Dear family,
I hope all is well back in the Saratoga
Springs adventure, this week was a pretty good week.
Monday after pday we went
and visited a family and the dad is trying to get back into he church, and the
wife and son are Jewish but want to learn more about our church, so we talked
to them and explained what the gospel does for us and for families especially.
And it was a really good discussion tonight we are having dinner with them and
teaching them the restoration. So that will be pretty exciting, after that we
went finding.
Tuesday we had district meeting that was good we talked about
giving better commitments and following up with them, after that we then drove
to eureka with the eureka elders and helped with this huge project at this
member house brother Boones. And we dug trenches and tried to get a huge root
root of a red wood out of the ground that was fun 😬 we worked all day until 5 and then he
made us steaks and a bunch of other food. He is a funny guy, we went finding
after that and my companion ran into a pole which was super funny, he is very
unaware of his surroundings.
Wednesday after we did companion study we did
12 week and then went to a sisters house and picked apples 🍎 it was funny we used pink scarfs to
hold the apples in it looked pretty stylish on me😜 but she wanted a ladder from one of her sheds We had to use a
machete to cut through blackberry bushes to get to the 🚪 it was sweet, got some sick pics of
that haha, after we took pics of us in Star Wars helmets that she let us use,
we left and went finding and we then had a lesson with brother freiday he is
one crazy fellow, he was attacked twice by his neighbor she is a meth head, so
he was pretty shaken up about that, she attacked him multiple times and for
some reason the cops won't arrest her, so that's confusing. But we just read
the Book of Mormon with him. We went finding after dinner again finding is life
out here, didn't really find anybody but it was good, people don't like us
knocking late at night they will just look at the door and I think there scared
us of at night 😂 but yeah.
Thursday was Hoopa day!! We drove he hour and 15 minutes up there and went and
visited a crazy funny less active he as like 15 dogs and 5 cats, you can barely
breathe in the house but we read the Book of Mormon with him and then met
brother Kimble at a gas station and he drove us around hoopa, he is our guide
around there cause there is no street addresses, and it's dangerous for us to
be trying to find it on our own which we did last week, but we went and he
drove us to witchepeck to try to find some less active, we drove deep In the
forest and it was pretty crazy, people living in trailers deep in the
mountains, you know you found someone if there is about 10 broken cars
everywhere. But we had a bad encounter with a pit bull so we kind of stayed in
the car and tried finding some people, we almost drove off the edge of the road
cause brother Kimble is super crazy at driving we drifted a couple times, but
on the way back we talked to us about what the natives believe and what
holidays they celebrate and don't, they really don't like thanksgiving at all,
or Fourth of July, but we stopped by some old dance sites which was pretty
sweet, we got some really pretty pictures, after brother Kimble left we went
and saw an old couple close to willowcreek, and after that we went to dinner
with with the dobracks and the johstons I love those families they are the
funniest people, we had amazing potato soup, they daughter is at byu right now.
But after that we went and visited sister bassi she has had a lot of health
problems and we gave her a blessing and after she talked our ears off, after
that we drove home and didn't get home until 10:30.
Friday we did really fun
service with this guy named David he is the funnies guy, we helped him put up a
fence and dig holes and everything, we could probably call him an investigator,
he asked a lot of questions about everything and made some jokes but he is a
really good guy, he bought us both a large pizza after, we did weekly planning
all day and went finding after.
Saturday we drove everywhere made our way
through the back roads down to freshwater and kneelland, got some pretty pics,
the area is so beautiful we drove through redwoods the whole way into this
hidden valley, I would definitely live there. But yeah finding all day, we had
dinner in eureka at Wendy's like the only Wendy's around, but we visited a less
active who talked to us about pot, it we tried sharing s message but he
didn't trebly want one, cool guys though.
Sunday church and then finding all
day, we did have a lesson with Eric we read the Book of Mormon with him, and
went finding again! \
We get fed a couple times a week Haha, this week should be
better hopefully, We work a lot with less actives and we have a couple
investigators 2 of them need to be re-baptized and we have the Owens family he
needs to be baptized and his wife and son are Jewish and hopefully might be
baptized with him, that's 1 of the 2 and the 2nd she is super less active and
we just can't find her records but she wants to get re- baptized, so that's
good haha, we are having zone conference tomorrow so that will go awesome ! I
get to see the Jeknavorians tomorrow, the thing that I learned this week is
probably having hope in finding people to teach but also having that hope which
leads to faith to have baptisms we are going to invite 4 people to be baptized.
I just finished the Book of Mormon and started reading Abraham, and also
learning about Jospeh smith more and him finding then seer stone known as the
Urim and Thummim it's super cool!! Sounds like you had a crazy week back home I
hope aspen is doing better and the kids and Chloe who I have never met!! Well
that was my week I hope you guys are doing well, I miss you! Love ❤️ u
Elder Devin Brown
3503 LK Wood Blvd.
Apartment B
Arcata, CA 95521
Apartment B
Arcata, CA 95521
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