Northridge Emergency Transfer

Hey Family do i have an intense e-mail for you today!

This past week has probably been the most eventful week of my mission. First off, with all of this drama that has been happening for the past month in the Granada Hills zone, hopefully is coming to a stop now! To start off, the missionary that i have been worried about for the past couple weeks pretty much was packing his stuff to go home last week. He had one of his final interviews with President Hall when Pres. Hall received some revelation for this missionary... Long story short, Pres. Hall got permission from the Missionary department in Salt Lake for this missionary to stay out on his mission under one condition, Pres Hall keeps a close eye on him and he gets one of his best missionaries for his companion. So after much prayer and talking to Elder Yovanno they came to the conclusion that i am the missionary for this scenario. I have been talking with Pres alot lately and he told me that some missionaries have mission problems, but this case is different, Elder Yovanno has a life problem right now and is struggling with a testimony of the church. So another long short, i accepted, and got emergency transferred last Thursday to be with Elder Yovanno in Northridge covering the 1st ward and the YSA ward for the entire valley. So we did a little permanent companion exchange and they moved the ZL area to the Encino Elders because Pres doesn't want us to worry about all the leadership responsibilities and to just focus totally on our companions right now. Even though we still worry about everything because the new ZL's have been calling us about how to do everything. I also was called to be the district Leader here in Northridge and Jhonson is the District Leader for the other side of the zone still in Van Nuys. Crazy crazy stuff. I have now finally gotten settled and have come to realize these past couple days that no missionary work has been done in either of these wards for quite some time. So we are going to be basically starting from scratch now. I feel so bad for Elder Yovanno right now, he has had such a hard mission, with tough companions, and has been through a lot. On top of wanting to go home, the only reason he was out here was to make his grandma proud, who passed away last week as well. I feel like Heavenly Father has increased my Charity/Love/patience for Elder Yovanno right now because i love him sooooo much and want to do EVERYTHING i can to help him through this life struggle and so he doesn't go home. Secretly we were super excited to have this opportunity to be companions and we have been having a lot of fun this past week and because we were already great friends to begin with. We have already has so many great talks and crazy spiritual experiences together. I have known Elder Yovanno for a long time now and have been his ZL for 6 months of his mission. He has been out for about 14 months. This Christmas is definitely going to be a different one that's for sure. If i could ask one favor of you guys for Christmas this year it would be that you would please not worry about me, i am fine. Could you please though maybe make a package for Elder Yovanno this Christmas since i don't think he'll be getting anything. I am trying to come up with a couple ideas that i could do for him and I have cleaned  up their entire apartment since it was a dump and have brought all the lights/christmas tree to bring a little christmas spirit in there.

 I have so much i want to say right now, i just don't have the time. Here is some more word vomit for this week haha

Talk to you again soon! Merry Christmas!

P.s. my new apartment address is...

9801 Zelzah Ave. Apt# 101

Northridge, CA 91325

Love, Elder Brady

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