Family,
What an awesome week! From meals at the
mission home, Christmas, Skype, and baptisms, this week was the best!
I figured the skype call disqualified me from
having to write an email home to you, but this week was too good not to.
I'll start with the Christmas things: Christmas Eve, we got to ho have an
amazing dinner at the mission home. A few days before, Sister Guanzon
(our mission President's wife) asked for any dinner requests. So I
thought, what have I not eaten in a year and a half that I could probably
request now? ...TACOS! So when we got to the mission home, not only
were there delicious tacos, but Shepard's Pie as well! - two Brown
favorites (: And then Christmas, we woke up exrta early to come to the office
and have our little Christmas. Despite us forgetting to leave our cookies
for Santa, he still came! Later that evening was a combined
"White Christmas" baptism. Of course, my favorite bit was on
Thursday (Christmas Day for all of you in America) when I got to skype call
home. What a precious joy that was! I couldn't say enough about
that. I loved talking to each person I got to see (:
Saturday, we had another baptism. This was
different though. Rather than the investigators (mom and duaughter) being
taught by us, they were taught by the sister missionaries and asked me to
baptize them. I'm so grateful for htat. Why? Well, as Mom and
everyone else pointed out way too mayn times on skype, I'm
close-ish to coming home! Anyways, after being out for a while, the key
is to always stay fresh. After a few weeks though in the office, I felt
like I just kinda started going through the motions with proselyting work -
even at the "White Christmas" baptism on Christmas Day. With
the skype call as a jump start though, the baptism on Saturday really rekindled
everything. Leading up to their baptism, I could feel the investigators
excitement/ eagerness to enter those waters. And when they came out,
their joy was radiating, fully and completely. It really, really touched
me.
And so here I go, sharing that same, beaming joy
to all the world - nothing better, nothing so rewarding.
Love you! Elder Shane Brown
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