Malo Soifua!
So this past week went fairly well I think. We got our member area
book finished, with entries for all the members we know. Now we can
update it as we teach families and leave them commitments.
Guess who handed out a bunch more pamphlets? These guys! We got 2
more families excited about sharing the gospel with their friends and
coworkers. Yay pamphlets! haha.
In district meeting this past week, I really got everyone fired up.
I talked about obedience - its importance and associated blessings. I
know the spirit was there because I said some things I hadn't planned
and several missionaries wrote it down. haha. I said something like
"learning to be obedient on your mission will create an armor that will
last into the eternities." In preach my gospel it says that obedience
brings blessings of faith, knowledge, wisdom, testimony, protection
and freedom. How great is that? I helped the missionaries realize that
if all obedience did was just increase your faith, it would be more than
worth it. And yet it brings so many other blessings too! It was pretty
cool.
Moli's new commitment to reading the Book of Mormon has been super
cool to see. She is getting so much more out of it, both in
understanding and enjoyment. She said she honestly believes what she is
reading. We were all super happy. We ready Mosiah 5 with her and she
wants to put the last verse in the chapter on her fridge. haha. We're
thinking of waiting for her to bring up baptism instead of bringing it
up ourselves.
Sabrinna got a calling to teach in primary! It's so perfect! She is super excited about it.
We were trying an old address for an inactive family and found a
new family had moved in. The guy talked to us for over an hour. He
talked mostly about really studying what you're preaching before you go
preach it. He had 1 or 2 goofy ideas but for the most part his beliefs
were most similar to Mormonism. He had points against most churches but
didn't have anything against the Mormon church, just that he liked not
belonging to any church. He had a Book of Mormon and didn't know a ton
about the church so we encouraged him to study it more. Who knows what
could come of it? We thought he was a member at first. "Sup brothas! I'm
brotha Pratt." haha.
We were able to catch Sai at home. He was less active, then active
for a month, and now inactive again. He's really been struggling. We
going to share some scriptures about prayer and scripture study but
before we did he said "man... I really need to read my scriptures. I
need that spirit." I smiled really big and was just like "well. We
actually wanted to talk about that." We can't ignore the importance of
regular scripture study. He's working sundays now so he can't make it to
sacrament meeting. He said that day was one of his worst in a while,
and that he hopes, someday, we know how much that visit meant to him. He
took down our number and we told him to call when he was struggling and
we'd come over.
I got the peppermint oil. It feels super good and works for
headaches in the front of my head but not the ones that feel like
they're in my head. Which are usually the worse ones. I talked
to the mission doctor and he said there's not much more I can do. Maybe
see a neurologist when I go home. There's an asian member in Elder
Langi's ward that does acupuncture and massage therapy so I might go see
him sometime. He's super nice. My past head injuries probably have some
influence towards the frequenting of my headaches. That doctor and I
both think it's a bunch of little things. stress, diet, mission life in
general, etc. Things will probably even out a little more when I get
home.
What a long letter! haha. Hey what else or what different things do
you want me to talk about in my emails? More about people and families?
More about food? haha. Let me know! I feel like I sometimes scramble
for stuff to talk about. We had fish head yesterday. Haha. A fish
head... cooked... on the plate. It stared at me O.O "don't eat me!" haha
Well anywho. Until next week! Love you guys!
Peace!
Elder Nelson Browning
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