Hey everyone
With yesterday being columbus day, we're emailing today instead. Also, next week we have a mission tour with Elder William R Walker on Monday so we'll be emailing on Tuesday next week as well.
This has been a pretty weird week. I had some mini freak outs... haha. I wont go into too much detail. Suffice it to say God is trying to cram as much learning and growth through trials into the remaining few months of my mission. I've had a bad temper lately and this week was especially bad. I've gotten really good on my mission about not shouting or yelling or swearing or anything like that but the emotion is still there. Wednesday and Thursday were especially bad for some reason and I had a good talk with elder Langi on Friday. Got really humbled by the spirit. It's really something I need to overcome and leave behind completely. Can't overcome it if you're not faced with it though, right? So ever since Fridaythings have been a lot better. I fasted again on Sunday. I might end up fasting every sunday. I know stress (anger) causes a lot of my headaches or at least increases their severity and I haven't had them as bad since Friday.
Basically I think this was a learning week for me. haha.
Anywho, I spent friday babysitting on of the zone leaders. Hes had an internal blockage and I've never been so grateful for the ability to poop in my life. haha. But! While I was with him, Elder Judd was with the other zone leader and they had a couple cool things happen. The work has really started to explode in the ward lately. We actually had so many appointments today we thought we weren't going to be able to email. They all got rescheduled for the next couple days though.
So they visited one guy who's less active in our ward and it turns out his wife isn't a member but wants to be baptized. Uh... we can help with that! haha. He got offended from some people in the ward and was going to the other Samoan ward instead (the one that only covers Rialto). Hopefully we can get him and his wife to come though. We're meeting with them on Thursday.
Do you remember me mentioning finding a bunch of non member youth a while back? Well they ran into them again and set up an appointment to teach them. That should be tomorrow. They also invited them to Volleyball and the youth were pretty excited about that. In that same complex there are some less active/part member families that we're hoping to contact as well.
Have I talked about Sai before? I'm pretty sure I have. He started coming back to church a while ago and put on a music fireside but hasn't been back since. We caught him at home on Saturday but I could tell he was a little uncomfortable at first. His 9 year old son hasn't been baptized either but wants to be. He relaxed after a while and we set up to have dinner and family home evening with their family. Actually its kind of a funny story how that came up. He asked us if we golfed and I said "uh... I putt I guess." And he was like "it's on like donkey kong!" He pulled out a putting set and wanted to see if I was any good haha. Right before we started he said "wait... we should play for something. What should we play for?" and I was like "uh... reading a chapter of the Book of Mormon?" And he replied with "how about yall come over and have a family home evening and whoever loses has to teach the lesson?" So we agreed! Elder Judd lost so he's teaching. haha. I'll definitely help though. Sai and I both made 3 out of 5 holes the first round so we played another and made 3 out of 5 again so we played a third and he beat me by one point. And I played with a cane by holding it upside down and hitting the ball with the handle! All his adult clubs were for lefties. haha. It was pretty funny. It really helped him losen up.
We also got a referral from the missionaries in the other Samoan ward about a non member family that's been coming to their volleyball activities but lives in Fontana. So we're going to visit them this week too and hopefully teach them. Oh! And a member gave us a referral for another nonmember Samoan family, and one of them was at church on Sunday!
Lots of stuff to do huh? :) I haven't felt this busy in a long time. It's kinda stressful! But a good stress.
How did I injure my head? Uh. Playing ultimate frisbee. haha. I was sick and kinda felt like I shouldn't play but decided to anyways. I have a hard time taking it easy when playing sports and I should have that day. I was sprinting after a hail mary throw and just could not get that extra burst of speed I needed to catch it like I normally could on a healthy day and ended up tripping. I tried to roll out of it but instead wiplashed onto my back and pretty much rolled all the momentum into slamming the back of my head on the ground. Not very fun. But I think I'm alright now.
Well we better get going soon. Thank you so much for your love and support!
Love,
Elder Nelson Browning
p.s. I just realized my home debit card expired in August. I haven't had to use it on my mission but it's good to have just in case. Did you ever get a new one in the mail?
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