2 weeks down...

There's a lot of walking in service. You walk the whole territory. Imagine walking to a Riverhills territory, and then doing the whole (or most of) the territory. (Or for Bradenton people, imagine driving to Myakka, then walking from house to house instead of driving to each gate-it's a similar amount of walking). The street we are walking down in the picture didn't have many houses, but we had to walk all the way down in it. We actually ended up in another territory and then Jesus picked us up in the car. As we were walking down that street though, we could look to our left and see this:

These are my shoes (I had to buy leather ones that could take the walking on rocky roads). The first pic is when i bought them on Tuesday. The second pic is today after only a few days wear from service. You can see why we would need slightly more durable shoes than our little Florida flats.

Friday we went to a pool. Of course, the one day we go to the pool, it was overcast in the afternoon. But it was fun anyway. And again, right next to where we were swimming, you can look one way and see the mountains. Ages 15-20 are represented in this picture (Angela, 18, Jessica, 20, Steph, 19, Daniela, 15, Lady, 17, Kelly, 25, Laura, 16). All the people in this picture are pioneering (the 15 yr old is auxilary and the rest are regular).

Kelly is funny- shes older than all of us, but also shorter, so she stands on her tiptoes in pictures.

Jessica