Week 95: October 30

Hey so this week was basically full time service haha, so this weeks going to be short but Monday was good we had pday balled so hard played magic.

Tuesday was district meeting that was good after we went and had a lesson with our investigator (Peggy) that is getting baptized this Saturday! So that is sweet! After we went and did some service moving boxes.

Wednesday we went and had another lesson with her, after that we had service at the food bank and then we went and helped our other investigators with their house that they moved out of because they moved and they had to clean it. That was pretty sweet.

Thursday we went to a members and helped her chop wood and stack it it was super fun they got a lot of dogs, one of them looks like a lion it’s so big haha. But it was fun she had 2 huge owls In her broken down barn which was super cool to see. Thursday we did service for a member in Loleta they cut down trees they got a chipper so we came and chipped all the wood then went around their house and put some of it in there flower beds and then we went and dumped the rest, that pretty much took all day.

Friday was weekly planning we went and helped some others move there yard around.

Saturday was a normal day we prepared talks because we are talking Sunday down in the maranda branch that we cover, and we did a little finding after.

Sunday we went down and gave our talks and visited some people down there they also fed us lunch which was super cool, we drove back up and had dinner delivered to us. So that was pretty much my week! Love you guys 

Elder Devin Brown 

brown.devin@myldsmail.net

840 6th St. 

Fortuna, CA 95540 

Week 94: October 23

This week was good Monday we had pday we played basketball did the normal thing on pday that night we went over to our neighbors which is the members that own the house and played foosball which was super fun. A lot more fun than I thought.

Tuesday we had district meeting which was sweet had a good practice on the Atonement. After we did some finding we also saw a couple people on our list we tried seeing some of our investigators but non of them answered sadly.

Wednesday was cool we went down to maranda which is a small town about and hour south of Fortuna part of our area, they have a small branch there and we went down there for the day and had dinner and tried to see some potentials which was not that successful but we had a sweet dinner with a awesome family out in the woods, they feed deer from there hands so that was super cool to watch super cute.

Thursday we had something cool happen, this less active came knocking on our door and said this guy needed help really bad moving cause his friend bailed on him, and it was supposed to rain that day so we ran over there and helped him for a couple hours and prayed that the rain would hold off and it did until we were done so that was super cool. He was a really cool dude, planted some seed hopefully he wasn’t really interesting in learning more but nice guy. After that we went and did some finding.

Friday was weekly planning day, had a sweet dinner that night with some old people that really like to talk so we got stuck there for a while.

Saturday was good we visited a couple members and some less actives, also did some service helping a member move some stuff.

Sunday was church which was sweet, after we visited a potential and after had dinner with a really awesome family, there daughter reminds me of aspen, super smart and loves to read and does gymnastics 🤸‍♂️ awesome family. But that was my week! Love u 

Elder Devin Brown

brown.devin@myldsmail.net

840 6th St. 

Fortuna, CA 95540 

Week 93: October 16

This week was good we are doing good, the fires are still going and lots of members houses got burnt down more than 50 right now and more than 11 dead so it’s crazy, last I heard president and sister wright were back in The mission home but there is no power. And this last week we didn’t have cell service because the cell towers got burnt down which was crazy. But they got portable ones up, gyserville just north of ukiah is getting evacuated, but they called the national guard in. So that’s what I know so far missionaries are still evacuated down there and the members, but this week was pretty good lots of service,

Monday was pday we played basketball and chair soccer which was fun and after we went and had dinner.

Tuesday was district meeting which was pretty good we made roles for the district, after we went and tried doing service for a investigator but he wasn’t home so we just did a little finding that day I am glad I am up hear in the fall it’s super pretty.

Wednesday we had service helping at the food bank it was fun we go to go pick Apple trees from the back. Do a little monkey tree climbing. After we went and visited a recent convert to try to teach her some more she is a cool person, she is like a old lady gangster hippie haha. But after that we did a little finding, that night we took the dogs out for a walk for contacting which was super cool.

Thursday we had service with our investigator which was cool we drove out to his house and helped him stack wood and play with his dogs after we went finding.

Friday was weekly planning pretty boring haha.

Saturday was good we went and did service for another member service all over basically this week which is awesome I love service.

