Post Mother's Day

Hi everyone

 

Just wanted to write a short email this morning. It was good skyping with you yesterday! I think it's interesting you mentioned that I seemed "chill." I felt pretty relaxed and actually hoped I didn't seem too chill. So much stuff happens to you as a missionary that I just don't really care anymore. The mission is going through a lot of stupid drama and I think that's added to it. The leaders in the mission are pushing and pressing other missionaries harder and further than ever before and many are pushing back. I'm trying to just stay out of it. It's gotten bad enough that if I was offered a change in mission assignment I might take it. So I'm trying to just ignore all the chaos and just be a missionary. I'm not going to become a nazi aspiring missionary with a stick up my rear, which is what they seem to want, but I'm definitely not going to become a lazy no-good apostate missionary either. There's a balance in all things, and I try to avoid extremes. It's important to work hard and be obedient, but you also need to be able to enjoy your mission. I've been doing a lot of up and down over the past year: working really hard, then getting discouraged... then working really hard, and then getting discouraged. So I try to just... work. I'm not perfect, but at least I'm not fake. Anyways. I might not make much sense and don't want to try to explain further so I'll just move on. haha :)

 

So! Since Elder Whiting and I are together for yet another transfer, we're going to try to make this last one count. We've had a lot of just "stuff" going on and should be able to focus more on finding. There were 2 less active families at church yesterday that we've worked with which we were really happy to see. One of them has a 12 year old son who isn't baptized and wants to be. There's also the man that's been going to another ward but lives in our boundaries that we visited last week who is probably going to get baptized in a few weeks. So things should hopefully start picking up.

 

I talked about everything else I can think of yesterday when we skyped. Haha. Well, happy mothers day again mom :) I hope you get my card today!

 

Love you guys!

Elder Nelson Browning