Email #17
Area: Grange area of the Firle Zone
Companion: Elder Hamilton
Excerpts from Mom's email:
Dear Mom,
Hey Mom, thanks so much for what you wrote! It really uplifts me every week to read your emails. It's pretty weird to be writing you again so soon. It only has been a few days, but I do have a few things to tell you about. I hope the family is doing well!
So these last few days have been pretty quick, but here are a few things that have happened. First off, the other day we went by to see one of our new investigators, D..... When we stopped by she was telling us that she just had been robbed the night before. I guess she had someone staying at here place and they just took some stuff, cut a piece of her hair off, and left. Yeah it is as it sounds like. Anyway, her friend, N......, was over there to comfort her so she just so happened to be there when we stopped by. Her and D.... have known each other for a long time, so D.... invited her to stay with us as we go through the message. This was the first lesson that we had with D...., but she had missionaries about 12 years ago I think. We taught the Plan of Salvation, because N...... had just lost her husband. Both of them were so into it and we could tell that it really impacted them. They are both Christian, but seems like neither of them know very much about it, mostly just a belief in God is all. At the end of the lesson, we invited both of them for baptism and they both accepted! So we are pretty excited for that. It will take a little bit of work with D.... because she has a Word of Wisdom problem. She even brought up that concern saying she knows to be baptized she has to give us her addictions, but she really wants to at this point in her life. N...... said that she has no problem with that, not even coffee. So I'll keep you updated where it goes with them.
We have been able to see a couple more investigators in the last couple days, but on that front, everything is still going well. The only sad thing is that one of our investigators, C.........., dropped us over the phone. It was really surprising, because he really wanted to be baptized. We plan to follow up with him in person to see what we can do. Besides that, everyone is doing great. C...'s baptism is coming up this next Sunday, so hopefully I can email you about that next Monday. Just a heads up though, there are a few more public holidays coming up, so if you don't get an email from me, just wait a day. I think the next one is in two weeks time though. The holidays here are just so weird haha, the next one that I saw was the Queens birthday.
Love you Mom!
Elder Bryner
Excerpts from Dad's email:
Hey Dad!
That's really cool to hear about Vegas! Man I really miss swimming haha. Michael Jackson huh... Man I forgot about his music, it is so weird to think about things at home because it feels like another lifetime. Sometime Elder Hamilton and I will talk about home and stuff we used to do for fun, but it always just seems like ages ago. I mean it really doesn't feel like I've been out very long, but at the same time feels like forever ago. It's really hard to explain.
Another crazy story happened though that I've never experienced before. We went to go visit this referral named J.... and this was just bazaar. I kid you not, he talks a thousand words a minute. I have never met someone who talks so fast. I think that he forgets to breathe and when he does its like a huge breathe and he just keeps going. Not just that, but he invited us in and his house was just like a cyclone went through it. I mean neither of us care if a house is messy when we go in or anything like that, but I have never seen anything like this haha. I seriously could not see the floor. It was just pretty funny is all. We then tried to teach the lesson, but he would go off on random tangents. The sisters who referred him to us warned us about that, so Elder Hamilton told him we would go through the lesson real quick and for him to save questions for the end. We typically don't do that, but we just had to. Even then though we only got to a quarter of the lesson with him. We have some weird experiences here sometimes that's for sure.
A few days ago we had another 8 hour training... It is crazy sometimes how long the training meetings are here. The weird thing is that I can stay engaged during them. If it was school, there is no way I could, but for some reason it is different here.
Love you Dad!
Elder Bryner
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