Three Nephites

Hey Fam!

Things are going super good right now!

We have been tearing it up lately! We had James's baptism yesterday and it went perfectly! It was amazing! All three of us got dressed up and got in the font with James to help comfort him with his fear of water! It was so epic having all of us in the font! Right after the baptism they closed the curtain and we gave each other a hug in there and could feel the spirit so strong and all of us were super happy! Everything is turning up! President has written me some awesome (big headed) e-mails and is super proud how on fire we are right now. Also the Bishops of each of our wards thanked us for everything we have been doing and say that the missionary efforts have increased 10X around here in Northridge! Miracles! Also our dinner calender is full for the month of February already! Incredible! We definitely are gaining the trust of the members around here as well! haha They call us the 3 Nephites because we're working miracles! Great area, Awesome companions, Legit friends(Elders Johnson and Holm), and Fantastic experiences! What more could you ask for? Oh and Sis/Grandma Tripp is taking us 5 out to lunch today again! She also asked me for a picture of me because she wants to sew a portrait for me!

We also picked up some new investigators again this week and we are seeing a trend going on around here. 4 of our progressing investigators are Chinese! We bring them to church and they fellowship each other by teaching each other and talking in Chinese! We're thinking about starting a Chinese branch :)

Besides this, We also have the best district in the mission! They call me the relief society president because our District is all sisters... So I'm right there with you mom! I think growing up with nothing but sisters has prepared me for this moment! ;)

P.s. we are half way done with the Book of Mormon and President has been using us as an example and wants to take us out to lunch to celebrate when we finish!

Well I've got to go, Love you guys soooooooooooo much!

PeAcE!!!

Love, Elder Brady

NNNNNNoooooooo   RRRRRRRReeeeeeggggggggrrrrrrrreeeeeeeettttttttttttssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Little Miracles

Sup Fam!

So i'm just sitting here chillin', shootin the breeze, trying to figure out how to write a so totally radical e-mail to you peeps...

Jk. I don't actually talk like that,,,,yet ;) But anyways, this past week has been awesome! Unfortunately, James's baptism got pushed back to next week because they moved to a different apartment and it felt too rushed so hopefully things have settled down and they will be ready this Sunday. Besides this, we had some more miracles this week! We gave one of the sister missionaries investigators a blessing and he has been investigating the church for about 7 years and still hasn't received an answer about baptism... Elder Ludlow gave the blessing and right after he felt the spirit super strong and we talked about baptism then left and went on with the rest of our day not thinking too much about it. Then that night the sister missionaries in our district called us and told us that he got his answer from the blessing earlier and he wants to get dunked now! So the sisters went back over the next day and set a date with him for Feb. 3rd! The priesthood is real!!!

We also picked up 3 more awesome investigators this past week.  We have been becoming very good friends with, Franco, a 27 year old Filipino guy. We started up playing basketball on Wednesdays again! He has been coming to church every week for the past 4 weeks! We are thinking about setting a date with him as well when we meet with him tonight. He is going to Utah tomorrow to visit his girlfriend and i told him to say hi to you guys! You guys would love him, he's so legit.

We have also just been trying to exercise more faith and pay attention to the little miracles around us, they're everywhere! Whenever we are led to an apartment complex where we can't get in, because it has a security gate, we know we ended up there for a reason so we decide to pray for a miracle! Just then, as we begin to pray we get interrupted by someone on the inside getting the prompting to check their mail or something and let us in! Coincidence? I think not! So just cool miracles like that :) haha

Lastly, one more "miracle" i witnessed this past week was when we went bowling as a zone and i definitely bowled the best game of my life! 180 you say? nope, higher!.... 200 you say? nope, higher!..... 220 you say? HIGHER! .... 233 you say? ding ding ding we have a winner! The miracles you witness that only seem to happen as a missionary make me laugh :)

Anyways, things are still going great in our little Trio! They met with President this week and President said they were doing fantastic! And it made his week with the improvements he saw in them. We didn't notice because these changes seem very gradual to us so it was nice to get an outside perspective! I didn't get to meet with him because i was on exchanges that day working in Encino with the ZL's... It's hilarious though how attached us three have gotten to each other. Right when i returned back the next day i was so happy to see them, and they ran up to me and hugged me saying,"Brady! Don't ever leave us again!"

 

Thank you so much for you letter Grandma and Grandpa Brady! You guys are awesome! And to answer some questions, we attend church from about 7:30- 3:00 in and out on average covering both wards. The 1st ward starts at 9, and the YSA ward usually starts at 11:30 depending on how many show up haha... It's a big day! The address to our church building is

17101 Plummer St.

Northridge, CA 91325

Love you all!

