Monday, September 8, 2014

Sept. 11 = Half-Way Through Mission

Hi!
It's hard to believe that I'm almost "one year old". Time has flown by so fast. I've learned a lot, made a lot of good memories, and I have had a lot of fun. It's just too bad that you only get two years to do this though. I wish it was longer.

I have noticed positive changes from being obedient. One is that I have the Spirit with me more. Especially when I teach. Example: Last week we were teaching an investigator and she started telling us about all the hard things that she is going through. And she was going through a lot of hard stuff. During the closing prayer the Spirit told me to give her a specific promise. After the prayer ended I said, "Tamber, the Spirit has told me to tell you something."  I promised her that she would be blessed above anything that she could possibly comprehend. I promised her that she would be blessed more than she could imagine if she would endure and go through this trial that she is having. I then explained that just how we are given weaknesses to make us strong we are also given trials to make us strong. After I had made that promise she told me, "Thank you. You don't know how much I needed to hear that. That means a lot. Thank you." It was a great moment for me.


Love your favorite Elder,

Elder Brown



Monday, September 1, 2014

September 1st

It's crazy that It's already September! You know what that means? In 10 day on September 11th I'll hit my 1 year mark!!

Sounds Like everything is going great!! That's awesome! I do live with the Bishop. But I live in a caseda which is different. I've been in a caseda before but never lived in one. It's really different. I lived with members in my first area but we lived in the house not a caseda. 

My area is not as ghetto as I was hoping :(. It's not very dangerous. You have to go to the President and letter streets to get to the real ghetto and dangerous part of Vegas. Fremont is also very bad but that's out of mission. It's in the Las Vegas Mission. There are a lot of houses with bars on there windows. I was expecting to see that.

Love,
Elder Michael Brown