August 17, 2009

dear family i am already apologizing but this e mail is going to be another short one. i sware i get less and less time. today i had to fill out a bunch of stuff for the zone. and dont get me wrong i love being a zone leader mom but sometimes it gets frustrating haha. i love helping out the other missionaries and see them just watch me to learn. so dont worry about that. i love being a zone leader. but this week was a pretty good week. i cant believe i have 18 months, it scared me quite a bit. of course i burned a pair of pants haha to celebrate. but it definately scared me. i remember looking at those people with 18 months and thinking that they just had so much time in the mission. i still have a lot of time left so thats good its just weird seeing it leave. but one my converts has baptized 2 people now haha. so looks like my converts are doing pretty well. unfortunately the missionaries are spending a little to much time with the familia cejas. they are hanging out there instead of working. they are a way cool family but the missionaries are just chilling there instead of working. last week we killed everyone in basketball so we will see what happens today. and dad we get about 430 pesos a month. sometimes it seems like a lot and at other times it seems like nothing. but i love everyone so much and nikki and kelsey thanks for everything and take a picture of the baby with her doll. and kelsey good luck at college. i love everyone so much and have a good week. chau!!

August 10, 2009

dear familyi am so glad you got my package!!! it cost me a lot!! but i wasnt able to send the camara or the candy, i didnt have enough money to buy the candy and i didnt feel safe about sending the camara. so i will just keep it and we will fix it when i get home. i am glad you like the dolls. no matter what i need nikki and megan to take a picture with the doll and with their baby then send me the picture as soon as possible. the members that made the dolls want a picture of the little babies with there dolls. so if you could send me that, that would be great. i didnt get an e mail from megan. i dont think the blackberry works on this computer. is fa a home though? i am excited for megan. this week was a pretty good week. we had 7 investigators in church so we had a bunch. the members were saying that there were more investigators then members so it was pretty funny. its pretty hard being a zone leader. its a lot of responsibility cuz its like if one of the areas in the zone is doing bad we get in trouble for them. but i guess it is like that in life too. the more responsibility you get, the more pressure you get haha. i would love to go down to district leader for my last couple of transfers and train again. but we will see what happens. but unfortunatley last week we lost in basketball but today we got the rematch going on. we also played american football. so that was fun too. i hope you enjoyed all the letters. it will be a fun day to read my journal with all of you when i get home. you might get a little shocked what the mission really is like haha. but thanks for everything. and dad thanks for reminding me haha. in a few days i will be burning some pants haha. i cant believe its almost 18 months. its the weirdest feeling ever. i am getting too old. i am starting to be one of the oldest in the mission. doesnt spencer get home soon? that will be pretty fun for the ward. tell megan nikki and kelsey hi. tell megan to take the picture and send it to me. and nikki too. and tell kelsey good luck at college she will have a blast. and if she gets home sick read D&C 100. but i am sure she will be fine. just make sure she doesnt get married at the age of 19 like one of our siblings haha. just kidding. but love everyone so much and i will give you an update next week on how bad that i destroyed everyone else in football. i hope you get better mom and i will be praying for you. and dont ever put the word cancer in your e mail again haha. you almost gave me a heart attack. i hope its nothing too serious. but love you and you will be in my prayers. have a good day i love everyone so much and kelsey enjoy these last few days with mom and dad. i know you will miss them just like they will miss you. love you!! chau

