How are things back home? I
hope they are goin good! I miss you guys. This week was good I will just do the
normal thing and start with my week and what I did (Mom note: my email has been struggling and the
email to him was stuck in my outbox, so he didn’t receive it before sending this).
On Monday was pday! The whole
zone came up to Lakeport and we had a birthday party for elder koneztiny and
sister pet don't try saying his name haha. But it was was really fun we BBQ
hamburgers and had watermelon and played volleyball and Frisbee at the park and
talked, it was fun after that we went to the church and balled super hard. And
then went and played more volleyball super fun after that we just stayed in our
pday clothes and went to dinner to Denis and vessas house and had dinner then
we went and played basketball with them at the church and then had a family
home evening with them after we shared spiritual crocodiles with them and
shared then video and asked them some questions after so it was reallocate good
I love that family a lot. I would look up spiritual crocodiles and watch it and
read the ensign on it if I haven't already said that one I can't remember haha.
But on Tuesday we had
district meeting and I taught on ether 12 a really good chapter I will share
what scriptures I liked from it. " 4 Wherefore, whoso believeth in God
might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand
of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which
would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led
to glorify God." I just liked the part where it says whoso believeth in God
might with surety hope for a better world, where if we believe in God we want a
better world we want to be like God. But also that faith is our anchor, but a
lot of people have a problem in having that faith, because it's hard to believe
in something that you can't see but after the trials and the tribulations we go
through, in my opinion we can see if we put forth our effort and give our all
to God he will bring the truth to our eyes. We have that knowledge that God is
there and was there through it all do we have a perfect understanding of it?
Maybe but is our faith much more than it was before and it only continues to
grow. Another scripture I like is 11 Wherefore, by faith was the law of Moses
given. But in the gift of his Son hath God prepared a more excellent way; and
it is by faith that it hath been fulfilled.
"12 For if there be no
faith among the children of men God can do no miracle among them; wherefore, he
showed not himself until after their faith.
13 Behold, it was the faith
of Alma and Amulek that caused the prison to tumble to the earth.
14 Behold, it was the faith
of Nephi and Lehi that wrought the change upon the Lamanites, that they were
baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost.
15 Behold, it was the faith
of Ammon and his brethren which wrought so great a miracle among the Lamanites.
16 Yea, and even all they who
wrought miracles wrought them by faith, even those who were before Christ and
also those who were after.
17 And it was by faith that
the three disciples obtained a promise that they should not taste of death; and
they obtained not the promise until after their faith.
18 And neither at any time
hath any wrought miracles until after their faith; wherefore they first
believed in the Son of God."
Faith because of faith we have the knowledge
we have today, I just liked those scriptures and I would share. Alright so
where was I Tuesday? Yes so after that we went on exchanges with the district
leaders and I went with elder laymunyon he is a very interesting guy but I love
him no matter his weirdness. I am a weirdo too so there's that 😂
but we had a good time we taught some street lessons and tried seeing some
people all I can is wow he has no fear in contacting random people even
if they don't have any interest we just goes right in to teaching and that is
something that I have learned from him is to have no fear no matter what the
people think or do, they have agency they will except is of they want to but
it's so much more worth it to at least try to bring it to there hearts cause we
can't force it on them we can only bring it to there hearts to there souls and
hopefully they will recognize it and reach out to it and open there hearts and
bring it closer to them. But after that we went to the park that night and
through the football with some members and it was pretty fun!
The next morning was funny I
come down after having a shower and lymunyon blew up the blender so the
smoothie was everywhere and I just laughed at him haha. But at 12 we exchanged
back In Clearlake but right before we did we went and saw this lady and we
thought that she was and investigator but really she wasn't and was a member !!
Which was cool she said she misses the church and the people and wishes to come
back and I was like well... Come back! And her kids are less active and one
hadn't been baptized yet so it was pretty cool. We exchanged back and then went
back to Lakeport and we had dinner that night with the Rodriquez family and
that was good they love us, after that we went and tried to seeing the
labrashes but it failed ☹️ but we tried ! 😂
do
Then Thursday we drove down to
Santa Rosa for my appointment so that was good it was a good meeting. We then
went to Dutch bros and got smoothies pretty good! Then after we got back we
tried to see some people at blue lakes and all I gotta say is I wanted to jump
in that lake so bad! But didn't sadly :) but that night we went to round table
pizza and it was pretty good pizza ! But we have had pizza seriously most of
the week. I am pizza killed right now.
But Friday we tried to see
our main investigator Tami but she canceled on the door which was super sad:(
so then we went to the church and weekly planned all day! Yay!! 🎉😂
then guess what?! Went to round table again for dinner with members! She was
kinda crazy haha. But it was good.
Saturday was a big exhausting
day Pioneer Day! We had a huge celebration at a huge park with all of lake
county and all three wards came so we were in charge of setting up and putting
it down and it was hot! We played baseball and horseshoes and the sac throwing
game whatever that is called haha. It was fun but really tiring. Cause we
cleaned everything up over 200 chairs and 15 tables yeah workout !! It was good
though :)
Then Sunday we went to church
and I sat by my favorite person Jared ! And church was good it was about temples.
And then we gave a recent convert a blessing and then after we went and tried
to go see some less actives didn't really work haha. But we had dinner with
bishop and we taught the resto to them cause there daughter is going on a
mission in a couple weeks so we are trying to help her too,
So there are 24 new
missionaries coming in and guess what?? The Jeknavorians are coming to the
mission !! I don't think I spelled here names right haha but there coming in
September !! So cool! There are replacing one of the main old couples and the
mission center. And I know one of the missionaries that is coming in too! Super
cool the week was good I hope everything is going good!! I love you guys!
Elder Devin Brown
P.S. I
got the package!! Thank you so much!! It has amazing stuff in it haha I am
already digging through the protein. Did you get my big email?
brown.devin@myldsmail.net
603 19th Street
Lakeport, CA 95453
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