More pictures! The first few are the service we had a few weeks ago. There's one that is everyone that was there, then one with all the missionaries, then my stewardship (district).

With the mantle thing. I received a little inspiration about the mantles. I was praying when out of nowhere I started thinking about what we talked about about the mantle being armor, and then I thought, "The mantle is already perfectly formed. I was just trying to stick my head through the arm hole and my leg through the head hole and just trying to put it on in all sorts of wrong ways." The callings we have, the mantle is already perfectly formed. We just have to put it on the right way. A lot of the time we try to put it on screwy, but that just doesn't work. When I became comp mayor I was trying to act like a comp menor and depend a hundred percent on my companion, but that's not how it has to be. I needed to be the one who was being leaned on, so it was difficult. When I became district leader I didn't have as much difficulty, because I leaned on the Lord and he showed me how to put on the mantle. Really we just need someone to show us how to put on the mantle. It's all ready. We just need to know how to put it on, and the Lord always wants to show us.

Earlier in my mission I was pretty prideful, but I'm learning to overcome that, and really the answer to overcoming pride is charity. If you have charity you won't have problems serving the people or loving them. Pride isn't a problem if you have charity. If we have pride then we can't accept correction and we get super upset with people super easy because they see things differently.

Well I've really got to go because I've been writing you for too long. Too many distractions, but I love ya tons and look forward to talking to you next week.

Love Elder Brown