It's super strange to hear about snow and stuff like that. It's pretty hot today and I haven't seen snow in over a year! Crazy huh? It is going to be ruff when I first get home though. I will leave in the middle of the summer here to go to the middle of winter there ha ha.

I'm glad you guys liked conference too. I actually have a funny/cool story about that. So President and the assistants were in Beira so that left just us to run conference and get it playing in English and Portuguese. No big deal right? ha ha nope. It took us at least 6 hours to set up! We had to set it up to play in both languages, and also record so we could send it up to Beira. Well after a brutal battle with a lot of wires, we got everything working. So the missionaries started coming and conference was about 10 minutes away from starting. I was sitting there listening to the Mo-Tab Choir singing and watching the timer go down to start conference. Then to my horror..... it all cut out!!!!!!!! with like 7 minutes to conference!!!!! Everything shut off and I don't know why! So I ran down to the room that has all the satellite stuff thinking that maybe some kids got into it and unplugged something. But no, everything was just the way I left it! I don't know why but it all just stopped working! I unplugged everything and plugged it all back in and it still didn't work! I restarted the system and still nothing! Keep in mind this whole time I unplugged and stuff I was running up stairs to see if English was working, and then down stairs to see if Portuguese was working. Conference was about to start in like 3 minutes and I was at a loss, I had no idea what to do. I had tried everything I had known how to do. Then I don't know why, maybe because I was just out of ideas, I just stated unplugging things and plugging them into random places. I didn't even have the same set of audio and video going into the same spots or anything! It was all a big mess. But while I was doing that I just went downstairs and Portuguese was working! Then I went upstairs and opened the door and to my surprise, It was working in English too! I have no idea how it all worked! It was all such a mess and I don't know what I did, I thought I was just making more of a mess but I was out of ideas and didn't know what to do. It sounds like something dumb and insignificant, but I can't help but wonder if there was something else besides dumb luck involved. I went down stairs and back into the satellite room and looked at the big mess of wires all over, and I started tearing up. I don't even know why, I was just so grateful that it was working. Later I told Elder Fairhurst (the senior guy) about what had happened and he said "Well Elder Brown, it looks to me like you did all you could, and then the Lord did the rest."

This week we also taught some lessons. We have a lot of good people who are progressing well. Work in the office is going pretty good too. I'm grateful for being able to work in the office. It has taught me so many things that I know I will use throughout my life. We did have a busy week with President and his wife going to Beira. They went up to Marromeu which is a long ways away from the city. President couldn't use his phone or anything so he was literally gone for 5 days. I don't like when we can't get a hold of him. It makes everything harder. Then to make matters worse Sister Packard got sick and so I had to get her an emergency flight back home on a Saturday when everything was closed. She made it home though so that was good. She just had a fever and stuff, it wasn't a big deal but she just couldn't go to Marromeu.

Over all everything is going pretty good here. I'm enjoying my time in the office and I'm learning more each day. Thanks for everything. Have a good week. I love you!

Love
Brady