Week 7: February 22

Hello family, 

I did send a email last week but you obviously didn't get it. A ton of missionary moms didn't get an email from there son. Something was wrong with the emailing.

This week was really good and really hard. My companion Elder Taylor left on Tuesday and then I hung out with the Spanish elders on Wednesday until I got my new companion Elder Warnick. He is really awesome.  He is from pleasant grove.. He wrestles with Ryan and grew up with Ryan. He lives up the street from Ryan. And we know a lot of the same people from AF haha. He is really obedient, which is good since my last one was not. 

This week has been the most hard working week I have done so far. We have gone finding all day, and we are going through all of our lists of people in the area. We have a crazy week coming up of finding and tracking. 

We have a new investigator named Rachel Cruz she is a really cool person. She is 16, and we invited her to church and she said yes which is awesome!!! We are still teaching Charlie he is awesome. 

Oh yeah important news I moved apartments! My new address is (875 South Oak Street 95482 #8). I like the new apartment it's really old but there are us and the Spanish missionaries too, Elder Gonzales left yesterday to Portugal. He is one of my fav missionary's and a good friend I am going to miss him. 

Love,

Elder Brown

Week 5: February 8

Hey!! I don't have a lot of time today.. The zone wants to do something early.

1. Did you get moved to a different apartment to get away from the crazy boyfriend? No we stayed at our apt. Everything should be fine. But I will keep you posted.
2. What was your favorite teaching experience this week? My favorite teaching experience was on Monday I gave my first blessing to sister Henry it was amazing.
3. Craziest experience this week? Craziest experience?.. Probably that haha. This week was bland.

This week was a lot of running around with my comp. haha. He has to do a ton of stuff before he leaves. So a lot of that. The best experience was on Monday I gave my first blessing and it was really powerful. She said she could feel heat going through her body, I thought that was really cool. I was nervous at the beginning.. But realized that you dont need to be at all. So that was special. We taught the high priests yesterday about the importance of member present lessons. And how important it is. Saturday was the best day though. My comp had to take the ACT in Point Arena. At the beach!! Really really beautiful. I will send pictures. He hiked a little that day and took pictures. It was awesome. Go Broncos!! We didn't watch it but a member kept us updated. We went to a anti Sunday super bowl party with a family, it was awesome haha. Then shared path to palmyra. It's in the June 2015. I want you to read it. It's about Joseph smith.. It shares a lot of things about his younger life and his family. It's super crazy. But that's about it haha I love you guys!! Tell everyone I love them! 

Week 4: February 1

Hey guys!! Time is flying! Haha.. It's going by really fast. I am sorry you guys had the flu I hope everyone is better. That's cool that dad got called to that calling (Mom insert: Dennis was called as the gospel doctrine teacher). So I will answer your questions first.

1.            When are transfers? When does your companion go home? Are you nervous about this? Transfers are on the 16th of this month. I am not nervous I am just getting a new companion.. My companion is pretty trunky.. Which means he is really excited to go home.. So it's a struggle.

2.            Any new investigators this week? No new investigators (yet)

3.            How’s Varsity doing? Varsity is doing good.. She is going to be baptized in a couple weeks.

4.            Any interesting stories about new people you met this week? There's one story that I will tell you in my week report.

5.            How has the weather been? Has the rain slowed down? Anymore flooding? The weather has been amazing.. It's been really warm and sunny got up to 60. Awesome.

6.            How often do you get together with your zone? It’s seems like pretty often, but maybe last week was an exception … We get with our zone about 2 to three times a month. We are getting together today for p day and then Tuesday is our zone meeting

This week was pretty normal like all the others.. Expect Tuesday night.. One of our less active members that we have been seeing just filed for domestic violence.. She lives with her boyfriend.. And since we have been visiting her.. She finally noticed that she needs to get out of there.. She lives with her boyfriend and her 2 kids and her boyfriend is really crazy.. He has some anger problem.. But she talked to us about it and is going to have the police come and take her out so the boyfriend doesn't know..  But I guess the boyfriend hates us a is blaming us for everything.. So we had to call our stake president and told him and we might get transferred for our safety cause the boyfriend is crazy.  So we are waiting on that.. We have been teaching clara.. We play board games with her a lot and her boyfriend Kyric. Then We share a message after with them and teach her.. It's really cool.. We thought bug king a less active member he hasn't been to church since his wife died 25 years ago.. We got him to finally come to church!!!! Yay!! :) so that's awesome.. I went on exchanges in clover dale with another elder Taylor we visited a members home and got dinner from them. We also went and played bingo with a lot of old people that was so much fun!! ;);) the best part of the week was helping bother Lucas.. He is so amazing.. He has so much stories. But we helped him tear a 150 year old roof down and remodel it. That was really cool.. Then he fed us after. We also taught Charlie Gomez and varsity. That was awesome. So that's pretty much all I can remember right now.. Haha. I love you guys!!

With love,

Elder Brown

The pic is Cloverdale. It's really pretty