Sunday was church had a good time they asked me to bare my testimony which was fine haha. After we went and gave a blessing to a member who just had a heart attack :( and then we went and visited another person. But yeah this week was pretty good, all is well. 👍 sounds like you guys are having fun back home! Today I hit 22 months!! Love you 

Elder Devin Brown

brown.devin@myldsmail.net

840 6th St. 

Fortuna, CA 95540 

Week 92: October 9

Update from the mission president regarding the fires in Santa Rosa (Devin is much farther north and has not been affected):

Thank you for your prayers! All missionaries affected by the fires in Northern CA are accounted for and safe. Those at risk have been evacuated and have a warm safe place to sleep. The Mission home and office are both untouched by the fire at this time. We will keep you updated.

Shauna

Dear family, 

This week was awesome pday was the last pday for this transfer it was good to see everyone and say goodbye to the ones that are leaving including me haha. I was with elder Taylor for the day because my comp went with an elder to go to Santa Rosa. So it was super fun with elder Taylor.

Tuesday was transfers we left Davis at 8 am and we got to Santa Rosa and we switched luggage and said hi to a lot of missionaries which was sweet to see them, then we took off up to eureka I rode with elder dye a sweet elder that just came out so that was sweet, I drove and we stopped at IHOP with some other missionaries on the way up and we stopped by a couple places on the way up cause it was a 4 hour drive which I love because it's so amazingly beautiful up here, we stopped by some sweet shops through the redwoods so that was awesome! We go up there and we waited for our companions in Fortuna for an hour so we went around walking through the streets for a little but enjoying the northern air again, I love it up here is amazing. But after we got into our HOUSE we live in a HOUSE! It's amazing! It's so nice and we love right by members that owns the house and their are 2 huskies in the backyard that we have, there names are Aspen and Mystic. So tell Aspen I found her in dog form here 😜 they are the best dogs. We get to take them out on walks and care for them.

On Wednesday we had service at a banquet food place so we basically run it so that's awesome, the rest of the day we went and visited a couple people and to meet some people, as you know my comp is elder Hathaway he is awesome, he is from Morgan Utah. And he has a relatively big family a couple older siblings and younger as well.

Thursday we were going to have a service but the service canceled so we just went and visited some members and a couple potentials.

Friday was weekly planning so that was cool.

Saturday we had district meeting which was super fun elder Hathaway made peanut butter bars which were very good. They decided to send sister up here there was only sisters up here in eureka but they sent 2 sets up here which is pretty cool I guess haha. After we went and helped someone with moving and then we went finding. Played with the dogs too.

Sunday was church back to small ward of about 100 people, the ward is cool lots of awesome people. Bad news our mission is kinda on fire Santa Rosa is on fire and everywhere down there, everyone is getting evacuated its insane and scary, But that was my week. Love you guys!

Elder Devin Brown 

brown.devin@myldsmail.net

840 6th St. 

Fortuna, CA 95540 

Week 91: October 2

Dear family, 

This week was good, Monday was  we had a BBQ for elder Welty that night which was pretty fun it was at bishops house and we played this sweet game.

Tuesday we had district meeting and went to his awesome Hawaiian BBQ place which was amazing then we went on exchanges with the zls, I went with elder dye In woodland which was pretty good we had some sweet lessons during the exchange and we had a sweet dinner with their bishop.

Wednesday morning we went and lifted at this free gym which was pretty cool, we exchanged back and we drove to Vacaville because I had a meeting with charity which was a good meeting. Then we went finding pretty much all day after that.

Then Thursday we did some service for a Awesome less active we basically cut her tree down so that was fun. Then we went finding all day again and after we went and saw our investigators Trent and we also tried Seeing a referral that we got from the sisters. But they weren't home so that's sad.

Friday we had planning all day and we visited a ex comminuted member he was super super cool guys who new a ton about the scriptures.

Saturday we had general conference which was awesome! Really good talks!  Sunday was awesome too! We had the whole church to ourselves to watch general conference it was nice but kinda sad cause no one came😢 but it's okay.

Last night we just found out transfers!! I am going back up to eureka!! I will be serving in Fortuna! And I will be with elder Hathaway and I will be killing him cause it's his last transfer! Crazy! Then I only have 5 weeks after that! Sounds like everything is going well back home!! Love you! 

Sorry it's pretty short have a lot to do for transfers. 

Elder Devin Brown

brown.devin@myldsmail.net

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