Michael's New Address

Hey all- If you are looking for Michael's new address here it is.

Elder King

3712 Castle Pines Lane

Apartment #4137

Orlando, FL 32839

Pictures

Michael being the "chauffeur" for McKay & Haley

Michael's last Sr. State

After opening his mission call

After my graduation

Christmas with his washcloth from Maddie
I was going through some pictures today and came across some of Michael. I love this boy!

8/11 Email

Today is my first official Pday, last week was a Zone Pday
where we watched any disney movie we wanted, ate food,
played soccer, just had fun. Right now since we dont have
a car we take the bus to church. Church starts at 10 but
we have to leave at around 7 in the morning to get there,
and then we dont get home until about 4, its kinda crazy
and very inconvenient. I have experienced the Florida
rain many times this week, well actually just twice,
Friday and Saturday. On Friday we were walking the 3.5
miles home from our baptismal date home and it started
pouring. It was ridiculous! I was soaked! the same thing
happened on Saturday! The roads were all flooded, it
was crazy! Everytime we go visit our baptism family
we end up walking about 10 miles round trip, so we are
walking about 15 miles a day and when we have bikes
its about 20 miles to 25 miles a day. It is really taking a
toll on my body, the MTC was a killer, and now its like I
have been out of the water for a month and go to a swim
meet, however, i am down to 176- a grand total of losing
23 pounds in just under 2 weeks. I dont know how good
that is at all, but oh well. Hey well everyone I love you
all very much! Be good, Keep me updated on all of your
lives! I love you
Love, Elder King

8/4 email

Hello- greetings from the hot and humid place of Florida,
where the haitians run around  everywhere and it smells
like smoke, rain and dirt all mixed in.

weekly report:

Monday:  I arrived in Florida and met Pres. and Sis.
Darrington,and then we went and ate dinner at their
house, it was amazing,i love yams now. 
but anyways, they have a pond in their back
yard and they have two pet alligators :)
My companions name is Elder Palsson- his family
just moved to Utah from California, they are up on
Matterhorn Drive, right across the street from the church. 
he is really neat.
I found out that the other elders in our apartment
wrecked the carand as a result we arent really able
to go shopping all that much.  but oh well

Tuesday: my first day in the field- very long! 
it was ridiculously sticky. but we found a man and
his daughter named Marcilien and Natasha,
they are really neat, we taught them and now we
have two new investigators.  we then tracted some
more and rode our bikes up by the freeway (4 miles)
to teach another family, and they all committed to
be baptized on the first lesson!  it was amazing.

Wednesday:  Two days into the field and i already have
a Zone conference.  it was really good!

Thursday:  we went and taught with a member, he
made fun of my kreyol, as did the investigators we taught,
it was very frustrating

Friday:  The pedal on my bike stripped as we were
riding to an appointment.... so think of our
situation, no car, no bike,no transportation...
we were down graded to walking everywhere.

Saturday:  Elder Evertson (Senior Missionary) 
picked up mybike and took it the shop to get it fixed,
i should get it back either tonight or tomorrow. 
we walked a round trip 14 miles to teach
the baptismal family, it was crazy

Sunday:  we took the bus to church!  haha, our
building is in another zone because they want
to keep all the haitians together,its an english ward
with haitians.  i got made fun of again by the kreyoler's

Monday:  PDAY!!!  i still dont know what i am going
to do for food haha, good thing we teach tonight
so we will just stop by a walgreens and get something.

my weekly weigh in : Monday July 28 weight
       (day i left MTC) 196.2
                   Monday August 4 weigh in  183
13 pounds in 6 days, cripes!  i am constantly sweating!


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