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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