Family and Friends,
Well, this week we attended a lot of meetings. It was good. We are focusing on chapter 9 in Preach My Gospel which is all about finding new investigators to teach. We are doing really good as a mission in finding as we were able to find over 200 investigators in the last two weeks. That is huge for just 180 missionaries. We are feeling the spirit of the Lord guiding our mission in finding those that are willing to receive us.
The problem for Elder Herron and I is not finding investigators but trying to get our investigators to commit. Not only commit but have them follow through with the commitment they have made over and over. After being a missionary and trying to help people keep commitments makes me want to be better at committing to things. If I tell someone I am going to do it, I am going to do it. I believe that is part of integrity. So please all those that are committing follow through. haha.
We were able to get a new investigator named Marcos. It was a really interesting lesson, kind of frustrating at the same time. We go into his home and we were teaching the unique message of the Restoration. We get all the way up to Jesus Christ's ministry and his Atonement. When I mentioned how Jesus Christ suffered in the Gethsemane and died on the cross, his mom walks in and I guess she has been studying with the Jehovah Witnesses. Marcos tells us that Jesus Christ did not die on a cross but a straight plank. I was going to brush by it. Then my companion who knows his scriptures inside and out pulls out a scripture that says that Jesus Christ died on the cross. Marcos, that scripture is from your prophet not mine. Not knowing what he meant, we said that it is from the bible King James version. It is the prophet Isaiah. We argued on this topic on and on. The point I wanted to get across was that contention was in the air. We found out that he is pretty converted to Jw's. He wasn't baptized but has been convinced that they are the true church because they can prove it in their "bible" which is really not the bible because it has been changed so much. At this point we still have not taught the restoration. The mom is trying to bash with us in Spanish showing us pamphlets of Jw's. I was like I don't even understand what you are saying. Keeps on just getting heated up. Then I said listen, we have not finished our message of the restoration. Can you let us finish. We finished and he agreed to read the Book of Mormon. But we got a long way to go. It was just frustrating, a weird lesson. By the way I still don't know Spanish!
This Mother's Day was awesome. Church was amazing with talks about mothers and how awesome they are. I am so grateful for my mom and putting up with me through the years. I am grateful she taught me the gospel and led by example. I was able to go to a family party with a Samoan family, the Tanielu's. This family was huge. Their Grandma is 100 years old. Isn't that crazy? She had 17 kids. Has 102 grandchildren. There are five generations from her and she is still alive. She has great great great grandchildren! It is nuts. We had a feast and I had some interesting food. Lamb, beef, chop sui, corn beef, taro (root), meat balls, and a ton more stuff that I don't even know what to call it. They handed us a bowl of oka. It is raw fish with tomatoes and green stuff. I like sushi but not that kind of sushi. Most fishy tasting thing i have ever ate. I had to pound down other food so that I could get the taste out. Bro. Tanielu was able to pound it down for me. It was a blast and just a cool life style. Very laid back and relaxed! I was able to talk to my family and it was good. They are awesome! it is weird the next time I will be talking to them I will be home in Utah.
Elder Brown
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