Long time, no talk

 Ok guys I know it's been fweaking while but I know y'all are dying for an update. So first off no my son in the mish is not a scrub, his name is Elder P and he's freaking hype. We have a joke he's my trainer because he literally is a beast and came pre-trained so that's hype.

We are still in Kissimmee East but I absolutely love this area. I've been here about 4 1/2 months and I've loved every bit of it. It's a complete blast with Elder P and we have a ton of fun. So much has happened but I haven't been writing weekly because I'm always so tired pday night so I'm sorry :( I'll try and be better.

Some of things we've done include going to Wild Florida and seeing a bunch of dope animals including a 14 ft gator which was low-key terrifying. Also no I have yet to wrestle one but I will. We also had a basketball tournament for a Elders Quorum activity called Elders versus Elderly which really meant 3 teams of 4 with 2 elders on each of the younger teams with some priests and teachers and a team of all older people. P and I of course swept the competition and took home the title! It was a lot of fun and it included a lot of awesome food. I've also had a lot of fun doing some exchanges getting to practice my Spanish and I got to go up to the Church Ranch here and have a sweet day of service. My district is so much fun and we honestly have a blast playing sports and games and just hanging out. I've had some of my really good friends here get to go to their original assignments which has been awesome but also sad because Ima miss them.

The teaching is going so well, we are really busy and we are working to help our friend R be baptized. He is so spiritual and we absolutely love every time we get to teach him. The love I have for these people here in Florida is amazing and I'm so happy I have the opportunity to serve God and learn so much while I do it.

This week I had a thought during personal study. I was thinking about President Nelson's challenge in conference that as we desire to grow our faith that we need to do things that require more faith. And something that really hit me is how that's how everything in the gospel works. If we want more hope we need to do things that require more hope, more diligence then do things that require more diligence. It's this reason that God gives us trials and tribulations because he knows what we need to work on and so he provides us with opportunities to do that more! I will give you guys a parable (I've been studying Christ's parables) about this subject. There once was a man who endeavored in boxing. He had never fought anyone but every morning he practiced. He of course improves in his abilities but until he actually fights his ability to improve is hampered. He does not know which abilities he lacks and which he's already good at. Not only that but knowledge unapplied is often lacking the wisdom that comes from experience. It is the same with our growth. We can learn about Christlike attributes and spiritual gifts but without ever applying them or seeking to use them in ways where we need to apply what we learn we may grow but it will be much slower and less noticeable.

I love this gospel, I've already been able to see how much I've changed in the past few months. Too often I look in the mirror and hardly recognize myself (that's a good thing). I love who I've become and I know it's truly been only because of my desire to turn it all over to the Lord. Here is a quote I love and I leave with y'all to ponder

"Trust in Him. Trust Him who knows all things. Trust Him who has all power. Trust Him whose love for you is perfect. Trust Him, who alone suffered, paid and atoned for your sins, and for your weaknesses as well. Trust Him that He will make of you, immeasurably more, than what you will ever, ever, in all eternity, make of yourself. He will create of you a masterpiece. You will create of you only a smudge. You will create an ordinary man. He will create a God."

I love you all, I pray every morning for y'all. Either by name specifically or in general I know God is watching over you.

-Elder Pettingill

Don't worry I got lots of pictures:

-district hangouts

-4th of July gear acquired from the one and only I

-gators😱

-more district hangout in our youth conference shirts

-did I say district hangout yet?

-^^ BBQ we had as a district

-more gators

-and my adorable friend Elder H because why not

Transfers and Training

No don't worry guys I wasn't transferred but Elder M was. Also sorry I don't have a lot of time but I'm training a new Elder which is awesome. But highlights from my week:

-we gave a blessing to someone in the hospital after being asked by his son

-we had an awesome lesson with some members that we love!

-we had a baptism!

-we were able to teach some awesome lessons and put another of our friends on date!

-we had stake conference

Love you guys!

-Elder Pettingill

-R and R's baptism

-the tech Sisters!

Best of times, worst of times

Hey friends! Ok this week was super awesome but we also weren't really able to teach anyone which kinda sucked but we were still super busy!

-we had crepes at bishop's storehouse

-taught some awesome members

-had a miracle looking for less actives

-interviews with President

-did exchanges with Elder M on Saturday

-I got to see Elder J! 

-visited wild Florida today

-I got us a punching bag

Sorry I don't have a ton of time:( If you have questions feel free to message me. 

