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."

Monday, July 16, 2012

Uncle of four beautiful nieces


HOLA FaMiLY! 

Congratulations Kristin and Jason! I am so happy for you guys! That is so exciting! Thank you for all the details! I will definitely keep them in my prayers. I can't believe everything that is happening at home! It's going to be so different already and I still have a year! Crazy...

Anyways though, crazy stuff is happening everywhere! This week was insane for us. We planned out the baptismal service for Daphina and Tanisha this Saturday @ 3, but we will see if that actually happens. President Hall is coming out with us on Thursday and we'll take him over there so he can interview them and see if they are good to go. So keep them in your prayers this week! It's a big week for them! Daphina asked me to baptize her and Tanisha asked Elder Otis to baptize her, so we will both be involved! Then vice versa for the confirmations at church and I will confirm Tanisha and Elder Otis will confirm Daphina. So we are excited to see them progress and take this leap of faith!

This could possibly be our last week together... transfer calls are this Saturday. Otis and I have agreed that these past 2 transfers together have been the fastest transfers of our entire missions! He only has 2 left. We're hoping I will "kill him"... aka be his companion when he goes home. So next Monday we will know for sure. I have come to find out the hard way that calls are very inspired and whatever happens, always remind me that it is going to be perfect. It always has been and will. When I became zone leader I kind of forgot about that and had a bad attitude when I found out... 

We had interviews this week and we were with President Hall from 10am -7pm on Friday at the church. That pretty much shot our day in the foot... but it was a very good day. We also got to sit down with each missionary in our zone individually and interview them for a while. I love interviews; it builds such a strong relationship even when you didn't think it could get any stronger! 

Yesterday, after church, we hosted a "Newhall 2nd Member MTC" class where Elder Otis and I trained the members on how they can overcome their fears of sharing the gospel with their friends. Fear is the opposite of Faith. Perfect love casteth out all fears.

False Evidence Appearing Real ! It was actually pretty fun! We had a great turnout and it was a total success! So we will probably be doing something similar again in the near future again. Our ward just ended the 40-day ward fast and there are several members who have now caught the missionary spirit! 
So I usually don't write home about the bad news, but... this is pretty significant. --->

We came home the other night after being out working all day and we noticed something different about our apartment. Our bikes were gone! Someone managed to come to the back of our apartment and cut our bike locks off and now they are gone... $400 gone. So we are just glad that we are not in a bike area right now or else we would definitely be struggling. It made us very sad, all that work I put into it. Someone’s going to be looking good out there on the street. We'll I guess they must have needed it pretty bad to do that so good luck to them. Forgiven; because they know not what they do. 

So, crazy week for sure. I'm looking forward to see what the future brings! Love you all! Have a great week! Congrats again Kris and Jas!

Love, Elder Brady
===NO REGRETS===

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