Hello Family! Happy New Year!! YAY! WHoohoo! kaBLAST! screech! (Streamers everywhere) honk honk, beeb beeb, gunshot, gunshot, girl screaming... Hurry lock the door guys. ---Yeah this was our new year. Ha-ha very sketchy out here in Lancaster. But it was fun, we are all safe now! But anyways, your New Year celebrations sounds like fun! Abby bowling for an hour and a half! Super cool. That was a blast last year. Oh and Abby I was with the Castillos this past week and Sarah got your letter and loved it! I taught her our handshake that you talked about so we do it now. She was working on her letter to send to you if you haven't gotten it yet. Then it's coming!
It's bad news to hear about these friends of mine that are having hard times on their missions/coming home. Just to let you guys know, our phone call only boosted my spirit and made everything better. Ludlow and I taught 17 lessons this past week and reached all our weekly goals. Thank you for the encouragement. Going home hasn't even crossed my mind at all in these first six months and I’m planning on keeping that way.
I don't have a lot of time today but I'll try to throw out a couple quick thoughts.
We went over and taught Miracle again and the spirit was so strong this time. After all the kids got settled down and occupied, we began to teach her. We felt that we should teach her 3 Nephi 13 (seeking the kingdom of Heaven and all else shall be added unto you) and she started crying because she just read Mathew 6 in the bible which basically says the same thing. And at the moment she had a confirmation that the Book of Mormon was true and then she closed our little study session with an awesome prayer thanking Heavenly Father for answering her prayer and sending us her way. We then reassured her that it was the Holy Ghost that is doing all this work from our Father in Heaven, not us. And any time you read that Book of Mormon you can receive that same witness, without us there. She was amazed and so excited. --We are still working on getting her a ride to church because she wants to come really bad... we now have obtained 3 car seats at our apartment and just need a ride to pick her and her family up next week. Then, yesterday at church we were talking with bishop White and Bro Manriquez and we prayed about her and they both feel like we should stop teaching her. ? We were so confused about why they want us to end it with her and they told us that it seems like she is taking advantage of us with calling us all the time/ always asking for things/ help. So we are confused right now and don't know what to do. It seemed to be going very well until they told us this news and they both feel the same way.
Besides this, our investigators are same old same old. Want to get baptized but don't come to church. We have been knocking a lot lately and have found a lot of potential investigators. I have been trying to push Ludlow this past week because we can do better than we did last transfer. So far, this first week of the transfer was very successful. Ludlow has been trying to be lazy again, but with this spiritual high that I am on, I'm sick of this crap and not allowing it anymore. Hopefully this attitude remains because it truly makes the mission a lot more productive and better when we focus on the work and people.
Thank you for everything you guys are doing/have done for me. Love you all!
Love, Elder Brady
---NO REGRETS---
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