June 15, 2009

dear familythis week went well. its a lot different being zone leader. when theres a problem we are the ones who have to fix it haha, we cant just pass the problem on to someone. no one came to church on sunday. its been a long time since i havent had someone in church so it made me a little mad. but i have only been in the area for 2 days. i have another companion from Logan Utah. hes a pretty cool kid, he loves fishing. like 90 percent of his pictures our of him and him fishing. so i am sure this transfer for a p day we are going to go fishing. he has a fishing pole and everything. his name is Elder Marshall. he has about 20 months in the mission and hes kind of getting tired of it. but last night we had a good night and worked our butts off. hes willing to work and everything but i got to be the one to push him haha. and yes i bought new shoes. they are so expensive here. i tried to get a deal but the guy wouldnt budge haha. but these shoes should at least last 8 months, so i think i will be good. we are in a branch here and only about 25 go to church. we put some good goals so we will have to see how it happens. the branch has a lot of potential so we could definately double the number of people assisting. so i am pretty excited to be in a branch that depends so much on the missionaries. we are everything to them haha. i am going to have to drop a cane on elder jardine for not giving you guys that package!! haha. i will e mail him. and no i cant imagine taking the act. i think i have forgotten all of my math skills haha. but i think from all the spanish my memory has gotten a lot better with learning. cuz now whenever i hear a word i usually memorize it if i just say the word once. so its pretty cool. and no we dont speak at the baptisms, the members do. my last day in arguello the family that got baptized got mad at me because a member showed them pictures of there baptism and the missionaries baptized them. so fabiana, the mom of the family cejas she got mad at me and said... so it looks like all the converts were baptized by the missionaries but brown wouldnt baptize us.... she was mad because i told her that we will have a member baptize her instead of me. because usually if the members baptize the converts stay active. but she dropped a little cane on me haha. and the bishop arranges everything and no we didnt have refreshments because it was fast sunday. and i think the cordoba temple will be done in about 2 to 3 years. we are in charge of 14 missionaries. and no we dont have a washing machine. we have to wash by hand. but i love everyone so much, pray for me this transfer. my comp is a zone leader and everything but he is getting really tired of the mission. so make sure you pray for me and him. hes a good missionary but he just needs to get excited. love everyone so much chau!!!!!!!!!!!!Elder Brown es lo mejor

June 10, 2009

Well this week was great!! the familia cejas got baptized!! it was 3 of them. so it was an amazing experience. all of there family went to the baptism and we got everyones direction so now we will baptize there family haha. but unfortunatley i already got transfered. this was definately my favorite area and i am said i only got one transfer here. but i am going to an area called cruz del eje. i am going to be a zone leader there. so it will be a little bit more responsibility. i am pretty excited though. it will be a good experience. but the baptism was saturday and the family was so excited to get baptized. after the baptism the guy came up to me and i said thanks for everything, and he told me no thank you for this incredible experience. it really was a chosen family, they accepted everything we taught them without doubting. last night we put a goal with them to go to the temple in buenos aires in one year they all accepted and are really excited to go. so we will see if they will go. i told them i was leaving and they all got sad. but i told them i would return before i leave argentina. then she said, oh great, and she started making plans of what to do for when i come in 8 months. she will be making pasta frola, its a kind of desert thats amazing!!! in a lesson we were joking around saying that i love pasta frola and now everytime we go there she has it all ready for us to get fat haha. but it was a great week and we saw a lot of miracles. and i didnt send the package yet because i lost some of the memory cards but i found them today so it will be sent soon. and i will send my broken camara too. and today i will be buying shoes and they are pretty expensive here so i am going to take out like 200 pesos. love everyone so much, and i think people are starting to notice that in 8 months i am home haha. because more people are writing me telling me they are excited for when i get home haha. but love you have a good day. and 8 months is still a lot of time left. so dont get trunky!! chau!

June 1, 2009

Well family sorry for the short letter last week but i had so many things to do. but anyway this week was a great week. i dont know if i told you about the family cejas. but they are great, they had their interview on saturday for baptism and they all passed with flying colors. so this saturday we will be getting a baptism, there are 4 people in the family but 3 of them are getting baptized becuase the other kid is like 2. all of them were way excited, and so are me and my companion. they are a way humble family and i sware they just do whatever we say its amazing. they really are a special and a chosen family. you always hear that there are people being prepared to recieve the gospel, but when you come across with those people that were being prepared its just amazing. they havent had one doubt about anything, they all have testimonies of the book of mormon. its really amazing, they are even sharing the gospel already, we are teaching there neice now. so they will be a great family to work with. and they always make us food every time we go buy. they will be great members. so me and my companion are really excited. it will be his first baptism too, so that will be an amazing experience for him. but the week went really well, nothing to special happened. being a leader isnt always the best haha. theres one missionary thats kind of a rebel, and when i try to help them he just gets mad. but oh well what you going to do. i had to drop the cane a bit yesterday haha. but my comps doing great, the assistants told us that its probable that we are going to be separated and i dont want that at all. my companion is great, hes a lot different from all the other latins that i have been with. hes actually willing to learn haha. but yesterday we had 6 investigators in church, so it was fun to see that. sunday is basically game day for missionarys haha, if our investigators go to church we won, and if they dont, we lose and satan wins haha. well thats the way i look at it haha, it helps me do well in the week. i love my area so much, i definately am not looking forward to leaving, the members and the area is just amazing here. the people are way humble here. in one lesson we watched a little short movie of when joseph smith prayed to see which was the true church. we watched it with the family cejas and there neice, but the neice was just crying in the movie, and she said it relates to her so much because she is so confused. she doesnt belong to any religion, so will have to help her find the truth. but anyway, today we are going to centro, so i am going to buy some new shoes and a companionship tie. me and my companion buy the same ties haha. but anyway i hope everyone has a good week, and mom and dad, keep giving me updates on the ward and on good old alta highschool. i love everyone so much, and i hope that this letter was a little bit longer then last weeks haha love everyone so much. oh and mom, with that kid that is having stuggles deciding to go on a mission, i dont think i will have time to write a letter but just tell him that deciding to go on a mission was the biggest decision i have ever made, but it is also the best decision. there hasnt been one day in the mission where i havent smiled. because i am always happy here. i know he will regret it if he doesnt go on a mission, and i know if he does go he will not regret it. but i love everyone chou!!!