Josh has been transferred again.  We do not have his new address yet.  If you wish to send him mail or packages please send it to the following address until we get his new one.

Elder Josh Simonson
13153 N Dale Mabry Highway Ste: 109
Tampa FL 33618-2410

Josh's new address

Josh new address is:

1424 Plantation circle #1506 Plant City, FL 33566

Here is the latest update from Josh.

I am doing great. This last couple weeks have been fun. Here is my last week.

Monday- P-day of course but there is like NOTHING to do here in plant city. We tried to go bowling but it isn't open on Monday. :( So we just stayed at our apartment as a district and played Monopoly. It was fun but it got boring really quick. 

Tuesday- we went and tried to see some people but they weren't home :(  We went to the Borders family and had dinner with them. It was good we had Parmesan chicken. It was good. Then right after we ate we worked out. Man it was a good workout. I was just happy that the food i just ate didn't come back up if you know what i mean. Then we watched a general conference talk about peace in the home. It was a great talk and we had a great time.

Wednesday- this day was AWESOME!!! We had Zone Conference. Guess who we had come and speak to us?...... We had Elder Teh from the 70. Man was that great. I learned a lot and we of course got to shake his hand and it was awesome. Then we went with a member who name is Bro Lynn Livezey, and we went to a church of God and we are trying to become friends with their church with ours if that makes any sense. But so we went there and lets just say it was ok. There was some true things spoken but the rest was out of this world. 

Thursday- we did weekly planning of course as we do every Thursday in this mission. Then we just biked around a lot trying to see some people but again most of them weren't home which always sucks. So this day we just did a lot of biking as I said before and it took most of our time that day.

Friday- we went on exchanges and I went to the other area. This ward has 1 set of English and 1 set Espanol. So i went to Spanish land and had a great time. I could understand some of what was being said and i guess i will let you all on a little secret. I have been learning Spanish for the last couple of weeks and I am thinking about telling my mission president that if he needs someone to go Spanish that i will go. Crazy right. I already know what you are going to say..."wait what, that doesn't sound like Josh at all." but hey i have had a change of heart. So i was given some books that they give in the MTC to learn Spanish and i can almost say a prayer in Spanish but not yet. 

Saturday- We went to Bro Livezey's farm and helped one of his friends sand bro livezey's parents car. Of course we had to do some tearing it about. I of course helped with that part. Me and Bro livezey took apart a Buick. It was nice that all the Bolts were a 10mm so that made it easy. Then when we got that all done we started to sand down the car and it took about 3 hours or so but we got it done and it was a great time. i miss working on cars. Bro. livezey told me that me and him really connect and i told him if he needs help with his car to let me know and i will go and help. He is an engineer and so he knows a lot about cars and we have a blast together.

Sunday- it was fast Sunday since next Sunday is conference. It was a great testimony meeting. The ward is great here and they are a great ward. Then we went and had dinner with bro livezey and we had a great time. then we went and saw another family that aren't members but yet he believes that you don't have to be baptized with the proper authority to be in the celestial kingdom. So we have some work to do and we could use some prayers to know what we have to do to help him. 

Today- P-day and we are planning to do nothing again because there is like nothing to do here.