Hello again!
Sorry this Tuesday e-mail thing is becoming so routine! Our P-day's are so dang crazy and on top of that, the Sirias's Internet was down and it was a holiday so the library was closed! But yesterday we threw a surprise party for a sisters birthday in the zone! We got the whole zone to come and we went and set up at Fosters Freeze (a place similar to ice-berg, where everyone goes to hang out)! She was totally shocked to see us all there already with birthday hats and cupcakes and streamers etc. We got the workers in on it too, it was awesome. I got pictures of it all and I'll have to get them together and send them home soon, I'm slackin on that.
Anyways, now it's time to tell you the news of what happened with transfers! Crazy things have been happening and President Hall is revamping a ton of things! He is changing how we do transfers. He told us all how it's going to be done at Zone Leader Council last week and we were all confused yet excited, then we took the message back to our zones and told all our missionaries last Friday and they too were all confused/excited. So what's going on for now is that we are not transferring on Mondays anymore. We are now transferring later in the week on Thursday... We will still find out on Saturday if we are leaving or staying so we can say our goodbye's on Sunday at church if we need to, but we will not know where we are going or who our companion will be. We will continue working through the week, then when Thursday comes, all the missionaries getting transferred in the mission will pack their stuff and meet at our Stake center in a spirit of prayer. We will then sing called to serve as a whole (which brings such a strong spirit, and super powerful to hear, with that many missionaries singing together) and as this is being done, the new missionaries, fresh off the plane, will enter the room and Pres Hall will then start to announce who is companions with who and where they will be serving! As these announcements go, each individual missionary stands up and then sits with his new comp. So everyone will find out together in an awesome atmosphere instead of a phone call from your zone leader... I'm not sure if this makes any sense, because we sure had a lot of questions about it as well. But we'll see how it goes. This is the first time trying this, so it's basically a test run. I'll let you know how it goes next week.
So back to the punch line, when Kunz and I answered the phone and Pres. Hall told us who was getting transferred in the zone, our names were not mentioned!!! We are staying here together! Ohhh Yeeah! We are very happy about that. We will still go to the transfer meeting on Thursday to meet/welcome the new/old missionaries to our zone! Kunz and I were joking about how cool it would be if we knew who was coming to our zone and made them zone shirts as well before hand with their name/number and presented them as their names were announced and stood up to join our zone (like the NFL/NBA draft) haha
Anyways, this e-mail is getting super long and i fill like i haven't covered much ground. This week should be really good for us! Octavio Sirias is getting baptized this Saturday and we are thinking the whole ward and even some from the stake will be there! He knows a lot of people with coming to church for 5 years and everyone has been waiting for this day. We love the Sirias family and spend a lot of time with them. They are already making plans for going to the temple and getting sealed! So cool!
Yesterday we had four baptisms that we attended that happened in our zone! Our missionaries are awesome!
This last Sunday our lesson to the Relief Society went extremely well! We have a main thought but mostly just wing it by the spirit off of their comments :) The spirit definitely carries these trainings! It was also fast Sunday which means we bore our testimonies. We got the whole place roaring with laughter this last session. I got up and talked about how blessed Elder Kunz and I have felt lately, and during the Blue Moon last week (the night of transfer calls) Elder Kunz and I saw our shadows... so we get six more weeks to serve in the newhall 2nd ward!!! They definitely got a kick out of that one.
So this is all the big news for this week that i can think of right now. So I'll talk to you again soon with more!
Love, Elder Brady___NO REGRETS____
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