August 3, 2009

dear familyto answer the questions1. i got fruit roll ups, shoes, some letters a lot of fudge and some socks in the packages. it was great!!!2. the weather is cold but not to bad, you need a coat but during the day sometimes you got to take the coat off cuz it gets too hot3. in the next package i would just say garments dp, sunflower seeds and beef jerky haha.this week was a pretty bad week, we didnt have any investagators in church it hit me pretty hard. i was kind of happy though, because hopefully its letting my companion know that something we are doing is wrong. its still pretty hard with him, everything that i say he goes exactly against, so its pretty hard to do the work. he has 2 months till he goes home so he is getting ready. but we had interviews with president and we talked about what i can do to help him out. so hopefully i can just use all my patience in this moment. i am not going to lie though its pretty hard. i am getting pretty sick of him. the other elders in the pensh are noticing too that he is getting pretty trunky and not wanting to work. so its starting to effect them too. but we will see what happens with him. he is a really weirdy too. haha, but there is definately a lot of potential in this area, you just got to work a bit and everything will be going great. today we are going to be playing some basketball so i am pretty excited about that. we will have to see how it turns out. i think i am going to destroy everyone but thats just my opinion for now. i will have to tell you how it turns out next week haha. the zone is doing way good. we are one of the best in the mission. the only problem is that me and my companion arent putting are part in. but the interviews helped him out a lot so he will get things going. i just got to be his friend in this moment. but i am so thankfull for all the letters that everyone has given me, and i know you all miss me, but i promise you that i will be home before you know it and then you will all want me to get back in argentina haha. but the time is flying it is still scaring me but oh well. thats why its so important to work every day, because before you know it the day is gone, you never get it back. and if you want tomorrow to be a better day you got to start right this second. there isnt time to complain. but thanks for all the e mails and i hope this letter was a little bit longer!megani am so happy for you and for fa a to get home. i really am way excited for you and way proud of you. there are a lot of people that have to raise all their children alone and i know its one of the hardest things. i am way happy fa a will be getting home. i will have to start including him in my letters too haha love younikkii am so sorry but i wish you a huge happy birthday!! to make up for it, mom and dad should be getting a package in the next couple weeks and your doll will be in there. the memory cards are taped on the dolls legs, so make sure you grab them before hailee gets to it. love youKelseygood luck on your half marathon that takes a lot of guts to do so good luck on everything. i am so proud that you are so close to God and good job on bearing your testimony. i think i bore my first testimony in testimony meeting like 3 months before my mission. love you and have a good day chau!

July 27, 2009

hey fam!the week went pretty well. we just had a meeting with president and all of the zone leaders so my companion has more desires to work. i am doing good. in our area there are 4 missionaries and one of them is a humongous missionary that i am scared he can beat me up pretty easy. he has had a pretty hard mission with a lot of disobedient companions so right now he is just starting to learn. when we did exchanges i went with him and at 1 we went to the pensh to eat lunch and he asked me what bands i listened to before the mission so i told him about my past with the bad music and i told him what bands. then he went in the other room and i kept cooking, and then all the sudden the bands that i just told him that i used to listen to, was playing on his cd player. right when that music turned on there was just a bad spirit about everything. right when he turned it on the spirit immidiatley left the room. so i had to tell hime to turn it off haha. but he is getting better. he has a way good companion so he is helping him. the zone is doing way good right now. this is elder daviss last transfer so president moved him to our zone as a district leader and holy cow that kid knows how to work. he was in his area for 3 days and in that little of time he had three investigators in church. they blanked the area so they started out with nothing 3 days ago. so he is helping the zone out a ton. just an amazing missionary. and dont worry about me and my companion. companions are usually only together for 2 transfers then leave. so we will see what happens. i am going to take advantage of the time right now while he has desires to work. hes a pretty good missionary just way ready to go home. we did an activity about the mission work on saturday and we recieved about 100 references from the members so we are pretty excited about that. of course we have to share with the other elders but thats ok haha. but i love everyone so much, and i hope everyone is doing well. i know i am doing well. and megan i am so happy for you, that will be a way fun day when fa a gets home. and nikki, i love the stories about hailee. and kelsey hope you have fun at suu being an ambassador in your red coat. haha, love everyone so much and have a good day tell the whole ward i say hi. and i wrote mckenzie mayne in december and she still hasnt writting me back! drop the cane on her!!! love you chau!

July 13, 2009

Dear Family i am doing great here in argentina, next week is transfers so dont expect an e mail from me next week on monday. todays a funny day because we send a paper to the president telling all strengths and weeknesses to President Olsen. so its kind of funny. sounds like everyone had a good time out on the boat. this week we had a girl names agustina we had an interview for her baptism and she passed so she will be getting baptized this saturday. so we are pretty excited. on saturday we had a little miracle happen. a lady from buenos aires thats a member came to our area and told us to come to her house to talk to her mom thats not a member. so we went to the lesson and asked the daughter in the lesson why she wants us to teach her mom. and she just said i want my mom to get baptized. haha, so it was a good little lesson. we will see what happens with her. we hope the best. this week was a pretty hard week though. because my comp was sick and we didnt go out and work for 3 days then sunday came and he contaged me. so we didnt go out sunday either to week. but i feel a little bit better today. i just have a little headache but what ya going to do. my comp is struggling a bit because he only has 3 months left in the mission so he is getting a little trunky and thinking a bit about home. so i had to drop the cane on him a bit haha. but today i have 17 months in the mission and i am getting a little depressed about it. i dont want my mission to end. i still have a lot of time left but i know its going to come to an end. but dont worry day, i am going to endure to the end. i cant stand the missionaries that give up at the end of there mission. it just kills me. the closer i get to ending my mission the harder i work because i realize that it will end. but i am sorry i couldnt write everyone today we had to fill out a lot of paperwork so sorry. Megan i am happy that you only have 4 weekends left without fa a. that will be so fun. the time has gone so fast. but i love everyone and sorry for the short letter. love everyone.

