Update about Josh

Hello everyone. I am doing great and i had a good week this last week. I hope that yall are having a great Christmas season so far and are enjoying the weather where ever you are. Here is my last week.

Monday- We played some b-ball and recorded us singing some Christmas Hymns and of course some of you have seen it. But it was a blast doing that. Then we went and taught one of our new investigators TJ. He is a great guy and he is planning on playing for the Gators after he is done with high school.

Tuesday- we went and saw some L.A.s and tried to see some other people but they weren't home but we still had a great time going out and serving the Lord as always.

Wednesday- We had District meeting as always and it was good. I learned a lot from it. Then we went and had lunch at a place called Moes. It is like a Cafe Rio but it is nowhere close to as good as Cafe Rio is. Then we went and biked around all day and tried to see some people but they weren't home and some of the appointments that we had cancelled but we still had a good time.

Thursday- We planned out for our next week and then we tried to go and see some people but they weren't home and to be honest i cant remember anything else that happened this day.

Friday- Just went out and worked the whole day and tried to see the people that we had planned to go see.

Saturday- we just kind of took it easy because I wasn't feeling good at all and so we just took it easy. We still went out and worked the whole day just didn't do anything crazy.

Sunday- We went to Church of course and then we came home and cooked what I called Throwup, haha. Now it wasn't throw up just looked like throw up. It was eggs, ham, cheese, hash browns, and french toast. It was amazingly good and I would love to have it again but the rest of the elders in our place don't want to haha. I ended up have 2 full bowls of it while everyone else only had one haha. Then we went out and tried to see some people that we had planned to go and see but they weren't home or were just busy and couldn't meet.

Yesterday- We had our Mission Christmas Party at Fort Desoto Beach and it was a blast!! I will be sending some pics after this email to all of yall. We did a lot of fun stuff like played some football on the beach and some other fun stuff. It was amazing. I love the beach.

And just another thing just so yall know, we have a baptism on Jan 18!!! Her name is Tammy Klipple and they just moved down about a couple of weeks ago or so and the rest of her family are members. Her husband joined back in 09 and 2 of her kids were baptized back in Jan of this year. So when we invited her to be baptized on Jan 18 she was so excited because that is 1 day away from her 2 kids baptism so that is freaking awesome that that will be happening for her.

New update and photos

Hello Everyone!!!!

My week was great. There will be pics at the end of this email. Here is how my week was this last week.

Tuesday- We went and hit the mountain bike trails and IT WAS A BLAST!!!!!!!!!! I had so much fun and i lead the way since no one else wanted to and so i did. There were some crazy trails but i had a blast and we are thinking of doing it again next week. Now just biking around seems boring lol. But after we went and biked to see if some people were home but they weren't.

Wednesday- We had district meeting and it was good. I learned a lot of course and just had a great time. Then we got the car and we went to some of the appointments we had that day and when we got there they weren't home and so we just ended up just doing some L.A. work.

Thursday- We had Interviews. It was good and President Cusick told me that I am doing great and to keep up thee great work. I was so happy to hear that and he gave me some pointers to help me continue on the right path so that has helped so far. Then we had some more appointments cancel on us and ended up doing some more L.A. work and we are pretty much done with it so we are running out of things to do and pretty much all of our gators are not progressing at all since we can never meet up with them. 

Friday- We went and saw some appointments and we had some great lessons with them and the spirit was strong on some of them. But of course I felt the spirit with all of our lessons.  Then just finished the L.A. work that we had and that was pretty much it.

Saturday- We went and had a lesson with the Bell family. They are doing great and we taught them Lesson 2 and it was great. Then we went and had Lunch with a member at a pizza place and it was good but not as good as Little Caesars. Then went and tried to see some more people before we went to dinner. Our dinner was SO GOOD!!!! If you guys remember me talking about Bro Livezey from my last area, well he took me and my comp out to dinner and we went to TEXAS ROADHOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we went and tried so see a family that we had a appt with but they weren't home at the time the appointment was. 

Yesterday- We had church of course and we went and had some lessons with the active members and we taught them about Hastening the Work. After we showed them some videos we read a General Conference talk that is called " Hastening the Lords Game Plan." We both felt it went hand and hand with Hastening the work of salvation. Then we went and had dinner with a part member family and it was really good. Then we read from the Book of Mormon with them and read 3 Nephi 11. They seemed to like it and we got them to commit them to pray as a family. 

Today- P-day and we are just planning to play some b-ball and some other things. 

Now for the part you have all been waiting for.............................................................. are you sure your ready? ................................... PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photo of Elder Simonson

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.