Dear Family and Friends,

We set a date with Ray this week! He's going to be baptized the 28th of June. We asked him to pray about this date and promised him an answer. On Saturday night he told us he had good news for us, then on Sunday he told us he had received his answer and that he knew that this was the right thing to do. He's been reading the Book of Mormon and is doing really well.

We love contacting in the park in between visits!

We received some good referrals this past week. We're working on contacting them all. We really want to continue with this trend of working tight-knit with members to get referrals. 

We had an amazing family home evening this past week with a family in our Branch. We taught about Jesus Christ's atonement and watched Because of Him and sang Families Can be Together Forever with them. I have a testimony of forever families and I know that having good family home evenings makes a big difference. We discussed with them several of their friends who were potential investigators, we were able to help them think of a family and two friends who they could invite to our upcoming activities and to FHE.

Me and Cindy picking out wedding dresses.

We were also very fortunate to hear from President Cusick and Elder Thompson yesterday for a ward/branch council training meeting. They taught about how ward leaders can help in missionary work. We talked about having good activities and asking members to invite their friends. We're planning an activity in the branch soon on the 18th. It should be really good. When leaders work with the missionaries that's when the action happens. We are super grateful to have good leaders here in Florida. I've been studying priesthood a lot lately, what a good topic! I love the priesthood, we're very fortunate to have it. 

We went on our last exchange as STL's on Tuesday (with the new transfer they decided to give other sisters the chance to serve, so they changed the STLs in both the north and south districts). It was a good exchange. I stayed in Largo with an English sister from Seminole. We had a lot of Spanish lessons planned for the day, so I had to teach most of the lessons. While were finding, she taught me how to start up really good conversations. I love exchanges, I always learn so much.

Our friend Venus is super talented and painted
this on her daughter's bedroom wall.

Hermana Holloway hit her one year mark this week so we celebrated by eating a teensy peanut butter mousse cake from Frita's, a very popular pastry house near by that the English sisters referred us to, it was delightful! Congratulations sister Holloway!

That's it for this week. I hope you all have a good week!

Con Amor,

Hermana Mathis

Homeless guys sandwich (story below)

Haha, this comes from our exchange. So one day we were walking on the street and we met this homeless guy and decided to share a video with him. He said he liked the video but then afterwards just asked us for money. We said we didn't have any cash on us, he asked us if we had any food, we didn't. So I, trying to be nice offer him a sandwich if he will have a lesson with us. Haha, sister Holloway wasn't very happy with me because the guy was kind of creepy. Then we decided to do an exchange so I wasn't even there the day of our lesson with him. Luckily they went to the park during our exchange and he wasn't there so they just ended up eating the sandwich.