Serving in Florida: Transferred to Sebring and Loving It!!!!

11-10-14

This last week has been really fun and exciting for me. The last few days that I spent in Port Charlotte were pretty busy with Elder Swallow and I teaching people and saying my goodbyes before I left. Thursday morning was the day of transfers and we had a member take us up there. Elder Swallow's new companion is Elder Morris. I don't know anything about him, except that he is about the same height as Elder Swallow. I'm sure that they will do great together. My new companion is Elder Dardon from PenValley, California. He has been out on his mission for 4 months and is twenty years old. I am his second companion and will be the senior companion. We are serving in Sebring, out on the East edge of our mission in the middle of nowhere, and I love it!!! It is a very unique and different place. A lot more rural than my last two areas. There is a rich area and a ghetto area and all sorts of areas in between. The ward seems to be very supportive of our investigators and those that we are working with and our ward mission leader does a great job. Our area is on car share and we were biking this last week. It seems like there will be some temporal problems of working in the area and finding out the best way to get around, but I am excited to see what we can do here. We live on the second floor of our apartment and it is pretty small, but we have an awesome view over a lake (Jackson Lake) right outside of our window. The only downside is that we don't get to go paragliding or boating like everyone else around us.
I had to wear a jacket for the first time ever in Florida yesterday. It was about 55 degrees and pouring rain while biking. I told myself that I would never wear a jacket while serving in Florida, but I had to give in yesterday.
My new address is: 1015 Lakeview Dr. #21, Sebring, FL 33870

Love,
Elder A. Whaley