Brand New Mozam Do

Sister Spendlove said that I could buzz my head.... so I did!
Thanks so much for the pics of the Sacred Grove <<< and for the description. Just looking at the pictures I can almost feel the spirit of that place. I'm so glad that you were able to go to these amazing places! Thanks for telling me so much about them also.

Everything here is going pretty good, things with the branch have gotten better. We've been working a lot with inactives still and we found a bunch who we will be sitting with this week so I'll let you know how it goes. It's unfortunate that one lady really doesn't like the church anymore. She told us that our church doesn't teach anything and whatever else. I kinda got into it with her but oh well it's her choice. Anyways the funny part was that even though she hated the church, she was still willing to help us ha ha ha! It was kinda funny! She answered all of our questions and in between answers she would just go off about how much she hated the church. Then we'd ask her another, she stopped, answered the question, then kept going! I thought it was kinda funny.

Well I have a pretty funny story for everyone. So we did this family night thing at a members house. Anyways at the end of the lesson, she brought out this traditional drink stuff (oh boy) called maheu. Anyways she poured me a huge glass of it. It smelled kinda funny, so you know I had to ask "This doesn't have any alcohol does it?" She said it didn't and was a little offended that I would even ask if she was serving alcohol to the missionaries. Anyways my comp said that he made it all the time in his house and that it was fine. So I drank some.... it was pretty nasty, so I asked my companion again if he was sure and he said yes. Then she started looking at me funny so I started drinking it. I couldn't leave it in my mouth for very long because of the taste so I drank it pretty quick... That was a bad idea because then she thought I liked it and gave me more. I guess what happens with this drink stuff is that it's fine if you drink it soon after you make it but if you leave it too long it ferments.... yeah it had fermented for sure ha ha! I started feeling it on our way home. So I made it home and the other missionaries we live with thought I was acting kinda weird. So I told them what happened and they all got a pretty big kick out of it ha ha!

This week was pretty good. Things with the branch have gotten better and the work continues. We taught one lesson that was pretty interesting. One of our investigators just never wants to pray. He knows how cuz I've heard him do it before, but he never wants to pray. He always just says that he'll do it next time. So one day we went there and all of our appointments fell through for the rest of that day. So we showed up there at about 4 in the afternoon. We sat and told him that it was his turn to pray. He again said that he wasn't prepared and that he would do it next time. I had about had it with that answer. So I told him we wouldn't start teaching or leave until he had said a prayer, and that we had until 9 that night to just sit if we had to. He just kept saying "no next time I'll do it but not today." So we sat for a while. He still wouldn't say it. So I pulled out that book mom sent me (thanks a ton by the way mom that book helps me a TON) and I started bombarding him with scriptures about prayer. After each scripture I asked if he was ready to say it, each time he just said the same thing "next time today I can't" So then I would find another scripture and give it to him. Anyways to make a long story short, we were there for 2 and a half hours, needless to say I ran out of scriptures. So I was trying to thing of what else I could do... then I saw his mom washing clothes kinda near us. so I said "I'll tell your mother you wont pray!" he laughed and thought I was kidding... So I called his mom over. Unfortunately she wouldn't do anything. But anyways he did end up saying the prayer but we were there for a long time.

Well I better get going. Have a good rest of your trip though! Love you!

Love Brady