Elder Brady's Motto

"I have desired that while serving a mission that I am to do God's will, not mine. If it is the will of God that I should spend my days proclaiming this Gospel and bearing testimony of these things, I shall think of myself highly privileged and honored. When the spirit of God is upon me, I think it matters very little what I suffer, and what I sacrificed - whether I secure the honor or dishonor of men, or where I die, if it so be that I can keep the faith, fight the good fight, and finish my course with joy, I have all eternity before me in which to enjoy myself."

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Family!

I love you guys so much! Thank you for all the goodies!  Everyone was so jealous! We have had a lot of fun with that hoop and I know there are more great times to come.  You are the best! I thought I would have more time to write people back but by golly was I wrong! This place never slows down.  Always teaching, learning, studying, eating, little sleeping, attending meetings, class and choir!!! Crazy! I hope once I get out to California into the field it will slow down a little.  I think if I was staying on the MTC's schedule with being inside so much in a classroom for 2 years I would explode!  So right now I am waiting for my laundry and it is super chaotic in here. 

(Next day... ran out of time yesterday, p-day ends at 5:00pm)
Come to find out, everyone was stressing out yesterday and we all had a hilarious moments to share.  Elder Smyth, "Look how bad my day was yesterday!" (holding up his tie with a huge stain going down the front of it.) I was laughing so hard I started crying!  As much as we are in class, we have so much fun in here and makr it so much better than it is supposed to be.  For instance, if you read Ether 15:30-31ish, our moral of the story is "if your down and feeling like shiz, just try and get back up!" Yeah, we got pretty creative in here and it is awesome. 

We have been teaching "fake" investigators and I love it.  The scenarios seem so real! Out of the 5 that we are trying to baptize, we know one, Bryce Lake! Bryce skipped out on our appointment today so we had to teach a random Athiest.  He was an italian guy who wouldn't turn off his music and kept offering us wine.  It was tough but we know he felt the spirit and we taught him how to pray and he loved the peace he feels around us.  So basically, we still planted a really good seed and left on such a good note that he wanted to kiss us before we left.  He was so excited to see us again! 

I have taken a coupld of pictures at pretty random times that I will try to print out to send to you guys.  Today we got to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks from inside the MTC.  It was hilarious how excited everyone got.  Kids Elders attitudes really make life so great in here and it will be a sad day when we leave this place.  We were talking about it yesterday as a district and it was sad and crazy to think that we are already half way done.  It  really has been so great in here. 

Sorry I have been so busy that I don't have much time to write everyone, I feel bad.  Every second is so valuable here and this letter has taken four days to write!  Thank you so much for all letters from everyone and packages!  It felt like Christmas! Thank you for everything, you guys are great examples and the only reason I am where I am right now is because of all of you!  I feel like I have so much to share but can't think of anything right now because I am wasted so I am off to bed.  (11:23pm - the latest we have stayed up because of the fireworks!  We are usually asleep by 10:30pm)

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