Something I loved this week comes from "what seek ye" by Michael Wilcox (thanks mom!) In this book he talks about Christ's first words in John "what seek ye? " then his answer to the question is "come and see" In 6 words Christ has answered every desire and question we might have. If we want to know more about love, or faith, or what we should do in life, all we need to do is draw closer to our Savior. Anything at all can be found in our oldest brother. So ask yourself "what seek ye?" and whatever that answer is I promise you'll find it in our Savior. 

I love you guys and am praying for you all! 

-Elder Pettingill 

-Us at a service on Saturday! 

Easter, Conference, and Gators?

 Ok y'all I hope y'all are doing so well! It's been kinds crazy here this past week. I'll try and hit all the best points.

First off we have still been teaching our wonderful friend S. It can be hard because she just got a new job and has been struggling on making it to church. But she was going to be moving this last week but then she didn't have to! So she's still here and we don't have to pass her off!

Secondly we are teaching a ton but something our mission has put in place is 20 contacts everyday. And this has been helping us find even more people to teach. It's honestly so hard to remember everyone and everything we are doing. It's awesome though because this past week while doing cold calls we found someone who speaks French for Elder M! And then right afterwards we found someone who speaks português for me! It was such a cool miracle that we were able to do that since usually any other language we get is Spanish here which I take because I can speak it decently well now. So awesome to feel God's love tho.

Thirdly our mission President has finally put an official end to outside time during the day which means Elder M and I can't box during the day anymore. But don't fear we do it every Friday for Morning exercises.

Fourthly General Conference! I just wish I could express to you how awesome that was! Also not to mention the fact it was my first time in the mission! It was amazing and I took sooo many notes. There are too many amazing talks I just want to share them all. Something I love about General Conference is that it always feels like they plan their talks together but they don't! This Conference I felt there were 2 main themes. They either spoke about having more faith in Christ and that he is able to take away or understand our pain, or it was about having stronger love for others and being Christ's hand here on the Earth. A quote I love right from the beginning is from Elder Uchtdorf. "Because of Jesus Christ, our mistakes don't define us but can refine us." How awesome is that! I am so grateful that by turning to God he can take my flaws and mistakes and turn them into a beautiful work of art.

Fifthly for Easter a member had us and the other Elders for dinner and they made so much food for us! They also got us Easter snacks and party bags so that was super fun. We watched The Other Side of Heaven while we were there as well which is always fun although I may have found an anatomy and physiology textbook that I started reading for most of it.

Sixthly I got to see Sam Alkema! He was in town visiting Disney World and it was amazing that I happened to be in a close enough area that he could come visit. Definitely super dope and I appreciate the food he got us. Quesadilla burgers slap! 

Lastly I wrestled a gator today! OK not actually but I really wanted to and if the mother gator we found was a little nicer and little smaller I totally would've wrestled it. Instead we just antagonize an 8ft mother gator right by her babies. Not the smartest idea but it was a lot of fun. We went to the Church Ranch for pday today which was super fun. Such a blast and I've never seen so many Gators. We saw probably around 30 today! They were spread across the ranch and unfortunately for a large portion of the time we weren't in the position to try and wrestle a gator. Doesn't mean we didn't try when we could tho. 

I love you all and I hope you know how much Christ loves and knows you. You are the child of the Literal most powerful being in the Universe. Trust in him, trust that he knows what he's doing with you. When a master painter is creating art, you can't always understand what the end result will be. It can just look like blobs of color and random lines. But the master painter sees the end from the beginning. He knows exactly what he's doing even when it looks like the opposite. Well God is the best painter and we are his greatest creations, trust what he's doing with your life!

-Elder Pettingill

-my amazing district! 

-crazy ton of birds that are close to being endangered

-the amazing member that we had Easter with!

-Sam!! 

-us on the tourbus at the Ranch

Fight Night

Alrighty guys let's talk about what happened this week. Also hope you all are doing fantastic! So this week I have very unfortunate news. Our golden investigator wasn't able to meet with us at all! She was super sick all week :(

We also had several services this week which was fun. One of them, we helped this guy move who collects watches. We also had a blast at this other service on Saturday helping this family clear out a jungle (welcome to Florida) but we had a massive bonfire or at least what could've been an awesome bonfire but we cooked hotdogs so giant bonfire isn't what we were going for. Anyways, while we were there, the neighbor of the guy we were doing service for came over to eat with us and Elder M did a great job getting him talking about religion to which he ended up asking us a ton of awesome questions and we taught like almost all of all 3 of the lessons. It was crazy. Anyways super awesome times.

