Hey family.
We had a fairly decent week this week despite it starting off slightly lousy for me. I had some form of food poisoning Monday night. We went to dinner and I just felt off and after eating like 4 bites of food I was like "yep. Time to leave." haha. So once again, I missed out on teaching Amber and her friends. I guess it went pretty well though. One of the people from last time wasn't there but another guy, Steven, was. Everyone is pretty positive about the lessons and we have another appointment with them tonight. The only setback is that ALL of them and pretty much everyone else we're teaching right now works on Sundays. We're teaching like 9 people and I think all but 1 or 2 work every Sunday. We're hoping that as they gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon that they'll want to come to church and that we can emphasize the importance and blessings that will come from doing so.
So this is the last week of the transfer, and I've been in Barstow for 4 transfers. Which means my head is on the chopping block. So to speak. haha. I don't really want to leave yet but we'll see what happens next week. I've been in the same stake, the victorville stake, my whole mission and wouldn't mind staying for stake conference in March.
We visited the Rojas on Wednesday and had a good lesson with them. We didn't stay super long; they're pretty stressed preparing for their move in March. But we talked about the Book of Mormon and promised them that reading it would bring peace and calm into their lives. It really helps to have brother ramirez their who is pretty good friends with them. Members really are the key to success. We probably won't get them to baptism before they leave but hopefully they'll be well on their way.
Barbara is doing well. At least as much as she can in her situation. She's less worried and stressed about all her family mess and madness. It's been really cool to see such a different air about her since she got baptized. She might still complain, but she ends on a more positive note now. She has more of the "it'll all work out" attitude that we were never able to instill in her on our own.
We met with Bonnie, the woman from Jordan, on Friday. She wants to come to church but works two jobs and basically always works on Sunday. She's taking the book of Mormon with her on the bus because it's the only time she really has to read. If she's not at work, she's sleeping or taking care of her 3 kids. There's a 2nd family that lives there, and the man is a less active member actually. We talked to him for a good 20 minutes and he's actually thinking about coming back to church and talking to his girl friend about going too. He's also sister Bond's cousin. What a small world.
I exchanged with Elder Hyer on Saturday, Patch's companion. He's from Ogden. Turns out he knows the Houghtons! They're in the same stake. Benjamin Hyer. You'll have to let the Houghtons know :) he's a pretty cool dude. He taught the plan of salvation for the first time while we were on exchanges. We helped the Rubio family out with some yardwork; they were trying to remove a bunch of half dead bushes. It was actually pretty fun. We were good motivation for the kids too. Especially little Juan Steven. He's 5. He followed me around the whole time. Haha. "Elder Browning! Elder Browning!" Unfortunately I started to tune out my name after a while. haha. He's a super cute kid though. Our dinner yesterday cancelled and they were kind enough to feed us fairly last minute.
That was our week for the most part. The email I sent about being "knowledgeable" should have my guesstimate as to how to find that paper I wrote. I wrote that at the beginning of january. Actually I'll just copy it over again. Hopefully it's at least halfway right:
J&N or Jeren and nelson (don't remember the drive folder name) -> there might be a "Nelson" Folder -> Documents -> Schoolwork -> Freshman (college) -> a folder named "religion," "Book of Mormon," or something similar.
love you guys.
"Hasta la proxima. Chau."
Elder Nelson Browning
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