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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

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

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

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!!

Loving Bel Air!

Well, just having a blast in Bel Air. You know we are having fun doing the Lord's work. I forget everything I do in the past week so sorry. Pretty much we have been riding our bikes in this snow. I remember Friday we knocked for 5 hours while it was snowing all day. And we didn't get let it once! hahah that stunk! But Saturday was sooo sweet so it made up for it! We helped Nicole paint her apartment in the morning, Nicole is wayyy sweet! She has the most solid testimony! Her baptism date is the 30th. And hopefully we can get her 14 year old son Darin who is also way cool later. And her 10 year old. She also has a 3 year old who is dang cute! But their family is soooo sweet! And then Saturday we found some awesome investigators! So things are going sweet here!! We are going to like 6 members and Nicoles house on Christmas so I am sooo excited for that! And Christmas Conference is this Wednesday. Also Christmas Eve at the Uhligs! So excited for this week and the weeks to come. I love Bynum Run! 

Missionary Food!

Enjoying the Snow!

Dee and Maria and De'reon, recent converts. Sweet family, we go over all the time and teach them.

Slower week

This week was slow, we couldn't find anyone to teach but it was overall great! We put a lady on date for baptism for December 30 so that was sweet. She is awesome! Her name is Nicole and she has 3 kids. We taught her 4 times last week. We have not been able to teach Chris yet. He keeps rescheduling which really stinks. But overall things are going great! We got snow on Friday all day and have a lot of it. We had the car so we didn't have to ride our bikes in that which was good. We had our Christmas party Saturday night, it was way good. I love the ward and love everyone in it. It feels like home to me.

Love you all

Mac

Old district

Sweet Week!

Awesome week for sure!! Bynum run is super great, we are working hard, and having a blast while doing it! First, Elder Selk and I are going to be with each other another transfer! Elder Stone is leaving which really stinks! I was called to be the district leader. Elder Kershaw is also leaving the district. So that means Elder Coombs is training and Elder Ferrell gets put with Elder Hulme(from my mtc) So that is our district and I am super excited for this transfer!

It was sick to see Melissa and her family on Thankgiving! President said they could come and see me and Elder Selk so that was way sweet and we got to ball and play games!! 

I have forgotten the days this week honestly. But basically we went over to Dee and Maria's house everyday. Got them ready for their baptism. We had the Zone Leaders instruct us on Tuesday. That was sweet. We had mutual on Wednesday, and a sweet first lesson with Nicole, a new investigator. She also came to church and the baptism. So she is really solid, going through a divorce right now. Has 3 kids. Hopefully we will put her on date soon. 

Sunday. This was a crazy day! Woke up, studied, went to the church, had ward correlation with the ward mission leader(Bro Harris, was called last week and a way sweet guy, just moved in the ward) after that was ward council. Then church at 1. Had Danny, d and maria, and nicole, and another gator, Bro Harris (old guy). He loves to talk, it was fast and testimony meeting so he went up there and it was not good at all. Hahah it was very awkward and long. Bishop had to ask him to sit down. Hahah I was trying not to bust up laughing. I was in the back waiting for a sweet family to come but they didn't. After church we had the baptismal service. It went awesome! I baptized Maria and Elder Selk baptized Diamonte or Dee. 

Knocked on this door, testified of Book of Mormon and blessing it brings. Chris was his name, 22 from Brazil. Said we could come back and he would read it. Also said he had some struggles. An hour later at like 8:45 we got a text from him saying that he had been struggling with a job and life but he read the Book of Mormon for a little and a couple minutes later got a call saying he got a job and he starts the next day. We are meeting with him tonight and we are pumped and he is pumped to learn more! Power of the Book of Mormon is real!!!! Read it and the Lord promises us blessings!!

So that is it mainly. I'm in Bynum for another transfer which will put me here till Jan 16th. 4 and a half months here at least. I love it. Hope y'all are doing good!!

Dee and Maria's baptism

Exchange with Elder Stone

After a crazy day

A new buzz haircut!

With the Lower's on Thanksgiving!

Working Hard

     Bel Air is sweet! I’m lovin it, having a good time, plugging in the work and trying to lose myself in the work. I have seen many miracles here in Bynum Run, as I said in my other email, Alma 26:12. Elder Selk and I have been knocking "no soliciting" apartments and that has been working so well. We have 8 investigators now and solid potentials. Dee and Maria are excited about their baptism December 2nd and we got Dee some sweet church clothes!! We are excited for them. We are going over every day this week to their house to make sure they are ready! I will try and send a picture of them next week. We are just trying to get as many people to teach and are out finding. Diligence to the mission rules translate to the work very much so. Elder Selk and I are having a blast and getting along great.  On Thanksgiving we will go rake this house with tons of leaves with the youth in the ward. Then go to the Poultons who are soooo sweet for lunch from 3-6. And then I got permission from my President for the Lowers to take us to dinner!!! So I am soo excited for that!!! Well hope y'all are doing great!! I will send a story next week. Betty Horn- we knocked her house last night, meanest lady ever!!! Yelling at us… hahaha  but we ended up talking with her for 10 minutes, we ended up taking a picture with her and she wanted a hug hahah so we are going back this week. Hahaha good times!!! love y'all!!!

