Dear family,
This week was good,
the last week of the transfer it was pretty good finished strong.
Monday we
played basketball while it was raining super bad. I played a little to hard it
took me 3 days to recover haha. But after pday we had finding and went to a
sisters home and had a funny lesson with her. She loves her cats a talks to
them like their human it's pretty funny.
Tuesday was good we had district
meeting after that we went to eureka and helped brother Boone with a huge
backyard project he is building something super huge and we helped him a ton
this week. But we helped drill in boards and some digging, he is redoing his
whole backyard putting cement in and everything. We had dinner with the Owens
after and had a pretty good lesson with them on the plan of salvation it was
good they fed us ribs delicious, after we went finding.
Wednesday was blue lake
day and we went up and helped a sister with picking apples that was fun. We had
a good time, we then talked with her for a while and taught her a lesson. Then
after we had a lesson with brother Friday and showed him a cool conference
talk. Then after we had finding of course lots of finding ! Which was okay. But
we had a good dinner with the hamblins after and we shared them a message and
it was what they needed it was really cool how we bonded with them.
Thursday
was hoopa willowcreek day and we visited a couple sisters and one of them was a
seventh day Adventist in heart, she is a member but she follows her church
instead, she was really nice. It was cool to see what her beliefs were. But
after that we went and visited the shipmens that family is super fun! But we
went up to the crazy hoopa and brother Kimble took us everywhere we were
supposed to have a couple lessons but they canceled on us which was sad 😭 but we were able to
meet a lot of people and that was cool. And had some confrontations with some
drunk natives that was fun. Gave them the good word haha. But after we had dinner
wit the Johnstons the best family ! It was really good. We drove back and
planned and went to bed haha.
Friday was a crazy day we worked from 11:30 to 6
pm helping the eureka elders with his backyard we got the cement in and dug
more holes it was awesome ! We worked super hard and fast got muddy and had
fun. He fed us pizza after it was awesome.
Saturday was a lot of finding and we
had a couple good lessons, we had the Halloween party after that was awesome !
We were in charge of one of the games, a lot of people actually came it was
sweet we had a chili cook off and we were the judges of course ! It was pretty
sweet. But we helped with that the rest of the night until transfers docs came!
I am getting a new companion ! His name is Elder Sears! Guess where he is
from! Saratoga springs!!! I went to high school with him didn't really know him
that much but I have met him a lot. So super weird ! Haha he has been out for 3
months and he is 6 feet 8 inches tall!! Crazy!
Sunday was good went to
breakfast with the Owens they fed us a huge meal awesome family haha. But after
we had church and elder cullimore said bye to a lot of people I will miss him I
learned a lot from him. But after we saw a couple people and went to fresh
water and had dinner with the stake presidents family that was fun and we went
and gave a blessing to a member that was really good. And then we drove home
and elder cullimore started to pack. It was a good week, I feel pretty down
right now (a friend of his passed away this week) but again these to scriptures come to mind:
D&C 121:7
7 My son, peace be
unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small
moment;
8 And then, if thou
endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy
foes.
D&C 122:7
7 And if thou
shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence
of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing
surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens
gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above
all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know
thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be
for thy good.
Just knowing that
Jesus Christ atoned for all of our sins he knows us he knows what he have been
through and he will be there for us no matter what he will always be there we
just have to look up to him and pray to him, everything we go though we don't
have to go through it alone cause we are not alone, he is there to lift our
burdens and carry our load with us cause he understands every pain sorrow and
affliction that we had gone though, he allows us to climb on that mountain over
come that obstacle break though that wall and make us free. As long as we look
to him.
I have been praying really hard for them (the family who lost a daughter/sister) and I emailed as well. It's a crazy thing when life is so fragile and we don't know it until something happens and shocks us. That definitely put a damper on my week, but I hope they are recovering okay. 😢
Elder Devin Brown
3503 LK Wood Blvd.
Apartment B
Arcata, CA 95521
Apartment B
Arcata, CA 95521
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