Another fun thing that happened this week was that Elder M and I got boxing gloves and have had some fun sparring times. Nothing too serious and we don't do face shots but it's been a lot of fun. Its helped us come a lot closer because it's a sport Elder M likes. So far I've won our matches but Elder M is getting better. 

We also have had a wonderful time becoming friends with the members. The members here are so dope and it's absolutely so fun eating and teaching them. 

This week we focused a lot on charity. It's something we all can do better with but as far as a definition I would say charity is acting how Christ would act if He was here. He is all about loving others and putting others before Himself and so that's something we need to strive to do. And I know that when I forget myself and just think about others, the time here just flies and that is when you mourn with those who mourn and it's the best. Try to see others as God sees them and it's hard to hate anyone when you realize that's your brother or sister, someone who God has an infinite love for. 

We also had a great time today going to Disney Springs. It was a blast! I was able to have a fun time with the Elders and we got to go through that experience. Everything is crazy expensive tho so I didnt really buy anything except a shirt that everyone here has so I had to cop one too obviously.

I love yall! I love Florida, I love my mission and I love the Lord. 

-Elder Pettingill 

-Us at Disney Springs plus the Sisters that we saw while we were there!

-the guy's watch collection (there are 3 more pictures like this) 

Miracles vs Aliens

Ight y'all this week was sick. Honestly though most of the dope part of the week was like Friday-Sunday so I'll mainly be talking about that. 

Anyways story time: Friday comes along and we haven't been able to get in contact with our golden friend at all. She said last week that she was prob gonna have to go to the hospital so we were super worried about her. Anyways we have this bombin mission devotional about following the spirit. And we get the feeling we gotta go visit S. Anyways we have this dinner planned for 7:30 and we were gonna go visit S at 5 but then the dinner changed to 5 and I don't know why but we were like it's fine we will do the dinner and visit S afterwards. Normally that's a terrible idea especially after getting a prompting but anyways we go to the dinner and it goes way long so we don't get out until 7. And at this point we are like, ight let's go see if she's home. We get there and she has just gotten home from the hospital like 5 minutes before and she had just found out her dad died and when she was in tears we show up outta nowhere and she was absolutely amazed. We were amazed. It was dope. Anyways we give her a Book of Mormon and invite her to church and she was like yes I'll absolutely be there at church. So we were hyped and she was hyped and everyone was hyped. So Sunday shows up and we had gotten her a ride to church and she shows up and she loves it. After we were able to set up a lesson for later that day and we were able to teach her an awesome lesson about the Plan of Salvation. Absolutely amazing and we invited her to be baptized and she was so hyped about it. So she was hyped and we were hyped and everyone was hyped. So we told her how often we would need to meet with her so she could get baptized and she wrote down on her calendar when we would come and all this dope stuff so we are a little bit a lot a bit excited for her!

Anyways before that on Saturday we were able to do a fun service for some people in our ward fixing up the house they will be moving into. It's a dope house but a lot of work to be done. So I had fun sanding the ceiling so that the finishers can come in and do everything else (feat the pic of me below)

Lastly Saturday night we did a Bible study with this guy. Heck of a time with him because he was able to explain to us about how Satan via his demons (basically aliens) have warped us and created all these kind of hybrid humans and that's where all the stories about Vampires and Werewolves and giants and all that stuff comes from. He also explained to us how the Vatican church is actually led by Satan and they do a lot of work to cover all this stuff up. And that the reason we think we've seen aliens is because it's actually Satan's devils who do all that. Honestly I'm down with but we decided against meeting with him again because turns out he thought the first vision was dope but he wasnt interested in it or the Book of Mormon. So bummer there but quite the experience. 

Something I absolutely loved from our mission devotional was the quote "ordinary people doing ordinary things can lead to extraordinary miracles" and I absolutely love that! A lot of the times all we need to be doing is trying our best and the Lord will guide us. A lot of the times we just do what's logical or what seems logical at the time and the Lord will do the rest. He will place us in the position to do His work if that's what we desire. We can be the ministering angels to our brethren if that's our desire. I absolutely know that is true. We don't have to be perfect but if we are trying Christ will make up the rest. Coincidences don't happen simply because. Coincidences happen because we have a Father in Heaven who is watching over everything we are doing. He loves us so much. I hope you guys are able to see how much He loves you. If you don't know, look for His hand in your life because I promise He is there. 

