February 29, 2016- Davie YSA branch, Leap Year Day- 2nd Sony Digital Audio Recording transcribed by Genia Spencer

YSA and Fort Lauderdale Missionaries Hey Family!!! Today is Sunday February 28th. Well it's been a while since I've recorded but nothing significantly crazy happened this week but it was a good week! So yeah Sunday, today, was an awesome day.  We were going to church and our branch. We have like a really good day when 20 people come to church that's like a good day! It's really weird, a lot different but everyone is super close so it's nice but there was a branch conference so All the people from the stake came and gave a bunch of crazy good talks! It was really awesome! Our new convert Chris was with us and he loved it! He wears a suit every day to church every time! It is awesome Elder Marsden gave him the suit and it fits perfect.  Yeah, Sundays man are super fun in the YSA branch! Lotta drama too it's kind of funny and ridiculous in that we have to help people out with their dramatic problems. You know those young single adults and college! Yeah it's a stressful life! Yeah Today was a good day, after church we uhh did a good late night knocking session. I do not get it when people here think 8:30pm is late! They act like 8:30 is like midnight! Sorry but their whole family is awake and not doing anything. But it was a good night when I said this prayer for this really sweet old lady that just barely got an iPad. We helped her figure it out and get a passcode and stuff. Which I really needed to say that prayer cause people are throwing stuff at us and I got into a scuffle with our district leader. Oh man the leadership in the mission can be ridiculous, but I can put up with it! I'm kind of known as a rebel in the mission. The way they pick district leaders and zone leaders can be a joke. I don't have a lot of respect for them sometimes. So yeah I got into a scuffle but luckily I took debate at Sky View so I took him down pretty good. So I was kinda in a bad mood but saying the prayer with the sweet old lady helped and it was awesome and it blessed her life! Another thing that happened was we knocked into this guy and he was a member and going to medical school in Miami and that's pretty weird and he was pretty feminine but he went to BYU so that kind of explained that It was funny because we didn't know he was already a member when we first contacted him and introduced ourselves. You don't get that a lot because there is not that many members around here but it was kinda cool He seemed like a smart guy going to medical school living the good life. Living in a super cheap apartment prob like Mom and dad when he was going to Med school. Wife was working full time kinda like my mom and dad. I sent a pretty funny birthday card to mom. Met a guy from Brazil who is a new investigator and loves racing cars and he was going to come to church but he rescued a dog but it got in a fight with his other dog and he had to help it and find a new home for the one he rescued. He's super chill. Mission life is going good tho! Give some tips and pointers on how to write better emails and dad send me some more misson stories. Ok family see u later! Bye, Love, Mark