Finding People!

 Things are going amazing here in Bynum Run!!! I will just tell about this week. Last Sunday was chill. Monday we shopped and did some errands. Tuesday was Halloween. We had district meeting and then we went out and tracted till 5. Then we ate at the Secrests. After we went to the church and balled. (I am still hitting my threes... watch out pbrown and lando) haha then we exchanged. So after Elder Stone and I went back to Winters Run. We went to bed and woke up at 6:30. Right at 6:30 Elder Stone yells, "LETS GO" hahahah he is an amazing missionary! We balled out and got 2 new investigators and 10 potentials! It was sooo fun!!  Thursday we woke up and Elder Selk and Coombs came and picked us up and we drove to zone conference. Zone conference was crazy good and we were pumped after. So this is where the week gets crazy!!! So two weeks ago we tracted into this guy named Tom. He said to come back. Thursday night Elder Selk and I just were like, alright lets ball out now and rely more on the Lord. So Thursday night we had an amazing lesson with Tom. Committed him to read, pray, come to church, and be baptized later!! It was amazing and I taught about the restoration. Also that night we found tons of potentials. Then we woke up Friday on a high. We met this lady named Maria who we set up an appointment with the next day. Friday we found lots of people. So Saturday we did service for the Browns and moved some things for them. After, we found some more people. Then at night we had an appointment with Maria. And her husband came named D. It was a way sick lesson. They were super excited and wanted to get baptized. So we committed them for Dec 2! hahah!! and to come to church. So that was sooo sick!! So Sunday comes and Danny, Tom, Maria, D and their son came to church. Hahah crazy!! It was a sweet time, they liked it and we are visiting with them this week!! Also taught Danny after church and hopefully by next week we will have a for sure date for him. Also found 15 potentials since Thursday night!!! So the Lord has really blessed the area and I am loving it here! I’m getting my Christmas spirit on early this year. So the Lord is real everyone. Alma 37:12- Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.

I’m excited for this week. Love you guys and have a good week!

Elder Brown

Dressed like Hulk and playing ball on Halloween

Getting Ready to Tract

Heading out on the Bikes!

Another Week in Bel Air

Things are going good with my new companion! We are having fun and working hard! He is a cool guy and we get along get. Bel Air is good, it is still pretty hard to find people but we are getting it better now. 94% are white here so it definitely is not intercity. We have some solid potentials this week. We are not sure on Danny's baptism, he really wants to get baptized but his mom doesn't want to rush it, I don't know why. But once we teach him all the lessons we will set up a date and we have two more lessons. So that will be coming up. I feel like I will be in Bynum Run for a long time. For sure till January so I am trying to make it super fun and still work super hard and focus a lot on studies and stuff!! I like it here and I am loving the ward, they feel like home and I get along with a lot of families. It is a good time in my mission, probably the best time right now. Stinks that not a TON is happening but I feel like it is about to lift off! I am excited to stay here.

Mac

New Companion

Hello, this week was solid for sure!! Wednesday I got my trainee..... I got a SICK comp!!! hahahahha he are lighting it up in Bel Air!! Yesterday we finally found two new investigators! So we can finally start teaching them along with Danny. Gotta love the work! We had 5 appointments fall through also though so that was a little tough. But Elder Selk is his name and he is from Canada. He likes sports and we talk about ballin a lot. He is just a cool guy, reminds me a lot of Ryan Cox. He is smart and very prepared, he went to a college in Canada before coming on a mission. He is 19 but I’m still older. He is cool and we have some good times. So I am liking the mission and the area and the work! I’m doing good, doing good. Shout out to Gordon Hayward who should of stayed in UTAH!!!! Also to Brevon Holmes for having his farewell this week!! Good luck!! It was a great week and we are going golfing soon! Love you guys!!

With new companion Elder Selk

With the Uhlig Family

Busy Week

Well week 5 in Bel Air and we are chillin. Actually we are not chillin, we are working hard and having fun doing the Lord's work!! Solid, hard, fun, sick, cool, interesting, and dope week. We are trying to stay busy and teach.

