Hello Family!
Thank you for all those amazing
pictures….Elle, Abby, Rakelle and Braden are all getting so big! ;)
Lexi Brady! Thank you so much for
your letter, it made my day!
Well, it sounds like you all had an
awesome Easter Sunday! I very much enjoyed that Easter Package you sent me!
Thank you Thank you!
So this past week of ours
was... extra AWESOME! I don't even know where to start but I am going to
type as quickly as I can because I truly dislike these
countdowns that flash in your face while using these computers! So forgive me
if the following doesn't make sense....
I don't even know where to start, so
our zone has been doing a lot of companionship exchanges lately (where we spend
the day with another missionary) and I have now served in every area in our
Santa Clarita zone! I just totaled it up recently and I have been on 14 comp
exchanges my whole mission! That is a lot just FYI. I have strengthened so many
relationships with other missionaries by doing these! I love it! So I actually
got to go on exchanges with Elder Mcphee in his area and that was so much fun
and I'll tell you why. He has only been in the mission for a week and it
brought back good memories of my first week in Lancaster :) It was fun to spend
the day with him as he tried to figure out the mission life! I have realized
how much you learn every single week and the longer you are out, the more
comfortable you get and more fun missionary work is once you get the hang of
it!
Then Elder Black came to our area and
I had an exchange with him as well. He is a stud too! He has been out for as
long as Norton and I, so we will all fly home together :) :) Crazy...
And just a quick update, some of
the companionship's in our zone are not getting along very well and one
missionary almost went home... Norton and I rode our bikes over to their
apartment one night to help them out and inspired him to stay with some talks
by Jeffery R. Holland, ect. but long story short they still hate each
other but we convinced this particular missionary not to go home. And then we
also stopped by the other missionaries to relay the message and get them
both on good terms. Anyways, with that said, I gave the training at
District meeting this past week and the AP's came as well. I gave the lesson on
Charity and forgiveness indirectly, but everyone knew it's what we needed to
hear with the contention of some. Norton and I are like the peacemakers in this
zone trying to conquer all this drama! ha-ha, But after my training, I hit hard
on how important companionship unity is and brought some moral into the room
(because all our companionship's are awesome!). But then transformed it and
said how we need District Unity! So I gave them all papers and we passed them
around the room having them write a compliment about each missionary because
you can always find the good in someone, we just sometime choose to focus on
the bad... So after these compliment/Love papers went around, the contention
finally seemed to leave! But we will see for sure as time goes on.
So besides all this fun, Heavenly
Father answered our prayers this week as well! After church yesterday, a
guy named Stephen Winkler (Grace Baptist) walked into church and "wanted
to know more!" Since when does that happen here is Saugus!!? So we took
him into a room after church and talked with him for about an hour and a half
answering questions, gave him a Book of Mormon, gave him some commitments,
and he's going to pray and coming to church again next week and we'll meet with
him again! It reminded me of being in Lancaster teaching all the time! Finally
something happens around here! So that was very exciting if you can't tell :)
Well, I've got to get going now, I
hope that all made sense, but there's just a taste for what's currently going
on this past week! I love you all!
Love, Elder Brady!
*****NO REGRETS*****
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