Family,
And so life just keeps getting better and
better. As in, however happy and joyful I thought everything was last
week, and the weeks before, it's even better now, and I've no doubt it'll
continue to get better. That's life!
I got to go on exchanges this week to an area
that I used to go on exchanges in this time last year! There's a surreal
feeling for you. On these exchanges, we got to do a lot of tracting.
First of all, there's a better way to find people to teach, but I love
tracting. When you don't have too much support from the branch and you're
out of people to teach, it's tracting time. So on Friday, we were out
tracting and met so many different people. It's amazing the amount of
different life styles you can see in just a few hours of talking to everyone
you see or pass along. At the end of the day, we were ready to go meet up
with some other elders for dinner, but we thought, "just one
more." I'm now taking this out of my journal entry: "The
classic 'just one more' thing happened to us. We saw a kid in his house
not doing anything so we went and tao po'd [(rather than knocking on doors
here, you just go outside and yell "people!' so someone knows you're
there)]. He came out and after getting to know him, we asked something
about what he thinks about Christ. He took a long time to think of an answer.
Normally, you'd want to let them take all the time they need, so that's
what I was going to do, but then the thought came to me that he doesn't know
much about Christ so I asked if he wanted to learn more and he let us in.
Turns out, his name is Albert and he's 21 yrs. old, and last year, his
dad died. We gave him an overview of the Plan of Salvation and it was
just so inspired. Our questions, our answers and our discernment was so
guided and inspired. I love the gift of the Holy Ghost."
And other exciting news.... had a lot of
people we were really really hoping to come to church come. Much more!
It was actually somewhat cold this last week. Especially in the
mornings it was cold, it made us laugh realizing that we don't even own a
single blanket, just bed sheets only. We are really having a good time.
Sometimes I think we're having to much fun to be missionaries, but
missions are meant to be happy (: Enjoy the pictures!
Love, Elder Shane Brown
Pictures
1. The elders' apartment we slept at on
Friday was an upgrade from our usual showering with a ladle and scooping water
from a barrel. Look at this shower head! I mean, it's just a flow
of water coming out of the wall, but it was pretty great.
2-4. Some sweet pictures, right?
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