Monday- We ate dinner at the Brown’s house. Sister Brown is in charge of our meals. We also got haircuts, I am bald. Just messin. I wish.
Tuesday- District meetings. I gave the instruction on Christ like Attributes, It went solid I guess. We hit up panda express for district lunch. After we went on exchanges, I was with elder Farrell in Bynum Run. The member appointments fell through and so we tracted(knocked doors) the rest of the night.

Wednesday- We did service at Lasos, exchanged back, visited some potentials and then got Pizza Hut at like 9:30... sweet, got that cheesy crust baby.

Thursday- We balled in the morning at the park across from our house. Weekly planned. Tracted for 3 hours because appointments fell though, and man satan was in the hearts of many that night. haha We got a lot of haters... It gets dark here at 7. Lots of rich uptight peeps. So it is hard for them to be humble I think, idk I still love them but man that night sucked and hurt the soul but we will be back.

Friday- We did service at lasos again, talked to sister Stegman and tracted, we had more haters but some were receptive so that was sweet.

Saturday- This was a sick day, we painted the Giliotoses porch, after we went and taught Danny Blanchard. Then did service at the Blanchards, lots of yard work so that was good. We visited some members and such at night.

Sunday- I love Sundays here, they are soo nice and chill and great. We had dinner at the Browns again, and visited some people. Elder Kershaw got to skype his grandpa who has cancer and will be passing away soon. That was from 8-9:15. After we got call outs for transfers.  

So I am staying in Bynum Run and training a new missionary. So I  am fine with it, it should be good. Something that is way sick is our district. Elder Stone who came out with me is now the district leader, he is amazing. And his comp is Elder Coombs who Elder Stone has been training. I am training a new missionary. My comp Elder Kershaw is going to the other area in our district. So we are all way new and it is just way cool and fun. My old district leader from Westminster Elder Kulkarni is going to be my new zone leader so I am sooo excited for that!! I am happy, having fun, doing good, working super hard, and just being a missionary. 3 months out and 21 more to go. Shout out to my OLD man, Brent Brown hahah!!! He is turning 50 on the 19th!!! Love ya pops!! God bless, rip city, and roll tide. 

Love, elder brown.

Getting Ready to go tracting

After tracting for three hours

On Exchanges

With Elder Kershaw

Dinner at the Brown's

Building up Bel Air

Well, this email is gonna blow hahaha. I forgot everything that happened.... Sooooo it was a solid week though. We are trying to build up the area. Lots of visiting and stuff. We usually just go and knock doors and visit potentials, and formers, visit members and do a 21 day promise where we can follow up with them. Umm I ate at the Youngs twice this past week. I LOVE the Youngs sooo much. It is like being home.  They have 5 kids, 16, 14, 12 and two 10's. All members, way cool family. Uhh, I beat Elder Kershaw in Phase 10 at nights all the time. I think the overall score is like 120-54... I am money at that game. We taught Danny Sunday and so that was our first official lesson with an investigator! He is from a part member family, the Blanchards, and he is their son. I went on exchanges with Elder Gardner my district leader on Tuesday and Wednesday. Way cool dude, home schooled. I also have the lesson in district meeting tomorrow. We went to bdubs also on Tuesday after district meeting. We just do a lot of service and go around and tract a lot. Shout out to Jake Hadley who I found out is coming to the Baltimore mission in a couple of months! I have known him since 4th grade! It is hot and very humid here all the time. I am ready for the cold but know it will be super cold all the time and way cold. That's it, sorry I will be better at emails, I am the worst. Have a sweet week everyone!! Call outs are next week for transfers but I already know what is going to happen... so stay tuned!!! Love you all!!!

Elder Brown

A cool, giant Oak tree

The view from my apartment on a foggy day

Best Week Yet

Hey everyone so this week was sick! Way better week than any week so far here on the mission. It started with a solid Tuesday. Wednesday was Zone Conference and interviews with the President. I loved zone conference and interviews both. I learned a lot and it was so awesome!

Thursday, alright here is the big day.... Melissa came!! (She lives 45 minutes away) My aunt came and visited me for a couple minutes!! Hahaha that was sooooo sweet!! I was completely shocked!! I was reading outside and Elder Kershaw was like hey there is someone at the door for you.. and it was Melissa!! hahahah Sooo awesome!! Shoutout to everyone who pitched in on all those treats!!! Thank you soo much!! So that was awesome!! I couldn't believe it!! So that day was way sweet!! Friday we had dinner at the Blanchards, they are part member family and it was way cool, we were there from 6:30 till like 8:30. We had dinner and talked a lot and they are a sweet family! Anyway we said hey can we teach Danny, their 12 year old, a lesson sometime, and they called Danny down from upstairs. We taught him the restoration lesson and invited him to be baptized, and he said yes, so that was cool. He is getting baptized at the end of this month, I’m super excited for him. He is a cool dude. So Saturday was way sick too, conference! Man that was soooo awesome. I loved it so much. Priesthood session was a little hard just cause I felt alone without dad and the brothers, but it was solid. Also I missed out on some ebelskievers which stunk again and I was a little homesick but it was fine. I am still pumped up from Elder Callister's talk on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon haha. I have grown to love the Book of Mormon, I look forward to reading it everyday, it is awesome. Well that is about it. I am doing good.  We have found some potential investigators that I could see us teaching. Really happy to be here and love doin the work. Have a sick week everyone!!

