Monday, April 23rd

All is well here. You'll have to forgive me this week for just sending a short email. All goes well with the work. We are in the process of finding new investigators. We have a couple that are progressing towards baptism. The skype call. Just so you know I think we will do it on Monday again like with Christmas, the day after, so yeah, that's the deal with that. I don't have much time this week. You'll have to forgive me for that. The cyber closes in 20 minutes and I have to write President, but all is well with the work here. I hope to see more success this week, but really not much is changing for now. I love ya tons and look forward to your letters always, and I promise I'll write more next week. Love Elder Brown

Everything is going well. Really I love the mission. It has made me into a person more like Christ and a person that is more happy and more people friendly. I have learned to express myself here, and I have learned a lot about the gospel. It really is such an amazing thing, the mission. But yeah, all is well. Yeah. and don't worry, it will take a lot to make me trunky.

I just try to keep the good old hakunah mattatah spirit. The spirit you always liked so much in me, cause it means no worries. It will all work out. All things are in the hands of him that knoweth all things. I think the mission has made me even more hakkunah mattattah, because now I have the gospel perspective, which in itself is hakkuna matatah. "Peace be still." "Fear not." "Peace I leave with you." "I have overcome the world." "My son peace to thy soul" That seems to be the big focus of the gospel, granting peace to the broken hearted.

Yep all of us kids are somehow involved in saving. It's great. It's too bad that they have to work Sunday at times. I'm glad that Kaylee is in that now. She is going to be one of the EMT´s right? If I remember right.

Yeah the baptisms went quite swimmingly. They were both very happy and I was glad it all went so well. And now they are both on the path to the celestial kingdom. It's great. But yeah, everything is going well here and I'm very excited about the work, but I've got to go.

Love, Elder Brown

April 9th

Yep I,m still here and still kicking. Working as hard as I can and hoping to get lots done. It's gonna take more than a few throwing knives to bring me down. Luckily there is always dodging hahaa. And Jacob 5, I read it a lot, and there are so many prophecies in there that most people don't even realize. It really is a cool chapter.

Yeah all is well. I'm still here with Elder Ayola, Elder Edwards and Elder Kesler. Nobody got changed here. All is well. The area is actually very small compared to all of my earlier areas. I can walk across it in 20 minutes. As I think I told you, my last area you could walk for 1 hour just to get from the middle to one of the extremes. But yeah, as far as people we are in the hunt. We have our investigators David and Matilde who are going to get baptized Saturday, but other than that we are pretty much dry. Last week was what they call Semana Santa and everyone was on vacation visiting family so we didn't get much done as far as finding, but now everyone should be home which is perfect. The members are great, but it's kinda funny cause the church is basically run by the bishops family. They are all grown and all are leaders in the church so its kinda funny. I have pictures of some of them and I'll have to get those to you later due to the whole virus thing.

I've been thinking back on my mission and my whole mission I think I've only had 2 changes that weren't ridden with challenges so I guess you could say I've learned a lot on the mission but it's all good. You can't learn if you don't have problems so it's great fun.

But yeah other than that, all is as it always is. Missionary work doesn't change too much week to week. It's all about the same. It's like being a teacher but you just teach the same lesson over and over again all week and all month for 2 years. It changes a little bit here and there depending on the needs and understanding of the students, but it's still the same material, so yeah it's similar every day, and yet it never gets old. That's the miracle of the gospel.

But I love ya tons and I miss ya. I look forward to your emails every week, and I love hearing from ya. I miss ya tons and hope that all is well with you. Talk to you soon.

Love, Elder Brown

April 2nd

I loved conference. I wish I could have watched it in English, but it's ok. I'll just come home and watch what I didn't get to watch in English. I love hearing their voices. There is so much more power behind the messages, but yeah, I loved it. I especially loved the talk by Dieter F. Uchtdorf. Super direct and super true. I loved it.

This change has gone by fast. With my time in the mission I don't think any struggle or desire will slow it down. I feel like I just got here and yet I've been here for more than a month, but yeah. About the package, I should be getting it next week. so we´ll see what I got. Next week I'll let you know. About pictures, my worry is that the computers here are more virus ridden than any I have seen, and I worry about connecting my camera to them for fear of an explosion, so I think I'll just have to wait till I have a clean computer to send pictures, so sorry. I do have pictures to send but I just worry.

Well I have to go write president in like 10 minutes, but I love ya and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Love, Elder Brown