July 6, 2006

what is this new word you guys are using? skyp? that is the stupidest word i have heard. haha just kidding. but its a funny word. the week went well, we had a few investigators in church. we should be getting a baptizm in a couple weeks so that will be fun. baptisms always make you feel so good haha. but our zone isnt doing to well. a lot of the zone are young missionaries so they dont know how to work very well. they dont know how to get people in church. but we are helping them a lot with that. because if we dont get our investigators to come on sunday we dont baptize on saturday. but other then that everything is doing well. i am glad you guys are using my computer to skyp with megan. that is the wierdest thing i have ever heard haha. i am glad its still running though. how is sabbie doing. how old is he now? mom i am glad you enjoyed the picture of me. i almost wasnt able to send it haha. when you frame the picture just make sure it doesnt look like you guys are worshipping me. i am sure the house is filled with pictures of me haha. i am glad the surprise party didnt get ruined and you actually were surprised haha. and when you send the package dr pepper has to be in there!! yes or yes!! thats a frase in spanish i dont know if it is one in english haha. and garments. i swear my companions steal from me. i am glad you liked the empanadas because i am going to be ordering a ton when i get home!! i love the argentine food! it is delicous. some of the foods arent too great but almost all of it is amazing. and the mission is really worried about us getting sick so we got a new rule to wash our hands 10 times a day yes or yes. but i love everyone so much, and your going to love the letters i sent to you mom and dad. i know you guys like my experiences so i went to the most real experience as i could get and i copied two pages out of my journal. one page goes to dad and the other goes to mom. ones a good experience and the other one is a bad one. just so ya know what the mission is like haha. love you and thanks for everything. i love reading the letters every week they are amazing. love you Elder Brown

June 29, 2009

Dear Family,i am so greatful uncle scott dropped the cane on you mom!!! haha, we only have an hour to be on the computer and i have to write president and tell him our plans and what we acheived, then i have to filll out a paper about everyones investigators in the zone and i have to send a paper in to president about what everyone acheived in the zone. and on top of that i have to read a bunch of e mails on the mission and what we need to do and then i need to read your e mails and then respond to everyone. and if the letter isnt long enough i get a cane from my mom haha. so i am glad uncle scott is on my side haha. and the kid that sent his mom tons of long letters and to everyone in the family definately was not doing what he should have been doing. haha, but we had a good week, not to many of our investigators went to church, only one. some investigators werent ready to get baptized so we had to drop them so we were a little sad about that. so we need to get finding. the mission is doing a new thing where everyone sees your numbers haha, so its pretty interesting. so thats why being a zone leader isnt too cool because if we have one bad week then our zone will say to themselves well if our zone leaders cant do it neither can we. so its kind of frustrating to think like that. but we are working hard so we havent had a bad week yet. we had a meeting with the leaders in the branch and the whole time everyone was just arguing and saying what needs to happen but they just talk about so many things and they dont talk about answers so basically it turns into them complaining about everything. but after about 30 minutes of listening to them complaining we told them that we had an appointment in 20 minutes so we have to go, but we wanted to share what we are doing. after we shared, everyone was saying yeah we could help the missionaries out more! lets help them! so hopefully they start helping us more. i got a package like 2 weeks ago and it had a milky way and some pants in it. the milky way was amazing!!! and its starting to get a little cooler here but i got everything i need so dont worry. keep sending me letters from Jeff and from Cody. i want to hear from those guys. especially good ol jeff. i hope you have a happy birthday. 50 years isnt too old!! haha, youre only 30 years older then me!! haha just kidding. love you and have a great birthday. tell everyone in the ward i say hi! chau!