Love, elder mac brown

A visit from Aunt Melissa!! (sorry it's blurry)

Shock at seeing Melissa!

Chilling out with Elder Kershaw

Mom's street!

Treats from everyone!!

Learning Patience

Alright, so this week was a little better! Just having that mindset of focusing on the positives help! It is hard in Bynum Run because everyone is super busy a lot, and everyone is in a rush. I want to shout out to Brev, going to Gilbert AZ. and Corey for leaving in 2 days to Mexico!!! Soooo sick!! 

Monday- We went to the church after we emailed and balled with Elder Stone, Cooms and Kershaw. That night my parents sent me a pizza to the apartment! That was the coolest thing ever!! And helped me a ton!!

Tuesday- Woke up, played basketball in the morning at the park across from our apartment. We had district meeting and the zone leaders taught it about "the fourth missionary" talk. Which is super good, by Lawrence E Corbridge. You can apply it to life and it is way good but pretty long. That was a sick district meeting.

Wednesday- A hard day, nothing was going on. We are trying to knock doors and stuff, visit potentials and former investigators. The hard thing is no one is home. This week and especially this week I have been learning patience. Patience in everything I do and think. In Westminster everything was go, go, go and teach, teach, teach every day. Here it is so much harder. I want to do the same thing but we can't, everyone is gone during the day. We are trying to find service opportunities and stuff but man it is hard for me to adjust, sometimes I feel bad because I need to be constantly walking somewhere or doing something but the reality here is that we need to set up appointments with members and inactives to find people through them. And for me that is a hard adjustment because in Westminster it was not like that. But I will adjust. Also being more patience with Elder Kershaw is hard too. But for sure working on that and getting better.

Thursday- We did some service for Lasos who helps Latinos learn english and stuff. We just work around their place doing stuff. We had weekly planning and went out again. Picked up some people that we were going to go teach on Friday.

Friday- hard day, those two people both fell through. Just a crappy day honestly.

Saturday- Worked at Lasos, kind of the same as Friday, but trying to stay positive hahaha hard times sometimes but I know it is all for my benefit. 

Sunday- had ward council, church then we had dinner. After we walked around and visited some people. Then went to bed.

Honestly, I am trying to work my hardest. And it is hard to learn patience. Just kind of a hard time these days but there are some fun times too!! So just staying on the positive side is essential. Hope you all will have a sick week this week!!! Love, Elder Brown

Bynum Run study area

Pizza Delivery

Studying with Elder Kershaw 

Starting over again!

Hey Fam!! Dang crazy week, pretty hard. Second time getting doubled in. Bynum run is a hard area, there’s nothing going on right now. Super different than Westminster where we were teaching people all the time. We got to Bynum Run and the apartment was complete trash! Some other elders were going home and so it was bad. The area book is tiny and nothing has happened for a long time. Our whole district was doubled in. It is a pretty rich area, so it seems like lots of busy, busy people working all the time. The ward is alright, everyone loves computers and not very social at all. The Youngs are a way sick family. I love them but the ward is pretty big and most of them love computers and are really smart and not social. Elder Kershaw is my comp, he is alright. We are pretty different I'd say. He talks quite a bit. Umm we do play phase 10 at night and I love that game so that is good. I get to drive a brand new 2017 Corolla because Elder Kershaw gets seizures a lot so he can't drive or ride bikes. We have to share a car every other week with the Winters Run elders. Elder Kershaw is actually from Kaysville too! He is 2 grades older than me but has been out for only 6 months. We are trying to get along and I think I really, really need to work on patience this transfer. The next transfer is 5 weeks and the next one is 7 weeks. Man we shall see. This last week was like starting over again so it was kind of like week 1 all over again. I am trying to stay super busy and work super hard so I don't think of home. It is kind of a hard time right now but I know it will get better and we will start having success as long as we are being as diligent and hard working as we can. Friday was a way cool day. We went to intercity Baltimore to build a park with Kaboom. It was way sick and it was fun working with other elders from the mission. Lots of black people in Baltimore and it is HUGE. Wayyyy sick for sure!! Trying to take advantage of my time here and working hard!! Love you guys and hope you all are doing good!!!

Last district meeting in Westminster!!

Out visiting with James (new member).

Last night in Westminster!!

With new companion Elder Kershaw