-Elder Pettingill 

-The blue light glasses my sister picked out for me!

- I got a little covered in sawdust

- a dinosaur pancake I made along with buttermilk syrup I also made (that's right ladies I can cook now and make adorable shaped pancakes so win win)

Transfers

I know it's been crazy and I'm being transferred again! It's been crazy recently all this moving around that's happening. Oh wait psych I don't get transferred, we all know this. So I'm still here in Kissimmee East with Elder M but we did have a bunch of people in our district get moved either because they're going home or just were transferred so we are getting 3 new elders and 2 new sisters. Very sad to see my friends leave but we have a greenie coming in our ward share that we've planned on messing with and we will also have a greenie in our district so hopefully next week I'll have some stories for y'all. 

As for this week not much happened. Ok that's a lie a lot happened. Lots of crazy fun stuff but I don't have a ton of time this week so I'll be fast.

Tuesday we did an exchange. I went to St. Cloud with Elder G, met this guy here. Super awesome member but he's inactive. He loves the church but has some problems with some other members. I was able to help him and he loved having me there. It was awesome to see that God knows and has a wonderful path for us.

We stole like all the investigators from the Canoe Creek sisters because of the ward boundaries all their people are in our area now. So that's awesome. We felt bad but they just both got transferred out so it's all good! RIP the incoming sisters

We have been just absolutely loving this ward. Everyday we are so blessed to be a part of it. God really knows what He's doing and He always has a plan. 

Love yall! 

Elder Pettingill

-Our district

-playing volleyball

-I taught sister E how to cartwheel 

Kissme in the East

 Alright what's up ya'll! I know you're all dying to find out what happened to our area and yes we were transferred! Our area is now Kissimmee (ki-sim-me) East which is awesome because it's crazy in Kissimmee. Elder M was a little overwhelmed with the transition but it's all good because this area seems super awesome. There is already so much for us to do so we are excited to get to work or at least I'm excited to get to work. 

We are still ward sharing with some Elders who are super awesome and we already love them plus they like sharing so we set up what areas we would cover and we would send over any member or friend in their area and vice versa. So when they got a referral for this lady in our area they were kind enough to let us teach her. Well she ended up being super dope so I kinda feel bad. But she wants to get baptized and loves us already. Huge answer to our prayers because in every prayer this past week we have been adding in to find someone to baptize by the end of March because as a mission our goal is to have each companionship get 1 baptism every quarter. So we are super excited because she is very set on getting baptized and we think we can definitely get her taught everything she needs to know so that she can be baptized. Like this lady is super awesome. RIP to the Kissimmee West Elders but we are very grateful.

We also did exchanges with the Zone Leaders! It was so fun because I got to go practice my Spanish with Elder Turley, my Zone Leader from Conway who I was really tight with. So fun to get to spend the day with him even if it wasn't as successful as we had hoped. I did get the opportunity to bear my testimony in Spanish and I can confidently say I understand 90% of all things said in Spanish as we had dinner with some Spanish members. Also fun story is that we were supposed to show up for dinner at this one family's house but the meal calendar showed an address for that family's mom because they had moved out back in September! So after talking with her and she was definitely the hardest I've heard to understand Spanish but I still caught almost everything (that's the main reason I'm confident with 90%). Anyways it was a blast and to end the day off right we went to Twistee Treat which is like a little ice cream shop that is super good.

Those were pretty much the only exciting things that happened this week. We weren't able to work with I a ton because we were often busy in the mornings and she isn't available after about 4:00 everyday so we definitely want to focus more on her this week. 

Something I loved from my readings of the Book of Mormon this week is from the end of the war chapters. In Helaman 3:27 it says, "Thus we may see that the Lord is merciful unto all who will, in the sincerity of their hearts, call upon his holy name." I love this so much because throughout the wars that the Nephites had with the Lamanites whenever the Nephites were prideful the Lamanites would gain some advantage but immediately as they turned humble again God would lift them out of their suffering and allow them to prosper again. I love that he is willing to let us make mistakes so that we will turn back to him again. But immediately when we turn to him he will lift us up. I saw something that was awesome on Facebook and it said "God doesn't love you in your mistakes but rather he loves you despite your mistakes." Just because we mess up doesn't mean it's over. Sure we will have consequences but as soon as we turn to God he will enable us to be healed through his son. I know that Christ lives and loves us so much more than we can even imagine. All he wants is for us to return to Him. He mourns when He watches us suffer especially when we suffer without His help. He went through the Atonement alone so we wouldn't have to go through anything alone. We will never understand, truly, His suffering but He understands, truly, ours. Turn to Christ everyday. He is pleading for you and I'm pleading for you.

