The Missions of Elder Brady Brown, Mozambique, and Elder Tyler Brown, Paraguay

Monday, June 16, 2008

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Hey Mom, Hey Dad, Happy Father's Day! I hope you had a good one! That's cool that everyone is so busy this week. Our investigators are doing pretty good. Only one of the families came to church. The other family and the college student didn't but they are good. The family that comes to church their names are Guilda is the mom, Artur is the dad and I don’t know the kids names they are way young. The other family the dad's name is Luis and his kids I don’t remember right now. The college students name is Chandi.

The technology here is about 10 years behind. They just got cell phones not too long ago ha ha. It’s like living in the 70s here. It’s going to be a whole new world when I get back. It’s weird to think about home now. Clean streets, no drunks, no beggars, WHITE PEOPLE!!!! Every time I see a white person it’s really weird. It’s going to be strange coming home. The transfer meeting is coming up, its crazy I've been here 2 out of the 16 transfers already! It’s flying by. I will probably get a new companion.

We had a pretty ruff day at church yesterday, let’s just say if the missionaries weren't here the church would fall apart quickly. Everything started off normal in sacrament meeting. Then our Branch President got up to speak. He started to get a little excited, he started raising his voice a little bit. This lead into yelling, which lead into pounding the pulpit a little, which lead into pounding the pulpit harder and harder, which lead into a little bit of waving of the arms and moving around, which lead into some audience participation, which lead into him having the audience repeat "I will come to church activities" starting soft, then louder, then yelling it back whenever he pointed to them. All to the dramatic climax of yelling, "in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!!!" which lead to an applause from the congregation. All the missionaries stood up and shut it down pretty quick but man it was bad. I just felt sick afterward. I thought I was back in San Fran visiting that crazy Methodist church all over again. In other news I was approached by a drunk guy who wanted me to kiss him. So I punched him and we kept walking... No just kidding I almost did though, seriously thought about it but decided that it wouldn't be worth an interview with the president. Other than those things everything is great! Anyways I better go but thanks dad for everything and happy fathers day again! Thanks Mom! I love you! Love Elder Brown

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