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Elder McKay Brown
Maryland Baltimore Mission
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Monday, February 26, 2018
A Move to Pennsylvania
Hello
Everyone! That is so sad about Grandma Brown and I am still shocked. She was an awesome grandma for sure! Definitely she had a lot of love for people. I am going to miss her a lot. It is so sad to think she is gone. And so happy to think we will see her again.
This week was good, my last in Bynum Run! We had some sweet lessons
with the investigators! Mike came to Winters Run baptism so that was awesome!
And we had a sweet lesson with him! We picked a lady from Ghana who is way
cool, Luna. Picked a guy up from Congo. He is awesome, Sam. And then we picked
up a couple of guys Ray, Jayden and their friend Keysha. Haha they were sweet.
Keysha is super Christian black lady who did not like us at the start. She
thought we were like a cult or something. But over time she loved us and gave
us each a lucky rock! haha Also we had a good lesson with Alex. Larry is
tonight so we are going to talk with him. Denise and her daughter are on
Wednesday so I won't be able to be there for that. But they are super solid. I
am going to miss all our investigators and members soo much. And Elder Hadley,
he is so sweet and I have loved being with him. I will be saying bye to all the
peeps tonight and tomorrow. Sad times.
I
am going to Carlisle Pennsylvania! I am way excited. It is the most northern
part of the mission. It is a big area but we share it with some sisters. We
also share a car with them. I have heard it is a cool area. I will have to get
used to it but for the most part I am pretty excited. I will be with Elder
Beardall who has been there for 4 months. I will be the district leader there.
I will get there on Wednesday and have to learn everything again! WOO! It
should be good. Hope everyone has a good week this week. I will be praying for everyone.
Love
you all,
Mac
Sunday, February 18, 2018
A ticket and the fall
Ahh. Where do I start. This
was one of those weeks where it was just SWEET. Haha good and bad I guess.
Mostly funny times. Life is funny. But I guess I will start with my ticket. I
ran a red light and the camera got me. So that was $75 that I payed today. We
had three area meeting this week and I got to hang with the assistants in the
morning, they are hilarious. The meeting went great. We went on exchanges with the
Susquehanna area, and we had a beast talk with them. They are having a hard
time so it was good.
I
ATE it on my bike this week. Totally ate it. hahaah funny story and people saw
too. It is hard to explain how it happened but I was going up this side hill
and I start to slip so I turned my bike towards the bottom of the hill but at
the bottom was the road and I was flying so I slammed on my brakes and FLEW!
hahaha I did a total 360 and slid down the hill. The bike fell on me so that
hurt and landed on my shoulder with the plate so that didn't feel good but most
of all it hurt my pride. Excuse my grammar.
We
had a sweet lesson with our investigator Alex, we put him on date for March
11!! He is so sweet! So we are excited for him.
We
also had the baptism for Darryn and Ethan! It was awesome! Everything went
good. Brother Uhlig did the baptism and elder hadley and I confirmed. It was
sweet.
We
also ate at my favorite place Hip Hop chicken and you better believe that
didn't sit well...dang good chicken though. Also
I heard the jazz are ballin. DANG SWEET. TAKENOTE
Love
y'all, elder b
After "the fall"
Darryn and Ethan's baptism
Cooking at home
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Finding Investigators
This week was pretty good! Our investigators are good, some
are progressing pretty well and some aren't. We did find one investigator and
have quite a bit of potentials. His name is Larry, he is a headquarter
referral, pretty dang solid. It is going great with Elder Hadley. Best part of
the week was finding this sweet lady, Denise. In the morning Elder Hadley and I
were studying how to find investigators. And we were praying hard to find
someone who is ready. And so we went out and at like 4 we were walking around
the sesaons, our apartment complex. We saw this guy across the road so we
walked over to talk to him. He said he was working and walked into a complex.
We followed him in. He went upstairs and we went down. We were about to knock
on this door but then we both stopped and knocked a different one that we felt
we should knock. So basically all these things were adding up. And Denise
answered and she was like "oh I am actually very interested, I have a
friend in Michigan that is a mormon and the elders there taught me once. And I
have read the Book of Mormon twice with my friend." HAHA we were like
DANG. hahah but she said that we barely caught her and that she is flying to
see her friend in Michigan for two weeks. So we are going back over in two
weeks. So that was super cool. The best times in the mission is when you
realize you are an actual instrument in the hands of God. (Alma 29:9) God just
totally put us at Denise's door. Dang awesome!
The worst part of the week was being a little sick. Sore
throat and upset stomach. But I am okay now. So good week!
Eating at McDonalds
With Elder Steenblik
With Elder Hadley
Monday, January 29, 2018
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
Monday, January 22, 2018
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!!
Monday, January 8, 2018
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
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