This week was pretty good, we had some really strange things happen. One we sat down with one of our investigators and she said she wanted to confess something to us. She is 25 and has 3 kids with no husband. She sent her kids off and she just came right out and said. "I am a prostitute..." Kinda strange, it was a first for me. She was really sad and said that she wanted to change her life. She already had changed her phone number and is looking for another way to make money but it was just kinda weird and unexpected. We talked to her about repentance and we are getting it taken care of but wow it was weird. We also were teaching a family about the 10 commandments and they had a lot of questions. Then when we finished they started asking about the traditions of their country if they were good or bad (there are a ton on traditions including things like praying to ancestors and other weird things.) we were there for an hour and a half and I answered all of their questions because my comp didn't really know. He was baptized when he was 18 so he doesn't have a ton of experience in the church. When we left my head was pulsing with all the talking and everything. It was kinda ruff but I answered their questions the best I could.

Its good to hear you guys had fun in Seattle. That was a way cool experience thank you for sharing it with me. It's amazing to just look at the little miracles that happen in our lives, there are probably so many that happen without us even noticing.

This week I wanted to write to you and dad about one of the members here. His name is Raul, he is a great guy, he is 23 and a great member. He is trying to serve a mission but is having some problems. Our branch president thinks that he likes his daughter so he doesn't like him and there is a whole other list of difficulties that he is having. But when I first got here and I saw him I knew that one reason I had been called to this area was to help him serve a mission. So I am doing everything I can to help him. He is different than any other Mozambican I have ever met. He is a really good guy. He has a girl friend who is from Brazil who lives in Provo, he wants to go to the US after he serves a mission. This guy is like my brother, I would do anything for him and he would do anything for me. I just thought I would share that with you guys I'm not really sure why.

This week we gave a baptism date to Tininha, she is a super strong investigator but her father doesn't like the idea of her getting baptized. She is 23 but she probably won’t be baptized until October so I won’t be here. It kinda makes me sad that I won’t be here to see her get baptized. but oh well there will be others.

Oh with pictures, I think I'm just going to put them on a flash drive and send them home with a missionary who is going home to mail to you guys. I have a lot of one little girl who's family we are teaching. I gave her a slinky and she hasn't stopped playing with it since. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of her with the slinky. Giving out those toys is hard because I just get swarmed by kids and they all grab what they can and run off so I don’t have very many pictures of kids with them. Ungrateful little ***** as Big Jim would say. But I'll try.

I got on a chaupa a few days ago and I was smashed between 3 fat chicks in the back of the chaupa. I thought "oh man this chaupa is going to suck." But then Bob Marley came in the chaupa. He had long hair a binni, a thing of weed in one hand and a bottle of beer in the other and as soon as he got in he looked at me and said "WHAZZ UP!!!" I wanted to through my hands up in the air and just yell "YES!!!!! THE CHAUPA IS GONNA ROCK!!!" Oh man I've never had a better chaupa ride in my life. He was from Mozambique but he spoke perfect English. I asked him where he learned and he said from watching movies. He talked just like an American saying things like Chillin and Smokin and dude. He even didn’t put the "g" on the end of the words with "ing". He was hallarious! Other than that not a whole lot else happened this week. . Anyways I better go, thanks mom, sorry our p-day moved to Tuesday because yesterday was a holiday. Thanks for all the support that you guys give to me. I don’t think I could do it with out you guys. I love you and I'm grateful to be your son.
Love you! Elder Brown