Howdy!
I'm doing pretty good. We don't get a lot of the same food each week. The only thing that I have been served that I don't like is chicken. If there is anything that I don't like, I eat it anyways. We are having clam chowder tonight. I'm so excited. I'm still doing terrible on my journal writing but better on waking up. M favorite person this week would have to be MaKayla. MaKayla is a funny little girls in the ward. On Sunday the Primary sang "I Am A Child of God" and she was smiling and waving pretty much the whole time. It was really funny.
We got two new investigators last week. Teresa and Gaby Lara. Teresa is Gaby's mother. The tough thing with them is that they both work on Sunday. Be we will get over that.
I love and miss you all a lot.
Love,
Elder Brown
Monday, May 19, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
After Mothers Day
Happy Mothers Day again.
It was so fun to see you and talk to you.
The work here is slow, like I told you. But hopefully it will start to pick up.
I looked at the forecast for this week on my missionary portal. Thursday will be a high of 92* and Friday will have a high of 97*. It's definitely warming up. I'm just really glad that I won't have the humidity. I forgot about swim team. One of my Zone Leaders swam 2 years on his HS swim team. I did have some stuff that I forgot to tell you guys but I forgot them again. If I remember I will write them down and tell you next week.
I love and miss you a lot.
Love,
Elder Brown
It was so fun to see you and talk to you.
The work here is slow, like I told you. But hopefully it will start to pick up.
I looked at the forecast for this week on my missionary portal. Thursday will be a high of 92* and Friday will have a high of 97*. It's definitely warming up. I'm just really glad that I won't have the humidity. I forgot about swim team. One of my Zone Leaders swam 2 years on his HS swim team. I did have some stuff that I forgot to tell you guys but I forgot them again. If I remember I will write them down and tell you next week.
I love and miss you a lot.
Love,
Elder Brown
Monday, May 5, 2014
Happy Monday!
Hey there!
I forgot to tell you guys! Brother Brad Wilcox came to our mission and spoke to us!!!! I got to shake his hand and have a picture with him. It was soooooo cool.
We are usually out of our apartment earlier to get to the computers by 8:00 so ccan be the first ones at the computers. Then we go back and do our studies. but today we decided to do our studies first. The waking up is still a challenge but going to bed is pretty good.
Because my new comp, Elder T. speaks Tongan, I am learning a few Tongan words. I've leaned hello, what's up/how's it going, and good.. It's pretty fun.
Making and talking phone calls are pretty mucha breeze now. (*mom's note--using the phone before was nearly paralyzing for Elder Brown. Missions are a wonderful thing!)
So, you ask how my mission has changed me...One thing that I have learned from my mission is that you HAVE to trust in the Lord. You can't do things by yourself. It is in a lot of missionaries. At the beginning of their mission they think that they know everything and that they can do it on their own. I have also learned about pride and how you have to give all your pride to God and submit to His will and not your own. Everything that you do is because of who/ It's because of God. your Father in Heaven. The Supreme being of the universe. You would be a fool not to give Him and the One who atoned for your sins all the credit and glory. My mission has changed me a lot and will continue to do so. There is a talk by Tad R. Callister about being a consecrated missionary. In the talk he tells a story of when he was a mission president. The story goes something along the lines of this..Eler allister was talking to a missionary who was struggling with some obedience problems. At the end of their talk the mikssionary says this. "Yo are not asking me to change my behavior. You are asking me to change my nature." That is so true. Behavior reflets your actions. Nature reflects your attitide.
Love,
Elder Michael Brown
I forgot to tell you guys! Brother Brad Wilcox came to our mission and spoke to us!!!! I got to shake his hand and have a picture with him. It was soooooo cool.
We are usually out of our apartment earlier to get to the computers by 8:00 so ccan be the first ones at the computers. Then we go back and do our studies. but today we decided to do our studies first. The waking up is still a challenge but going to bed is pretty good.
Because my new comp, Elder T. speaks Tongan, I am learning a few Tongan words. I've leaned hello, what's up/how's it going, and good.. It's pretty fun.
Making and talking phone calls are pretty mucha breeze now. (*mom's note--using the phone before was nearly paralyzing for Elder Brown. Missions are a wonderful thing!)
So, you ask how my mission has changed me...One thing that I have learned from my mission is that you HAVE to trust in the Lord. You can't do things by yourself. It is in a lot of missionaries. At the beginning of their mission they think that they know everything and that they can do it on their own. I have also learned about pride and how you have to give all your pride to God and submit to His will and not your own. Everything that you do is because of who/ It's because of God. your Father in Heaven. The Supreme being of the universe. You would be a fool not to give Him and the One who atoned for your sins all the credit and glory. My mission has changed me a lot and will continue to do so. There is a talk by Tad R. Callister about being a consecrated missionary. In the talk he tells a story of when he was a mission president. The story goes something along the lines of this..Eler allister was talking to a missionary who was struggling with some obedience problems. At the end of their talk the mikssionary says this. "Yo are not asking me to change my behavior. You are asking me to change my nature." That is so true. Behavior reflets your actions. Nature reflects your attitide.
Love,
Elder Michael Brown
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