I love y'all so much! 

-Elder Pettingill

-good ol' jack brack love that guy

-Elder Turley and I at twistee treat!

-us with our delicious icey cream

I got transferred?

Ok guys hope yall are good. Not a ton happened this week so I'll go over the good parts. 

So first off we had singing time with I. It was awesome. She loves music and Elder M is super good at playing the piano so we had the sisters that ward share with us come over and Elder M played the piano while we sang and it was awesome. Felt the spirit super hard which was wonderful.

Secondly a member brought us out to an all-you-can-eat buffet with the Sisters which was a ton of fun. And super good food there and they had just about everything. 

Other big thing that happened is that we haven't been able to have Ward Correlation which is where whoever is in charge of missionary work for the area meets with the missionaries and helps them help the members to do missionary work and helps them with what they need. But our Ward Mission Leader (the guy in charge) is moving so we haven't had it all since I've been here. But this last week another member hosted it who is in charge at least until a new ward mission leader is called. But since covid usually we do it over zoom but he doesn't like that so he had us over for dinner and correlation. But we already had a dinner for yesterday but he gave us super good ribs and sausage and rabbit! So of course we ate a ton because it was all so good. Now I had already had a ton of breakfast and lunch so that already had filled me but my companion had been fasting. I would say I ate about as much as him or more at the dinner so I ate a lot. Then we went to our other dinner. And my companion wasn't able to eat a lot so I felt super bad so I made sure to eat a TON which didn't help. But then they had dessert! And since I was trying to make them feel good, oh btw the dinner was also sooo good but I was stuffed but my companion totally wimped out. So I ate a ton of dessert when my companion had a little cuz he was full so I left being about to burst. But it was awesome because it was all super delicious. 

Ok last thing is that because of the ward split we will probably (I say probably because we find out tomorrow but it's highly likely) be taking over the Kissimmee area instead of Canoe Creek because we are now apart of that ward. But it's pretty legit because no Elders from our zone have been in that area because it used to not be part of our zone so it'll be like opening up a new area. So I was like half transferred because I wasn't moved at all and kept the same companion but we will be over a new ward and new area. We are really bummed because we were finally getting to know the area and members and they were all dope but I'm super excited (Elder M is less excited) for this new adventure.

I love you all and I hope you realize how much God loves you. He knows everything about you and knows everything that will happen to you. I promise that whatever He sends your way will turn out so much better than you can possibly imagine. This is the Lord's church and He has given us so much opportunity even though we mess up a LOT. It doesn't matter to Him because in reality this life is so short but if we turn to Him, He will wrap us in His love and show us what we never could have imagined ourselves. It's when we turn away from Him because of the things in our lives that our vision grows dim. It's like we are in a dark room and if we turn towards the light and move towards it it'll get brighter. But if we turn away from it and move farther we can hardly question why we can't see anything! Turn to Jesus Christ, He went through the atonement for YOU. If you were the only person He could've saved by making his sacrifice I promise you, I promise you He still would've gone through it. All the pain, all the misery, all the suffering, the cross, the humiliation. All of it. For you. I love y'all so much! Just remember that the worth of souls are great in the eyes of God and if we bring even one soul unto Him how great shall be our joy. Even if that soul is only us.

Have a wonderful week!

