I will start with your
questions
1. Tell us more about
your ward. How many members? Active? Inactive? I don't
know how many members we have but there is a lot of active and inactive haha.
The members are really awesome and crazy haha. There pretty weird people I love
them though.
2. Do you spend a lot
of time working with inactive members or more time tracting for new contacts? We
spend a lot of time with inactive members probably more than new contacts cause
there easier to find and make appt. with them. But we try to find new contacts
of course.
3. How many
investigators are you currently working with? Umm I
think we are working with 5 investigators haha
4. You mentioned a
couple more potential baptisms—how are those coming? So
we have Varsity she is going get baptized in a couple months. We are teaching her all the
lessons.
5. How many
appointments do you typically have in a day? We have
around 4 or 5 a day.. But things are slowing down so 3 to 4
6. Are the members
supportive of missionary work? Do they provide contacts or have discussion in
their homes? The members are really
supportive with us. We have meetings every Sunday morning just about the ward
and the missionaries and how things are going. We try to have members at a lot
of our lessons.
7. You typically eat
with members once/day? What type of meals do you like? Dislike? We
have dinner at members houses once a day. Cause every Sunday we have a calendar
we pass around the ward and they sign up to feed us. Sometimes we don't have
anyone signed up some days so we just eat what we have. I have liked everymeal
that have been fed.. We have had a lot of tacos and steak and potatoes.
8. What are you studying
in personal study? Companion study? I am studying the book of
Mormons I am reading in 2 nephi and I am studying preach my gospel.. In comp
study we study 12 week it's a book new missionaries study for 12 weeks to help
them learn how to teach and to be better and missionary work.
9. How are the mundane
day-to-day things like cooking and laundry going? Figuring everything out? Cooking
is going good I make eggs in the morning and toast and I have an apple, and
milk for lunch I make a sandwich and have an apple and carrots and sometimes I
make theses amazing chicken cheese fried tacos. Laundry is taken Care of
we have a member that lets us do laundry at her house. Which is really nice.
10. What do you do on
P-day? So on p day we clean our apartment when we wake up and then
we we do laundry and write home and then we either play basketball or we go on
a hike or we go to this game shop and play board games with some members. Or we
go skating.
11. What is the biggest
lesson you have learned so far? The biggest lesson I have
learned to far is to be ready to get out of my comfort zone all the time.
So I forgot my journal today
so I will try my best to remember this week. We went on exchanges Monday night
and Tuesday thorough Wednesday.. I went on exchanges with another elder
Taylor. He is really cool..
Tuesday we went and tried to
contact lots of people but we got rejected which is really sad haha. But
normal. We had dinner with these awesome members.. They asked us a weird
question " is a baby born free " it's a weird question but there is a
lot of thinking in it haha. We then went and helped the youngs move this huge
exercise thing into there room and it took forever haha.
Wednesday we had zone
conference and it was from 9 to 4:30 super long!! But good Elder Bednar spoke and
some others but I learned to help investigators feel the Holy Ghost and how we
can't force it into there hearts.. But we can bring the Spirit and the
understanding unto their heart but it is up to them to open there hearts and
let it in.. And I think that's one of the main problems people don't open up
there heart.. But all we can do is bring it to them.. So hopefully they can
recognize it. But that was long haha. After that we went to the Gomez family's
house and taught them about more plan of salvation we showed this awesome
video. It's for kids or people with little understanding.. It's called "
our eternal life" but
on Thursday we.. I can't
remember that stinks.. Haha
Friday had this surprise
birthday party for sister low and the whole zone was here it was awesome we
played basketball and soccer and had cake and pizza.. That was in lake port..
It's about an hour away from Ukiah.. On the way back we saw this really bad car
accident. So it was freaky driving home cause we were driving through a
mountain so there was a lot of cliffs and windy roads. But that night we went
to kyrics house and he is a member but his girlfriend is a investigator so we
played games with them and ate this amazing pasta stuff.
Saturday we played basketball
with the ward and some investigators and we visited Sister Henry her husband
died a couple weeks ago so we just visited her.. She needs people.
Sunday in church the bishop
asked me to bare my testimony out of now where so that was freaky but I didn't
die ;) it was good.. That night we had dinner with members called the Andrus
family, I gave there home a harvest blessing those are really cool.. It's a
blessing here we all kneel down and we ask them what they would ask Jesus if he
was there and what they needed help with. So I gave the blessing so that was
cool... That's my week!
Tell the kids I love them and
i miss them!
Love Elder Brown
