4th of July Fun

FSU on the 4th

The Seminole Warrior

Statues at the entrances to the stadium

Seminole Family

The coach

 No worries about political correctness here.  They are allowed to keep the Seminole as their mascot because they have a working relationship with the Seminole Tribe.  It is all laid out for us on a plaque along side this statue of the Seminole Family.

Good Sportmanship

Can you hear the roar?

Anyone excited about THIS  season?

Close up of the south entrance

The stadium is the largest brick building in the world

Every building on the campus is made of this same red brick.  It is a beautiful campus. Sports are definitely king.  Tennis, Baseball, Swimming, Circus Training, every variety of sport was evident.  Anyone have a ticket they will share with Henry?

Circus Tent used for training

Baseball Stadium

Integration Statue
First African-American Homecoming Queen
First African-American Undergraduate Student
First African-American to wear an FSU athletic uniform

Wrestling on the 5th

We got a new bishop this month.  He was a professional wrestler.  I say was because he had to give it up to be the bishop.  He had one final match.  We got special permission from the Mission President to attend.

Our Hero "The Public Defender"
aka Bishop Sims
Bottom Right

 With the sister missionaries out side the tavern where the match was held

Some opponents were easy to love

Some were easy to hate

Action

And Reaction

Missionaries at the Match

 "The Public Defender"
The one with a shirt on.

Public Defender in action

Reaction to flying body slam off top rope

More dangers.

Added entertainment on the walls.

Every wonder if professional wrestling was fake?  It is.  Entertaining to watch the wrestlers strut around and act tough.  More enteratining to watch the crowd get into it; especially enjoyed the "plants" in the audience who helped us all get into the action.  Most entertaining to watch the bishop's family.  His girls were totally bored while his son was enjoying every moment.

Knowing there is more purpose to life than an entertaining moment, we were all happy to return to the "real world" of Missionary Work;  Proclaiming the Gospel and inviting others to come unto Christ.  What we are, who we become and what we do to serve the Lord and help others determines where we will be in the next life.  Our bishop, who gave up wrestling with tears in his eyes, obviously knows this is true and so do we.