Elder Pettingill

-The Buffet with our dope members unfortunately the kids didnt want to be apart of the pic

-The Canoe Creek missionaries for the last time

-I'm not cutting my hair until someone says something about it so it's long enough to go in man bun rn:)

It's me Elder Beatty

 Ok guys how's it's going? Hope y'all had a great week because I did! Big things that happened this week:

First thing is related to our landlady. So in my last email I mentioned this lady who's letting us live in like this side house in her mansion who knows Elder Andersen. So my mom asked some questions and figured out some really cool things. These being that I (our landlady) was roommates with Sister Andersen's mother so they were best friends and wanted their children to get married. So later Sister Andersen's brother married Iris' daughter. So that's a lot of where she tied there, but the Andersen family loves her and has called her Aunt I growing up and while Elder Andersen was the Mission President in France, Iris sent all the missionaries stockings so my mom actually got a couple while she was there! And now after getting reassigned and some craziness between somehow I'm living with her which is so awesome! It's in the little things that we really see how much God has planned for us. So anyway the Andersen's didn't know we were living with her so they're super excited and they told I's daughter to call Elder Beatty and talk to him and tell him to "seal the deal" and in case y'all are confused I'm Elder Beatty apparently but when an apostle of the Lord says so, it is so. So now we are working to get this amazing lady baptized.

Second thing is we dropped Elder W off at the airport so he's back in Brazil! Super excited for him and it's a little weird to not be in a trio anymore. 

Third thing is that we had our ward get split this week so now we are really confused since Elder M and I are both new to the area and don't really know the members at all. 

Fourth thing is that we had zone conference this week which was so fun. I got to catch up with almost everyone which was super dope and I'm pretty much known as the camera guy now for the zone so my 2 years of digital art is really coming in handy.

Last thing is that we had a blasting fun pday together because everyone listened to me and instead of playing sports in the morning we did it in the afternoon and played games afterwards which mean pday went way smoother this week which was awesome. 

I love this gospel! Something that has helped me tremendously is the idea of sometimes just slowing down and breathing and focusing on the Savior and the spirit. I have felt so much love doing this and has really kept me going. If y'all are feeling overwhelmed or alone or sad or anything I promise doing this and just focusing on our savior will help. He loves us so much but sometimes we get too busy to let him in. 

Love y'all!

-Elder Beatty

-I! Shes so wonderful

-I sort of built the Coliseum from dominos

-district service

It's been a while

Alright guys what's up! I know it's been a while since I've written one of these (I wonder why ;) idk I guess iykyk) Anyway, we had transfers a bit ago so I'm in a new area called Canoe Creek and I'm in a trio because one of my companions Elder W is going back to Brazil on Thursday! Definitely stoked for him to get back although I'm not envious because Florida is amazing! I like to call it the rich Brazil because you get the same weather, a lot of the same types of people but you get all the luxuries of being inside the US like ac and cars. But my other companion is Elder M who is also a reassigned missionary and he's supposed to be going to Tahiti so hopefully he'll be able to before he ends his mission. Anyways I love these guys! I'm stoked to be in this area! I love the members here even if we have to share them with a couple sister missionaries who are actually pretty legit themselves since they make us cookies, so who can complain right? I saw something this week that I felt really defined me and it was cookie monster and he said "I'm always eating cookies because if I'm not then I'm just monster" and I felt that on a deep level.

So this week was spent getting to know the area and the members and unfortunately not a whole lot of teaching because we don't have a very big teaching pool but we are working on it and I can already tell God is blessing us with ideas. So give it a few weeks and we will have this area rolling in friends of the church. We also went on splits with our district leader so Elder M and I headed over there to hang with Elder G (who's dope but not the district leader) 

Oh another big fact is that instead of living in an apartment we live with this lady who has a literal mansion and she has this side little house thing that we live in. She is dope and she isn't even a member! Although she is 93 and has several children who are members and one of them married Elder Andersen's daughter! Like the Elder Andersen! So I guess he's teaching her about the gospel whenever he can. 

Also Elder M is super talented musically so he's been teaching me the guitar which I've wanted to learn for forever so I'm working on that. So hopefully I'll be able to play some by the end of the transfer. We also have a hackensack (not sure if that's actually how you spell it cuz it doesn't seem right but it's the little rice beanbag that you kick around) so I've been working to get super good with that. 

Today we are gonna go play basketball and do some bowling which is hype. Elder W and I wanted to go to a trampoline park but Elder M didn't want to so instead we are bowling:( 

Well I love you guys and I know this church is true. There are too many coincidences that I've seen and heard for it to be anything else. I know God is looking out for his children and will do everything he can to bless them. He's watching over you and as Veggie Tales puts it "God is bigger than the boogie man, he's bigger than Godzilla or the monsters on tv! And he's watching over you and me!" Hope you're all doing great and I'm praying for you all.

-Elder Pettingill

-the mansion (it was hard to get the whole thing in one picture)

-dope sunset we had