Good Week

This week was good! We did not find any new people to teach. But we did have a lot of lessons. Thank you for the prayers, we need them! It is going good with Elder Hadley, he is getting used to it for sure, he likes it. The best part of the week was probably the weather, it was super nice and we rode our bikes all week so street contacting went good. The worst part of the week was probably the success rate of people who wanted to listen. Last night we knocked from 6-9 and only got 1 return appointment. But it was a good week and ready to get going on the next.

Love, Mac

New Companion!

Hello, things have been going well here! Elder Hadley from Kaysville is my comp!!! Hahah way funny I get to train him!! So that is way nice and he is awesome. He wants to work hard and teach people so it is great! He says almost the same things I said when I first got out. So I am glad that I get this transfer with him.

This week went great. We are teaching this lady Margret, she is like 60ish. We committed her to read the Book of Mormon on Monday and has been reading 5 chapters a day. So we will continue to work with her. She is planning on coming to church this week. Also this other guy we started to teach, his name is Mike. He is super nice about 55. He has a way good LDS friend and got taught all the lessons but had 2 strokes so forgot about it. But we gave him a ton of scriptures and then he said "That's it?" So he wants to read a ton. Also he contacted his Mormon friend and they are meeting this week. So he shall see with him, super super nice guy though. And we are continuing to teach Darryn and Ethan all the lessons. They are both super soild.

Had ZLC and got to see Elder Stone, he is our Zone Leader now! So I will be going on exchanges with him this transfer!

I can't really think of any funny story this week besides talking to this super racist old guy, I was laughing the whole time. It's one of those where you have to be there....some people.

Well I hope everyone is doing good and having fun! I left my camera at transfer so I will get it in a couple weeks at Zone Conference! Love you all!!

Love, elder mack

At the Washington DC Temple. It's so big! I loved it!!

Blazin cold here in Bmore!

 Haha! I will start off with a story. So I think it was Thursday night, we received a text from President saying that if missionaries don't have a car to go inside because of the cold. But we had the car this week so we were out knocking doors. We had been knocking for a while and we ended up knocking till 9. I was sooooo cold, the coldest I have ever been. I don't know the temperature but it was way in the negatives because of wind. I couldn't really feel anything. I also forgot my beanie. So I got home and showered and tried to get warm. Also the last house we knocked this lady told us to go inside, because the news said that skin exposed would get frost bite in 15 minutes!!! HAHAHAH!! So at that point I was a little scared. So I went to bed. At 12:22 I woke up totally numb! Couldn't feel anything but my heart and it was ice cold! hahah I thought I was going to die. Just kidding but I was a little scared. So I couldn't fall asleep for a while after I got tons of clothes on. Hahaha it ended up fine and we had to wake up at 4 for MLC. Soo just a bunch of bad news.

 I also threw up Saturday night from Hip Hop chicken that we had in intercity Baltimore on Saturday morning on the way home from a mission conference with Elder Nielson of the 70. The chicken was one of the best foods I have ever had though so it was worth it!

Also we had a baptism for Nicole Clark this week!!! SOOOO sweet, she is soo awesome and her testimony is crazy awesome! We found her at the beginning of December and she was very prepared! I love their family so much and we are going to put her two sons, Darryn and Ethan on date for Feb 3rd this week. Elder Selk did the baptism and I confirmed the Holy Ghost.

We are getting smartphones! I had some training on it and it sounds really neat! Transfers are coming up this week so I will know if I stay or not. I am hoping I stay. This past week was super fun but stunk at the same time.

Doing great and having fun, hope y'all are doing great! Love you!

Bynum Run District Meeting

Nicole's baptism with her three kids

hip hop chicken MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Freezing in Bel Air

Blazin cold these days biking! These past couple weeks have been great!! We have been teaching Nicole and her family a lot!! Her baptism is this Saturday the 6th at 6 o'clock! We are soo pumped! And then we are going to put Darryn and Ethan on date next week! They are Nicole's kids. Nicole has one of the most solid testimonies I have ever heard from a convert. She is awesome! We are also teaching a couple Sam and Kelsey, they are sweet! Doris is a lady from Ghana and hopefully we can get her to church this week! Anthony is a door knock, well most all of our investigators are a door knock, he is so sweet. We have some other peeps and potentials that we need to go visit and start teaching more. The Book of Mormon is sweet. We have changed our door approach to more of our testimony of the Book of Mormon, we have gotten a lot more reception from that. I am working on Charity, especially with the haters. I am not good at loving the mean people. Being the district leader is alright, I would rather not be one but it is whatever. We get to go to the temple this month! Transfers are in two weeks, I hope I stay in Bynum Run. On New Years we went to the Uhligs, they are the coolest family ever! The spirit is so strong in their home and we have so much fun! We played Book of Mormon headbands and wackie six. So that was really fun! It has been sooo cold and biking in it stinks but we have the car this week! Funny story- we drove home from our Christmas Conference straight through downtown Baltimore, we couldn't spot one white person. The blue light districts are real! It was Elder Selks first time driving through it and it was sweet! But anyway we stop and this guy totally fell asleep driving! He was OUT! We were laughing sooo hard. It probably doesn't sound too funny but it was. Also we were driving by this trash place and found some expired pastries, so we had a little 8:30 snack, they were still covered so it was fine. Way good though. Also I guess we are getting smartphones, I have an MLC that I am going to about it so that should be cool to hear. Well I hope y'all are doing great! 

Love,

Elder Brown

Christmas with the Uhligs

Treat from the Uhligs

Opening presents on Christmas

Pastries from the garbage! 

(Mom's note: At no time have I ever told him it's ok to eat from the garbage)

Freezing in Bel Air!!