Happy New Year 2013

Hey Family!

So we are just sitting here at the Horne's home again finishing up our laundry and and eating dinner with them waiting for the new year to arrive!  It was so good to talk to you again! Only one more phone call... Crazy.

Anyways, to answer some questions, i received the Christmas package a couple days ago! That package was a pretty big deal and had some amazing things in it! Thank you! We have yet to locate Elder Yovanno's... but i'm sure it will get here, if not it'll be okay, he received 9 packages this Christmas from several sources so he is well taken care of now :) haha. I love those shorts and shirt! They are awesome! Just curious though, hypothetically speaking, if those clothes are a size or two big would there be any way to exchange them for a smaller size? Those are by far the coolest shorts though! North Carolina AND Michael Jordan! You guys know me way too well!

Anyways, it's a weird feeling that Christmas has past and today is New Years Eve... You don't really feel the holidays as a missionary haha, which is fine because we'll have plenty to celebrate after!

Elder Yovanno and I are still doing really good, still trying to improve here and there but it's slowly changing around here for the better  .He is such a fun companion, you always have to be on your toes with him because you never know what your going to get and there's never a dull moment! We are slowly regaining the members trust around here too, i can feel it, they are warming up to us, talking to us, and helping us. We are now teaching the gospel principles class in the YSA ward and yesterday we were the speakers in sacrament meeting as well. The YSA ward is hilarious and the Family ward has some super legit families. We picked up some more new investigators this past week and we had 3 at church! Hopefully things will keep going well and our investigators will keep progressing! Transfer calls are this weekend and if i had to guess i would bet we are staying together since we have only been together for like 4 weeks, but who really knows anymore. I am still learning a lot everyday. Pres Hall e-mailed me this week and gave me some advice and strategies of what i can do to help us be more obedient and i am very grateful for that so we'll see how that goes this week. I know that our loyalty is first to the Lord, but it is just super hard when it angers your companion... (my biggest struggle right now) Relationships with others is EVERYTHING to me and i don't want to have to be picking between the lord and my comp so i have been trying to figure out how to have both...

Anyways though, Dad, I just finished the Book of Mormon a couple weeks ago and was about to start it again but didn't have a time frame for finishing it. So i am going to join you in your challenge Dad and try to read it all another time before i come home too!

Well happy New Year! Stay safe! Be good! Make good choices! And return with honor! :) Love you all!

Love, Elder Brady

*no regrets*