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Hey everyone, Saturday I had my first baptism, it was really cool and I can’t wait until we have another one which should be pretty soon. We have had a lot of success this week and I'm very happy with it. We had a lot of people who came to church again and a lot of people progressing it's great. Yesterday we were meeting at this guy’s house to talk about our branch and he lives in a shack out in the more jungle like area. While we were sitting there, I just looked up at the stars through the trees and it hit me, wow I'm really in Africa! It still feels like a dream to me sometimes. I remember hearing a lot of stories from people who helped build the church in Brazil and I always thought how cool it would be to do that and that is exactly what we are doing here. It's really cool to actually watch the church start from almost nothing and spring up. Even just from when I got here it has grown so much. When I first got here we had about 100 people who came to church, yesterday we had 257 people. It’s amazing. I will be sending a statue of a family of 5 home to my parents, the one I will send them costs 50 dollars and shipping will be about 40 dollars. But it will be shipped Fedex or DHL so it will make it home without problems. He makes bigger sizes but I'm not sure how much more they cost and he can make a family of any size. If you want one just give the money to my parents and they will be able to get it to me. Anyways I better get going but I love to hear from people so if you want to email me that would be great. Have a good week!
Elder Brown

Hey Mom & Dad! Thanks for all the news, it's nice to hear what's going on home cuz you're right ha ha I don’t get any news what so ever, I can't even listen in on what other people are saying about it because they don’t know either. Everything with our baptism went great! It was cool to stand in the circle to confirm her a member in church yesterday. Also our new Branch president is AMAZING!!!! He's such a good leader and he gave an amazing talk yesterday. I know that he has been called to build the church here. It’s really cool to say that I have been called to build the church here as well. All through the MTC our branch presidents who all served in Brazil would always tell us stories about how they helped lay the foundations of the church there. It’s really cool because that's exactly what I'm doing here right now! It’s hard sometimes because what we are doing I wouldn't always consider "missionary work" but it’s the really basic things that we do that helps lay the foundations of the church and it's really cool to be a part of. I can’t wait to come back in 10 years and go through the Mozambique temple! We'll see. Transfer meeting was really cool, it's way exciting. Our mission president makes this big elaborate slide show with everyone's pictures. He goes through every district in the mission and their pictures are next to their companions and then if they get transferred the picture disappears and someone else comes in. He's on the phone talking to everyone and people go nuts when something happens, it’s really cool. I'm staying with Elder Okazaki in the same area but we are moving houses is the only change. I found out that my friend from the MTC is coming to Beira so he'll be in my zone which is great cuz I'm kinda up here by myself. But ya, he should get up here around Friday or so. I got all the young women’s letters from the pouch service, and 3 of yours last week. How it works is when they ship supplies from SLC here they just throw the letters in with it so there isn't really any scheduled times they leave. We are going golfing today... ya we'll see how that goes. I'll let you know how nice the course is, I doubt it's anything like Lakeside ha ha. Anyways I better get going but its always good to hear what’s going on at home. Thanks Mom & Dad I love you! I will write again next week!
Love Elder Brown