Dear
Mom,
It has
been a pretty good week!! I guess the big thing coming up is transfers
tomorrow. I am so glad to hear your week has been nice. It sounds like some fun
things have been planned for this spring break weekend. I hope that you have
fun, and I am sure i will hear the report about it next week.
You asked about my running and my sore legs. My shins have
been doing great. Just like you said I have been stretching them really good
before and after running, even icing them to keep inflammation down. I have
also been taking Ibuprofen. We haven't ran as much this week, so really they haven't bothered me at all!
I will keep you updated on them if they get any worse!
Im sorry
boys not playing water polo and I am sorry if you are missing that this
spring. Thanks - You where good to
always transport the boys to all the tournaments. I think I have
told you but water polo is a big thing here among the white's! I had no idea
until I came to this area!
My
allergies are doing great! It is i guess autumn time here now. I have noticed
them every once and a while, but really no problems. I still have Claratin D if
I need it! I am sorry yours allergies have been so bad! It really sounds like it has turned into
spring there!! Putting the water into the cabin and the sprinklers, and all the
blossoms. I hope that it doesn't snow again and just kill everything! I guess
it is nice though for the Easter Weekend. People can get out and do fun things
outdoors!
The
plans for General conference are just like they have been before. We will watch
a recording the following week. Watching it live we would have to be up late at
night! But I am looking forward to conference! It is always nice to hear the
words of the Apostles and Prophet. I guess something we will be doing this week
with the work is an Easter Blitz. Mission wide we will be doing an Easter week
of finding. We will be using the video “Because He lives” and the pass along
cards that go with it. We will use the leverage of Easter to share more about
Christ, and how he lives! Should be fun – wonderful message to share.
I am
glad that you finally got my letter!! It was dated back in January, but know I
didn't send it until February. It got left in the car, and it was already
sealed, or I would have thrown in another letter. So it didn't take as long as
you thought. I have not gotten any of your letters yet!! I don't
know why not, but I am sure they will get here eventually. I am pretty sure the
mail strike is over from what I have heard! I am sure I will get your package
in a few weeks time before my birthday!!
I am
glad Sister Pienaar emailed you and sent some pictures. Her name is also
Jackie, and she is a really good friend to Jackie Chabour our investigator. She
has two boys on missions. One just left in January, and he is serving in Salt
Lake. She is an awesome lady, and she has been great support to Jackie or
investigator.
We have
been pretty busy this week. We are still teaching our normal investigators.
Wilahmina and Ester are doing great! They are progressing, and they are ready
for baptism. The only bad thing is they are leaving for two weeks for Easter.
They won't be back until the 12th of April. They were supposed to be baptized
on the 19th, but we won't have time to teach them everything. We have to teach
all five lessons before baptism, and we still have to finish parts of lesson
four and five! So they will be baptized the 26th instead! WE are just fishing
teaching the commandments, and the laws and ordinances.
Jackie
is doing great!! We have taught her everything, so now it is just the smoking.
We have started the church ARP(addiction recovery program) with her. She has
done it before, but more specifically for alcohol. I think this will be great
for her!! We want her to be clean from smoking for about a month before
baptism, so her baptism might be in May! She is pretty sad about Elder Peterson
leaving. But she will keep moving forward!
We still
have been doing service for Jackie at her tuck shop. I but on some pictures of
the tuck shop today! I hope you can look at those! Also other service this
week, we helped a member move into there house! He was moving from another
ward, so we went and helped unpack all the trucks and trailer. I guess we are
still looking for service opportunities.
WE are
teaching a few other people. I guess anther good one is Precilla and her son
Orabile. They are pretty good. We had a really good lesson about the
Restoration this week! We also introduced the Book of Mormon. I guess something
here when we teach the restoration people believe it, but they don't realize
that when they believe the restoration that it means there church isn't true.
So i guess sometimes we just have to be strait forward and tell them this is
the only true church, and you need to come if you believe in the Restoration.
So I guess we are now at that point with them.
One
thing hard is the Easter Holiday. A lot of our investigators are leaving!
Elder
Peterson will be leaving, and I will stay here in Randburg and get a new
companion. I don't know yet who my new companion will be, but I will know
tomorrow at our transfer meeting!! I am pretty excited for transfers. Elder
Peterson has been a great companion, and i have learned good things with him. I hope that I get a good companion I can
get a long with well. I will let you know about the new companion next week!
We have
done well this week. Peterson really has been a good companion to tolerate me,
and we really have bonded in a way. We went to dinner on Saturday night in
Sandton City, just as his Last Supper! We went to a place called Wangtie. It
was really good, and super fancy!! It is on Mandela square, and you look out on
the square from the restaurant!!
I guess there are a lot of cool
buildings I have seen. I have seen the doughnut shaped, or prigle shaped soccer
dome. It is called the FNB stadium. It is actually right by the huge township
of Soweto. It is in a pretty sketchy area!! I want to visit it sometime and get
pictures inside! I lot of missionaries go there to tour. They actually just had
a One Direction Concert there this past weekend!
I will
have to take a look on the dropbox for pictures. Thanks for the pictures, they
are always fun. I will look forward to the pictures next week of spring break.
I love you and hope you have a great week. I know what I am doing is right
and that the church is true. Grateful
for my testimony.
Love
Your Son
Elder
Brown
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