Family and Friends,
This week was amazing! The Lord is blessing me and my companion here in the Westpark ward. I want to talk about one of our investigators Natalie. She is so ready to be baptized but her mom didn't know that she was meeting with us. We knew that she could not progress anymore unless she told her parents. We went through the ten commandments and the 5th commandment is to honor your father and mother. We told her that the only way she can progress and come closer to be baptized is by honoring her parents by telling them what she knew to be true and wants to do. She got emotional. She is such a sweet spirit that would do anything to make every one happy. She knows that telling her mom that she has been meeting with us would disappoint her. We prayed for her and she told her right after she met with us. She texted us and said the reaction was bitter sweet. That her mom is disappointed she is looking into another church from the one she grew up in. Sweet part is that she will not stop her from meeting with us. So we are really excited about that because now we can truly work for baptism with her. Little by little, precept upon precept. Little miracles every where.
So this week we had a lot of people scheduled with appointments and of course they all got cancelled. So Elder Johnson did so much finding. We contacted a lot of people each day. But nobody was interested. We reached a goal of having 30 solid contacts in one day and we got it but none of them were even potentials. I just think that is just how the cookie crumbles. Well, yesterday on Sunday, miracles happened. We were able to schedule appointments with some potentials in the area book. One was with this family that is from Indonesia. Culture there is that every one in the family has different last names. So we just call them the Indonesian family. Very humble and sweet all of them. They had us come in and share our message with them. We focused every principle on the restoration of the family and how the gospel blesses the family so much. They have a christian background and go to Saddleback Church. It is a huge church down here in orange county that every one goes too. We were able to bear testimony about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. You could see the excitement and curiosity from the mom Lorita. She has a little bit of broken English but she is sincerely looking. They accepted to do the things necessary to find out if the Book of Mormon is true. We were able to set up another appointment. The Lord blessed us with a new family to teach which I am so grateful. We then went to another individuals house name Sophia. She is Korean and speaks very good English. She was wearing a Utah State t-shirt as she just got back from Utah for business. She is Christian and had a lot of amazing questions that are questions of the soul. We had the opportunity to share with her what the Book of Mormon was to her and her son Justin. She was so excited to hear that all the questions she has (what happens to us after we die?, What do we have to do to be saved?) are in the Book of Mormon. As prophets have testified of these things that the words they say are true. We were able to testify that we know that they are true by the Promise Moroni gives us in end of the Book of Mormon Moroni 10:4-5. We were able to get a return appointment to answer more of the questions she has. I didn't do anything different from Monday to Sunday. I know that Lord is going to bless me according to his timing and will. He was testing Elder Johnson and I if we were going to work hard through out the week. He blessed us with 5 new investigators in one day more then I have ever gotten in a week on my mission. This work is real! The lord is preparing many to hear and accept this Gospel and I am so grateful that I am worthy and able to be the instrument in his hands to bring about his righteous purposes.
I love you all! Mission Life is the life, serving and doing the things what Christ would do if he were here.
Elder Brown
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