Here is Josh new address:

Elder Joshua Simonson
2020 East Edgewood Dr. #40
Lakeland, FL 33803

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.

Josh got to perform his first Baptism on July 28 2013.



Josh also got to sing the national anthem for Mormon night at the Tampa Bay Rays game.   He was super excited about that.

Here is an update from a couple weeks ago.

Monday- Pday and we went and had a lesson with the Lawrence family. We just answered questions that they had.

Tuesday- we meet our new mission president. His name is President Cusick. He is great.

Wednesday- had and zone meeting with the whole zone and it was great. then we went and saw some more gators to set up appointment with them.

Thursday- we planned out for the next week and we went and saw the Lawrence family again and answered more questions that they had.

Friday- we went had saw some potential gators and set up an appointment with them.

Saturday- had transfer calls and of course i stayed and my new comp is elder Flinders.

Sunday- had a great fast and testimony meeting. Then we went and tried to see the people that werent at church.

This week was great.

Monday- Pday as normal and then we went and had dinner with the bishop here. that was really great. we had outback steak house. YUM!!!!!!!

Tuesday- Transfers. i spent most of the day with the zone leaders until my new comp came here. Then we went and did a awesome peace and blessing with a less active member.

Wednesday- my comp is the D.L. and so he had to go to a meeting that all D.L. have to go to and so we just stayed here and went and tried  to see some people but they weren't home. then we went and gave another awesome peace and blessing. That was great.

Thursday- we had district meeting and that was great. Then we went had got 2 new gators!!!!!! their names are Becky and sandy. Then we went and saw some L.A. but they weren't home.

Friday-we went and saw Becky and had a great lesson with her. We are planning to set a date with her this week. She is so ready. Then had dinner with the Heiser family. they are great and we are teaching one of their grand kids. Eddie. Set for baptism on july 28

Saturday- we just went around and saw people on the ward roster that we didnt know so that is all we did that day.

Sunday- we had a great day at church and we had Becky there and she loved it. Then we took her to a baptism that the gulf port sisters were having and she loved that to. Then we went and did blitz the the largo spanish elders. We were tracking in their area and trying to get them new gators but instead we found 2 more new gators for us and we have 4 new gators to start teaching this week super excited. 

Today- Pday. and we are having dinner with a FBI Agent. Agent Draper. The Draper family. Super excited with that. Then we are teaching the Lawrence family tonight and are reading the Book of Mormon with them.

New Address

Josh got transferred to a new area.  His new address is:
7501 Ulmerton Rd. #2122
Largo, FL 33771

This past week was good. Last Monday, didn't do to much for p-day. We started to teach the girl from Germany  Her name is Tabitha. We had a great lesson with her. She felt the spirit for sure that lesson. Tuesday, we had a great day. We went and saw some referrals but most of them weren't home. Wednesday, we had a great D.M. the object lesson didn't turn out as good as me and my comp thought it would but then we made it work. Then we had a meeting with our ward mission leader and the ward missionaries. They are getting trained on teaching the lessons for PMG. That went well. Thursday, we went and saw one of our gators. We went and saw Ariel. She is doing great and still wants to get married and then get baptized. Then we went and saw a son of a active member who is in the hospital. He is doing great and he likes having us coming over and seeing him. Friday, went and tried to see some more referrals but they weren't home. We saw a L.A. Bro Wagner. He is doing great. He loves to have us over and we always have a great time there. Saturday, we helped a member move. That took longer than we thought but we got it done. Then we went and saw some more L.A. but cant remember who we did see. Yesterday, we had a great sacrament meeting. Had a farewell talk. His name is Taz Smith. He will be going to the Denver, Colorado North Mission. He leaves for Utah May 10 and reports the the MTC on May 15. So he gave a great talk. Then we went and said hi to Ariel and Cory. They are doing great and they are saying they are going to come to church this coming Sunday which is great. Then we had a lesson with Tabitha. That was a great lesson. Today, at 10:30 we will be helping a member replace lower ball joints. More like I will since my comp doesn't know anything about that so its more like I am helping him. At least i still get to use my knowledge of working on cars so that is always fun.