YESSSS! JUAN SANCHEZ got baptized last Thursday! Such a cool experience!
This was definitely the highlight of this past week. We have been working with him ever since I got here and he has been ready for a while. He just got off parole last week and so we could finally baptize him! His whole family is now a part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints! We are now going to start the new member lessons with them and they are striving to prepare to go through the temple and get sealed together as a family!!!! Fantastically awesome. It makes me feel so good helping others to achieve this eternal goal and accomplishing the best thing we could ever do in this life! I LOVE being so close with these awesome families and helping them out in any way I can. This IS true happiness.
I love you guys so much and yes last week was pretty action packed and that is usually how every week goes! Stuff is always happening everyday when you are out there talking to random people in the streets and knocking on unknown houses all day long. You never know what kind of surprises that you are going to get and crazy stories that you are going to hear. Every person/house we approach is usually pretty exciting and very... different? The weather is getting quite cold around here also! Even though it's nothing compared to Utah it is still considered "cold" to having triple digits every day. It's probably around the high 60's low 70's the past couple days and it's been freezing and everyone is wearing jackets now. Ha
HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY UNCLE PAUL!!!
2nd biggest news this week: WE HAVE SISTERS in our area now.... yeah sisters. Our ward got split in half this transfer and we have sister missionaries in our ward now. Pretty different, and from what I hear, this is unheard of. But anyways we have been showing them around this week and introducing them to our investigators that are way sweet. I guess it's a pretty big culture shock from where they came from and they are scared at how sketchy this area is. We have just been trying to help them out and make them feel comfortable this past week the best we can. There is a main road in our area (called Ave. J) and they are taking over the South side of J and we are covering the North side of J. I am now realizing that I love so many of our investigators and have become super close with the people that we visit regularly. We had to give all our people on the South side to the sisters which were very hard. I felt bad for them though. A lot of people would say, "Wait! What?! You're taking my boys away from me! That’s it, I'm moving to the North side..." (Stuff like that) We tried our hardest to talk them up and make the sisters sound really good but on the inside we don't want to leave them too. Oh well, if that's what Heavenly Father wants, it's for the best, and so it is. But any who, besides the sisters coming in and taking half our people, they are really cool! Ha-ha VERY friendly and will definitely make this transfer different! (Which is what I wanted...be careful what you wish for!)
Well I have to go now and I just wanted to say that everything is going really well! I wanted to send you guys a letter, I'm not sure if it got to you... but anyways I just tell you again while I am writing this. Could you please (no rush though) send me one of those USB memory sticks that has a lot of memory that I could store all my pictures on for the rest of the mission just in case something happens or when I send it in the mail and it gets lost. I was going to buy one but found out that they are really expensive and I have one at home anyways... If you could please do this, it would be much appreciated and I will then send my pictures home to you guys once I get them transferred. Sounds like everything is going well around there. Thank you so much for all the details! I love reading them. You guys are all awesome!
p.s. Elder Jackson and I are making up a way cool song on the guitar called "Living my life Celestial" It's super cool! I'll have to make a video of it sometime and send it home.
-Living my life celestial-
-NO REGRETS-
Love, Elder Brady
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