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."

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Octavio Sirias's baptism!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Mom! Sorry about yesterday again, with our one free hour to e-mail yesterday, right as we sat down and started reading the letters, we got a call from the Sarmiento family. Sister Sarmiento said she just got home from work and when she walked into her house, it was flooded! The water heater burst. So we rushed over there and helped her move all her furniture out of her water filled rooms. It's all good now though and they fixed the problem and insurance is helping them out. I am so glad you got to meet her though! They are such an awesome family. I think the reason I like them so much is because they are so much like my family! It's interesting to see how different missionaries mesh with other families. They weren't very close to too many previous missionaries but they sure are now! That is also the case with a lot of other families out here that tell us how they used to have the missionaries over everyday but don't see them too much anymore. So we try to keep the ties with everyone and be everywhere at once. Also, on top of that, we try to strengthen our relationships with the missionaries in our zone and hang out with them every once in a while. It's so hard to please everyone though!

Anyways, this last week has been awesomely busy for us. I got your package!! Thank you it's perfect! Sister Sarmiento is hilarious and it sounds like you talked about A LOT! Considering that she said you better not marry that non-member girl! ha-ha I just laughed and she made me promise I would marry in the temple... Thank you Mom #2 :) That's mother Sarmiento for ya!

Then Octavio Sirias got baptized last Saturday and probably 100+ people showed up! It was definitely a spiritual feast in there! It was awesome. We have also become really close to the Sirias family and spend a lot of time with them as well.  He then got confirmed on Sunday and Kunz and I were supposed to talk in Sacrament meeting but they ran out of time and they Bishop said to save our talks for another time. ha-ha interesting.

Then lastly, the new transfer meeting went extremely well and is something that will be an awesome tradition! We have two brand new missionaries in our zone now and we have been having fun with them helping them feel comfortable out here in "big this scary mission field". It has helped me to remember my first couple days and the roller coaster that was! They are doing awesome though and they are going to be epic missionaries. It's been fun helping them out this past week. 

 We trained the zone last Friday and a lot of the missionaries in our zone changed this past transfer and we now have 22 missionaries! Elder Kunz and I have some pretty awesome zone activities we are currently working on! This next Monday we are doing a marshmallow war. Yesterday we got with the zone and taught them how to make Marshmallow guns out of PVC pipe. ha-ha. So everyone is preparing and customizing their guns this week. Kunz and I are setting up an arena out in Castaic and we're going to do it paintball style with some Free for all/ capture the flag/ 2v2v2 games. It's going to be awesome and it is currently the talk and hot topic of the mission right now.

Thanks again for the package! It's awesome!

Have a great week! Love you all. Talk to you again before you know it

Love, Elder Brady

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