Love Elder Brady

no regrets

Best Trio Ever!

Hey Fam!

Sorry to hear about the "news" this week... i wanted to call you guys and President Hall told me i could but i decided it would be better not to... Elder Yovanno and I have become really close in this past month together and now Elder Ludlow is with us and as you know we are already super close and it is so good to be serving with him again. When people heard about our Trio that we have going on here, the rumors have spread throughout the mission like wildfire and missionaries are calling us with jealousy saying that it's not fair we all get to be together and now have the funnest companionship in the mission...haha. I believe that statement is true as well! We are having a blast and i am happy to say that they don't want to go home anymore! I just feel like we could do a lot better on the missionary work side of things. We are making improvements though! We sat down and set some goals of what we want to accomplish and we are all going to read the book of Mormon this transfer together. We read 15 pages a day and have awesome discussions on what we read, the book of mormon is working miracles for us right now! This stuff is pretty personal stuff that i am telling you, but this will be the first time they have finished the entire book of mormon so we are all super excited! So as hard as it is for me to not be finding all those new investigators out there as i could be, i am at least glad to say that i am helping my companions become more converted to Jesus Christ. Which leads back to another one of my favorite quotes, "no matter how many sheep you find, don't lose any of the shepherds!" I have seen some great things just this past week with Elders Yovanno and Ludlow, they are on fire right now and we are all just feeding off of each others energy. Oh! Also, the package came! It was in our leasing office for a couple days! Elder Yovanno says thank you so much! He loves you guys! I told him, yeah they're pretty awesome, i love them too :)

I also sent the shorts and shirt back last Thursday-ish and placed the sizes that i think would work best in the package. Hopefully that makes it there! I am so sick of Post office drama!

P.s. i bought a Bocce set that was on sale for $20! The missionaries are definitely starting to like playing it!

I love you guys! have a great week and focus on the positives! It works! :)

Love, Elder Brady

ooooooNoRegretsooooooo

Transfer 14

Hey Family, sorry this is going to be short today. Things are getting super crazy around here...

Things have been going really well for Elder Yovanno and I this week! We have had some awesome spiritual experiences together. One of which we were teaching an 11 year old black kid whose mom is a member but he is not. As we were teaching him we wanted to find out what was holding him back from getting baptized? After teaching him how to follow Jesus Christ's example and the happiness that gospel brings he got really excited and was showing some real interest! Then when we asked him if he would get baptized he was hesitant again... come to find out, he is just scared of going under the water and didn't want to do it. We decided to give him a blessing to see what would happen, so Elder Yovanno performed it, and right after the blessing James looked up at me and i then asked,"Well James, how do you feel now?" Then James answers,"Not scared!" MIRACLE! Heavenly Father literally just took that fear from him! Then we set a date for 2 weeks from now (20th) and he agreed! He just wants both of us in the font with him for a little "comfort" and we told him we could do that. I told him that Elder Yovanno is a really good baptizer so he wants him to do it! This will be Elder Yovanno's first time performing a baptism! I am so excited to be apart of this, i know this will change both of their lives forever.

So besides these awesome experiences and seeing Elder Yovanno feel the spirit and exercise the Priesthood numerous times, this isn't even the big news for this past week...

I got another call from Pres this week and he really pumped me up on the phone for a while thanking me for everything i have been doing and basically gave me a big head. I was just confused why he called to just tell me all this and give me compliments, then i finally came to that conclusion... all in a nut shell, he told me he has been working with another struggling missionary for the past couple weeks who almost went home this past month... This missionary doesn't have any motivation right now and wants to go home but he only has 3 months left! He told me that he would like to stay if me and him were companions... So this is where him buttering me up comes into play, he is now giving me another assignment... to help out another missionary. He recognized that i am already on an important assignment so he wants to put him with us in a Tripanionship! I asked who it was and he said Ludlow. Right when i heard that i got so happy! I love Elder Ludlow so much and was one of my favorite companions! We always fantasized about being comps again but it didn't seem accompishable! But he definitely pulled some strings to make this work! Haha. This is going to be so interesting! We are not supposed to know until the transfer meeting but president wanted to make sure i was okay with it. I told him "DEFINITELY!"

So now we got to get ready to equip our apartment with things of 3 for when we pick him up tomorrow! We still haven't done laundry and we're helping the sisters in my district move to a different apartment for more sister to move into our district and we got an appointment at 7:30 so we got to go!

Love ya!

Love Elder Brady

--No Regrets--