January 16, 2012

Wazzup?! This might be a shorter email because I emailed some other peeps before, so my time is short. We found a little go kart thing at an investigators house and asked if we could ride it. I snapped a pic of Elder Speechly and it’s a total classic! Always just having fun, staying happy, dancing a lot, and everybody we talk to just laughs at - sorry, with - us. It’s been sweet, and people are loving the church because of it. I can't lie, we have been tearing it up the past couple of months, and it’s mostly because people just immediately want to join the church after they come to church once or sit down with us once. We have had like a dozen baptisms up to this point, and have an epic one planned for Elder Speechly's last weekend. We taught a guy yesterday for the first time who had been invited to church by a member, and we set a baptismal date because he was already calling himself a member of the church... it’s a sweet way to do missionary work haha. Elder Speechly put it well after we got done playing with the go kart he said that (and I quote) "I soften their hearts, and Elder Brown pierces them". Haha... forget shake and bake or thunder and lightning, SOFTEN AND PIERCE WOHO!!!!! Haha.. it’s so tight. A ton of sweet stuff happened this week - powerful new investigators, progressing investigators who are making big strides, recent converts continuing to progress. Maybe one taste of each category: sweet new investigator - Albert. He met the missionaries in Greece like 2 years ago, even went to church once, and we ran into him at an investigator’s house. He was totally stoked to meet us, and after the first lesson, wouldn't ya know it, wants to be baptized. So we are working with him, will teach him tonight. Progressing investigator: Gabriel. He is a bus driver who is super busy but absolutely loves the church - we pass him almost every night on the road when he is coming home from work (like around 9 pm) and he always flashes his lights and pulls the bus over so we can talk for a few minutes. He came to church on Sunday, and we will teach him again tomorrow. Recent convert progressing : Voca, watched the Joseph Smith movie with her and I made fufu for her family after. It was sweet, and must say, I did pretty well driving the fufu!!!!!! So anyway, life is good, mission is awesome, and my time is done today. I love you guys!!! Sorry the email is so short, but don't worry, next week will be totally dedicated to a nice long email :) Love you guys!!!!! -Elder Brown