casts out devils of all his neighbors. I was seriously scared! We will probably not be contacting him again. Nope.

Saturday was our spiritual day. We taught Carmen who is gradually progressing. Every lesson we have with her just gets better and better! We had a member come to her lesson this week and I think that really helped. Even though her sister is a member, it helps to have someone else testifying too. We also taught Mario and Elsa, I'll have to tell you more about them later, they are amazing.

I'm out of time, but just know that things are going really well! We're actually exceeding all our goals now days! The only thing we're lacking is baptisms, well there's not much we can do about that, people have their agency. But hopefully we'll be seeing some marriages and baptisms soon.

Love you All!

Sincerely,

Hermana Mathis