Thanks for thinking about me and praying for me. I really appreciate it. Things are going better now. Now we are doing really well in the area. We taught 39 lessons this week. Almost twice what we normally get here, and we were able to find 16 new investigators. So yeah things are going well here.

Really the atonement is so important. It's what enables us to be better than our mistakes. Without that we couldn't change ever. There would be no purpose to life as the purpose is to learn and become better. President always tells us that the best way to fix someones problem is to ask them "what are you going to do to change that." If they give their own plans they will be more likely to put it in practice. It's really awesome how it happens. Help them to repent and become better.

Really goals are the road to change. If you want to become better you have to set goals and make plans, because the difference between a goal and a dream is that a goal has a foundation. A dream is just something you want. To put it into other words both dreams and goals are castles that you want to conquer (I love military analogies) but a dream is a castle on a cloud. There really is no way to get there. However a goal has a foundation of earth that you can walk up. But every dream can become a goal. You just have to raise up the earth till the dream has a foundation. So speaking metaphorically, the castle is what you want, and the earth are the plans you have to reach it. So a goal without plans is just a dream cause let's be honest a castle in the clouds is something you only see in dreams.

But yeah, thanks for writing but I really got to go. I still got to write pres. but I love ya tons.

Love Elder Brown