Dear Mom
Well another
week down, and only 26 to go haha!! It has been a pretty good week here! I
guess it has been a bit of a slower week in terms of teaching investigators. We
have still been teaching a lot of members and less actives. It was a great
Sunday Yesterday. I always enjoy just going to church and feeling of the
spirit. Next week is our Ward Conference, so I am looking forward to that! I am
doing great, and really enjoy my work. this is a great area, and we do have
great investigators, even though we only have like 4 good investigators. We
really need to find more people to teach. But we should have a couple baptisms
next month!
It sounds like it was a spiritually
uplifting weekend with all the great talks given at stake conference! Dad did
send his talk, so I will have to read through that! by the way he described it,
it sounds like a great talk and topic!
I'm glad
you liked the pictures of Sandton, and Joburg! I also sent some of us at the
temple. We took pictures in joburg by the Vodocom or point tower apartments when we were there
teaching. Just like you said - gangs moved into the building and it is very unsafe. It is know as the crime center where it use to be the high end neighborhood of Hillbrow. We were standing at a place called prayer hill. People go up there
and pray outloud and even baptize each other and just crazy stuff!! But yeah it
is a very scary area! We are not allowed to teach there, and that is why the
missionaries were taken out of that area. Hilbrow is a really scary area that
is just very ghetto!
Well it
sounds like the region swimming went great!! That is cool to hear that the boys
and the girls won region. That hasn't happened since Blake was a senior. I hope
that the swimmers were pleased with there times and things. That is good to
hear Calvin improved his times! It sounds like he has a hard decision on his
hands though with the events that he will swim. I hope that he can make a
decision and be happy with it. That is a bit sad that other swimmers were
dropping a lot of time and moving him up in placement. I hope that he isn't
discouraged about that.
We are
still working hard, and striving for the goals that we have set.
Willamina is doing great. She lives in a
little room thing at the side of the house she works at. Her daughter Ester
lives with her. We are teaching both of them, and they both have come to church
the last 2 Sundays. She also has a son, but not sure where he is.
Jackie
is probably our best investigator. So i will tell you the story with Nathan. He
started going to church with a friend when he was 5. He went faithfully until
he was ten. He wanted to be baptized when he was 10. He was taught with his mom
(Jackie), and Nathan was baptized. She has had problems with the Word of wisdom
for a while, so that is why she wasn't baptized with him. She has been a great
support of him though. He has had a great family that still takes him to church
every week, the Pieenar family. That Pieenar boy is the one that just left on
his mission to the Salt Lake West mission. But we now have Jackie on date to be
baptized on March 15th. We are really working with her smoking, and she has
improved a lot!
It
sounds like everyone is great. I am glad to hear that Blake is popping in. I
hope that he is doing good with school! That is fun to hear about Katrina, and
hope that she can keep doing well with her school.
I am glad that Ashley is doing well. I
hope that she had fun dressing up in all her costumes! She always has such fun
costumes! I will have to check out the pictures!
I am doing great with Elder Peterson.
Like you said it is great to be open and talk and help one another. I think
Elder Peterson and I have really done that. We have been really open about our
feelings and what we want, and it has really helped us to work good together. He is the 3 in his family. He has an
older brother, and older sister, and then a younger brother. he went to school
for a semester at Utah state and studied biology. He wants to maybe do like lab
science of some sort. He just turned 20, and he is now just over a year on his
mission. He is a great guy!
Well
with obedience that is something I have really wanted to get better at the last
6 months. I know obedience brings great peace and safety. this month is the Month of Miracles. President Dunn has
challenged us all to be exactly obedient this month, and we will see miracles
happen in our mission. It is a great way for me to kick of my last 6 months! I
really want to be obedient to the Lord commandments. I have found that the Lord
really gives us commandments to bless us, and help us reach our full potential
of happiness. I hope to keep seeing this in my life.
I hope
that you have a great week. I love you!
Your son
Elder
Brown
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