Thank you for those pictures and letters family!
First off, I’d just like to say, President Hall is awesome! He
is so young! He has such great energy and enthusiasm about the work and he's
all fired up right now! I have to admit, his flame is contagious right now and
Elder Otis and I have caught part of his flame and we are very excited to work
with him. He also has an awesome sense of humor, which makes it a lot of fun!
We got to spend a lot of time with him this week and he is doing his best to
get to know all the missionaries in the mission. We got to spend some awesome
time with him this week and had ZLC with him and he also hosted a Zone
Conference! I already feel like we have created a special bond with him. He
does have the "new missionary" fire right now and wants to get out
and work with us! So he is going to spend a full day (6:30am-10: 30pm) with the
each of the zone leaders and get out here on the "front lines" of
battle! Ha ha. So he will be coming out with us probably within the next two
weeks! Such a dedicated man! It's definitely going to be a day to remember
having president exercise with us in the morning, lesson planning, teaching,
tracting, and contacting with us. I'll definitely let you know how that goes!
Exciting!
Daphina and Tanisha have been progressing tremendously! They
are becoming spiritual giants and are starting to even help others in their
complex now! Amazing! The only set back is that she still has an occasional
cigarette now and then. We are trying to help her with that and we are now
attending the AA meetings with her through the church. We also hooked her up
with a LDS sponsor lady that can be there for her and help her to stop smoking.
We have become very close with them and maybe too attached, so we are trying to
separate ourselves a little bit so they can stand on their own two feet with
confidence! So their baptismal date is set for the 21st and we'll continue to
see how that goes... They have been to church 5 times now and love it!
Besides all of this, I just want to say that as of now, the
missionaries in our zone are doing awesome like always. We just had one
instance where a companionship wasn't getting along very well this week and
they pretty much blew up on each other. So we went over and sat them down,
talked to them individually, and then sat down with both of them and talked it
out and resolved what was going on and placed perspective in their lives again
and now they are best friends again! So we hosted a companionship inventory
this week :) It's funny, because once you put your name tag on, people think
that you are now a Marriage counselor, family therapist, and even a person to
confess all their sins to! Being a missionary is a pretty crazy experience.
Definitely some good experience if you're wanting to be a therapist that's for
sure.
Anyways, my last thought, is that I love to give people
baptismal interviews. We got to do a couple this week and will be able to do
some more this week! That's a good sign because our zone is baptizing!
Baptismal interviews are an amazing experience and it's like you get to be
apart of someone’s whole conversion process in like 15 minutes! After, you have
such a strong bond with that person and they want you to attend their baptism
so badly and you felt like you have known them your whole life! But you just
met them 15 minutes ago! Crazy, Surreal experience.
This week we will be ending the "Newhall 2nd- 40 day Ward
Fast" and we have seen some awesome success from doing that and had 7
investigators at church again! WOW! We are planning a "Newhall 2nd-
Member-MTC" workshop next Sunday after church where Elder Otis and I are
going to give a training/ train the members in our ward how to overcome their
fears of doing missionary work to capitalize on this 40 day fast! We already
have a very busy week planned, and on top of that we have interviews with
President Hall on Friday and the members of our zone.
Well I got to go! Love you all!
Love, Elder Brady
===NO REGRETS===
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